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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2h

The search on Mar-a-Lago happened in August 2022. Jack Smith was appointed Special Counsel in November 2022.

Time, how does it work

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 2h

Not content with mobilising people in inflatable frog costumes to face down ICE cops as well as a ukulele orchestra picketing the ICE facilities, Portland today mobilised a naked bike ride to the premises and followed it up with a *marching band dressed as bananas*.

The Sidewalk School @thesidewalkschool.bsky.social · 2h

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h

An EPA report found that the forever chemical PFNA interferes with human development and likely causes damage to the liver and male reproductive systems.

The agency has sat on the report for months. “Scientifically, it was done,” said one scientist.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

www.propublica.org

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CWendoverS @wendover.bsky.social · 4h

So....did he get some bad news at Walter Reed on Friday?

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13h

This has real -- I intended to dm "Pam" -- energy.

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CWendoverS @wendover.bsky.social · 4h

It would be nice if you also noted that Trump's post referred to the FBI on Jan. 6, 2021 as "the Biden FBI", even though Trump was the president on that day. I know it doesn't fit with your Henry II analogy, but is indicative of Trump's continued mental decline.

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 9h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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CWendoverS @wendover.bsky.social · 5h

Congratulations!

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 7h

Superheroes have arrived in Broadview to protest against ICE!

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021."

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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CWendoverS @wendover.bsky.social · 11h

Jim Jordan has a pretty sick idea of what the "Lord's work" is.

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CWendoverS @wendover.bsky.social · 11h

Absolutely gorgeous

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

It’s no wonder that Trump has such a twisted view of war and sacrifice. And the utility of bribes.

Donald was seven years old, and his father was brought before a U.S. Senate committee investigating abuses in a housing program for war veterans and middle class families. President Eisenhower had been outraged to learn of the bribes that developers paid to bureaucrats and of the alleged profiteering practiced by Trump and others. Ike called them "sons of bitches."
As federal investigators had discovered, the elder Trump had collected an extra $1.7 million in rent-equivalent to $15 million today-before beginning to pay back his low-cost government loan. He was able to do this because a bureaucrat named Clyde Powell approved the paperwork.
Powell, who had never been paid more than a modest government salary, had mysteriously amassed a small fortune. (While it was clear Powell accepted bribes, the sources were never officially identified.) In addition to collecting the extra rent, Trump paid himself a substantial architect's fee. And he charged inflated rents based on an estimate of construction costs that was far greater than what he actually spent. All of this was legal, even if it did victimize taxpayers, veterans, and other renters.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 18h

Portland, I love you! 💙❤️💙

This gives me great hope, and a good chuckle.

#StopTheMadness #StopTrump #Resist 👊🏼

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 1d

We’re already at the Anne Frank stage of things. It will get much worse if it can’t be stopped.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 1d

Amphibians unite 🐸🐸 #WarRavagedPortland

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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CWendoverS @wendover.bsky.social · 1d

I will be at the Alexandria, VA No Kings in the morning and DC right afterwards. People who love America say No Kings

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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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