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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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IDtheMIKE aka Spooky Varian Skye @idthemike.xyz · 8h

This is astonishing.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 17h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 14h

Masked Border Patrol agents pin Chicago TV news producer Debbie Brockman to the ground and haul her off in an unmarked van. (Video: Josh Thomas/Facebook)

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TheBlueMeeple @thebluemeeple.bsky.social · 14h

The same Benny Johnson quoted here, lying his ass off about Portland?!? Go figure! 👇🤬

👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 16h

"Democrats keep shooting sniper rounds into ICE facilities."

After Ms. Noem’s visit to Portland, Mr. Johnson appeared live on Newsmax from inside the cordoned-off ICE building. He described the building as being in downtown Portland and said that the windows were blacked out and covered with tarps because “Democrats keep shooting sniper rounds into ICE facilities.”

Police have not reported any incidents of sniper fire, and the ICE building sits about two miles from downtown Portland.

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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 15h

Nice to see developers are fighting back against this bullshit. Too bad @steampowered.com is not lifting a finger to fight it.

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 1d

On October 18 there needs to be a breathtaking number of us in the streets.

Like visible from space numbers.

#NoKings

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Democrats @democrats.org · 13h

It’s been 18 days since @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social won her election.

She would be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

Speaker Johnson still won’t swear her in.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13h

Seven years ago I shared with a couple hundred of my FB friends, several of whom were Trump voting former HS classmates, a premonition of the sort of monstrous, violent, democracy-destroying actions Trump was grooming them to accept. I wish it didn’t feel so relevant today.

Seth Cotlar
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Jun 28, 2018 • 8:
"I am American and am waiting for the Americans to come back; they have gone to ground somewhere." This captures my sense of what Trumpism has done to 1/3 of the country. Our battles over politics have become battles over who "the true Americans" are and who the "enemies of the people" are. According to many of my fellow citizens I am, apparently, an enemy of the people. A libtard. Democrats have never spoken of their political opponents in this manner, nor have they ever called for them to be locked up (unless, in the case of Nixon, they had actually committed serious crimes). Sure, Democrats have criticized Republicans, but never dehumanized them the way Trump and his spokespeople have. Obama said that one thing about guns and religion, Clinton used the word deplorable once to describe Nazis who were pro-Trump. Unless one is a total snowflake, that's nothing compared to what Trump has done. On a daily basis he tells his tens of millions of supporters that people like me love criminals, support terrorism, hate America, knowingly lie, are trying to stage a coup to overthrow him, want to confiscate all guns and institute a police state, etc. This form of political warfare that Trump and his Fox enablers are engaging in, warfare on more than half of the nation, must either be reined in by people within his party, or it will result in some truly horrible, anti-democratic, republic-destroying, life-destroying things. Given Trump's "take no prisoners, never surrender" approach to everything in his life, it's very hard to see how this ends well. The Founders hoped that we

how this ends well. The Founders hoped that we would choose virtuous leaders with habits of self-restraint that would curb the human instincts to wield power in tyrannical ways. Trump has shown zero self-restraint, and has done nothing but stoke violent hatred amongst his most ardent followers who seem willing to do just about anything to defend him. I see little chance that this will change moving forward, other than to just keep getting worse.
I can and will do my little bit by non-violently protesting, speaking loudly and freely, advocating for candidates I believe in, and voting. But here's the question I ask my friends and fellow citizens who voted for Trump and disagree with me about taxation, social security, foreign policy, etc...if I or people I know get locked up for peacefully protesting in the years to come, will you come to my defense? Would you stick your neck out to protect a libtard like me?
What would you be willing to risk to protect my right to criticize this administration?
I hope neither you nor I will ever have to answer such questions. I'm not saying we definitely (or even probably) will have to confront this sort of situation.
But if the Trump supporters who took such joy in drinking mugs of liberal tears start calling for liberal blood...and if the people who live for an opportunity to "own the libs" start saying we need to "jail the libs, the enemies of the people" in the name of national security...to what extent would you resist? Have the seeds for accepting such exertions of state power already been sown, just a bit, by getting you to acquiesce with putting asylum-seeking brown

acquiesce with putting asylum-seeking brown children in prison because their parents supposedly committed a misdemeanor offense?
Again, I hope you will never have to make such a decision, but it's worth preparing now in case you do.
Twenty years ago I would have had zero doubts that most of my Republican friends and fellow citizens would have defended my right to non-violently protest a Republican administration...to be totally honest, I'm not sure I feel so confident about that anymore. The more a leader drains away the bonds of civic solidarity that cross lines of party or ethnicity or race, the more they amplify their power and sow the seeds for authoritarianism. America's long history of racism has already made those bonds of civic solidarity weak and unreliable. Here's hoping we don't let this hate-mongering President break us even further...because, believe me my Republican friends and fellow citizens, I might really hate the fact that you voted for Trump, but I care about and respect you far more than that billionaire celebrity narcissist does.
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#politicsmk (fascism) [Posted by Ric Steinberger.
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Thinking about the end of Weimar democracy in this way—as the result of a large protest movement colliding with complex patterns of elite self-interest, in a culture increasingly prone to aggressive mythmak-ing and irrationality-strips away the exotic and foreign look of swastika banners and goose-stepping Stormtroopers. Suddenly, the whole thing looks close and familiar. (Alongside the viciousness of much of German politics in the Weimar years was an e

Mich Kabay • Follow Jun 23, 2018 •
#politicsmk (fascism) [Posted by Ric Steinberger.
TNX Ric - valuable warning.]... See more
- Permanently
- aways been so careful to guard.
Thinking about the end of Weimar democracy in this way—as the result of a large protest movement colliding with complex patterns of elite self-interest, in a culture increasingly prone to aggressive mythmak-ing and irrationality-strips away the exotic and foreign look of swastika banners and goose-stepping Stormtroopers. Suddenly, the whole thing looks close and familiar. Alongside the viciousness of much of German politics in the Weimar years was an incongruous innocence: few people could imagine the worst possibilities. A civilized nation could not possibly vote for Hitler, some had thought. When he became chancellor nonetheless, millions expected his time in office to be short and ineffectual. Germany was a notoriously law-abiding as well as cultured land. How could a German government systematically brutalize its own people? German Jews were highly assimilated and patriotic. Many refused to leave their homeland, even as things got worse and worse.
"I am German and am waiting for the Germans to come back; they-have gone to ground somewhere," Victor Klemperer wrote in his diary— he was the son of a rabbi and a veteran of the First World War who chose to stay, and miraculously survived.
Few Germans in 1933 could imagine Treblinka or Auschwitz, the mass shootings of Babi Yar or the death marches of the last months of the Second World War. It is hard to blame them for not foreseeing the unthinkable. Yet their innocence failed them, and they were catastroph-cally wrong about their future. We who come later have one advantage over them: we have their example before us.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 16h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15h

I would like to suggest adding banana costumes (or other fruit) to the mix for October 18

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 15h

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 13h

"Republicans blocked paying the troops during the shutdown but found $20 billion to bail out Argentina's bad crypto investments" should be the sort of thing that leads every local newscast, but...

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 17h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

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Zehnra @zehnra.com · 13h

Also, Hardee's does crispy crowns instead of hash brown patties and they're awesome

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Zehnra @zehnra.com · 14h

Hardee's is the GOAT for biscuit sandwiches, at least that I've had. Haven't had Biscuitville or Bojangles.

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Zehnra @zehnra.com · 15h

I think it might have actually been limited to biscuits even lol

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Zehnra @zehnra.com · 15h

* anything worth anything

Source: the free breakfast sandwich I won.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17h

Trump sending 200 US troops to Gaza and allowing Qatar to build a base in Idaho is not going to go over well with the AMERICA FIRST MAGA movement.

Clearly, he no longer cares, but this will likely cause more fractures.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17h

Toldya.

Trump has lost Islamophobe Loomer on this.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 19h

Going forward, almost anyone banned from YouTube will have an opportunity to request a new channel.

YouTube prepares to welcome back banned creators with “second chance” program

YouTube will evaluate each request individually, but copyright violators need not apply.

arstechnica.com

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 19h

The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i...

The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention

The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions.

theintercept.com

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Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social · 21h

Worth the subscription. @katmabu.bsky.social is bringing the fight that the incumbents don't have in them. We need more like her.

"She's betting that voters, above all else, want a brawler."

Yes.

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She Fought the Far Right Online for Years. Now She Wants to Do It in Congress

Kat Abughazaleh, 26, made her name swatting down right-wing talking points on social media. Now she’s hoping internet fame can propel her to Congress.

www.wired.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19h

Bravo

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding

MIT is one of the nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 20h

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21h

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 20h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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