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Zeke Radford @zekeradford.bsky.social · 7h

We're just going to murder people, who we arbitrarily decide need killing.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 22h

“What would it look like if the media routinely presented a multiracial America as an authentic America?”

@nberlat.bsky.social asking an important question as once again the news media shrugs at Trump’s deplorable attack on his opposition.

www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-poop...

Trump shits on America. Why doesn’t the media care?

For many news orgs, Trump’s fascist coalition is uniquely legitimate.

www.publicnotice.co

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Zeke Radford @zekeradford.bsky.social · 7h

That's a funny story clown. But on a serious note:

Now release the Epstein Files.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

EPA Commissioner Lee Zeldin announces his agency is launching a major investigation into the right-wing conspiracies about chemtrails and weather manipulation to get to the bottom of it.

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Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social · 16h

Not-serious take: You can tell it's a broad-based declaration because it's more than UCC and UUA clergy

Serious take: Wait, they got Catholics AND Vineyard church folks to agree on something?

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back.
One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
"I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

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Zeke Radford @zekeradford.bsky.social · 7h

They h8 it when we call them racists.

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 14h

This is how the Trump regime treats actual Christians.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

Oh wow:

"During the fracas, a federal agent fired a pepper round that struck a (UCC) clergyman, Jorge Bautista, near the chin. The impact caked his face and clothing in orange powder. Bautista said the agent shot him in the face from about 5 feet away."

"'I’m in a lot of pain,'" Bautista texted…"

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Zeke Radford @zekeradford.bsky.social · 12h

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Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social · 17h

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 1d

This.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1d

The President has taken what was a noncapital criminal offense and just declared on his own that he can murder anyone he accuses of it without any sort of trial.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

NYT: Strike on Alleged Drug Boat Off Colombia Expands U.S. Campaign to Pacific Ocean

The U.S. military hit another vessel that the Trump administration claimed was carrying drugs from South America, a U.S. official said.

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Zeke Radford @zekeradford.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are ridiculing ‘No Kings.’ A striking new poll shows Americans aren’t laughing
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Republicans are ridiculing ‘No Kings.’ A striking new poll shows Americans aren’t laughing

New polling reinforces how much the thrust of the “No Kings” message has resonated with much of the American public.

www.yahoo.com

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit, this cartoon.

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Zeke Radford @zekeradford.bsky.social · 1d

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Zeke Radford @zekeradford.bsky.social · 1d

SpeakerJohnson is worried that swearing in Grijalva will cause an assault of democracy on the Trump administration.

To paraphrase the Speaker, 'We just can't have that in America. And,oh yeah, remember I'm a Christian.'

/s/

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Arizona sues Mike Johnson to force swearing-in of Democrat who could sway Epstein vote

Adelita Grijalva was elected last month but Republican House speaker has so far blocked her from taking seat

www.theguardian.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 79th day out of the last 91.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

He bulldozed the White House during a government shutdown to build himself a ballroom, then sent a letter to the states saying that SNAP benefits for 42 million people may not go out in November to those who rely on it to eat.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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unstuck in time @billypilgrim26.bsky.social · 1d

It's called a coup. It is ongoing and successful.

Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 1d

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress 28 days ago with 70% of the vote yet Mike Johnson refuses to swear in. This is a continuation of the GOP's Jan 6 attack and their rejection of democracy.

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Zeke Radford @zekeradford.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry but, 'I have a great plan... pay me to hear about it'. Is run of the mill grifting. Imma have to pass.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Great @brianbeutler.bsky.social piece laying out a concrete No Kings agenda for Dems to adopt, premised on the principle that "it is well established that peaceful protest movements correlate with opposition party performance."
www.offmessage.net/p/a-no-kings...

A No Kings Agenda For The Democratic Party

They want to harness the energy of the pro-democracy movement; they want to run *for* something, not just against Trump; here's how they can do both.

www.offmessage.net

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Raskin details how he tried to get unanimous consent today to force Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the Acting Speaker Haridopolos "scurried out of the room"

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 2d

He destroys because destruction is the only way he knows how to feel powerful. He resents what he cannot create. He resents beauty because it reminds him of everything he will never be. And so, he does what he always does.

He ruins it.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

The House That Never Belonged to Him

What Donald Trump did to the East Wing is what he’s done to America itself.

open.substack.com

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Zeke Radford @zekeradford.bsky.social · 1d

"What about the 1/2 of humanity that has been the most discriminated against, SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME?"
How society manages to be so blind to how it treats & how it allows to be treated, those most loved, depended upon & cherished, is beyond my ken.
The violence is astounding.

Zeke Radford @zekeradford.bsky.social · 1d

Not by a long shot. My soul rages at the injustices endured by my mother, my sisters, my daughter and granddaughters.
Every time I hear about some segment of humanity screaming for attention to be paid to the discrimination they are subjected to, I want to shout

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Zeke Radford @zekeradford.bsky.social · 2d

Bravo to the judge who recognizes the blatant absurdity and unconstitutionality of the other judges ruling.
These rulings not only undermine our faith in the Judicial branch of our government, but also our belief in the rule of law.

Kris @pachyaena.bsky.social · 2d

www.kgw.com/article/news...

Dissenting judge calls ruling allowing Trump to deploy National Guard troops in Portland more than 'merely absurd'

The dissenting judge called the decision more than "merely absurd," but that it "erodes core constitutional principles" around state sovereignty and free speech.

www.kgw.com

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Jim Brown @jimbrown.bsky.social · 3d

When Drumpf finally dies, and the dust from the ensuing media circus settles, we’ll inevitably see a slew of former staffers, etc.
close to him write tell-all books and decry how mentally unstable and evil he was. How they witnessed his cruelty.

Don’t wait, do it 𝐧𝐨𝐰. Break free. Out him.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

"[R]ecords and interviews with 20 people familiar with the route or the strikes, including current and former U.S. and international officials, contradict the administration’s claims.

The passage, they said, is not ordinarily used to traffic synthetic opioids."

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Officials, locals undercut Trump claims about Venezuela drug boats

Trump says the U.S. is blowing up boats carrying deadly fentanyl to the United States. U.S. and other officials say the route under attack carries cocaine and marijuana to Europe and Africa.

wapo.st

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