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David Brady @antiprofessor.bsky.social · 2h

Allāhu ʾAkbar as they say down Idaho way

TamD @tdzwilewski.bsky.social · 8h

Ugh...#Idaho

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David Brady @antiprofessor.bsky.social · 2h

Plate 45 shows the carpet shop Place Clichy designed by Charles Siclis, who was one of those v interesting rather shadowy third rank figures
Plate 46 is Éditions Crès by Jean Hiriart, Georges Tribout & Georges Beau, with furniture by Francis Jourdain

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David Brady @antiprofessor.bsky.social · 2h

Plate 43 shows the Parfumerie d'Orsay, who turned to Süe et Mare for their luxurious little shop
Plate 44 is just labelled «Bourjois», which I think is make-up?
Rather like the inner sanctum of a temple in the sumptuous style of Adolf Loos, but designed by Pierre Figarol [1877-1961]

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How You Like Me Now?... @1bigbullshitbill.bsky.social · 13h

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David Brady @antiprofessor.bsky.social · 3h

#Antifa in chief

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 8h

Link: buff.ly/mMljhLX

Judge Rules Feds Can't Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue

Block Club and news organizations sued the federal government for its actions against journalists outside the Broadview ICE detention facility. Four of our journalists have been shot with…

blockclubchicago.org

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David Brady @antiprofessor.bsky.social · 3h

LIVE AND DIRECT
War-torn Portland collapses in flames

Seann with two Ns @jinglespigtails.bsky.social · 7h

went out on my patio to document the hellscape

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

The Democratic Attorneys General Association established a Legal Defense Fund for exactly this moment: when its members — including AG Tish James—are targeted by the Trump administration for political prosecution.

Donate here.

Donate to DAGA's Legal Defense Fund

The Democratic Attorneys General Association has launched a defense fund to help defend Democratic attorneys general and their staff who are targeted for political retribution by the Trump administrat...

secure.actblue.com

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 9h

Sending billions to Argentina while laying off Americans at home.

Letting Qatar build a base on US soil coz they bribed Trump with a plane and are investing billions in his personal business ventures.

Doesn’t seem like “America First”, does it?

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 8d

LittleSis have dropped a new report and data visualization about the billionaires and corporations profiting from the deportation industrial complex:

littlesis.org/news/the-bil...

The Billionaire Oligarchs and Corporations Profiting from ICE’s Deportation Machine - Little Sis

A primer on the billionaire barons and corporate profiteers enabling ICE's deportation apparatus

littlesis.org

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2d

Well, darn. Couldn’t say it better ourselves.

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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 6h

A Chicago TV journalist was pushed to ground and arrested during an ICE raid. Witnesses call arrest of Debbie Brockman by masked agents ‘absolutely horrifying’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Chicago TV journalist pushed to ground and arrested during Ice raid

Witnesses call arrest of video editor Debbie Brockman, a US citizen, by masked federal agents, ‘absolutely horrifying’

www.theguardian.com

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 6h

In case anyone missed this

Erdoğa said that Trump ended Halkbank’s criminal case after talks w him. He said that Trump told him “The Halkbank problem is finished for us.”

Halkbank was helping Iran evade taxes and launder billions.

Qatar and now this. The corruption is off the charts

Turkey’s Erdogan Says Halkbank US Case to End After Trump Talks

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said state lender Halkbank’s legal case in the US is due to be resolved following recent talks with President Donald Trump, prompting bank shares to rise.

www.bloomberg.com

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David Brady @antiprofessor.bsky.social · 3h

Didn't #RFK try to intervene?

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 6h

Because Donald Trump knows that the vaccines are safe and effective and that they save lives.

And he doesn’t want to die from COVID or the flu.

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 6h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

David Brady @antiprofessor.bsky.social · 3h

#MAGA #Elite savagery

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Breaking the law so he can endanger the nation, Russ Vought arches an eyebrow as he strokes a white Persian cat on his lap.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 5h

It's actually useful that he keeps providing evidence of his wrongdoing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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David Brady @antiprofessor.bsky.social · 3h

Even if nobody is attacking any property, kill everybody in the neighbourhood

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 11h

This doesn't seem great.

“The limits to FPS's authority off federal property are the edges of the constitution on one side and necessity on the other.”

"There is simply no legal barrier to FPS taking action off federal property where a reasonable nexus to protecting that property exists."

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 6h

just randomly looking around and found a place that sells these outfits in multiple sizes, if anyone's interested

www.favounicorn.com/inflatable-f...

Inflatable frog costume in kid and adult sizes, $54

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The Onion @theonion.com · 15h

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 4h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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David Brady @antiprofessor.bsky.social · 8h

Plate 41 is looking at the Classe de la Céramique from the other direction
Plate 42 is the Parfumerie, designed by François Raguenet [1879-1978] and Camille Maillard [1885-1974], it features a frozen fountain by Léon Binet - star of the 1900 exhibition - made of cast glass by Lalique

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David Brady @antiprofessor.bsky.social · 8h

Plate 39 in René Herbst's Portfolio of the Exposition is the interior of the tourist information building by Rob Mallet-Stevens, lights by Pierre Chareau, furniture by Francis Jourdain, glass by Louis Barillet
Plate 40 is «Classe de la Céramique» designed by Henri Rapin and Édouard Sézille

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David Brady @antiprofessor.bsky.social · 8h

Plate 37 is Printemps, designed by Henri Sauvage & Georges Wybo in a sophisticated style, more appropriate to the modern exhibition of 1937 than the dying gasp of #ArtDeco in 1925
Plate 38 is Studium du Louvre by Albert Laprade with sculpture by Albert Binquet and wrought ironwork by Edgar Brandt

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David Brady @antiprofessor.bsky.social · 9h

The famous Parisian department stores had a presence among the shops in the #ArtDeco Exposition
Au Bon Marché, shown in plate 35, was designed by their architect L-H Boileau
Galeries Lafayette's pavilion by Jean Hiriart, Georges Tribout, & Georges Beau, with a doorman to keep the riff-raff out