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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3h

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Vamprillia @aprillia.bsky.social · 3h

Good for her and also oof.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 4h

NEW: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

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Vamprillia @aprillia.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe I'm due for a rewatch

a woman wearing a trench coat and red lipstick smiles for the camera

Alt: a woman wearing a trench coat and red lipstick smiles for the camera

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12h

Horrifically creepy and emblematic of this rape-coded administration, but also a govt employee staying at the fuckin ritz on a business trip shows you how much the DC world has changed since the DOJ muffin scandal of 2011.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Vamprillia @aprillia.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, I want everyone to know that their bravery is keeping us going. A force multiplier

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 12h

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Vamprillia @aprillia.bsky.social · 11h

Is rental from the previous tenant? Everyone was moving everywhere

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Vamprillia @aprillia.bsky.social · 13h

Blasting it as I drive past my maga neighbor

The 🫠 ᴘʀᴇᴛᴛʏ KEXP 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot @kexpmusicbot.bsky.social · 13h

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime

Public Enemy:
🎵 Power to the People

#PublicEnemy

▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify

▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

POWER TO THE PEOPLE 2021 featuring Public Enemy, by THE 7/777 PROJECT

track by THE 7/777 PROJECT

the7777project5.bandcamp.com

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Vamprillia @aprillia.bsky.social · 13h

Blasting it as I drive past my maga neighbor

The 🫠 ᴘʀᴇᴛᴛʏ KEXP 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot @kexpmusicbot.bsky.social · 13h

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime

Public Enemy:
🎵 Power to the People

#PublicEnemy

▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify

▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

POWER TO THE PEOPLE 2021 featuring Public Enemy, by THE 7/777 PROJECT

track by THE 7/777 PROJECT

the7777project5.bandcamp.com

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 17h

I live in Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s district, and she makes me want to pull my hair out.

She’s possibly the biggest “Aw shucks, I’m just a fascist like you” phony Dem of them all. An absolute living caricature of the worst kind of Democrat imaginable

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-bet...

The Betrayals of Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

The representative from Washington has been hailed as the future of Democratic politics. But for those of us who actually live in her district, she’s just more of the same.

www.currentaffairs.org

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Vamprillia @aprillia.bsky.social · 14h

Me talking to my budtender

Dylan Park-Pettiford @dylanpark.com · 22h

Your daily reminder that protesting a tyrannical government and participating in acts of civil disobedience are the most American things you can do.

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Panda Bernstein @j4years.bsky.social · 15h

I will vote for any Democrat who runs on a platform of making Trump and his minions regret this to eternity

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Vamprillia @aprillia.bsky.social · 15h

April energy ftw

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Federal Judge April Perry is ordering a temporary halt to Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in Illinois.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 15h

Perry says the order will say defendants are "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 15h

The thing that most people don't realize is that the deportation machine was already operating at capacity. No one, ever, was just allowing millions of undocumented immigrants into the country willy-nilly. That was mythology. The process to get legal status in this country is already a very high bar

Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 15h

The first numbers in this blew my mind.

ICE made 100k arrests from January to June, which was double the same period last year. The shocking part to me is that it was only double, though. I certainly didn’t know they arrested so many people under Biden.

Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 17h

My first foray onto YouTube for @wired.com, doing a deep dive into the state of immigration enforcement and deportation under the Trump administration.

youtu.be/uD9ETC80HDA?...

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Vamprillia @aprillia.bsky.social · 15h

I don't think that pundits are understanding how polarized normies are getting

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 16h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h

New statement from AG James:

"This is nothing more than a continuation of the president's desperate weaponization of our justice system.

"I am not fearful — I am fearless."

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 16h

Here are the screenshots with alt text.

allow for joint communication and planning of operations. After a joint meeting on October 8,
2025, the Deputy Regional Director of the FPS, Region 5, verbally requested personnel to
protect Federal buildings in the Federal Plaza area on Friday, October 10, 2025, due to cases
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involving DHS activities and personnel in the Chicago, Illinois metropolitan area. FPS was
directed to submit a formal request in writing using the designated form for all requests for
assistance. To date, I have not received a written request. Currently without FPS reconfirming
the need through a written request or otherwise, ARNORTH does not intend to support this
request.
4. All requests for assistance are evaluated on a case-by-case basis based on the legality of
the request, necessity of the request, the danger posed, the number of troops requested, and other
operational considerations.
5. At the time, I was not aware the request to protect the Federal Plaza did not include the

$At the time, I was not aware the request to protect the Federal Plaza did not include the Federal District Court. Accordingly, to clarify the facts I declared in ECF 73 in this case, the request was for the protection of the Federal Plaza and the Federal buildings in the immediate area, not for the Federal District Court building itself. To date, there are no requests from the U.S. Marshals Service, and there are no plans for the National Guard to be at the courthouse. 6. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746, I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. -~_;,AM,:#~~'\~ MAJOR GENERAL NIA VE F. KNELL DEPUTY COMMANDING GENERAL U.S. Army North, U.S. Anny Northern Command$

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Your Mom @mountains206.bsky.social · 16h

I hope AG James is able to get this thrown out of court immediately because it’s clearly vindictive prosecution and entirely spurious. Regardless, the message Donald wishes to send is clear, that he’ll use the weight of the federal g’vt to prosecute his personal enemies and bury them in legal fees.

NPR @npr.org · 16h

BREAKING: New York Attorney General Letitia James has been indicted on one count of bank fraud, after steady pressure from President Trump to prosecute one of his longtime political foes.

Letitia James, who prosecuted Trump in N.Y., is indicted on one count of bank fraud

The indictment comes after steady pressure from President Trump to prosecute James, who successfully sued Trump and his company for inflating the value of some of its properties.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16h

for all the talk about how voters need to touch the stove, like, we are touching the stove. this [waves arms wildly] is what touching the stove looks like. nothing happens on a twitter timescale.

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Vamprillia @aprillia.bsky.social · 17h

Not like that

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Vamprillia @aprillia.bsky.social · 17h

In his plastic gold throne room

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Q: What's your message to families facing missed paychecks because of the shutdown?

TRUMP: Blame the Democrats. It's their fault.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 18h

This is not good

The story is actually worse than the headline. The ex-GOP official worked in Missouri with Ed Martin.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

Axios headline: Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

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Vamprillia @aprillia.bsky.social · 18h

The Union has been broken.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 21h

Greetings from U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is present, waiting for the high stakes hearing to begin. @wttw.bsky.social

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 22h

FULL STORY: As lawyers for the Trump administration defended the president’s unprecedented decision to send National Guard troops to Chicago despite the objections of Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson, officials acknowledged that California troops had also been sent to Illinois. @wttw.bsky.social

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18h

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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