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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 12h

Happy Friday!

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TheCatMan @bigbrohem.bsky.social · 17m

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 3h

The frogs have landed in Chicago! (2025)

YOU ARE NOT

ALONE IN THIS

ABYSSAL DARKNESS.

I AM HERE, AND WE

SHALL FACE THE

CHASM AS

BROTHERS.

Here comes that fellow
"My goodness, how do you do?"

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 19m

We must all go to No Kings rallies on Oct 18

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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TheCatMan @bigbrohem.bsky.social · 8m

History will mark this time as "The Era of Monsters." Where men of wealth & power gorged on their darkest & twisted fantasies without fear of accountability or consequence. Where leaders of countries wantonly murdered untold thousands, kidnapped children, and even became the POTUS. A dark age.

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TheCatMan @bigbrohem.bsky.social · 7m

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Conor ❤️ #MelanieC ❤️ #Sweat ♥️ #musicmatters #musicislife #music ❤️ @conormcl2025.bsky.social · 7h

go.bsky.app/7rAFBTh repost if you agree 🔄

Everyone who reposts this post are being added to my #BlueCrew starter packs 🔄 must follow me to be added to the pack & repost my pinned post too. Must have a bio and profile pic otherwise it's a block 🚫 no exceptions people! I only follow real profiles! 💙🌊

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 3h

Judge Sara Ellis' opinion in IL v. Trump is an absolute banger:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

The Court therefore must make a credibility assessment as to which version of the facts
should be believed. While the Court does not doubt that there have been acts of vandalism, civil
disobedience, and even assaults on federal agents, the Court cannot conclude that Defendants’
declarations are reliable. Two of Defendants’ declarations refer to arrests made on September 27,
2025 of individuals who were carrying weapons and assaulting federal agents. See Doc. 62-2 at
19; Doc. 62-4 at 5. But neither declaration discloses that federal grand juries have refused to
return an indictment against at least three of those individuals, which equates to a finding of a
lack of probable cause that any crime occurred. See United States v. Ray Collins and Jocelyne
Robledo, 25-cr-608, Doc. 26 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 7, 2025); United States v. Paul Ivery, 25-cr-609
(N.D. Ill.). In addition to demonstrating a potential lack of candor by these affiants, it also calls
into question their ability to accurately assess the facts. Similar declarations were provided by
these same individuals in Chicago Headline Club et. al. v. Noem, 25-cv-12173, Doc. 35-1, Doc.
35-9 (N.D. Ill.), a case which challenged the Constitutionality of ICE’s response to protestors at
the Broadview ICE Processing Center. In issuing its TRO against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem,
the court in that case found that the plaintiffs would likely be able to show that ICE’s actions
have violated protestors’ First Amendment right to be free from retaliation while engaged in
newsgathering, religious exercise, and protest, and Fourth Amendment rights to be free from
excessive force. Id. at Doc. 43. Although this Court was not asked to make any such finding, it
does note a troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of
appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning,

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 1h

Release the Epstein Files.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3h

Not the Onion.

I wonder what will happen when ICE kidnaps all the Qatari soldiers for being brown people in Idaho

www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/10/...

Qatar Air Force facility to be built at USAF base in Idaho, Defense Secretary Hegseth says

Hegseth The Defense secretary made the announcement at a Pentagon press conference with Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar's defense minister.

www.cnbc.com

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Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 7m

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 54m

"The bird gained global fame Oct. 7, when right-wing influencer Benny Johnson posted video of U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stepping onto the ICE facility’s roof and staring down a handful of hecklers—and one chicken."

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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Phoenix Rising @62walterp.bsky.social · 26m

Lazy bastards 😪 🤔

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 49m

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 10m

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 27m

Because they were totally about to start enforcing Sharia Law in Florida.🙄

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 34m

The cost of homeowners and auto insurance in FL is insane, but Republicans are always laser focused on the important distractions from all that stuff.

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SavvySuzy @savvysuzy.bsky.social · 29m

The Trump family gets richer...
When is MAGA going to ask " why couldn't America do all of this without the Trump family running away with billions?"

Wouldn't Medicare for ALL have done the same for all Americans if the republikkkons hadn't always blocked it?

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

AstraZeneca makes deal with White House to lower drug prices

The U.K.-based drugmaker became the second to strike a deal with the Trump administration as part of the president's push to rein in U.S. drug prices.

www.npr.org

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Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 14m

You bet!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Tisiphone @tisiphone.bsky.social · 2h

Ohio, your legacy keeps decaying.

www.kwtx.com/2025/10/08/s...

School district opens parking lot for homeless students to sleep in

Over 300 students within the Cincinnati Public School system do not have a place to sleep at night, oftentimes sleeping in their parents’ cars.

www.kwtx.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Read the indictment returned against New York AG Letitia James, via @lawfaremedia.org:

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

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · Aug 3

PBS gave us Mister Rogers and Officer Clemmons in the 1960’s.
PBS showed the world what love & equality looks like, during a time when people were actually dumping acid into pools where Black kids were swimming...

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Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 12d

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by ‘artivist’ Nikkolas Smith from The History of We, his picturebook about the origins of humanity and our creativity. Sumptuous image of a crowd of gentle faces made with lavish paint on canvas. Rock the Boat 25 September. @4nikkolas.bsky.social @rocktheboat5.bsky.social

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Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 59m

I love your work!

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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