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bershod.bsky.social @bershod.bsky.social · 10h

No, that’s what they do…we need to turn out in numbers..we are the majority

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bershod.bsky.social @bershod.bsky.social · 12h

We all better be getting our asses out in the street on No Kings Day and show them what a peaceful protest is

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 12h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

"The University of Zurich said the married couple, who currently work at MIT, would join its economics faculty …. [They] will be moving … at a time when experts are warning that Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on … freedoms could lead to a brain drain …."

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

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bershod.bsky.social @bershod.bsky.social · 13h

And look at the 3 stooges behind him nodding their heads

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 13h

Trump has gone totally mad. It's 25th Amendment time all day, every day. He's living in a totally invented, fictional world. And he's old and in ill-health.

It's outrageous, reckless, choose your word that Republicans haven't done more to deal with this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "The restaurants were all closing, now you can't get into a restaurant. They're opening up new restaurants. It took 12 days for us. We sent in not politically correct military. We sent them in based on merit."

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bershod.bsky.social @bershod.bsky.social · 13h

WTF is he talking about?????

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15h

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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bershod.bsky.social @bershod.bsky.social · 13h

Geezus, looks like grandpa needs to go to bed

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bershod.bsky.social @bershod.bsky.social · 13h

www.fox5atlanta.com/news/atlanta... Can things in this country get any worse???

Ground stop at Atlanta's airport lifted after tower evacuated | What we know

Expect even longer delays at Atlanta's airport after the air traffic control tower was evacuated on Friday afternoon.

www.fox5atlanta.com

bershod.bsky.social @bershod.bsky.social · 14h

@deltaairways.bsky.social What is going on today? Flight delayed out of Albany into WPB made me miss my connection in ATL. Now flight from ATL to PBI is delayed 2 hours??????

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14h

He cannot admit he played himself and American consumers.

As Trump likes to say “you don’t have the cards.”
China has moved on.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

More tariff policy evolution — via one man’s whim.

$SPX $FXI

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 19h

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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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 17h

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Klobuchar: "I remember Bondi saying, 'the president is the most transparent president in history.' I wish I said, Well then why doesn't he just release the Epstein files?"

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Federal judge finds the Trump admin likely violated the First (viewpoint discrimination) and Fifth (vagueness) Amendments in a case over changed domestic violence grant conditions.

Preliminary injunction issued.

(A TRO previously was issued.)

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Case 1:25-cv-00342-MRD-PAS
Document 72
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND
RHODE ISLAND COALITION
AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR. in his official capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al.,
Defendants.
C.A. No. 25-cv-342-MRD-PAS
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
Melissa R. DuBose, United States District Judge.

Over twenty non-profit coalitions that receive federal grant money to help
support survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault as well as members of
society who are unhoused or without stable housing filed suit against the United
States Departments of Health and Human Services ("HHS") and Housing and Urban
Development ("HUD") as well as various administrators and subagencies who fall
under and within these agencies (hereinafter the "Coalitions" or the "Plaintiffs").
Compl. at 1-4. The Plaintiffs allege that the Defendants are springing new conditions
on them as grantees and are requiring compliance with new spending restrictions on grant funds (the "Grants"), all in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act (the
"APA"), 5 U.S.C. § 706, the U.S. Constitution's clearly articulated separation of
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powers principles such as the Article I Spending Clause, the First Amendment, and the Due Process Clause under the Fifth Amendment. Id. 11 4, 66-89. The new
conditions and certifications foisted upon the grantees are focused on compelling
compliance with sweeping changes imposed by the executive branch by way of Executive Orders ("E.O.s") aimed at eliminating programs that are perceived as promoting gender ideology; diversity, equity, and inclusion; elective abortions; and
antidiscrimination. Id. 11 21-31, MPI at 73-74.

IV. CONCLUSION
As stated, the Court determines that the Plaintiffs have met their burden as
to the preliminary injunction factors and finds them entitled to relief. Pursuant to Section 705 of the APA, the Court finds that it is necessary and appropriate to grant
the Plaintiffs' request for a preliminary stay of the Challenged Conditions.
See 5
U.S.C. § 705 (permitting a reviewing court to "issue all necessary and appropriate
process to postpone the effective date of an agency action or to preserve status or
rights pending conclusion of the review proceedings on such conditions as may be
required and to the extent necessary to prevent irreparable injury").
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IT IS SO ORDERED.
Melissa R. DuBose
United States District Judge
October 10, 2025

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bershod.bsky.social @bershod.bsky.social · 15h

Says the guy in a wheelchair…

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 17h

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bershod.bsky.social @bershod.bsky.social · 15h

Something tells me that between Bolton, Comey and Tish James the Trump DOJ is gonna have egg on their face

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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bershod.bsky.social @bershod.bsky.social · 15h

Well you’re losing losing Loomer

a man wearing 3d glasses is holding a bag of popcorn

ALT: a man wearing 3d glasses is holding a bag of popcorn

media.tenor.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15h

I love it.

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bershod.bsky.social @bershod.bsky.social · 17h

Is there any precedence for having a twice impeached convicted felon who incited an insurrection as president?

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