@bpiper78.bsky.social
I have a chess coach. Former non-profit lobbyist, Capitol Hill staffer and (briefly) journalist. Proud Lobo and Hoosier. Personal account.
Pinned
From Abby’s Bakery in Los Fresnos to the Australian MMA coach to the El Salvador gulag, we see the cruelty, stupidity & lawlessness of Trump’s war on immigrants.
The immigration issue can’t be ducked. It’s the beating heart of Trumpism. Confronting Trumpism means defending immigrants & immigration.
The immigration issue can’t be ducked. It’s the beating heart of Trumpism. Confronting Trumpism means defending immigrants & immigration.
💯
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Federal officials claimed protesters had shields with nails in them, but they actually just had cardboard. They claimed a protester threw a bike at them, but they actually threw the bike. And they claimed that a protester ripped a man’s beard off but … no proof
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Federal officials claimed protesters had shields with nails in them, but they actually just had cardboard. They claimed a protester threw a bike at them, but they actually threw the bike. And they claimed that a protester ripped a man’s beard off but … no proof
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This is a thread detailing a series of incidents where federal Judge Ellis rules that Gregory Bovino and his agents lied or misrepresented what was happening on the streets of Chicago. In this one, she says body cam footage suggests they brake checked to cause accidents
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is a thread detailing a series of incidents where federal Judge Ellis rules that Gregory Bovino and his agents lied or misrepresented what was happening on the streets of Chicago. In this one, she says body cam footage suggests they brake checked to cause accidents
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Larry Summers took his new wife to Jeffrey Epstein's private island.
For their honeymoon.
Accompanied by Ghislane Maxwell.
Via the kickass journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
For their honeymoon.
Accompanied by Ghislane Maxwell.
Via the kickass journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Larry Summers took his new wife to Jeffrey Epstein's private island.
For their honeymoon.
Accompanied by Ghislane Maxwell.
Via the kickass journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
For their honeymoon.
Accompanied by Ghislane Maxwell.
Via the kickass journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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“.. Andrea Soria, whose daughter plays at Luna y Cielo, overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: ‘We have to be good or ICE will get us.’”
@apnews.com #Chicago
apnews.com/article/chic...
@apnews.com #Chicago
apnews.com/article/chic...
October 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“.. Andrea Soria, whose daughter plays at Luna y Cielo, overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: ‘We have to be good or ICE will get us.’”
@apnews.com #Chicago
apnews.com/article/chic...
@apnews.com #Chicago
apnews.com/article/chic...
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NEW: The Trump administration is racing to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia as soon as Friday, conceding it does not intend to follow through on his criminal case despite earlier assurances.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
NEW: The Trump administration is racing to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia as soon as Friday, conceding it does not intend to follow through on his criminal case despite earlier assurances.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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Allowing these ICE kidnappings to become a common occurrence works to normalize this cruelty. This is how the “first they came” poem happens. No one speaks out or resists until, inevitably, they come for you. It’s up to our communities to look out for themselves when the systems meant to, wont.
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Allowing these ICE kidnappings to become a common occurrence works to normalize this cruelty. This is how the “first they came” poem happens. No one speaks out or resists until, inevitably, they come for you. It’s up to our communities to look out for themselves when the systems meant to, wont.
Omg, they want ICE to go faster and be even more reckless. #NoKings www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
Trump Administration Plans a Shake-Up at ICE to Speed Deportations
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Omg, they want ICE to go faster and be even more reckless. #NoKings www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
Peggy Noonan at the WSJ finally wakes up. #NoKings www.wsj.com/opinion/a-re...
Opinion | A Republic, but Can We Keep It?
From the military and the Justice Department to the East Wing, there’s reason to wonder and worry.
www.wsj.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Peggy Noonan at the WSJ finally wakes up. #NoKings www.wsj.com/opinion/a-re...
The orgy of corruption continues. 1. Turns the money laundering operation back on, 2. Personally enriches the Trump family with a stake in the new company, plus the CEO’s help with Trump’s own crypto company. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder
The pardon follows months of efforts by Changpeng Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company.
www.wsj.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The orgy of corruption continues. 1. Turns the money laundering operation back on, 2. Personally enriches the Trump family with a stake in the new company, plus the CEO’s help with Trump’s own crypto company. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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Seattle No Kings from the monorail
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Seattle No Kings from the monorail
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My mom texted me with a picture of her at one of the No Kings protests. Her first protest ever. The normies have awakened.
October 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
My mom texted me with a picture of her at one of the No Kings protests. Her first protest ever. The normies have awakened.
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I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.
Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
October 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.
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No Kings Denver speaker Joe Salazar (fmr Dem state rep) tells me they estimate 25-30k gathered in Denver today, similar to the No Kings protest earlier this year. This view is from photographer Cheney Orr for the New York Times. #copolitics
October 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
No Kings Denver speaker Joe Salazar (fmr Dem state rep) tells me they estimate 25-30k gathered in Denver today, similar to the No Kings protest earlier this year. This view is from photographer Cheney Orr for the New York Times. #copolitics
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I didn't get a picture of the best sign I saw today, but I remember what it said:
Somewhere in America
A little Hispanic girl
Is hiding in an attic
And keeping a diary.
#NoKings
Somewhere in America
A little Hispanic girl
Is hiding in an attic
And keeping a diary.
#NoKings
October 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I didn't get a picture of the best sign I saw today, but I remember what it said:
Somewhere in America
A little Hispanic girl
Is hiding in an attic
And keeping a diary.
#NoKings
Somewhere in America
A little Hispanic girl
Is hiding in an attic
And keeping a diary.
#NoKings
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Says it All! No Kings Waimea Hawaii
October 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Says it All! No Kings Waimea Hawaii
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Make your plans for #NoKings. This Saturday, October 18th.
Free speech is action. Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country.
I'll be there. Please join in.
www.nokings.org
Free speech is action. Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country.
I'll be there. Please join in.
www.nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Make your plans for #NoKings. This Saturday, October 18th.
Free speech is action. Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country.
I'll be there. Please join in.
www.nokings.org
Free speech is action. Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country.
I'll be there. Please join in.
www.nokings.org
Would love to hear more about this business group lawsuit against Trump’s tariffs on the grounds that they are illegal because there’s no emergency, on your show @maddow.msnbc.com www.barrons.com/livecoverage...
Businesses Sue to Block Trump Tariffs
A group of businesses has filed suit to block the Trump administration’s broad tariffs on the grounds that they are not an emergency.
When he first [announced the tariffs](https://www.barrons.com/live...
www.barrons.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Would love to hear more about this business group lawsuit against Trump’s tariffs on the grounds that they are illegal because there’s no emergency, on your show @maddow.msnbc.com www.barrons.com/livecoverage...
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Jason Furman: "I’ve raised the odds that I attach to ending the independence of the Fed...The Supreme Court’s a wild card. Trump is a wild card. And this episode we’ve just gone through is a reminder to pay more attention to some of the tail risks."
youtube.com/shorts/RYSIt...
youtube.com/shorts/RYSIt...
Jason Furman On whether Trump might end Federal Reserve independence
YouTube video by Conversations with Bill Kristol
youtube.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Jason Furman: "I’ve raised the odds that I attach to ending the independence of the Fed...The Supreme Court’s a wild card. Trump is a wild card. And this episode we’ve just gone through is a reminder to pay more attention to some of the tail risks."
youtube.com/shorts/RYSIt...
youtube.com/shorts/RYSIt...
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90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No US Criminal Record
Trump administration officials have described the men deported to El Salvador prisons last month as “the worst of the worst,” suggesting they were gang members involved in murder, rape and kidnapping.
www.bloomberg.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Right now, CMS is accepting public comments on the rule. If enough of us speak out, we can help stop it — or build the record to fight it in court. The deadline to submit your comment is Friday at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Here’s everything you need to know to draft a comment and submit it. 👇
Here’s everything you need to know to draft a comment and submit it. 👇
Trump’s Rulemaking Attack on Healthcare and How to Fight Back
indivisible.org
April 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Right now, CMS is accepting public comments on the rule. If enough of us speak out, we can help stop it — or build the record to fight it in court. The deadline to submit your comment is Friday at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Here’s everything you need to know to draft a comment and submit it. 👇
Here’s everything you need to know to draft a comment and submit it. 👇
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Here's what McFadden grants:
![For these reasons, it is
ORDERED that Plaintiff’s [27] Amended Motion for Preliminary Injunction is
GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED that
1. Defendants shall immediately rescind the denial of the AP’s access to the Oval Office,
Air Force One, and other limited spaces based on the AP’s viewpoint when such spaces are made
open to other members of the White House press pool.
2. Defendants shall immediately rescind their viewpoint-based denial of the AP’s access
to events open to all credentialed White House journalists.
3. This preliminary injunction shall remain in effect until further order of this Court.
4. This preliminary injunction issues without the requirement of any security bond.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreienppu7luu5s6eqe2msw3t4h7jzbibmg74krylx7tnhvwor5r5mwa@jpeg)
April 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Here's what McFadden grants:
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Here’s how to stay in the fight:
📱 Use the 5 Calls app or Resist Bot to contact your elected officials daily.
🎤 Demand town halls. Show up at their public appearances.
🚫 Boycott evil corporations.
🗣️ Talk to your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors.
🌳 Build community power.
#FiftyFiftyOne
📱 Use the 5 Calls app or Resist Bot to contact your elected officials daily.
🎤 Demand town halls. Show up at their public appearances.
🚫 Boycott evil corporations.
🗣️ Talk to your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors.
🌳 Build community power.
#FiftyFiftyOne
April 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Here’s how to stay in the fight:
📱 Use the 5 Calls app or Resist Bot to contact your elected officials daily.
🎤 Demand town halls. Show up at their public appearances.
🚫 Boycott evil corporations.
🗣️ Talk to your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors.
🌳 Build community power.
#FiftyFiftyOne
📱 Use the 5 Calls app or Resist Bot to contact your elected officials daily.
🎤 Demand town halls. Show up at their public appearances.
🚫 Boycott evil corporations.
🗣️ Talk to your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors.
🌳 Build community power.
#FiftyFiftyOne
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I’ve been working from home the last days with CNBC on so I can follow the markets. Astonishes me that not one single taking head has called out Peter Navarro for his phony book and phony trade theories. This is how Trump got his lunatic thinking on tariffs
April 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I’ve been working from home the last days with CNBC on so I can follow the markets. Astonishes me that not one single taking head has called out Peter Navarro for his phony book and phony trade theories. This is how Trump got his lunatic thinking on tariffs
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peter navarro justifies the sudden and self-imposed tariff war,
unnecessary in trump's first term,
in a new op ed
unnecessary in trump's first term,
in a new op ed
April 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
peter navarro justifies the sudden and self-imposed tariff war,
unnecessary in trump's first term,
in a new op ed
unnecessary in trump's first term,
in a new op ed