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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 16h

It’s been 30 days. This government shutdown is the second longest in U.S. history.
Take a wild guess who the president was during the longest shutdown ever?
Yep, same guy.

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Michael Kell @chiburbs.bsky.social · 15h

when every day is a nightmare, halloween really is not that exciting

i, for the first time, dread handing out candy tomorrow

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

It still boggles my mind that so many people couldn't grasp last year how significantly more morally depraved a second Trump term would be in comparison to the first. And how so many people still can't comprehend that our national crisis isn't about politics, but simple morality.

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

Want to make sure this letter arrives at the right place.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 16h

BREAKING: A federal court ruled that the FDA's unnecessary restrictions on medication abortion are unlawful and must be reconsidered.

This decision reaffirms that our access to safe and essential medicines should be dictated by science, not politics.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 16h

The President of the United States is so upset about his failed campaign for a Nobel Prize that he's now trying to claim someone else's prize as his own.

Pathetic.

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 1d

Stories of a failed state

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits

www.foxla.com

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

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Michael Kell @chiburbs.bsky.social · 18h

No there fucking isn't you pieces of shit.

Michael Kell @chiburbs.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know a single person who's "worried."

Nash Is Here For It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 2d

America needs to get to a place where we aren’t worried about our president dying of a condition related to old age.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

The anti trans hysteria is killing male veterans with cancer.

www.propublica.org/article/vete...

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage

A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

www.propublica.org

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Michael Kell @chiburbs.bsky.social · 1d

Better be for Senate because sadly this country will not elect a woman in 2028 (if, in fact, there is a 2028 - year or election, the way things are going we might all be nuked by then).

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

She’s running. youtu.be/cYy2_JPYqZM?...

The future belongs to us. | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

YouTube video by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Michael Kell @chiburbs.bsky.social · 1d

He had a penis and should have waited his turn.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

When I explain that boycotting an election over an issue has never once forced a politician to embrace that issue, I'm not "scolding people to vote." I'm explaining reality.

Feel free to sit on your ass! Just don't pretend that your lazy apathy is somehow going to advance your agenda.

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Michael Kell @chiburbs.bsky.social · 1d

they've been coming for us, she's not the first, just the most famously online

Michael Kell @chiburbs.bsky.social · 1d

PLANNING?!

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 1d

This is the note that goes with this photo from a small online group of democrats.

This is the 4th business that has been forced to close in our area because the regime is forcing previously documented immigrants into undocumented status.

They were here legally but the regime changed their status

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) has just been indicted by the DOJ over participation in protests against ICE at its Broadview facility in Illinois. This is a brazen weaponization of the DOJ to target political opponents with bogus charges.

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

A scanned legal document from the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, titled “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MICHAEL RABBITT, KATHERINE MARIE ABUGHAZALEH, ANDRE MARTIN, CATHERINE SHARP, BRIAN STRAW, and JOSELYN WALSH.”
It shows case number 1:25-cr-00693, filed on October 23, 2025, before Judge April M. Perry and Magistrate Judge Heather K. McShain. The document is marked “UNDER SEAL” and notes violations under Title 18, U.S. Code, Sections 111(a)(1), 372, and 2.
The first section is labeled COUNT ONE and begins: “The SPECIAL JUNE 2024 GRAND JURY charges:” followed by four subpoints (a–d) describing an ICE officer (“Agent A”), the Broadview Service Staging Area in Illinois, and the defendants’ residences in the Northern District of Illinois. A red “FILED 10/23/2025” stamp appears at the top right, along with the signature of THOMAS G. BRUTON, Clerk, U.S. District Court.

A page from a U.S. District Court indictment titled “COUNT THREE” in case number 1:25-cr-00693, filed October 23, 2025, in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.
The document states that the Special June 2024 Grand Jury incorporates previous allegations and charges that on or about September 26, 2025, in Broadview, Illinois, defendant Katherine Marie Abughazaleh “forcibly impeded, intimidated, and interfered with an officer of the United States, namely Agent A,” while the officer was performing official duties.
It concludes that this conduct violated Title 18, United States Code, Sections 111(a)(1) and 2.

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Michael Kell @chiburbs.bsky.social · 1d

meanwhile, all i want is women to rule everything and straight men forced to toil in the fields

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

pretty clear a lot of dem pundits love Platner because they’re desperately insecure about their own masculinity, no? every time they vote for a woman or some nerd they die a little inside. they want senator muscles so they can feel okay about themselves again

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The federal criminal justice system is being systematically dismantled and destroyed piece by piece and turned into a mob boss’s network of corrupt consiglieres and thugs, where good people simply doing their jobs are rooted out and eradicated.

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Michael Kell @chiburbs.bsky.social · 1d

This jackass........a lot of young people would prefer their government provide them healthcare not pay a huge deductible if something tragic happens to them. Dumbass granny.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

John Kennedy on Republican healthcare ideas: "Bringing back high risk pools, which have been outlawed under the ACA."

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Illinois deputy found guilty of murder in the shooting of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 asking for help.

A photo of Sonya Massey on the left, and Sean Grayson on the right

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Michael Kell @chiburbs.bsky.social · 1d

Total forum-shopping - a federal judge in Kentucky and a coal case? Easy win.

Jaime Omar Yassin [TNH] @hyphyrepublic.bsky.social · 2d

This was tipped this morning by Ramachandran at Finance as Oakland woke up to reality that coal suit repercussions have continued, and City may be on the hook for hundreds of millions. Oaklandside with story, repercussions that began a decade ago:

Oakland's 'tortious interference' bankrupted a coal company. Now the city could owe millions.

Yesterday's decision, by a federal bankruptcy judge in Kentucky, is a massive legal blow against the city's long-running effort to stop construction of a coal export terminal in West Oakland.

oaklandside.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Checking in on the “ceasefire”

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