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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 4h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 4h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

www.theatlantic.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 40m

It’s because absurdity captures attention, highlights the lies of the Trump administration, and makes it profoundly clear that those lies are being told with authoritarian intent

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

a mini 🧵:

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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CRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 29m

And shit news outlets like Reuters fail to convey those most important facts to their readers, leaving the impression that Vought has the authority to do this, which he does not.

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 2h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 7h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

MacCALLUM: Margaret Thatcher said socialism is great until you run out of other people's money

MAMDANI: Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if you have $957m you give it to Elon Musk in tax credits

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 38m

Related: The Chicago Sun-Times, in its partnership with WBEZ, is doing stellar work right now.

Including this piece about the downstream effects of ICE enforcement on stuff like apartment rents and maintenance

chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/...

The fear among residents and workers, both documented and undocumented, is palpable, he said. Residents are scared to open their doors for maintenance workers, and it has become harder to schedule repairs with his work force.
Other property managers and owners said workers are not showing up at job sites - frightened by ICE — and it's causing delays on building repairs and maintenance. Some residents are not able to pay rent on time as they are holed up at home, too afraid to go to work with federal agents popping up throughout the city.
This adds to the already rising business costs for building owners and managers, some who say they are eating the increased expenses connected to ICE raids. But if the enforcement activity continues into the busy spring moving season, property managers and owners like Warren said they may have to increase rents to recoup some of their costs.
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CRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 32m

"Nazis do Nazi things"

#evergreen

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 58m

What a lede

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1h

Thomas Friedman, who just wrote a column suggesting how Trump could win the Nobel Peace Prize, really ought to read this piece — which clearly lays out how Trump is executing his version of peace in the US.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Clear Spies 🪬 @clearspies.fellas.army · 1h

We need to oppress and punish stupid people. They should be crying and eating shit, not running the United States government.

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CRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 52m

That poor little white girl won't ever know if she was a DEI hire.

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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 22h

I heard the initial story, but the story is advancing and getting quite interesting!

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CRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 55m

If Reuters weren't pathetic Vichy press sellouts & were doing actual journalism rather than whitewashing Nazi lies, the headline would be "VOUGHT ILLEGALLY SHUTTING DOWN CFPB".

It is the fucking law. It was established by congress. The One Special Boy and his fascist fluffers don't have that power.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 7h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 7h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

Still find it wild how they shut down USAID with no Congressional approval

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 7h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h

Two months ago, U.S. Border Patrol posted a hype video, featuring the “banned” version of Michael Jackson’s 1995 song “They Don’t Care About Us,” including its infamous antisemitic slurs.

While Border Patrol remained silent, antisemitic accounts on Twitter celebrated the government’s post.

Border Patrol won’t say why it used a Michael Jackson song with antisemitic lyrics

The video was live on Facebook and Instagram for two months.

www.motherjones.com

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CRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 1h

Isn't that a situation where you just fire the guy and he's blackballed from ever working in government again?

Oh, wait, our POTUS is an actual Nazi, and everyone who voted for him knew that coming in, so this is just normal operations.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4h

Why is this a matter for the Capitol police, as heinous as it might be? Doesn't a Republican congressman have a First Amendment right to allow (or encourage) his staffers to display Nazi imagery? Isn't it good for voters to know which Republicans have Nazi sympathies?

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4h

Politico received an initial tip that a Taylor staffer had a swastika neatly pinned to his cubicle during a zoom call. When confronted, the congressman’s press office pretty implausibly sought to present the situation as a police matter, and Politico went along with that in its headline and lede.

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 5h

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Phil Weiser @philforcolorado.bsky.social · 1h

In Colorado, we run our own elections—and we do it well. Our mail ballot system is safe, secure, and makes voting accessible. That’s our constitutional right, and I’ll always defend it—no one, not even the president, can take that away. #philforgovernor #copolitics

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 6h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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Clear Spies 🪬 @clearspies.fellas.army · 1h

Trump is setting up this very elaborate international human trafficking network. I’m waiting for Trump to kidnap a judge, drop them off in the middle of Somalia and the Supreme Court will say that’s his “Presidential Powers”.

Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 1h

Justice just scored a rare win: a federal judge slammed the brakes on Trump’s illegal layoffs, reminding him that even wannabe dictators can’t bulldoze the rule of law. For once, the system held the line—barely.

www.wionews.com/world/-you-c...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4h

"It is ridiculous that antifa has become this boogeyman. If they're going to tell us they are going to find the founder of Antifa, isn't the founder of Antifa...Winston Churchill? FDR? Didn't they lead a war against fascism? Wasn't that anti-fascism?" - me
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1h

It's "far from normal for an administration to fire line-level civilian employees during a government shutdown as a way to punish the opposing political party."

From a judge's TRO blocking Trump's mass firings under cover of the shutdown

It is also far from normal for an administration to fire line-level civilian employees during a
government shutdown as a way to punish the opposing political party. But this is precisely what President Trump has announced he is doing, by taking to social media on the second day of the
shutdown to post: “I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent. I can’t believe
the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity.”

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