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roaringgirl.bsky.social @roaringgirl.bsky.social · 16h

The generals are going to have to choose a side.

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Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 16h

I agree w/this. While I don't think the NatGuard deployments are strictly in prep for 10/18, I DO think that the protests were a part of the rationale. That's why we need to turn out in vast numbers...for mutual protection as well as to make the needed statement. 300 NatGuard no match for 100K.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16h

invocation of the insurrection act will be the key moment for everyone. the white house, any state where it's invoked, especially the supreme court. all public officials are ultimately responsible for acting in line with the constitution. a false invocation of the insurrection act, itself a ...

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18h

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

www.mediaite.com

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 16h

To be clear, 20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke this information is the acknowledgement that Stephen Miller is driving the invocation of the Insurrection Act.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16h

invocation of the insurrection act will be the key moment for everyone. the white house, any state where it's invoked, especially the supreme court. all public officials are ultimately responsible for acting in line with the constitution. a false invocation of the insurrection act, itself a ...

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18h

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 19h

#MorningVibe

I got a new doormat. You like it?

Doormat that says: Wel—-
Wait. Who did you vote for?

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Zora T. Pike @dandel10n27.bsky.social · 14h

Epstein Epstein Epstein

Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 15h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pelosi: "Democrats who created Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, all of that, are now being asked to reject that so we can give a tax cut to the rich. We're not doing it. It isn't a question of, 'let's come back together so we can discuss it.' That isn't going to happen."

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Michael 🪽🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 🌈 @captain-corona.bsky.social · 14h

A war is when both sides fight each other. Sometimes on offense and sometimes defense. But this ‘war’ is one sided. Israel is always on offense. And women and children are being killed and starved to death. That is genocide.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 1d

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16h

The best "defense" of SCOTUS' hypocrisy is that there's an asymmetry between how Democrats and Republicans wield executive power. Broadly—Dems want to give things (health care, asylum, foreign aid, loan relief, civil rights) while Republicans want to take things away. SCOTUS makes the latter easier.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 15h

I would vote without question for anyone with the fucking stones to do this while refusing to 1) throw trans people under the bus and 2) fund Israel's genocide

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16h

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Kathleen Searles @kesearles.bsky.social · 16h

NYT wants to hear from researchers who had their funding cut, form here: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

www.nytimes.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16h

ICYMI: Speaker Mike Johnson is second in line to the presidency, but he wants you to know he has no opinion on anything and takes responsibility for nothing. His go-to line is “not in my lane.”

Jen Psaki last night…

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14h

A data hoarder set up a searchable archive of the Epstein docs released by the House Oversight Committee. Used OCR and a self-hosted AI to analyze and categorize them.

Actually useful bc the docs were released as disorganized jpeg files in a giant Google Drive

www.404media.co/data-hoarder...

Data Hoarder Uses AI to Create Searchable Database of Epstein Files

The open source project has been mirrored as a torrent file and represents one of the easiest ways to navigate a messy data dump.

www.404media.co

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 14h

15 small states with 41 million people elect 30 GOP senators

California with 39 million people elects 2 Democratic senators

Listen to how US political system violates one person, one vote & how voting rights under attack on new episode of @npr.org Code Switch www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Voting rights are at risk. Here's why. : Code Switch

Next Wednesday, the Supreme Court hears a case that could further weaken the Voting Rights Act, which was passed to ensure fair districting and voting practices across different racial groups. Meanwhi...

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Jeff Stone @jeffstone.bsky.social · 16h

News:

FEMA is interrogating staffers -- denying union or legal representation -- about a whistleblower letter warning that Trump administration cuts are undercutting disaster response.

via @margimurphy.bsky.social @laurenthal.bsky.social @zhirji.bsky.social

FEMA Tells Staff to Name Whistleblowers or Risk Losing Jobs

Investigators are looking for staffers who anonymously endorsed an open letter criticizing the Trump administration’s cuts to disaster funding.

www.bloomberg.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

Gov. Shapiro: "The way the president has chosen to deploy the National Guard in other states, and to deploy the Guard of one state. Texas, into another state, Illinois, is extremely dangerous...It does not make us more safe. It creates chaos and real danger in our communities."

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Zora T. Pike @dandel10n27.bsky.social · 16h

The real Groomers...
Ohio Republicans want public schools to teach positive impacts of Christianity on history ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/09/o...

Ohio Republicans want public schools to teach positive impacts of Christianity on history • Ohio Capital Journal

A pair of Ohio Republican lawmakers want public schools and public universities to teach the positive impacts of Christianity on American history. No other religion is mentioned in the bill, named the...

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Lizzy For Democracy @lizzy2016.bsky.social · 1d

If you are not taking a stand yet, NOW is the time! Make phone calls, attend rallies, join economic boycotts, talk politics with family and friends...start today.

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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · Jul 14

Future voters will not accept any excuses for enabling this genocide
The only ones who don’t know it are the owner / donor class who do they enabling.
Gazas is now linked to the class struggle of the oligarchs vs 1%
The billionaire class wants genocide to be whitewashed.

Everyone knows it

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 21h

'Epstein bomb set to drop — nobody wants to defend Trump': 100 GOP Reps to mutiny, congressman warns
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Afra Kroon 🇳🇱 @afrakroon.bsky.social · 21h

Cartoon by Peter Brookes.

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Don't Follow Me I'm Hopelessly Lost @johnnycomelatly.bsky.social · 21h

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