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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h

That the Nobel Peach Prize was *not* awarded to thirsty Donald Trump makes it wonderful. That it was awarded to a woman makes it even better. That she is from a country Trump slanders makes it even better. That it was awarded for promoting democracy, something Trump undermines, makes it perfection.

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15h

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h

So greasy fascist lunatic Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg may be the Antichrist?

Guess whose name appears in the Epstein Files that have been released, Peter? No hers. Yours!

So that, technically, makes you more evil than the Antichrist.

Wilson Dizard III @wpd3.bsky.social · 13h

[Excerpt:] Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg & critics of tech or AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that linked government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

wapo.st

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 8h

President Miller

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 13h

So glad to know the First Lady is having lovely chats with a genocidal murderer to ask him to return the children he abducted.

Do we even have a State Department anymore?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 12h

There’s no more patriotic sentiment than “No Kings.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 8h

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

They searched 83,345 cameras to find the woman so they could arrest her and prosecute her self-managed abortion as a potential homicide.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Texas cops caught in lie after nationwide hunt for woman who took abortion pill

Police in Texas—led by a county sheriff later charged with an unrelated felony sex crime—lied about their motive for using artificial intelligence-powered surveillance technology to search for a woman...

www.rawstory.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

No one is above the law.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h

Vicious authoritarianism built on a pretext of shameless lies under the cover of scolding Christianity.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10h

Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20h

The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.

He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

You love to see @akalhan.bsky.social having successfully coined a new phrase.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15h

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 11h

I know Mike Johnson says there is nothing for the House to do but there is.

You see by law a budget was supposed to be in place by Sept 30th, but Rs haven’t passed one. The reason? There isn’t a GOP budget. They haven’t even started working on one. This is what the House should be doing FFS!

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Delight Hates Fascists @delighth.bsky.social · 8h

Surely MSM will ask him if he needs to “tone down the rhetoric” in his next interview?
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 17h

What a despicable little man who is lying through his teeth to try to incite violence against Americans who will be peacefully assembling to protest the Trump regime’s anti-democratic rule.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

If I lived in Portland I’d be filming daily videos of the reality there and sending them to every single person in my contacts.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

Doubt.

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 12h

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 1d

Wellness influencers are killing people. Paloma Shemirani was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which 80% of people survive, at age 22. She was dead within 7 months because dietary changes and coffee enemas didn’t work. Her airway collapsed under pressure from a tumor and she died at age 23.

Wellness influencers are literally killing people

YouTube video by Dr. Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

youtu.be

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Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social · 1d

I used to work in the NY AG's office. The federal indictment of Letitia James is disgusting and embarrassing. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10h

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

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 · 13h

"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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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 13h

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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

“The explosion was felt 15 miles away”

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