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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 13h

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 13h

Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast.

But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10h

Donald Trump: Stop trying to incite Illinoisans into violence. Pack up and go home.

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DHeber @dheber.bsky.social · 15h

"The move is the president’s latest effort to weaponize the Department of Justice to punish political rivals. It comes two weeks after Halligan secured charges against James Comey, the former FBI director."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

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DHeber @dheber.bsky.social · 19h

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Jim Jordan Loses It as Shutdown Interview Goes off the Rails

The Republican representative ended up just exposing his own cluelessness.

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DHeber @dheber.bsky.social · 19h

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Trump Republican receives blunt fact check as swearing in of new Democrat drags on

The representative-elect won her special election in September.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 21h

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose philosophical, bleakly funny novels often unfold in single sentences, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for his “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” https://to.pbs.org/473vZah

WATCH: Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize in literature

The 71-year-old Krasznahorkai is the first Hungarian winner since 2002. He has previously received the Man Booker International Prize and the National Book Award for Translated Literature in the U.S.

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 22h

When will the climate change coastal property bubble pop? A significant acceleration in coastal flooding from a lunar orbit shift (mid-2030s) will significantly stress the market. My 2024 post: "When will climate change turn life in the U.S. upside down?"
yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/when...

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DHeber @dheber.bsky.social · 21h

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DHeber @dheber.bsky.social · 21h

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Are ‘Donald Trump dementia’ searches being blocked by Google? What to know

President Trump is currently the second oldest president in American history following Joe Biden.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump has finally found his Roy Cohn. Read the detaios & judge for yourself if this is how the people’s lawyer should do her job. joycevance.substack.com/p/oversight

Oversight

Attorney General Pam Bondi showed up for an oversight hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee today, and she brought her best Scarlett O’Hara demeanor along with her.

joycevance.substack.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

Christian minister attacked by ICE agents. Waiting for the outrage from MAGA. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Pastor shot in the head by ICE agents sues over First Amendment threats

David Black joins journalists and protesters in lawsuit to stop ‘pattern of extreme brutality’ from federal agents

www.independent.co.uk

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 2d

AG Bondi used ad hominem attacks rather than answer hard questions at yesterday’s Senate hearing. This is an old debater’s trick. Attack the person to conceal weak facts. We deserve answers, not insults.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/p...

Trump calls for investigation into Blumenthal over allegations he lied about military service | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump called for Sen. Richard Blumenthal to be investigated in a Truth Social post late Tuesday night, hours after the Democratic senator sparred with Attorney General Pam Bondi…

www.cnn.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Greg Abbott is a lackey of Donald Trump.

He’s going against exactly what he said he would do last year.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 1d

My latest animation of the global surface temperature anomaly, 1851 - 2025 (current through September).

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DHeber @dheber.bsky.social · 1d

Gift Article!
Well, at least we are sort of lessening the FBI's caseload a bit by getting many of the radical White Christian Nationalists off the streets by giving them ICE uniforms and a salary.
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A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

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DHeber @dheber.bsky.social · 1d

If you wanted to have the same freedoms as the citizens of Russia, China, Hungary, and perhaps North Korea, and you voted for Trump, this should bring a smile to your face.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump calls for jailing of Chicago mayor and Illinois governor as national guard arrives in city

President accused Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker of failing to protect Ice officers as troops deploy to Chicago

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DHeber @dheber.bsky.social · 1d

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Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents shooting an unarmed priest feels like a metaphor.

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

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

This you, Kristi?

A screenshot of a post from X (formerly Twitter). The top tweet is from user @covie_93 with the caption: “This tweet aged like Stephen Miller…..”. Below it is a tweet from Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) that reads:
“If Joe Biden federalizes the National Guard, that would be a direct attack on states' rights.
Over the last several years, we've seen Democrats try to take away our Freedoms of religion, assembly, and speech. We can't let them take away our right to defend ourselves, too.
South Dakota defends the Constitution.”

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DHeber @dheber.bsky.social · 1d

Gift Article!
Interesting article comparing the costs between gas, ev, and hybrid to power a car in each state.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

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