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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3h

This is why Dems need to get loud about accountability coming.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 12h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 6h

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

“With the court weighing whether to restrict federal tactics, the suit could help define how far Washington can go in policing protests and how strongly speech, press and religious expression are protected when federal agents deploy in U.S. cities.“

Newsweek @newsweek.com · 1d

Rev. David Black alleges ICE shot him without warning in Broadview; joins suit over protester rights violations.

Chicago Pastor Sues Trump Admin After Being Shot by ICE Agents

www.newsweek.com

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 5h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 4h

All my stuff is at editorialboard.com.

The Editorial Board. Politics in plain English for normal people.

A newsletter about politics in plain English for normal people, democracy and the common good.

editorialboard.com

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Latin🎷KingCole @latin-kingcole.bsky.social · 4h

Puppet 2025, not project 2025

a thread.

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 17h

6. I have talked a lot before about how Trump has dementia and how growing public awareness of his disease could make him vulnerable to the allegation that he’s not really in charge – that malicious and unaccountable forces are pulling his strings.

www.editorialboard.com/for-independ...

For independent voters, it’s not Project 2025. It's Puppet 2025

Make them see the old man isn’t in charge anymore.

www.editorialboard.com

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 1d

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 16h

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required license plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

Federal immigration officers wear masks and no name tags. Now some are driving cars without license plates.

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

trib.al

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 4h

I think so too.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5h

What do you mean "possible rise," dude is at the top of the pack. He is the literal pope

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12h

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h

This is the attitude we all need.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 8h

"It’s hard to think of a more clear example of an authoritarian regime than a political enemy being charged with crimes simply because the president wants him to be. As Peru's fascist leader General Óscar Benavides famously said: 'For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law'.” #TrumpTyranny

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 8h

Jim Comey was first, but let's be clear: Donald Trump is coming for the rest of us too. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/we-are-all...

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 5h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 17h

1. Today, I have a few things to say about that putz Stephen Miller. First, he’s been on TV a lot lately, because that’s how he pours more poison into the president’s already-poisoned brain.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 17h

6. I have talked a lot before about how Trump has dementia and how growing public awareness of his disease could make him vulnerable to the allegation that he’s not really in charge – that malicious and unaccountable forces are pulling his strings.

www.editorialboard.com/for-independ...

For independent voters, it’s not Project 2025. It's Puppet 2025

Make them see the old man isn’t in charge anymore.

www.editorialboard.com

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h

Yes!

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 17h

12. I would guess that at some point in his early childhood, he identified something that he hates about himself so deeply and pathologically that every day since then has been one traumatizing event after another that he has struggled to survive.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 17h

11. Of course, there are plenty of men who are born of average appearance, talent and smarts, but who accept who they are and lead decent, honorable, happy lives.

Not Stephen Miller. Why? Titanic ego. The truth shall not be true! So he lies to himself, about himself, endlessly.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h

I will say again that the Democrats must be the party of law and order. And finally, Jeffries is banging the drum for some.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h

Jesus God he did it.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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The Opinionated Ogre @opinionatedogre.bsky.social · 17h

Miller is 100% manipulating an elderly dementia patient so he can live out his white nationalist power fantasies.

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 17h

1. Today, I have a few things to say about that putz Stephen Miller. First, he’s been on TV a lot lately, because that’s how he pours more poison into the president’s already-poisoned brain.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks for reading this thread. The tip jar is open! account.venmo.com/u/John-Stoeh...

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h

Did he say that?

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CoachN @coachn.bsky.social · 15h

It’s a long thread, but @editorialboard.bsky.social really hits it with his comparison of Herr Miller to Wormtongue; using the TV and social media The Mad King obsesses over in order to pour poisonous lies into his severely compromised ear.

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 17h

1. Today, I have a few things to say about that putz Stephen Miller. First, he’s been on TV a lot lately, because that’s how he pours more poison into the president’s already-poisoned brain.

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