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Ed @edmoriarty.bsky.social · 6h

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 11h

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Ed @edmoriarty.bsky.social · 6h

Fucking A brother

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 11h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 10h

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Ed @edmoriarty.bsky.social · 7h

youtu.be/6piBteOHCZQ?...

It's pronounced "azaleas"

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Ed @edmoriarty.bsky.social · 7h

Yes

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 9h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 9h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

Children that were kidnapped by invading Russian barbarians, not displaced.

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Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social · 11h

What kind of man does such things? Assaulting a 15 year old?? They should be in prison.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 14h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 18h

There is no leader of Antifa.
There is no girlfriend of the leader of Antifa.

They are creating imaginary people so they can justify going after real people.

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Ed @edmoriarty.bsky.social · 11h

The party of small government.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16h

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

www.motherjones.com

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15h

“After Trump got his.”

A useful, replicable phrase.

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 16h

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

The SpEd system in this country is set up in a way that families know they're entitled to certain things but also know they have to fight tooth and nail to get what they deserve.

They're tenacious experienced fighters who'll do anything for their kids. These assholes just sucker punched them all.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

I know Trump and his minions all have sneering contempt for kids with special needs, but trust me when I say that their parents will absolutely fucking destroy anyone who messes with the special education supports to which they are entitled by law.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 15h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14h

Blue!💙

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 14h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 14h

Both the more long-term rot and the very recent decay, perfectly captured: Thiessen has been producing disingenuous reactionary garbage for years at WaPo - that, in fact, was his entire mission. But until recently, excellent people were also writing opinions for them. They're gone. His ilk is left.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14h

The child-kidnapping secret police would appreciate it if you stopped calling them fascists.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 17h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Ed @edmoriarty.bsky.social · 15h

Blaming the "left™" for the Pennsylvania shooting is also a lie

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

this is an absolutely insane news conference for the Attorney General of the United States to be participating in.

(note how Benny Johnson describes the Annunciation shooting as an act of political violence, which is a lie)

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 17h

Of all the news in this NYT survey of sitting federal judges - incl 47 of them think the SCt is mishandling its emergency docket - maybe the biggest is that 65 sitting fed judges (37D, 28R), folks circumspect for a living, responded to a NYT survey. Stunning. And a sign that something is very wrong.

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 16h

Yes.

The miles of “gold” in the Oval Office are a product of the same thing—a DESPERATE need for adulation.

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

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 17h

They are building a Propaganda State.

They are cooking the books on job creation.

Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Ed @edmoriarty.bsky.social · 15h

Concerning.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h

Luttig has it right here: “[T]he Supreme Court has given them no choice but to speak out.”

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 21h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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