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Aunt Patty @auntpatty.bsky.social · 7h

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 7h

It's supposed to be a "personal liberties and free markets" page, dummy! Stick to the script!

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9h

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8h

Horrifically creepy and emblematic of this rape-coded administration, but also a govt employee staying at the fuckin ritz on a business trip shows you how much the DC world has changed since the DOJ muffin scandal of 2011.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

In the cities Trump is targeting to “combat crime,” violent crime was down year-over-year by July. www.pbump.net/o/a-quick-re...

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 11h

As with Comey, the charges against Letitia James have no signature other than Trump’s handpicked personal attorney Lindsey Halligan.

No line prosecutor signed this document.

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ChicagoDomDaddy™️ @chicagodomdaddy.bsky.social · 15h

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 11h

If it weren't for the innocents who might also be hurt, I would not be so bothered that the Trump NHTSA will do nothing about this and thus many Tesla owners will be burned alive or hit by trains.

Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 12h

Tesla's Full-Self Driving software is now under federal investigation, including its behavior at train crossings, after an NBC News investigation.

In September, NBC News found that Tesla owners repeatedly complained about Teslas failing to detect oncoming trains.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents

NBC News reported last month that Tesla vehicles using Full Self-Driving software sometimes fail to stop for train tracks.

www.nbcnews.com

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Burn Bag 1862 @tcooperlaw.bsky.social · 12h

Every day should be a day spent demonstrating how much of a hypocrite Trump and his family are, and how they will never, ever change

Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social · 13h

Your timely reminder that Donald Trump tried to claim NYC residence to take a $49,000 tax break on his Manhattan condo while he and Melania lived in the White House, only to get it yanked after my colleague and I caught the misrepresentation.

EXCLUSIVE: City nixes property tax break for Trump’s NYC apartment

New York City has nixed a $48,000 tax break President Trump was set to receive on his Trump Tower condo following inquiries from the Daily News about whether he is still eligible for the savings. O…

www.nydailynews.com

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Matt @itsmatt.bsky.social · 12h

WSJ making up a guy to be mad about

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 12h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 12h

Um… isn’t this the sorta thing a judge shouldn’t have to order?

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12h

A federal judge in Illinois has ordered the Trump administration to stop beating, shooting at, and generally using violence against journalists and peaceful protesters. trib.al/4ZfMWqA

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 12h

Federal charges against a Chicago couple who were arrested for protesting against ICE were dropped after a grand jury refused to indict them.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 12h

Perry: "Deportations are up. Arrests are up. … The courthouse remains open and always has. Federal laws are being executed. They're also being broken, as they have been since the beginning of time."

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 12h

Perry: "I have seen no credible evidence that there is danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois."

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 12h

You cannot reason with a fascist. You can’t endear yourself to a fascist. They will turn on everyone, including their own family, their allies, their sycophants and collaborators.

Fascists hate themselves and they hate the world. This doesn’t stop unless it is stopped.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 12h

From The New Yorker

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14h

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 12h

Unless they’re declaring him an anti-pope and installing their own guy in Avignon, they’re not “rejecting” him, they’re just bitching and moaning and forgetting who’s in charge of the church they’ve weirdly and ignorantly attempted to infiltrate. bsky.app/profile/wash...

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16h

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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M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 12h

this fcking guy has one evil job that he can't even do without gimping himself in the nuts and getting government welfare while watching Fox News all day

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

An agent testified in federal court in Chicago today that Bovino needed an MRI and is on two weeks bedrest for "a groin injury" he sustained during last week's protest

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 12h

Scumbag

Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 18h

Greg Bovino is the face of Trump's anti-immigration crackdown in blue cities, staging military-style raids to conduct civil immigration arrests.

“The level of violence has changed since he was put in charge,” Chicago alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez tells TPM.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/greg-bo...

Greg Bovino Emerges as Trump’s Man For Conjuring Up a Blue-City Insurrection

Elected officials, activists, and at least one former high-ranking Department of Homeland...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16h

"Greg Bovino makes dramatic hand gestures as he walks toward the state troopers, while masked men wearing hi-vis vests from DHS’s Office of Public Affairs scurry around, filming the experience."

Creating Content in Broadview

Tear gas looks cool as hell on camera

www.turtlediaries.net

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h

This shitty telenovela will not end before Bovino and Noem are caught fucking by Lewandowski.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

An agent testified in federal court in Chicago today that Bovino needed an MRI and is on two weeks bedrest for "a groin injury" he sustained during last week's protest

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 12h

We cAn oNLy mAkE tHe ShUtDoWn aBoUt HeALtH cArE newrepublic.com/article/2014...

NYT push alert

Breaking News
Letitia James is said to have been indicted after President Trump pushed the Justice Department to seek charges against her.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 12h

I think what the "we must make sure nothing upsets or discomfits the smol bean middle American" side of this debate misses is that there are huge quantities of human misery and death down both of these paths and all we are doing now is deciding upon whom that misery settles, and when.

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 12h

i don’t think we “have” to immiserate people. but the idea that voters must be protected from the consequences of their actions is not only incredibly, decadently precious but also fundamentally antidemocratic.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 12h

Keep your corrupt, grubby, abusive hands off Tish James, Donald Trump.

Your cowardice is showing — weak men seek revenge on powerful women who hold them to account.

But NY’rs don’t play. Our AG has been a fierce warrior for our rights, time & again. You better believe we’ll be there for hers.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

The Attorney General of New York was just indicted by our tinpot dictator

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

www.theguardian.com

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