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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2h

Reporter: Why didn’t Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Nobel committee chair: We only give the award to people of courage and integrity.

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Sara Mitchell @sbmitche.bsky.social · 25m

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21m

“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Matthew Wasserbach, brokerage manager of Express Customs Clearance, said of the UPS backlog. “It’s totally unprecedented.”

@cnbc.com $UPS
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UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

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Ray Collins @eraycollins.bsky.social · 2h

But there is one thing that I believe almost all economists (including me) overlooked —the possible role of tax avoidance/evasion in limiting tariffs’ impact. (Avoidance is when it’s legal, even if it shouldn’t be; evasion is when it isn’t.) paulkrugman.substack.com/p/leprechaun...

Leprechauns, Effective Tariffs and Inflation

Yes, tariffs are hurting us. No, Trump wasn’t right.

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Ray Collins @eraycollins.bsky.social · 3h

The Department of Justice is supposed to be nonpartisan, and it certainly is not supposed to be an arm of presidential lawfare. Nonetheless, Trump has been perverting it to protect his loyalists and persecute his perceived enemies.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 7h

October 9, 2025

Today Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan did what President Donald J.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15h

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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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 15h

Legally Bondi — a cartoon by RJ Matson

Legally Bondi

A cartoon by RJ Matson

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Ray Collins @eraycollins.bsky.social · 17h

The Austin Bulldog filed a public information request to get copies of ICE detainer forms received by the Travis County Sheriff’s Office. Travis County declined to provide those documents and instead filed a request for an attorney general’s ruling, which is still pending. /2

Ray Collins @eraycollins.bsky.social · 17h

...when inmates enter the Travis County jail they are processed and their fingerprints are taken. Those prints are sent to ICE and if the individuals do not have legal status, ICE issues detainers to hold them in the jail. If ICE does not pick up the inmates within 48 hours, they are released. /1

Ken Martin @bulldogken.bsky.social · 23h

New law forces sheriffs to help ICE
Senate Bill 8 goes into effect January 1st
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New law forces sheriffs to help ICE - The Austin Bulldog

Although Central Texas has not been subjected to the numbers of immigration raids and sweeps by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that have been seen along the border with Mexico, or the Natio...

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Ray Collins @eraycollins.bsky.social · 1d

Good job here by Jo Clifton of The Austin Monitor. I watched this segment of the Public Safety Commission meeting on video the next day.

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Ray Collins @eraycollins.bsky.social · 1d

I have been wondering for some time whether Chief Davis reassignment of sworn personnel to the training academy was to further the recommendations of the Kroll report. Evidently not according to the explanation given. austinmonitor.com/stories/2025...

Commission calls for full audit of police training academy - Austin Monitor

Members of Austin’s Public Safety Commission approved a resolution on Monday calling for a full audit of the progress made on police training academy reforms. In November, 2020, the city hired Kroll...

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Ray Collins @eraycollins.bsky.social · 1d

Whether elected officials, colleges, legacy media, or businesses I keep waiting for the various people involved to realize that if you give an inch to the felonious pursuits of this presidency and its accomplices that they will be back for more, and more, and more ad infinitum.

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Laura Borealis ❌👑 @laura-gordon.bsky.social · 2d

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HEATHER COX RICHARDSON! America needs you like we need oxygen @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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Ray Collins @eraycollins.bsky.social · 1d

Courtney Kube, Katherine Doyle, Carol E. Lee, and Garrett Haake of NBC News report today that White House officials, led by White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, have been having increasingly serious discussions about having Trump invoke the act.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

October 8, 2025

Yesterday, journalists observed members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S.

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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump Coin
For @rawstory.com

Beat the algorithms. Follow my work on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 1d

Eric Swallwell (D-CA) says it’s coming to an end and House Republicans are privately breaking, that a “jailbreak” is brewing the moment the Epstein files hit the floor, and that Trump’s aura of fear is finally cracking.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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SWALWELL’S BOMBSHELL EPSTEIN TWEET: "The Epstein Files Are Coming And The GOP Are Getting Ready To Abandon Trump"

218 or chaos: Inside the House moment that could shatter Trump’s grip

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

YES: this is the best of Chicago. Let's Go Brandon (Johnson)!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · 2d

After 30 years of publication, the U.S. Department of Agriculture abruptly canceled its annual report on the prevalence of hunger in America. The USDA’s press release condemned the report as “politicized,” “subjective, liberal fodder” that did “nothing more than fear monger.”

An American Hunger Crisis Is Coming

Trump’s cruel and disastrous policies—slashing food stamps and hiking inflationary tariffs—are creating an American hunger crisis.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Fugitive Womb Act

awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 1d

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

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Ray Collins @eraycollins.bsky.social · 1d

This is why the Austin city council canceled the pilot with Flock not long ago even though the info wasn't as complete then as it is now. Public Safety Commission recommended cancellation and the council majority was already on board when the city manager withdrew the item from the council's agenda.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 1d

This is why neither the companies profiting from a technology nor the agencies deploying it can be trusted to tell the full story about how it's being used. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and

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Ray Collins @eraycollins.bsky.social · 1d

The state engineers silence. The neighborhoods compose a chorus. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Silence Machine

By evening, Google had yanked Red Dot, a sister app used by undocumented families in Portland, Houston, Atlanta.

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Ray Collins @eraycollins.bsky.social · 2d

The claim that exceptions to the rule of law reveal where true power rests in a society is central to the philosophy of Carl Schmitt, a German political scientist who joined the Nazis.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2d

October 7, 2025

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved.

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 2d

Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 2d

Video from Trumpland!

If they shoot a praying white priest in broad daylight, knowing they are being filmed, do you really think YOU will be safe?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2d

Today in Politics Chat, I talked about how power sloshes around when a president is checked out, and noted that right now unelected officials like Stephen Miller are trying to grab it. But instead, We the People can take it back and create a better nation.

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