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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 21h

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.com · 16h

Dan, do you just live to depress me?? :)

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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.com · 17h

Probably because I have a six-year old who is infecting my humor, but I really recommend fart noises followed by people yelling, "Kristi! My goodness!" "Kristi! You have to stop farting!"

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.com · 17h

Can't a guy dream?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

Who does Johnson think he’s fooling?! Dude sent the House home early to dodge a vote on releasing the Epstein files, and he’s keeping them away for the same reason.

Congress is still getting paid, but Johnson won’t bring the House back to fund the military. This is on him, not the Democrats.

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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.com · 17h

LOL.

"WELL, Bari, I wake up in the morning and make some coffee. Then I check emails. I read this. And then, I guess I'm most proud of making the universal sign of FU with my middle finger before sending this and shutting my laptop."

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 18h

We have (so many) questions. Is this part of a quid pro quo? Will the Qataris have their own facilities and security inside one of our bases? This needs some VERY serious oversight, if Republicans in Congress feel like doing their jobs at any point.

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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.com · 18h

lol

Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.com · 18h

Maybe I'm Charlie Brown, but this time I actually do believe most Democrats when they say they're dug in and not going to fall for this BS. I'll let you know if I fly up into the air and fall on my back, though.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 19h

this is only "leverage" if Democrats, watching the administration continue to play this hand badly, choose to rescue them

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 19h

BREAKING: White House budget office says "substantial" firings of federal workers have started as the Trump administration exerts shutdown leverage.

Budget office says 'substantial' firings of federal workers have started in government shutdown

The White House budget office says that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.com · 18h

WOW. Easy for this agnostic Jew to say, but we need more religious leaders out there on the front lines. It's always how these movements gain real saliency and turn the tide.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 19h

Is this the military or is this kindergarten? What's next, demanding your mommy sign a note explaining why you didn't eat your entire MRE?

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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.com · 18h

it occurs to me that part of the (maybe unintended) genius of Frog costumes being the new gear for anti-ICE protests is that it really makes it hard for the alt-right to use Pepe cleanly. In fact, if you see them use Pepe, comment back, "So glad you're on the anti-ICE bandwagon! Frogs forever!"

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 1d

Frogtifa

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 20h

Where do I get a frog hat for the big protest?

Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 1d

Frogtifa

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 21h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.com · 20h

Flash forward to them after their 20th loss in 25 games and stories about how everyone hates each other.

(but seriously, it'd be great if this endures and helps, but I'm never being hopeful about the Sixers again)

Adam Aaronson @adamaaronson.bsky.social · 20h

Jabari Walker raved about the camaraderie among Sixers youngsters yesterday. Asked about it today, Justin Edwards said they often play video games together and FaceTime in their group chat.

I asked Edwards who the best NBA 2K player on the team is.

“I don’t know. I think we’re all good.”

Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.com · 20h

He's going to make his own prize. Lock that and bet on it.

This is a man who made his own golf trophy to "win" it.

He is absolutely, without any shadow of a doubt, going to mint an "American" version of the Nobel and give it to himself.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 1d

Vance is back in Indiana today, personally pressuring GOP lawmakers to ignore their conscience and enact an extreme gerrymandering plan. The fact that they have to send in the VP tells us something important and encouraging: political pressure against this plan is working, even in deep red places.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

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 Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE racially profiles an elderly man and takes him into custody. They realize their mistake and release him. They also intimidate witnesses. This incident occurred in Long Beach, California.

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