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Estel Cooper @estel62.bsky.social · 4h

Trump destroys another guardrail of democracy — while no one's looking

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Trump destroys another guardrail of democracy — while no one's looking

“Waste, fraud, and abuse.”It’s President Donald Trump’s battle cry as he dismantles federal agencies, fires hundreds of thousands of employees, and demoralizes the workers who remain. It’s also anothe...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13h

I love that Marge is obviously pissed that old white men in GA say she's not serious and this even older white man is telling the nice little lady to sit down.

By all means, antagonize her some more.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

CNN: Marjorie Taylor Greene says Republicans have no healthcare solutions. What do you say to her?

REP. PETE SESSIONS: She needs a couple more years in office and she would learn that we do have ideas on the table

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12h

1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite.

Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform.

Major conservatives joined in.

Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up.

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Netflix Stock Up As Elon Musk's Anti-Trans Boycott Fails To Materialize

Last week, conservatives tried to cancel Netflix to force the carrier to remove transgender characters.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12h

2. Last week, conservatives—led by Elon Musk and Libs of TikTok—launched an outrage campaign to cancel Netflix en masse. The uproar began over a years-old kids’ show featuring a transgender boy coming out to the protagonist—a scene that reflects the reality many children already live in.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12h

3. But what started as fury over one show quickly metastasized into a call to purge all transgender representation from the platform. Right-wing influencers flooded social media with videos of themselves cancelling their Netflix accounts, urging others to follow suit.

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
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Oct 1
Show for toddlers on
@Netflix
“Gecko's Garage” shows kids joining an lgbtq pride parade and waving pride flags to celebrate alternate made-up genders and transgenderism

OMG. Dead End Paranormal Park, a show on Netflix, is pushing pro-transgender on CHILDREN.

This show is advertised for 7-YEAR-OLDS

It’s being promoted on
@netflix
kids now.

Parents- BEWARE

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12h

4. Netflix, however, didn’t flinch—and a week later, its stock is up, the boycott a fizzle rather than a firestorm, a hollow echo of the successful Disney backlash led by liberals around the same time that followed Jimmy Kimmel’s firing.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12h

5. On September 29th, far-right influencer who has been accused of fomenting violence towards LGBTQ+ people and supportive teachers, Libs of TikTok, posted a video clip of Dead End: Paranormal Park in which the character Barney Guttman comes out as transgender.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12h

7. As of Thursday morning, a week after the uproar began, there’s little sign the boycott made a dent. Netflix stock is up 2.19% from when the first calls to cancel began, and no outlet has reported any significant subscriber losses or dip in viewership. In an article published this morning,

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

Ut oh.

Yesterday I reported that just 18% of the cases against people arrested September 27-28 at Broadview in Chicago had survived.

Make that 9% -- they just moved to dismiss another case.

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Greg Bovino's September 27 "Shitshow:" Batting 9% [Updated] - emptywheel

Of the eleven people the government charged in conjunction with a "shitshow" Chief Custom and Border Patrol Greg Bovino staged at Chicago's ICE facility on September 27, the publicly filed charges aga...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

My French charcutier suggested I make, basically, cassoulet from his smoked chorizo and all of a sudden New Orleans cooking makes more sense.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 9h

The only good news about having a bunch of white supremacists in positions of power is that, largely, white supremacists are really really dumb.

Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 10h

"You know, there’s many different factors that go into something like that...Then obviously the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you," Greg Bovino said before gesturing to a white reporter.

chicago.suntimes.com/2025/09/30/t...

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 7h

If my "it's bullshit" isn't convincing enough, here's a good @lawfaremedia.org piece explaining... it's bullshit

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

Next Up: Letitia James

It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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David M. Reiss, M.D. @dmrdynamics.bsky.social · 7h

It shouldn't have said "...mortgage of $109,600"

It should have said "...mortgage of 2.2 Homan-brownbags."

Unbelievable
Indictment over a mortgage of $109,600. If the interest rate were a whopping 2% higher -> a difference of less than $2,200 per YEAR
The paper indictment is written on cost more.

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David M. Reiss, M.D. @dmrdynamics.bsky.social · 6h

“...avoiding 0.815% higher [interest rate]… ill-gotten gains of $18,933 over the life of the loan.”

Over 30 years that’s $631.10/year

Hopefully, Letitia didn’t squander that haul (like by buying a bunch of gold)...

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Beegee 2020 @beegee2020.bsky.social · 6h

This is an excellent argument that, even if James was actually guilty of intentional fraud, the penalty should simply be a fine 3-5 times of the “ill gotten” benefit.

Judge will never say it, but will probably be really pissed if the Govt does not push for a plea agreement along these lines.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7h

Prosecute Lindsey for lying to the court then.

Joel Siegel @joelsiegel.bsky.social · 7h

Oopsie

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Estel Cooper @estel62.bsky.social · 5h

That God Damned Mother fucker should be visited with ghost nightly.

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 20h

Good morning.

In case you were wondering.

(Narrator: I’m sure you weren’t.)

Liam NissanT™ @theliamnissan on X:

The reason you never see ICE
arresting the Proud Boys is the same reason you never see Miley Cyrus hanging out with Hannah Montana

1:15 PM • Oct 6, 2025 • 1.1M Views

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Estel Cooper @estel62.bsky.social · 5h

The very definition of a blond bitchj...

MariaevaJ (Formal Tribel) @mariaevaj.bsky.social · 9h

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 7h

Signs of the times in Chicago today: My daughter's school went on soft lockdown because of reports of ICE. Volunteers showed up at the nearby H.S. to escort people who didn't feel safe. Walking around, I saw lots of orange whistles around people's necks.

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Natscute @bluesky2020.bsky.social · 4d

Voies ferrées, Nouveau-Mexique, 1960 - Ernst Haas (1921-1986), photographe autro-américain, aussi écrivain, journaliste, photojournaliste, photographe de banque d'images, et enfin, précurseur de la photographie couleur.
#photographie
#ErnstHaas