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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 9h

When Russell Vought pushes something into the news on Friday night of a long weekend, is that a sign of strength — of a battle for public opinion he thinks he can win?

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9h

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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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9h

The people who voted for Trump didn’t think they were driving a truck over a street full of people, but in effect they were. Many, many Americans will die because of the Trump regime’s destruction of our public health system.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9h

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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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 12h

My God, Doug Wilson is a sick pervert.

(Remember, this is the religious leader who soothes Pete Hegseth’s bottomless masculine insecurities.)

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 15h

Spending your time talking to someone who wants to relitigate slavery is definitely a choice you can make

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

www.nytimes.com

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 13h

This opinion is clear and concise, and easily readable for laymen. Here's the link again if you want to go through it yourself.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

memorandum opinion and order – #70 in State of Illinois v. Trump (N.D. Ill., 1:25-cv-12174) – CourtListener.com

OPINION and Order. Signed by the Honorable April M. Perry on 10/10/2025. Mailed notice. (jcc,) (Entered: 10/10/2025)

www.courtlistener.com

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 14h

Hey @indivisible.org is it too late to change the name from No Kings to “an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes”?

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 14h

“An outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes!”

Big HOW VERY DARE YOU! energy from the milquetoast little troll who calls himself speaker.

www.joemygod.com/2025/10/john...

Johnson: No Kings Day Will Be An "Outrageous Hate America Rally" Attended By Antifa, Marxists, Pro-Hamas - Joe.My.God.

“We’ve heard and many of have reported already that this hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they’re all gonna gather o...

www.joemygod.com

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 16h

Trump And RFK Jr. Can Tell If Kids Are Autistic Just By Looking At Their Dicks

Not shedding that 'these people are fucking perverts' reputation anytime soon.

www.wonkette.com/p/trump-and-...

Trump And RFK Jr. Can Tell If Kids Are Autistic Just By Looking At Their Dicks

Not shedding that 'these people are fucking perverts' reputation anytime soon.

www.wonkette.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 1d

And now Venezuelan democracy activist gets the Nobel peace prize.

A. Mazing.

And congratulations to her!

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 1d

He murders random Venezuelans in the middle of the sea on a regular basis now. (Sorry, I mean “drug cartels” in fishing boats from Venezuela, which supplies 0% of the United States’s fentanyl.)

He has been disappearing innocent Venezuelan men, claiming they’re in gangs because they have tattoos.

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 1d

I mean, he gonna lose it in 100 ways.

Not only does he still not have the thing that Barack Obama has, that he will never have (you know, besides inner peace).

But also, he and Stephen Miller don’t think Venezuelans are humans.

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 1d

He gonna LOSE IT

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

Uodate
www.bbc.com/news/live/c1...

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 1d

Oh no, what if Kristi Noem mistakes them for defenseless puppies?

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1d

Lindsey Halligan entered this as “AUSA” — presumably because no Assistant US Attorney will go along with this.

The form is unsigned and undated.

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 1d

So is Lindsey Halligan just lying to grand juries? Bribing them? Threatening them? Putting real indictments on top of the political enemy indictments, printed on tracing paper?

What are we going to find out about this fucking MAGA Nazi buffoon?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

One of Trump's biggest financial supporters, Timothy Mellon, is obsessed with Earhart .... hence this.

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/u...

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 2d

Uh oh lol

BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine being so incredibly ridiculous to the right wing that you've lost The Babylon Bee

Total clown show.

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 2d

Anybody *in his family, damn voice text

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 2d

The Woke Requirement To Like Zach Bryan Has Been Canceled

Everybody go back to cramming for your Bad Bunny Spanish speaking and dancing test!

www.wonkette.com/p/the-woke-r...

The Woke Requirement To Like Zach Bryan Has Been Canceled

Everybody go back to cramming for your Bad Bunny Spanish speaking and dancing test!

www.wonkette.com

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 2d

Stephen Miller shows him videos and convinces him of things like this. It’s elder abuse and it’s one of the many things Stephen Miller should be arrested for.

If anybody and Trump’s family really loved him, they would put a stop to it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 2d

Jesse Watters Drags AOC Into Gross Stephen-Miller-Coitus Fantasy :( www.wonkette.com/p/jesse-watt...

Jesse Watters Drags AOC Into Gross Stephen-Miller-Coitus Fantasy :(

Cuck-a-doodle-doo.

www.wonkette.com

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 3d

A resident of a nearby building asks a very important question:

“You claim you have warrants, but do you have a warrant to seize the entire building?” she asked the agents. “Do you have warrants to detain the entire building?”

Or: do people lose their rights if they live near undocumented people?

I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3d

File state charges. This is a crime.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

Every part of this sentence describes an abomination before God. People are going to hell for this.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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