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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Forbestonow @forbestonow.bsky.social · 1d

When I studied the Second World War I genuinely could not understand how the Germans found so many people to participate in their worst excesses. And I mean across the whole war, not just concentration camps.

I don't have a problem understanding it any more...

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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R.A. Roth (Where am I?) @fantagor.bsky.social · 4h

I have no qualms with the Bible being taught in public schools provided it's taught as a work of fiction, which it is. Anyone who accepts a book full of magic, wizardry, and tall tales as the unvarnished truth is a dangerous imbecile with no business teaching children.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4h

Oklahoma's new public schools superintendent is rescinding a mandate from his predecessor that forced schools to incorporate the Bible into lesson plans for students.

New Oklahoma schools superintendent rescinds mandate for Bible instruction in schools

Oklahoma's new public schools superintendent is rescinding a mandate from his predecessor that forced schools to incorporate the Bible into lesson plans for students.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

For the love of America, NoKings.org.

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R.A. Roth (Where am I?) @fantagor.bsky.social · 4h

I hate him in the Premier League. Glad he departed for Dubai, that bastion of freedom and liberty ruled by a monarchy with zero tolerance for democratic ideology.

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R.A. Roth (Where am I?) @fantagor.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, it was a good idea to let a local gangbanger do my hip replacement surgeries and not an accredited orthopedic surgeon with 20 years of experience. I saved a bundle and the only side effect was having both legs amputated after the gangrene set in.

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Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 12h

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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R.A. Roth (Where am I?) @fantagor.bsky.social · 4h

I used to do it but my head is such a bed of coals now that I make both sides about equally hot so flipping the pillow doesn't offer much. Sleeping exclusively on my back changed things for the less cool.

R.A. Roth (Where am I?) @fantagor.bsky.social · 4h

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The REAL Jesse Coffey @therealjessecoffey.bsky.social · 14h

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from firing workers during the government shutdown, saying the human cost "cannot be tolerated.”

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Simon's Cat @simonscatofficial.bsky.social · 20h

New Film Coming Soon!

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R.A. Roth (Where am I?) @fantagor.bsky.social · 14h

Anyone else besides Republicans struggling to keep swastikas and Nazi flags from accidentally magically appearing in their offices, on their lapels, car bumpers, and/or flag poles at home?

Anyone?

Buehler? Buehler? Buehler? Buehler? Buehler?

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 16h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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🦄)))🕊️🎗️✡️🐇 #VoteYesOnCAProp50 @melisandra01.bsky.social · 17h

“Genocide Joe! Killer Kamala!”

It was only ever about fucking up the Democratic Party in service to fascism.

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R.A. Roth (Where am I?) @fantagor.bsky.social · 15h

The frog and T-rex costumes are so effective because the last thing one of those brain dead ICE goons wants is to get captured on video arresting a person dressed in a fucking floppy frog outfit. It would look as absurd as arresting a windsock man and reduce their Orange Fuhrer to a weak jester.

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R.A. Roth (Where am I?) @fantagor.bsky.social · 1d

But if I have to take it on the internet before I can use the internet...never mind. Great idea.

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R.A. Roth (Where am I?) @fantagor.bsky.social · 1d

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Muz @muz.blacksky.app · 2d

I love Evanston 😄💜

Sign in store window that says

ADVICE FOR ICE:
1 QUIT JOB
2 GET THERAPY

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 1d

Ceasefire deal on Monday, both sides angrily accusing each other of violating the ceasefire on Tuesday.

Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.

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R.A. Roth (Where am I?) @fantagor.bsky.social · 1d

Shock factor of .0001 out of 10. White supremacists one and all.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Democrats @democrats.org · 1d

House Republicans just adjourned their pro forma session.

This is the SEVENTH time they’ve refused to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva.

Do your job, Speaker Johnson.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 1d

The Oct. 18th "No Kings Day of Peaceful Action" has now surpassed 2,500 community events across all 50 states, per No Kings organizers.

All of these events were "organized by average Americans across personal, political, and geographic demographics."

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Demblu🩵🕊ThankYouJoe Biden @phranklindb.bsky.social · 1d

Figures:
Morris Katz, the 26-year-old strategist and ad man working for Zohran Mamdani, produced Platner’s first ad.

Dear god he's another Fetterman!!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Which Republican genius came up with the talking point to label millions of ordinary Americans peacefully protesting their government as paid Marxists who hate America?

That’s really what you are going with?

That we hate the United States of America?

Fuck you.

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