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George Chidi, Evil Reporter @neonflag.bsky.social · 1d

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US immigration enforcement using military hardware and tactics on civilians

Agencies like Ice are way ahead of Donald Trump, who wants the military to treat cities like ‘training grounds’

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4d

It's a clown connected device. Just upload it to the clown

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 4d

What do you guys think he's like a shabbos table

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

CNN: Isn't that hyperbolic to call them terrorists?

STEPHEN MILLER: No. If anything I'm understating the severity of the situation

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 4d

Unacceptable to put the costs of the AI boom on the backs of families struggling to pay their bills. It’s a crisis.

Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 4d

“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth”

I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans?

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Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers

New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 6d

TrumpRx isn’t healthcare reform

It’s Trump University all over again—a scam that doesn’t deliver

While he distracts w/ phony fixes, his shutdown is hiking costs & ripping away healthcare from millions

That’s the real crisis

I explained on @velshimsnbc.bsky.social @msnbc.com👇 - TN

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 7d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 7d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6d

DO POLITICAL PROTESTS MATTER? EVIDENCE FROM THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT*
ANDREAS MADESTAM
DANIEL SHOAG
STAN VEUGER
DAVID YANAGIZAWA-DROTT
Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by studying the Tea Party movement in the United States, which rose to prominence through coordinated rallies across the country on Tax Day, April 15, 2009. We exploit variation in rainfall on the day of these rallies as an exogenous source of variation in attendance. We show that good weather at this initial, coordinating event had significant consequences for the subsequent local strength of the move-ment, increased public support for Tea Party positions, and led to more Republican votes in the 2010 midterm elections. Policy making was also af-fected, as incumbents responded to large protests in their district by voting more conservatively in Congress. Our estimates suggest significant multiplier effects: an additional protester increased the number of Republican votes by a factor well above 1. Together our results show that protests can build political movements that ultimately affect policy making and that they do so by influencing political views rather than solely through the revelation of existing political preferences. JEL Code: D72.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 7d

Magnetism is notion that if you want people to come to your cause, be attractive. This requires having a cause. It also means having a polarity that distinguishes you from opposition. You meet people at the place of their broadly shared values, not their podcast-promoted prejudices.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 7d

Listen to @karenattiah.bsky.social

"Jamal and I both thought that his working for a high-profile paper like [WaPo] would keep him safe. Maybe I thought I would be institutionally safe. We were wrong...In violent, authoritarian regimes, no one is safe...And the truth-tellers are the first casualty."

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

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CNN @cnn.com · 7d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 7d

This is powerful, difficult, and important. One need not agree with every piece of Sharabi's political analysis to bear witness to the humanity – and inhumanity – within his testimony.

Freed hostage Eli Sharabi on being held captive by Hamas

YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 7d

"They won’t be able to sleep at night"

Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 7d

Kristi Noem Vows to terrorize Brown looking people who attend the Super Bowl stating: “We’ll be all over that place. We are going to enforce the law." She added, “The NFL sucks and we’ll win. They are so weak. They won’t be able to sleep at night." www.mediaite.com/media/news/k...

Kristi Noem Vows That the NFL ‘Won’t Be Able to Sleep at Night’ After Super Bowl Halftime Choice

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem vowed on Friday that the NFL "won't be able to sleep at night" after the announcement that Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny will perform at the 2026 ...

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Run for Something @runforsomething.net · 7d

Rent due again?
Time to flip the script. Renters deserve a real say in housing policy and that means running for office. Join our Renters Call on October 9 (8pm ET).
RSVP: bit.ly/Oct9thRenters

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 7d

Juan has recently been released. Without charge.

He was detained, all day in a cell, simply for standing at a protest.

Thank you everyone for your overwhelming support and thank you to my senators for your support.

I will post more tomorrow but need to be with family tonight 🙏

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 8d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7d

Sarah Mullally was named the new archbishop of Canterbury on Friday, becoming the first woman to serve as the spiritual leader of the Church of England, and of the global Anglican community, in the church’s nearly 500-year history. https://wapo.st/3KAojoc

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

it is interesting to me how the MAGA right has a balkanized view of the United States that does not, at all, correspond with the reality of the United States

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7d

Russell Vought's sick little power trip will also hurt GOPers. One project he's cutting is the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub, which spans Oregon, Washington, and...Montana. The state's GOP governor has hailed it for creating "good-paying Montana jobs." Oops.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7d

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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 7d

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Ald. Jessie Fuentes handcuffed by federal agents as ICE crackdown escalates in Chicago - Windy City Times

Federal agents handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) and threatened to arrest her Oct. 3 at Humboldt Park Health. The agents, who Fuentes said appeared to be with Immigration and Customs Enforcem...

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 7d

We keep warning about martial law.

Just trust the evidence of your eyes and ears.

This is what the Trump Administration will do to stay in power. They're creating their own Reichstag fires on a weekly basis.

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 7d

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show

A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 8d

Lots of talk about big tents, but if you're unable to look at a Yom Kippur car ramming say "that's unacceptable" then I'm not sure what we're doing here.

You believe innocent people should be shielded from violence, or you don't. There are no shades of humanity. I mourn with the Jews of Manchester.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 8d

These stories really seem to be starting to break through to segments of the public and internet that aren't often engaged in politics

Daily Dot @dailydot.com · 8d

“Kidnapped in broad daylight”: Bobbi Althoff blasts ICE after her family friend is detained bit.ly/48LTFSO

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 8d

"They put her in hand shackles and in leg shackles, and around the waist as well, like she's some hardened criminal. She had tears streaming down her face, and she told me one of the ICE agents pulled out his cell phone, laughing, and took a selfie."

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11d

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting

A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

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