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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 11h

Diane Keaton was a true Californian. She was a self-described oddball, uniquely stylish, deeply creative, funny, and an acting legend who could steal the screen in comic and dramatic roles alike. She was in a class all her own, an icon.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 12h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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gcassady.bsky.social @gcassady.bsky.social · 10h

Yup…

DemCastDonGA @donshantajr.bsky.social · 10h

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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gcassady.bsky.social @gcassady.bsky.social · 16h

Sage wisdom..

darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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🇨🇦Frank🇳🇱 @frankvdb.bsky.social · 16h

When you “end” wars internationally but start wars domestically, you don’t deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

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CJinAK @cjinak.bsky.social · 21h

Just to clarify. But I AM ANTIFA!

Cat meow 📎 @granma11.bsky.social · 1d

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 18h

MAGA

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has gone totally mad. It's 25th Amendment time all day, every day. He's living in a totally invented, fictional world. And he's old and in ill-health.

It's outrageous, reckless, choose your word that Republicans haven't done more to deal with this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "The restaurants were all closing, now you can't get into a restaurant. They're opening up new restaurants. It took 12 days for us. We sent in not politically correct military. We sent them in based on merit."

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gcassady.bsky.social @gcassady.bsky.social · 2d

🤔seems wrong…

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2d

$20 billion for a trump fan. But we are stripping our own people of health care, food stamps and cancer research.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

If what Trump is doing is legal - if his loopholes are technically real loopholes - the laws need to change. An if it's illegal, folks need to go to jail. No other options unless you want *all of this* to be standard American politics from here on out.

@jvl.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 3d

If ANY other president had been caught DMing directives for the Attorney General to indict his political enemies it would have been game over.
Impeached. Removed.

But not Trump.
With Donald Trump, it’s just another fucking day ending in Y.

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 3d

The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act clearly requires that furloughed federal employees receive back pay after a shutdown. This wasn’t partisan when it passed, and it shouldn’t be a question now. Trump is spinning further out of control by the day. (1/2)

Shown Here:
Public Law No: 116-1 (01/16/2019)
Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019
This bill requires employees of the federal government or a District of Columbia public employer who are furloughed or required to work during a lapse in appropriations beginning on or after December 22, 2018, to be compensated for the period of the lapse. The employees must be compensated on the earliest date possible after the lapse ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates. Employees required to work during the lapse in appropriations may use leave.

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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 3d

Jeffries: “Republicans acted with great urgency to swear in two right-wing members of congress to do in the American people… What is the delay with respect to Representative-elect. Grijalva? Anything to do with Republicans continuing effort to hide the Epstein files? Inquiring minds want to know.”

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gcassady.bsky.social @gcassady.bsky.social · 3d

Consequences..

CNN @cnn.com · 3d

A soccer match between Argentina and Puerto Rico, originally scheduled for next week in Chicago, has been relocated to Florida amid the immigration crackdown in the city, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press.

Soccer match between Argentina, Puerto Rico moved from Chicago to Florida amid immigration crackdown | CNN

A soccer match between Argentina and Puerto Rico, originally scheduled for next week in Chicago, has been relocated to Florida amid the immigration crackdown in the city, a person familiar with the de...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

Trump just threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act if governors/judges act *lawfully* within the constitutional system in ways that displease him.

Miller's statements reveal their real position: Trump's power to invent pretexts for emergency actions is limitless.

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 4d

In general, we win by making sure that as bad things happen, and bad things are happening in lot of different ways, people know that they are happening and that they need to blame republicans.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 4d

I don't understand why I see things so differently. I see a health insurance industry that thinks it's entitled to charge people 1/3rd of their income for healthcare. That industry shouldn't be "fixed." It should be burned to the ground and its ashes pissed on.

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gcassady.bsky.social @gcassady.bsky.social · 4d

Sadly, I think it’s true.. (and I had some respect for Laura Bush)…

Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 4d

Be sure to listen for George and Laura Bush’s cries for our democracy.
Like, listen super closely.
Closer than that! Turn up the volume!
Whaddya hear?

Exactly. Nothing, nada, zip.

For those wishing for “traditional conservatives” to do something, that ship… is at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4d

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

gcassady.bsky.social @gcassady.bsky.social · 4d

Lying liars..

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

Furloughed federal workers are not entitled to automatic back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration argues, adding that a law Trump signed guaranteeing back pay to furloughed workers in 2019 does no such thing.

Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims

Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 4d

Serious question: How is it legal for the governor of Texas to send his state's national guard into Illinois, when Illinois doesn't want them there?

In response, can the governor of Illinois call up HIS state's national guard to defend Illinoisans against the portly Lone Star occupying force?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Greg Abbott sends the elite Meal Team 6 from the Texas National Guard into Illinois.

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