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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

no evidence whatsoever that mike johnson knows a single thing youtu.be/YR2WiILR6XE

Does Mike Johnson Know...Anything? Anything At All?

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12h

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

In Oklahoma, oil companies inject tens of billions of gallons of toxic wastewater into the ground each year — enough to fill the Empire State Building 300+ times — frequently at pressures above the legal limit.

Regulators have failed to stop them.

With @readfrontier.bsky.social

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...

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Gig Drain @gigdrain.bsky.social · 7h

If they have it late is it called munch?

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Aysha @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 20h

Look at Zohran, already bringing down housing costs

New York Post @nypost.com · 22h

Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday's mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, a new poll warns.

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Gig Drain @gigdrain.bsky.social · 10h

If we can tweak this to No Nutjobs November, I’m on board

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 17h

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17h

Brett Kavanaugh's behavior during today's second oral arguments has been incredibly obnoxious and rude. He is so eager to kill a service member's lawsuit against a negligent government contractor that he keeps interrupting other justices, raising his voice, and getting emotional. Weird and erratic.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street.
People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area — and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization.
As Figuero tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Friday, Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Tribune show.
Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away.
Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.

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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social · 1d

“They were careless people,” Fitzgerald wrote, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

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Donna Hopkins @vegandreamer.bsky.social · 1d

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 21h

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability

The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody @mandykathryn.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t forget to VOTE!

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Gig Drain @gigdrain.bsky.social · 14h

60???? One week is enough

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 15h

JUST IN: 11th Circuit politely tells Judge Aileen Cannon to get moving on motions seeking to unseal remainder of Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report. Basically, gives her 60 days to act or appeals court will take further action. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

#11 in In re: Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia Unive (11th Cir., 25-13403) – CourtListener.com

ORDER: Motion for writ of mandamus filed by Petitioner American Oversight is HELD in abeyance. [10567702-2] in 25-13400, Motion for writ of mandamus filed by Petitioner Knight First Amendment Institut...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

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Anti-Fascist Collective…. 👊🏼👊🏽👊🏿 @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Gig Drain @gigdrain.bsky.social · 1d

This is how I'm going to look every time someone dislikes one of my posts

a man in a tuxedo is saying " whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa take it easy sweetheart "

Alt: a man in a tuxedo is saying " whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa take it easy sweetheart "

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Michael Emonds @michaelje67.bsky.social · 2d

Kostas Tsimikas on Instagram. ❤️ #GreekScouser #EgyptianKing #LFC #Liverpool #OnceARedAlwaysARed

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d

If you're not going to fact-check Trump on his blatant falsehoods, do us all a favor and don't interview him at all.

NORAH O'DONNELL: Uh-huh. But for people that don't have 401(k)s, who are not invested in the stock market--
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Sure. But-- but--

NORAH O'DONNELL: --they've seen their grocery prices go up, inflation--

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, you're wrong. They went up under Biden. Right now they're going down. Other than beef, which we're working on, which we can solve very quickly. So the beef-- the ranchers have really taken a drubbing over a 30-year period. Because of what I've done, the ranchers have done well.

But with that, the beef price went up a little bit. We're gonna get the beef price down very quickly. It'll be very nice, just like eggs. When I first took over, eggs were double, triple, quadruple what they were. This was because of Biden.

All of these problems were caused by Biden, whether it's-- the people that came into our country through jails. I mean, they were released from jails. They were lease-- released from mental institutions into our country. These problems are caused by Biden. We had an open border. Now we have a border that's, as you know, absolutely shut other than--

NORAH O'DONNELL: How--

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Gig Drain @gigdrain.bsky.social · 1d

Great coach

a man wearing a hat and sunglasses is sitting at a table with glasses of beer and a bottle of ketchup .

Alt: Chris Farley singing bears bears bears ditka ditka ditka

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public health guy 🦃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1d

harvard medical school got bombed yesterday and it barely made news

The Harvard Crimson @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 2d

A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates.

Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Authorities Investigating Explosion on Harvard’s Medical Campus, Believed To Be Intentional | News | The Harvard Crimson

A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University…

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m a law-abiding citizen who never thought I’d be of such interest that the U.S. government would use my tax dollars & yours to try to send me to prison…[after being] manhandled by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent trying to remove my phone from my hand.”

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | A jury of my peers agreed that the feds wrongly charged me for watching ICE

I believe that filming what federal agents were doing that day counted as basic human decency.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 1d

If ICE agents begins harassing voters on the way to vote on Tuesday, we need local prosecutors to charge the ICE officers with state law crimes. We need to send a message for 2026 that they will be swiftly arrested.

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