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gigimlet.bsky.social @gigimlet.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry
I can’t watch

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 7h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 5h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 6h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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gigimlet.bsky.social @gigimlet.bsky.social · 6h

Bees in her bonnet already

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 10h

Sports gambling is a complete economic and social disaster and I don’t think we have seen such a bad move recently

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 13h

Put a banner on every closed rural hospital

WE SAVED ARGENTINA INSTEAD

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice.

Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice.

Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice.

Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice.

Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP just chose to do this.

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yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 1d

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 12h

Intriguing theory, seems rather extreme. How is the president to do his own crimes if this is right

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 12h

I'll add that the President's "Standing Authorities" as commander in chief do not in fact authorize the violation of federal criminal laws—including those on murder.

To the contrary, Article II of the Constitution imposes a duty upon POTUS to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 12h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10h

Confirmed, the "Gaza peace deal" was the same deal offered to Netanyahu and the US repeatdly, but it was turned down by Israel because they wanted to gift Trump (Israeli asset) a perceived victory at the expense of the Israeli hostages and Gaza population.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10h

The Trump-Vance Administration getting rid of biodefense personnel is, to state the blindingly obvious, a very bad choice.

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EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social · 13h

How tall can you go?

Mike Oxford @mikoxford.bsky.social · 14h

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay #longnecks prompt…

I’m recycling this shot of a handsome Tricolored #Heron, stretch its neck out to look like a branch while it’s perched in a bare tree (from last winter, I think).

We are blessed with many longnecks here in the #marshes of #coastalgeorgia.

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Newfie912 @newfie912.bsky.social · 1d

Look it up

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13h

This is the most important politics story in a long time. Twitter has radicalized the young GOP into overt Nazism and white supremacy and the news has spent years pretending not to see.

It’s a gleefully racist and antisemitic party now. Stop pretending otherwise www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 13h

Remember when Biden and Netanyahu made a ceasefire deal, and then Trump told Bibi to stall so he could use it for his campaign? And now both of these criminals left the hostages behind, fueled a genocide, and circled back to sign the same deal Biden made? Yep, me too.

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gigimlet.bsky.social @gigimlet.bsky.social · 13h

Competitive exercising brings stress

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 18h

Remember when the Biden admin refused to label the 3%ers, Aryan Bortherhood, Boogaloo Boys, Proud Boys and other terrorist groups, despite the fact that they were organized, clandestine, violent and well armed?

Yeah…his restraint served us no damned good at all. NONE.

Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 18h

Trump labeling "antifa" a domestic terrorist group and then smearing Democratic organizations as antifa is right from fascist playbook. Mussolini and Hitler both criminalized opposing political parties on way to establishing one party rule. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-is-n...

Trump is now working to secure one party rule--just like Mussolini and Hitler did

History is screaming at us!

deanobeidallah.substack.com

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 18h

Glamorous garden visitor, the Black-Billed Magpie. This is one of a local family that nested nearby #birds

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15h

This is not just funny, it's smart. We need more of this mockery that shows these thugs that we see their despicable fascism and give them the respect that they deserve.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 18h

Again, in a supposedly mature democracy it should not be possible to shut down the entire legislative branch indefinitely on the whim of one man. I hope someone’s taking note of all the gaping holes in the constitution for fixing if the opportunity ever arises.

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gigimlet.bsky.social @gigimlet.bsky.social · 13h

Trump is using the files for blackmail, like Epstein did

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

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