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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 6h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Kris Stern @goldenzgirl.bsky.social · 2h

Oh no

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Apparently Normal @apparentlynormal.bsky.social · 1d

"If the American people accept what is happening right now, then I guess the American experiment is over. And that's really the most terrifying thing. Not what Donald Trump is doing, but what Americans might allow Donald Trump to do"
Charlie Sykes (@sykescharlie.bsky.social)

Susan Glasser: TrumpSchmerz | To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021."

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 4h

Colorado AG Phil Weiser (D) is calling on Coloradans to turn out en masse for Oct 18 demonstrations against President Trump’s use of the military in American cities. “Don’t be afraid,” Weiser said. “Don’t be afraid to show up.” #copolitics

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Terry Virts @astroterry.bsky.social · 4h

Qatar does:
- $5.5B Trump resort deal
- $1.5B to Jared Kushner’s fund
- $400M 747 for Trump’s AF1 jet

US does:
- NATO-like security guarantees
- Qatari F-15s based at Mt Home AFB in Idaho

Working Americans get nothing while the Trump family gets rich.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

US announces it will allow Qatar to build an Air Force facility in Idaho | CNN Politics

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on Friday that the US will allow Qatar to build an Air Force facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, which will host Qatari F-15 fighter jets and...

www.cnn.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

A peaceful protest rally under the Tom Paine motto "No Kings" is being held on the mall in Washington and in hundreds of other sites around the country. Prior No Kings rallies have attracted 11-12 million attendees, the largest political rallies in US history. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine that

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6h

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 6h

If you look closely, you can see signs of GOP lawmakers fearing the long-term political consequences of paying more attention to Trump's demands than to the voices of their own constituents - or consciences.

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Kris Stern @goldenzgirl.bsky.social · 4h

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

Trump and Stephen Miller have relied on an army of MAGA "influencers" widely disseminating a fraudulent picture of Portland in chaos, to bolster the case for deploying military.

NYT has a good new piece on this. But it made several missteps worth highlighting. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 6h

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 10h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

Luttig has it right here: “[T]he Supreme Court has given them no choice but to speak out.”

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 10h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Daniel Silva @danielsilvabooks.bsky.social · 5h

Sitting Federal Judges don’t normally talk about this, or like this.

Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 6h

New - “Dozens of sitting federal judges have shared their concerns about risks to the courts’ legitimacy as the Supreme Court releases opaque orders about Trump administration policies.”

Gift Article - www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 6h

New - “Dozens of sitting federal judges have shared their concerns about risks to the courts’ legitimacy as the Supreme Court releases opaque orders about Trump administration policies.”

Gift Article - www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Kris Stern @goldenzgirl.bsky.social · 5h

I see your masked faces and raise you a box of inflatables.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6h

They are building a Propaganda State.

They are cooking the books on job creation.

Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

"Stalinism and Stephen Miller: Cause for concern"
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/stalinism-...

Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video)

Cause for concern

snyder.substack.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

Page One in Boston.

@bostonglobe.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

A rare admission from the administration that policy choices have knock-off effects.

In this case: immigration crackdowns raise your grocery bill.

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

The rupture “raises fresh doubts about whether Trump, operating with a hollowed-out national security team and a fragmented China strategy, is prepared for Beijing’s latest power play.”

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

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

“.. it is Trump’s moral indifference to the human rights transgressions of his partners in the peace plan that allows him to break through old paradigms. ..

“.. That is the same moral indifference that will prevent him from ever getting a Nobel.”

@nytopinion.nytimes.com

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