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RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 1d

This is Not OK 👇🏼🤨🇮🇪💙💙

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 20h

I wrote legal editorials for the Post for a hot minute many years ago, and I was constantly anxious about making sure I got the details right. This editorial is just humiliating for everyone involved

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21h

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.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 21h

Decimating the alert system for critical infrastructure so as to provide for more raids of Home Depot parking lots

Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 23h

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

www.bloomberg.com

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uniongal.bsky.social @uniongal.bsky.social · 8h

He’s right. The GenZ protests in Madagascar, Morocco and Nepal scream this sentiment.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10h

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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uniongal.bsky.social @uniongal.bsky.social · 7h

The signal chats and this, just what the fuck? Oh yeah, all the security folks were reassigned for Kavanaugh Stops and deportations.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

“.. In a rare CSPAN exchange, she asked him to bring House back for troop pay

“I’m begging you…My kids could die.”

@politico.com
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17m

Earlier today, DOJ basically told the judge in the Kilmar Abrego case they were going to blow off the vindictive prosecution claim.

His attorneys responded, fine, then the criminal case must be dismissed.
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Ultimately, as the defense explained in its Status Report, to the extent the government
maintains its position that it will not produce the relevant discovery, under a claim of privilege or
otherwise, the government cannot rebut Mr. Abrego’s demonstrated, prima facie case of
vindictiveness, making dismissal of this case the only proper remedy. (Dkt. 146 at 3-4).

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 1h

Hey @wnba.com: pay them what you owe them!

We’re proud of our unions’ solidarity with the WNBPA as they fight for their fair share and a strong new contract ✊

The US’s biggest pro women’s sports unions have found strength together

For NWSL and WNBA players’ unions, collective actions have been key to their successes in wholly different sports

www.theguardian.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t give an inch

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE DESPERATELY RUNNING 26 MILES, 385 YARDS TO ESCAPE A WAR ZONE

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.

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burnt undertones @burntundertones.bsky.social · 2d

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Newfie912 @newfie912.bsky.social · 3d

He and the president are very close

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 2d

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

Going back to that raid on the South Shore apartment building. It hasn't gotten much focus that the goons reportedly traveled the same way Patriot Front does: in UHauls.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/a...

A Budget truck with about five armed men seen inside. It's dark out and the taillights are lit. The photo is attributed to KT O'Loughin.

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Colleen @gracie87.bsky.social · 9m

Duh! Rump
Partied with him! Perverts helping perverts 😡😡😡

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2d

Not a single human was surprised.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

Good question from CNN. Maybe Jake Tapper could look into the memory issues more here.

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

Trump Suddenly ‘Forgets’ Who Ghislaine Maxwell Is

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 3d

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Carl Ott, Author @bubba687.bsky.social · 3d

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Colleen @gracie87.bsky.social · 12m

Fake news, photos from South America!!!!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Colleen @gracie87.bsky.social · 13m

How civilized countries treat people. Rump knows that insurance companies can’t make the money they want if it is provided to citizens, like civilized countries do.

🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 2d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

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Colleen @gracie87.bsky.social · 15m

What a stooge! We know ICE is CAUSING disruption! That is why they were sent, to START TROUBLE!

TommyBoy @tampatom69.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"

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