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I Doubt It Podcast @idoubtitpodcast.bsky.social · 1d

"Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue."

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 2d

Contrary to popular misconception, #HarmReduction for addiction doesn’t encourage drug use. Physicians like @melodyglenn.bsky.social are letting recovering addicts know that their lives matter, that they’re cared for. @brittanyepage.bsky.social

Failures of America’s Drug Laws and Addiction Treatment w/ Dr. Melody Glenn!!!

Brittany Page is joined by Dr. Melody Glenn, associate professor of addiction and emergency medicine at the University of Arizona and author of the new book, "Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's Quest, a…

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 1d

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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I Doubt It Podcast @idoubtitpodcast.bsky.social · 1d

Let's goooooooooooooooo!

"Prosecutors’ inability to secure this indictment continues a pattern mirrored in Los Angeles and Washington DC where local citizens on grand juries are providing a check on a White House-directed law enforcement takeover."

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters (1)

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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I Doubt It Podcast @idoubtitpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

Is Donald Trump giving us a glimpse into his fear of mortality with this? @dollemore.com dives into the latest mess here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=viWw...

Donald Trump REVEALS HIS DEEPEST FEAR of Falling Down Stairs!!!

YouTube video by Jesse Dollemore

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I Doubt It Podcast @idoubtitpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

"In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world’s largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of summer." www.mississippifreepress.org/metas-louisi...

New Meta Data Center Needs Twice as Much Energy as New Orleans

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Brittany Page @brittanyepage.bsky.social · 9d

Remember when Trump's Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper came forward to tell us Trump wanted to direct the military to shoot protestors in the summer of 2020? Let's revisit this as we watch Trump tell the "gathering of generals" about their role in defeating the "enemy within."

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Brittany Page @brittanyepage.bsky.social · 8d

Who knew we'd get a ruling like this from a Reagan-appointed conservative federal judge? In his 161-page ruling, Judge Young goes in on Donald Trump and his Administration's attacks on First Amendment rights, but he doesn't stop there.

I talk about it here: youtu.be/gNA536Gw-SQ?...

A screenshot of Judge Young's ruling in AAUP vs. Rubio: "And there's the issue of masks. This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Ozturk's captors for masking-up and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks. Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police."

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 8d

If you live in the Washington DC area, you know.

If you don't, just Google what you should do if you encounter a lantern fly.

Sticker on a street sign in Washington DC. The sticker is of a lantern fly with Donald Trump’s head.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 6d

As far as normalization efforts go, it’s hard to top Axios’ repeated framing of Trump’s actions as “accelerating a trend.”

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 6d

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

www.404media.co

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 9d

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

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ACLU of the District of Columbia @aclu-dc.bsky.social · 9d

With President Trump continuing to target our rights and communities across the country, join us and get loud at the No Kings protest in D.C. on Saturday, October 18.

Find out more info below:

ACLU of the District of Columbia @aclu-dc.bsky.social · 15d

We refuse to be intimidated by the Trump administration’s attacks on our rights and communities. It’s time to get loud.

Register to join us for the No Kings Protest on Saturday, October 18 in Washington, D.C.: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 9d

Jesse Watters - I didn't say we are at war. That's what I said they said.

Checks tape.
"We're going to avenge Charlie's death."
"They are at war with us."
"This is a war we didn't ask for and this is a war they can't win."
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Brittany Page @brittanyepage.bsky.social · 10d

Trump in the headlines, 1973: "Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City"

Trump in the headlines, 2025: "Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws"

Some things never change! I talk about it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tnE...

A screenshot of two separate headlines:

On top: Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City - New York Times article from October 16th, 1973

On bottom: "Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws - Interviews and internal documents show that signature civil rights protections in housing are being dismissed as ideologically driven and DEI in disguise." from September 2025

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I Doubt It Podcast @idoubtitpodcast.bsky.social · 9d

Trump is visibly uncomfortable, standing before Hegseth’s “gathering of the generals,” begging for some outward display of approval from the crowd.

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 10d

So, the same guy who screamed “election interference” over how 60 Minutes edited an interview with Kamala Harris is literally using the power of the presidency to interfere in the NYC mayoral race to get his candidate elected.

Truth Social post from Trump:

Self proclaimed New York City Communist, Zohran Mamdani, who is running for Mayor, will prove to be one of the best things to ever happen to our great Republican Party. He is going to have problems with Washington like no Mayor in the history of our once great City. Remember, he needs the money from me, as President, in order to fulfill all of his FAKE Communist promises.
He won't be getting any of it, so what's the point of voting for him? This ideology has failed, always, for thousands of years. It will fail again, and that's guaranteed! President DJT

Truth Social post from Trump:

60 MINUTES SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY TAKEN OFF THE AIR - ELECTION INTERFERENCE. CBS SHOULD LOSE ITS LICENSE.
THIS IS THE BIGGEST SCANDAL IN BROADCAST HISTORY.
Kamala should be investigated and forced off the Campaign, and Joe Biden allowed to take back his rightful place (He got 14
Million Primary Votes, she got none!). THIS WHOLE SORDID AND FRAUDULENT EVENT IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 14d

“I was just following orders” will not be an excuse when all this is over.

We need to ensure accountability through strong political leadership and a competent attorney general who will provide actual justice, unlike Merrick Garland's failure!

Multiple headlines regarding the death of individuals in ICE custody.

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I Doubt It Podcast @idoubtitpodcast.bsky.social · 10d

"The Trump administration can treat this government of the people as his own mob enforcers, but the people need not acquiesce. When Trump abuses his power to settle political scores, the people can choose to nullify."

Brittany Page @brittanyepage.bsky.social · 10d

"Now that President Donald Trump is perverting the Justice Department into an instrument of political persecution, jury nullification may be one of the only mechanisms that everyday Americans have to protect the rule of law." - @adamserwer.bsky.social

Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock

When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.

www.theatlantic.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 10d

They just saw a brown guy on a bike and decided to try and kidnap him. These people need to be treated like they’re the gestapo.

Refuse service to them, don’t talk to them or yell at them (if you can), make every waking minute a living nightmare that will only get more expensive to be maintained.

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 10d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14d

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants themselves. One by one, American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals when menaced by the Trump administration. These cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made Trump seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is, sapping strength from others who might have discovered the courage to stand up. Defending democracy requires a collective refusal to acquiesce to lawless behavior from many different sectors of society. All of these powerful people trying to save their own skin have effectively multiplied Trump’s attacks on constitutional government, by enhancing a false sense of inevitability and invincibility.

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I Doubt It Podcast @idoubtitpodcast.bsky.social · 14d

Apple canceling a show about stopping Nazis because it would offend Nazis? What is happening?

Watch @dollemore.com on this madness:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1a8...

Apple TV+ CANCELS RELEASE OF SHOW About Stopping Violent White Supremacists!!!

YouTube video by Jesse Dollemore

www.youtube.com

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I Doubt It Podcast @idoubtitpodcast.bsky.social · 15d

"Women make up half of the global population, yet just a quarter of those who are seen or heard in the news. This statistic has barely changed in the last 15 years, with a mere nine-point change in 30 years."

www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...

Half the world, only a quarter of the news: Women appear or are heard in just 26 per cent of all broadcast, radio and print clips | UN Women – Headquarters

Thirty years after governments pledged transformative change for women through the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a new global study finds women remain almost invisible in the world’s ne...

www.unwomen.org

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 16d

It should be self-evident now that @EzraKlein.bsky.social is an unreliable public thinker who serves only as the “white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice” that MLK was so disappointed by.

Read this from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social instead: www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Boston review piece: How Can We Live Together?
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

By Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

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Brittany Page @brittanyepage.bsky.social · 16d

Donald Trump canceled the gold standard survey on hunger in America after slashing billions from food assistance.

He doesn't care that his policy choices will increase the number of hungry Americans.

He doesn't want you to see the consequences of his policy choices.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4OZ...

Donald Trump CANCELS SURVEY ON HUNGER IN AMERICA After Slashing Billions in Food Aid!

YouTube video by Brittany Page

www.youtube.com

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