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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14d

Area man, who decided George W. Bush being President was more important than counting everyone’s votes, has concerns about the survival of democracy in 🇺🇸

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 15d

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 4h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 4h

so, murderer. tyrant. bigot. idiot. terrorist, agent of chaos, all-around villain. but yeah, a peacemaker, sure.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Good for them: it is a violation of the Hatch Act that limits the use of public assets for partisan messaging. Orgeon has its own version of that law, and covers those who run the airport. Other airport administrators should look to see if they are in the same position.

Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 4h

PDX continuing to show why it's the best airport in the country.

PDX chooses not to air video of Sec. Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown

The Port of Portland is choosing not to broadcast a new video that shows DHS Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the federal government shutdown."Democr

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 4h

dude also has basically rebuked nato, started huge trade wars with friends and rivals, threatened invading allied nations, does most "diplomacy" with threats and insults, humiliates the us with his lack of knowledge and decorum, and has never shown a real human emotion about people being killed

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 1d

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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J H @jpjh88.bsky.social · 7h

People need to start highlighting that Miller is actually the shadow President and the one calling the shots. When it was Musk who was doing it, it caused a rift between them so big that after he was out, Musk was bashing Trump claiming he is in the Epstein files.

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Tegiminis @tegiminis.bsky.social · 4h

Fucking vile. These people have no shame, no conscience

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 4h

no, it's not. it really isn't. states and households work very differently.

and your "beer" schtick is obnoxious. and you seem to be relishing how obnoxious you're being.

i'm leaving this up long enough for you to hopefully see it, and then i'm blocking you. because you're annoying on purpose.

jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 4h

my neighbor is my neighbor, and i'm never going to say "they deserve their life being destroyed and immense suffering visited upon them and their children because they overstayed a visa or they couldn't get a green card interview until 2027."

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 4h

yes, absolutely. there is no virtue inherent in being born here or having parents who were citizens.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 22h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 5h

Dems on Twitter we’re still saying Curtis was gonna be okay and John was a good guy AFTER this post with Phil Lyman

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 5h

not every structure is analogous to every other structure. a nation isn't a "entirely the same thing" as a private home. that's just not how it works.

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 5h

he's saying this specifically about trump's horrifying conception of gaza and israel, something he clearly doesn't really understand.

people in utah voted for this guy because they thought he'd be a sensible moderate that would rise above maga.

goddamn.

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 5h

WHY THE FUCK SHOULD WE DO THAT, JOHN?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Sen. John Curtis: "I think we have to put a lot of trust in President Trump and his instincts."

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 5h

not even remotely comparable

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 5h

who gives a shit how anyone got into this country. like who the fuck cares? what a weird little thing for weird perverts to get obsessed with.

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 5h

bari better get these uppity interviewers in line

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 9h

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 10h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Jenny YES! HA HA HA...YES! @jennyhayes.bsky.social · 8h

Oh my GOD!!! Amazing

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 8h

one thing the right and the left agree on: everything bad that is happening is schumer’s fault

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 21h

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 22h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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