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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem was unaware that the suspension of habeas corpus was under Article I of the Constitution and even if the fate of the most basic liberty right were delegated one would hope that it would be to the President and not the Secretary of Homeland Security

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 3d

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d

There is still some good news out there. Well deserved!

Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 3d

Super happy for the awesome @hahrie.bsky.social and her MacArthur fellowship -- couldn't go to a more deserving scholar and person... www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Hahrie Han

Analyzing the organizations and movements that equip people to participate in public life and solve problems together.

www.macfound.org

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Once again @nytimes.com heds and subheds are failing to convey to readers what is actually happening. The casual reader will come away with the impression that this is a genuinely held rationale on Trump's part, rather than a corrupt pretext for lawless, authoritarian threats.

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Jeff Meyer @jeffme.bsky.social · 2d

Bryan Stevenson is a moral ballast to help keep us upright during our current stormy seas.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

www.nytimes.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2d

Ubisoft: "Okay, so in this game you fight the Klan"
Marketers: "You can't sell that in America"
Ubisoft: "Why?"
Marketers: "Umm [gestures broadly]. The Klan fucking won?"
Ubisoft: "Merde."
Marketers: "Yeah, we've asked for the Statue back but they're being dicks about that too."

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Jeff Meyer @jeffme.bsky.social · 2d

Half-ass Himmler?

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 2d

This is why Dems’ legalistic framing—like at Bondi’s hearings—can feel so inadequate. “Show me the statute” is a trap when SCOTUS can rewrite law. More effective opposition comes through the language of morality and documented harm—not legal claims that can be swept away with a 6-3 vote.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 2d

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Jeff Meyer @jeffme.bsky.social · 3d

Mike Johnson argues against the private insurance system.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

Jeff Meyer @jeffme.bsky.social · 3d

You're clearly here to instigate.

Jeff Meyer @jeffme.bsky.social · 3d

Time to bake these guys some cookies, show some empathy, and remind them that they are being deployed for a corrupt mission.

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 3d

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 4d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d

"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp."

Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

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Jeff Meyer @jeffme.bsky.social · 4d

From my own upbringing:
- PB & Miracle Whip is much better than PB & Mayo
- It's best served with a leaf of iceberg
- Served w/MW & lettuce, it's still called, "Peanut butter, lettuce, & mayo"

Linda sends her regards from the creamy, eggy, oily gates.

Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 4d

Two of the Proustian madelines of my childhood are
- PB & mayo
- KFC Chicken Littles

I find it fascinating that one is functionally multigenerational struggle food of the US South, the other is a snapshot of the late 1980s.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

I strongly object to the comparison many are making these days between Stephen Miller and Joseph Goebbels.

I think it's deeply misguided, and unfair, to compare them.

Goebbels was a far better propagandist, and didn't execute much policy.

Miller far more closely resembles Heinrich Himmler.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 5d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5d

Stephen Miller said last year this was the plan. They said it out loud. Some of us highlighted his remarks at the time and warned how dangerous they were. Most of the media missed them and/or moved on from them. It’s happening:

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 5d

Red states sending troops to blue states is a really bad idea.

‪Governor JB Pritzker‬
‪@govpritzker.illinois.gov‬
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This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
‪Governor JB Pritzker‬
‪@govpritzker.illinois.gov‬
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We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.
‪Governor JB Pritzker‬
‪@govpritzker.illinois.gov‬
· 32m
I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
‪Governor JB Pritzker‬
‪@govpritzker.illinois.gov‬
· 32m
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Chris Thompson @christhompson.bsky.social · 8d

a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny

defector.com/treasury-dep...

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

defector.com

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 7d

"By our Law, all Ministerial Officers are accountable for their Actions: The Authority of Superiours, though the King himself, cannot justifie inferiour Officers, much less Ministers of State, if they should execute illegal Commands."

Rev. William Sherlock, London, May 1688

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 8d

We're gonna need a better class of senator.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8d

I asked Chris Murphy if he privately talks to Dem colleagues about why they don't sound the alarm loudly. His answers were depressing. Dems tell him they don't want to be "alarmist" or that "democracy" didn't work in 2024, so they want to stick to health care. 5/

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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