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D. and Joe @boonandstrummer.bsky.social · 22h

My Desi brother will still not learn this crucial lesson: Tokens get spent.

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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 8d

Soybean farmers who voted for Trump are upset after he gave a $20 billion bail out to Argentina, which helps them stay in business with China. So much for America first huh? 🐆💀

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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 2h

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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 1d

This week Vivek Ramaswamy spoke at a Turning Point USA event originally scheduled to headlined by the late Charlie Kirk. But during the Q&A things took a turn as Ramaswamy fielded questions about his Hindu faith…🐆💀

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 18h

Psychiatrists/NPs/therapists who could provide off-the-books, no-fee, Zoom-based care for individuals in crisis in ICE-targeted Chicago communities, please email me: [email protected]. Include whether you can prescribe, speak Spanish (or other languages), and available hours per week/month.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 3h

Also because there is a massive mental health care provider shortage- many many people under significant duress are not getting support.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 18h

Because of ICE raids in hospitals and clinics, and because powerful healthcare institutions are failing to stand up to fascists, people are not getting what they need. We need to provide other means of ensuring people can access care.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/i...

Allowing ICE in hospitals is a public health catastrophe in the making

Allowing ICE to conduct raids in hospitals and medical clinics is not only cruel; it is a public health catastrophe in the making, writes Eric Reinhart.

www.statnews.com

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MelodyMP @melodymp.bsky.social · 4h

They're a lot less annoying if they're skilled comic actors and playfully frog-dom and ice-sub, though.

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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 4h

Now THEY can come to the party!!

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 23h

FROG 🐸 SEMIOTICS 🐸 REDEMPTION 🐸 ARC

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20h

The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 7h

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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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 5h

It’s a party. There’s room for them, too.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

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Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 15h

I think a lot about how Michelle Obama remarked on regularly being in rooms with the most powerful and wealthy people in the world and her chief takeaway was that they're just not that smart

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15h

So not for cause, or to address fraud, waste & abuse.

For partisan political pain.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 14h

A little something to take the edge off as you head into the weekend @erinbiba.bsky.social

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

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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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Indivisible Rockland OC @indivisrockland.bsky.social · 17h

‼️Wow, “Just For Men” is really getting specific with their new product lines. Took this screenshot of their new "Just For Mike” line. Guess making accountability disappear is a pretty huge market these days.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 21h

Healthy people don't like it. There's depressingly large subset of the population that gets aroused watching men in uniforms brutalizing civilians on trivial pretexts.

Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 21h

People see masked ICE thugs physically abusing and arresting normies, and they do not like it. Consequences are going to follow. It's just a matter of time.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 23h

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 19h

Trump believes that Portland, Oregon, median household income $91,478, is a shantytown.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 19h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 22h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h

“[T]he factual conditions necessary for President Trump to have properly invoked Section 12406(3) [to send the National Guard to Chicago] simply do not exist.”

T any event, while decisions of the Ninth Circuit are "not binding" on this Court, Hays v.
United States, 397 F.3d 564, 567 (7th Cir. 2005), and the Court frankly does not agree that
"significantly impeded" is the same thing as "unable," the Court would still find that Plaintiffs
are likely to succeed on the merits even were the Ninth Circuit standard applied. As discussed,
there is evidence of protests, some of which have included acts of violence. There is also
evidence of property destruction, and discrete groups who have attempted to impede DHS
agents. At the same time, there is significant evidence that DHS has not been unable to carry out
its mission. All federal facilities have remained open. To the extent there have been disruptions,
they have been of limited duration and swiftly controlled by authorities. Pairing all this with
evidence that federal immigration officials have seen huge increases in arrests and deportations, see Doc. 13 at 34-35; id. at 34 n. 124, the Court concludes that even under the Ninth Circuit standard, the factual conditions necessary for President Trump to have properly invoked Section
12406(3) simply do not exist.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21h

He cannot admit he played himself and American consumers.

As Trump likes to say “you don’t have the cards.”
China has moved on.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

More tariff policy evolution — via one man’s whim.

$SPX $FXI

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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 20h

Figures.

Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 20h

Everything bagel with egg salad.

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