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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

"Spanberger is almost certainly gonna win by a large margin. And what we won't see are 1,000 think pieces saying 'Republican attacks on trans kids didn't work. They have to choose a new message.'"

Check out my full election preview pod with @davidnir.com: www.publicnotice.co/p/election-p...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

You are here.

Ron Filipkowski writes:
“Remember during oral argument on the presidential immunity case when conservative justices scoffed at and mocked the hypothetical that a president with immunity could just start killing whoever he wanted and there was nothing that could be done if he has immunity?”

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 4d

We really need to have this debate in Australia too

Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 4d

I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...

Our politics is increasingly normalised to racism – because politicians are addicted to X

The platform has quietly dragged British politics into a dark place

inews.co.uk

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Friends of the Earth Australia @foe.org.au · 4d

"Unfortunately, the loudest voices are often fuelled by misinformation spread through social media groups recycling the same myths about land values, turbine waste & health impacts.

"It's intimidation dressed up as debate."

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

'It's gotten out of hand': Wind farmers fear threat to turn to violence

There are grave concerns that dangerous language and bullying of farmers who are hosting renewable energy projects on their properties could turn into violence.

www.abc.net.au

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 3d

DEWR's annual report was tabled yesterday. Let's have a read:

$1.2b was spent on Workforce Australia (employment services) last year

You'll be shocked to see its again failed it's basic performance measure to put people into jobs www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 3d

Anglicare Australia says @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social's plan to give police powers to have Centrelink payments stopped for people accused of a serious crime is “completely at odds with the principles of fairness and justice”.

Thank you @caitkelly.bsky.social for reporting.

Potential law allowing Centrelink payments to be stripped criticised as ‘shocking overreach’

Proposed laws allowing Centrelink payments to be stripped from those evading arrest while accused of serious crimes would be a “shocking overreach of police powers into the social security system”, welfare advocates warn.

The amendment to the income apportionment bill, added by Labor this week during parliamentary debate, would mean police officers would have the power to request the cancellation of Centrelink payments to those accused of a “serious violent or sexual offence” when an arrest warrant had been issued.

Some advocates and social security legal experts, including the Antipoverty Centre, the Council of Single Mothers and their Children, the Anti-Poverty Network South Australia, the Australian Unemployed Workers Union and Everybody’s Home have said the amendment represents punishment without conviction and blurs the separation of powers.

The Anglicare Australia executive director, Kasy Chambers, said the proposal was “completely at odds with the principles of fairness and justice” and called on the government to scrap the amendment. Chambers said:

This is a shocking overreach of police powers into the social security system. We’ve seen too many times what happens when governments rush through changes without thinking through the consequences. Robodebt should have been warning enough.

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juswhe.bsky.social @juswhe.bsky.social · 3d

What else are you supposed to call your father's cousin?

Heck, I'm about as white as they come, and my children know some of my (whisper it quietly) *friends* as aunts and uncles.

Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 5d

Zohran really is a monster

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juswhe.bsky.social @juswhe.bsky.social · 3d

An incredible moment for Australia. Congratulations to all the First Nations leaders who worked so tirelessly to make this happen, and to the Victorian Government and Parliament for embracing the opportunity to show genuine national leadership. #Treaty #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria

Step towards reconciliation hailed as ‘a historic moment’ with premier Jacinta Allan saying it gives Aboriginal Australians the power to shape policies that affect their lives

www.theguardian.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d

i’m continually struck by the joy zohran has brought to this election and the absolute venom with which it’s been met.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city.

So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.

Zohran with his hand on his chest leaning into the passenger side window of a taxi, talking with the driver.

Zohran extending his hand to shake hands with a taxi driver through the window.

An airport worker showing Zohran something on his phone, both are smiling.

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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 4d

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6d

In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5d

"Institutions like Wikipedia are the last bastions of the dream of a free and open internet that betters humanity. Protecting the source code of reality is a matter of survival for a free and sane society, and we must act like it."

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6d

I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality.

www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...

Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself

Grokipedia, the copycat of Wikipedia launched by Elon Musk isn’t just a string of AI generated slop, it is a weapon. The launch of "grokipedia" is a calculated, strategic escalation by the billionaire...

www.thedissident.news

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 6d

Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”

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juswhe.bsky.social @juswhe.bsky.social · 6d

The absolute peak of investigative journalism 🙃

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 7d

lmao

My Post headline

Mamdani didn’t tell the whole truth about his hijab-wearing ‘aunt’ who feared for safety post-9/11

The “aunt” who Zohran Mamdani said was too afraid to wear her hijab on the subways after 9/11 was actually his dad’s cousin.

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Alastair Lawrie @alastairlawrie.bsky.social · 6d

Awful.

The Queensland Government is actively harming trans kids. #qldpol #aushealth #trans
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Snap new Queensland ban on puberty blockers for transgender adolescents

The Queensland health minister has issued a new directive to ban public doctors from prescribing puberty blockers to youths six hours after a Supreme Court overturned the January freeze.

www.abc.net.au

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 6d

People ask a lot about whether protests matter. While Trump’s approval rating is driven by many factors, events like the No Kings rallies likely play a role, too. Media coverage and people seeing their neighbors take a stand help convey that disapproval is not just acceptable but widespread.

Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 6d

Donald Trump's approval rating in our tracker has fallen to -18, the lowest it has ever been (lower than any point in his first term) www.economist.com/interactive/...

Chart showing Trump's net approval compared with this point in previous presidencies. In 2009, Obama's approval at this point was approximately +7, in 2017 Trump's was -16 and in 2021 Biden's was -7

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 7d

"Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately, the secretary general of the UN has warned."

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head

Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

www.theguardian.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9d

Congress basically doesn’t exist at this point

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Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social · 9d

Never forget there are so many brave people powered by love.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9d

Not the first time Trump trashed a public building. Total cost of January 6: $2.7 billion.

March 24, 2025
Mr. Thomas E. Austin
Architect of the Capitol
SB-15 U.S. Capitol
U.S. Capitol Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Mr. Austin:
On his first day in office, despite warnings from senior Republicans, President Trump
issued a blanket pardon to the more than 1,500 people charged in the deadly January 6, 2021,
insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.1 While these sentences can be erased with the stroke of a pen,
the damage done that day is not so easily repaired. The Capitol complex withstood nearly
millions of dollars in property damage from the insurrectionists who entered the Capitol by force
and in their wake “left windows broken, doors splintered, and paintings stained with pepper
spray and tear gas.”2 The total cost of the insurrection to the taxpayers is estimated to be $2.7
billion, and that does not account for the lives lost due to the violence that day.3 Thanks to
President Trump’s reckless pardons, convicted rioters can not only walk freely, but they also are
no longer required to pay their court-ordered restitutions, much of which was owed directly to
your office.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 9d

“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”

SMITE! ICE Agent Pisses Pants While Shooting Pastor

Yup, I did that.

www.thegodpodcast.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 9d

The local activists and organizers who were the beating heart of No Kings Day are continuing to lead the fight on the ground in your community. Check out our map to see what groups are near you and get in touch with your local organizers: indivisible.org/groups

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 9d

Portland resists with whimsical improv theater, Chicago resists by screaming at weird jagoffs that don’t belong in the neighborhood. Every city brings its own strengths to the fight

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9d

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 9d