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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 14h

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

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The RIFs have begun.
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 2d

His name is literally "Frank Miranda"

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 2d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Kevin J. Allen @kevinjallen.bsky.social · 1h

We have in Chicago

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 3h

“All of these actions reflect a buoyed commander in chief who feels emboldened to go further after feeling as though he has faced surprisingly little resistance to his ambitious agenda in the first nine months. He has even remarked to aides that he is shocked how easy it has all proven to be.”

Trump, Feeling Emboldened, Pushes Agenda Into Higher Gear

Recent moves by the president reflect a commander in chief who has seemingly faced little resistance to his agenda.

www.wsj.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 3h

Sens. Durbin and Duckworth visit Broadview ICE processing facility

Durbin said this was the fourth time they’ve requested to tour the facility with no response from ICE officials.

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/s...

Sens. Durbin and Duckworth visit Broadview ICE processing facility

U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth were on the ground in suburban Broadview on Friday, where they continued calls to tour the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility. ...

www.nbcchicago.com

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Kevin J. Allen @kevinjallen.bsky.social · 1h

And that was more than an hour ago . . .

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 5h

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

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Jeff Passan @jeffpasan.bsky.social · 1h

FINAL: Mariners 3, Tigers 2

The Seattle Mariners are headed to the ALCS for the first time since 2001 and will face Toronto after Jorge Polanco walked off Detroit in the 15th inning. It was the longest winner-takes-all playoff game in MLB history. Amazing night, amazing series.

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 13h

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Kevin J. Allen @kevinjallen.bsky.social · 1h

Welcome to Kristi Noem’s DHS 🐶🥺

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Kevin J. Allen @kevinjallen.bsky.social · 1h

You’re getting your wish ⚾️😩

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1h

They not only stop selling beer in the seventh but they straight up run out of food and stop serving anything. We were drinking bathroom sink water out of nacho helmets.

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1h

As someone who sat through a seven hour, 18 inning playoff game, let me tell u that everyone in that stadium is both freezing and starving lol

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Kevin J. Allen @kevinjallen.bsky.social · 2h

They just had someone in the house call him, didn’t they?
#NobelPrize #Trump

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 7h

OH. MY. GOD. 🫠

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6h

"She said to me after that - Samantha, 21 years old - all my life I've prepared for this moment. All my life, my mom, 53 years old, who was just going to get meat for a stew, has told me one day this could come."

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 8h

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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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 3h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 3h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 9h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 3h

This is a flex.

He know his rubes will believe any shit he tells them and he wants to see how far he can take it.

Next week he'll tell them everyone in Portland lives in caves now and eats brontosaurus ribs like the Flintstones.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

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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Kevin J. Allen @kevinjallen.bsky.social · 2h

Meanwhile, the protests actually happening in Portland:

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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