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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 12h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3h

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 7h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1h

Donald Trump just got a COVID booster at Walter Reed, per the White House physician.

Let’s be clear this is the same guy who downplayed the virus, mocked masks, and turned lifesaving vaccines into a political wedge that cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 9h

House GOP just said they won't be back in Washington next week, so the shutdown probably goes at least until the week of Oct 20th.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4h

A producer and editor for WGN-TV was violently forced to the ground this morning by two Border Patrol agents, before having her hands cuffed behind her back, during an ICE action in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.

Debbie Brockman has worked for the local television station since 2011.

WGN-TV producer violently detained during Chicago ICE enforcement action

A DHS spokesperson said that Debbie Brockman was placed under arrest for ‘assault on a federal law enforcement officer,’ claiming the WGN employee threw objects at the agent.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

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Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 8h

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3h

I love this image.

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 6h

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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 1h

It's amazing how Satan manages to let the world know through pics Donald Trump belongs to him.

Even Getty.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 3h

Mike Johnson referred to the upcoming “No Kings Day” (October 18!) as “America Hating Parties” but there is no one on the planet who hates the USA more than Donald Trump, he never shuts up about it

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Jennifer Lee 🎃 @uofagrad97.bsky.social · 5h

OMG!

Monica Lewinsky ©
@MonicaLewinsky
@electorotting
I'm willing to take one for team and give Trump a blowjob in the oval office. Apparently that's the only thing that can convince Republicans to impeach.
6:06 PM • 03 Oct 19 • Twitter for Android
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 3h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

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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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 5h

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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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 12h

In direct contrast to coverage from right-wing media, Portland residents and officials have emphasized that it's actually federal agents who have been engaging in “violent tactics” against protesters.

Right-wing media say Portland is a war zone under siege. Local news paints a different picture.

Right-wing media claim that Portland’s protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement show a city “under siege” or “conquered by antifa,” but local news programs have reported the opposite. Mult...

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 6h

I know Mike Johnson says there is nothing for the House to do but there is.

You see by law a budget was supposed to be in place by Sept 30th, but Rs haven’t passed one. The reason? There isn’t a GOP budget. They haven’t even started working on one. This is what the House should be doing FFS!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5h

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h

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 · 8h

"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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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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MarySez @marysez.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks..

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