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Tony Serrata 🇺🇦 @serrata.org · 1h

Expect dead people from this shot without cause while they'll claim they were under attack by people in frog suits

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1h

The No Kings rallies have been peaceful. But when was there ever a protest with violence in Washington, DC? I'm racking my brain on that one....Oh yeah, when YOUR people showed up to overturn an election, beat up cops, and threatened Dem. and Repub. legislators. Trump pardoned all those thugs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 2h

Trump has less than 40% approval and Republicans have convinced themselves you need to pay people to protest his policies

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 3h

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

Chekhov's Reassignments

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Breaking news: Nearly a quarter of FBI agents across the country are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement.

The large number of reassignments reflect a vast reshaping of the agency and could put other priorities at risk.

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

wapo.st

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Justin O’Brien, ICE melter @justinobrien.bsky.social · 3h

Cooked as a country when art can’t be made because we have to take into account the fee-fees of Klan members.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 4h

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

The House Majority Whip is also insisting that a peaceful "No Kings" demonstration is in fact a "hate America rally" held for the "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Really feels like they're trying to manifest a violent reaction to it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

WWWWWWWTTTTTTTTTFFFFFFFFF!!! bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Sean Parker @seanforfive.bsky.social · 4h

Antifa is a big part of why the nazis limped away defeated from Shelbyville in 2017 and never even made it to Murfreesboro.

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 5h

“The truth is that antifa groups have been responsible for some of the most prescient & impactful organizing countering the far-right during the last decade”

Amazing corrective to liberal punditry abt antifa from Matthew Whitley (& basically the thesis of my book) theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

theintercept.com

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · Nov 22

When the landscape split into a dual world made of light & darkness…
Captured at the iconic Segla mountain on Senja islands, just after sunrise.

#bluesky #photography #mountains #landscape #nature #landscapephotography

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 4h

That's not what he said. The question was "did Trump's campaigning impact anything" and he said the Nobel Committee sits in a room "filled with courage and integrity" and makes its decisions based on "the will of Alfred Nobel" (i.e. they aren't going to be moved by campaigns or threats)

Stop it

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 14h

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

“I’m trying to put this delicately,” Perry said. “There has been evidence submitted that the very presence of federal agents, that the way they’re interacting with the populace, is itself the cause of violence.”

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Judge blocks Trump from deploying troops in Illinois for now

Officials in Oregon and Illinois had challenged the Trump administration’s push to dispatch the National Guard in both states.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 8h

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Michael Salerno @mikenjd.bsky.social · 6h

I like ScarJo as much as the next guy, but Mother Goethel is screaming to be played by Kathryn Hahn

deadline.com/2025/10/tang...

‘Tangled’ Live-Action Take Resumes Early Development At Disney; Scarlett Johansson Circling Role Of Mother Gothel

The live-action remake of Tangled is resuming early development with Scarlett Johansson circling the role of Mother Gothel.

deadline.com

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Michael Salerno @mikenjd.bsky.social · 6h

Man, if the Giants don’t utterly shit the bed against a winless Saints team last week, they’d be 3-3.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

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Michael Salerno @mikenjd.bsky.social · 6h

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12h

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 14h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 14h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 7h

Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 14h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Michael Salerno @mikenjd.bsky.social · 16h

Oh man. I almost feel bad for the Phillies.

Almost.

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