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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h

Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**

reason.com/2025/10/10/t...

Tennessee man arrested, gets $2 million bond for posting Facebook meme

Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1h

Correct. That’s why it’s going to take bravery from Dem leaders.

They may not be able to stop it. They may get arrested. But they can and must draw attention to the attacks on our freedoms.

Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 1h

Also, they don’t want to be arrested at best or beaten & then arrested at worst. That was the point of beating up Padilla at Noem’s press conference. Use violence & threats of violence on elected officials to establish a competitive system of control.

Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 2h

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 2h

Was reminded of a neuro-surgeon who, on hearing I was a political philosopher, told me that society needs wars every couple of generations to ‘get rid of the riff-raff’. People like him are in charge of things now.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 8h

From the archive, my thoughts on FLÂNEUSE by Lauren Elkin.

A captivating combination of memoir, social history and cultural studies on notable flâneuses - including sections on Jean Rhys, George Sand and Agnes Varda. I adored this one! #BookSky 💙📚

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Flâneuse by Lauren Elkin

When we hear the word ‘flâneur’, we probably think of some well-to-do chap nonchalantly wandering the streets of 19th-century Paris, idling away his time in cafés and bars, casually watching the in…

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 2h

Here is the selective attention video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG6...

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 2h

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 2h

Alternatively you could spend three years doing whatever degree you want, work for a few years at some company learning how to work, do an MBA at the best place you can get into, then earn as much money as you are willing to work for.

Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 3h

“In a way, San Francisco is more important than California. The world city is more important than just this sort of silly province called California. And if you could fuse Washington and San Francisco, that’s a very dangerous thing.”
- Peter Thiel needs to spend more time looking at a mirror

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 4h

I catch sight of the sheer drop plunging thousands of feet below. Panic alarms go off in the brain and stress hormones course through me.
- Merryn Glover

Country diary: Panic, stress, glory – my day scaling the Inaccessible Pinnacle | Merryn Glover

Black Cuillin, Skye: The rough rock tears the skin and is slippery when wet. But the only way is up

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 19h

Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

www.thepinknews.com

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Capt'n Amy, the Girl with the Sun in her Eyes @captnamy.bsky.social · 16h

This morning we witnessed an ICE action on our block.

This afternoon I saw this woman standing where it happened.

She was still there this evening.

I took her a bottle of water and asked her if she was standing vigil.

She looked at me with pain on her eyes and said "It's all I can do"

A woman wearing a dark green hooded clock stands motionless on a sidewalk holding a candle. A candle burns at her feet.

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 16h

"Benioff, who also owns Time magazine, said he had not closely followed the news about the immigration raids, Mr. Trump’s call to gerrymander congressional districts before the midterm elections, the government shutdown or the administration’s attacks on the media."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 18h

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19h

UPS says it is destroying parcels sent to US customers because the Trump administration is failing to process or clear the parcels through customs. In essence, no one can figure out what the applicable tariff rules are and how they are to be applied—amidst a deluge of contradictory tweets from Trump

UPS Admits ‘Disposing’ of Parcels as Trump Chaos Creates Backlog

The president’s tariff policy has seen countless packages getting lost in customs.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20h

Mamdani: I run against a disgraced former governor who, in this moment, has chosen to issue a statement in which he cannot even say the name Tish James, nor the name Donald Trump.

If you cannot say Trump’s name today—how will you stand up to him tomorrow?

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Paul M. Cray @pmc.bsky.social · 19h

"—books that Tokarczuk calls “constellation novels”—and the blends of fiction, history, and pseudo-autobiography that Sebald and many other European writers were also developing in the 1990s."

In the Fourth Person | Christopher Tayler

In 1896 the French writer Alfred Jarry gave a speech introducing his play Ubu Roi, a pioneering work of avant-garde provocation, at the Théâtre de l’Œuvre

www.nybooks.com

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are walking back to Gaza City as the Israeli military begins its withdrawal from the area following the ceasefire agreement.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum is there, watching what he described as ‘an endless tide of humans’.

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Tilde Dalalie🦉☕⏳🐄 @theowlwagon.bsky.social · 23h

Yes, that is Brendan Gleeson and Emma Thompson as Otto and Anna Quangel in Alone In Berlin (2016.)

Watch it on Tubi (free with ads)

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Alone in Berlin (2016)

After losing their son in the war, two courageous parents in Nazi Germany are driven to an extraordinary act of resistance against their government.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

Journalists who live in the world of signal chats and off the record sources surely know better than to answer any of these questions ON PAPER especially "what's broken or substandard."
That one is a call to throw your colleagues under the bus.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the full memo.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News opining that University of Austin researchers are expected to announce their discovery of Trumpium any day now.

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