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Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 52m

Colombia's president says boat struck by US was carrying Colombians - BBC News share.google/xU5Y1arCO5iw...

Colombia's president says boat struck by US was carrying Colombians

The White House calls the allegation "baseless" as the US Senate rejected a measure to bar Trump from using force against the boats.

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

www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/p...

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 6m

Reporters should be talking to Esper, Kelly, etc about what Trump wanted to do to protestors in the first term.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 12m

If we are going to look at historical background in all this, would be great if the courts considered what Trump has called for against protestors (they won’t) www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/p...

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 20m

I ended up not being able to listen, but it sounds like this went ungood.

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mkmurray9 @mkmurray9.bsky.social · 1h

Another Kavanaugh stop.

“'Turn around or you’re going to get the dog...We’re going to put you in cuffs, or you’re going to get the dog.'” they said to an American citizen. "The officers struck Miranda from behind, which caused him to collapse before he was taken away in an unmarked van."

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 17h

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

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1h

Link to Oregon v Trump www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Watch live at 9 a.m.: Appeals court to hear arguments in Oregon National Guard case

The arguments will be livestreamed from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals headquarters in San Francisco.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1h

Evidence that it’s not a true floor. There is give in his support. We need to find how far it can drop.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1h

Quite striking the 1/3 of Republicans actually feel this way.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 5h

Pope Leo in Dilexi te: Pope Leo in Dilexi te: “The Church has always recognized in migrants a living presence of the Lord who, on the day of judgment, will say to those on his right: ‘I was a stranger and you welcomed me’”(Mt 25:35)

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Rosemary @rosemaryd52.bsky.social · 1h

I am delighted with Pope Leo. I think I'm correct in saying that I have read articles in the last 24 hours showing him speaking out on immigrants and refugees, climate change, the poor, and journalists. All in what I consider a good way. He can absolutely be a counterweight to Trump.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1h

Oregon trailblazers seek to create path out of tyranny.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 1h

I will be live-posting Oregon v. Trump, which will be heard before the 9th Cir. shortly.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 14h

The family has been gathering for a wedding this weekend, so mostly I'm cooking a lot and playing host until Sunday.

I am going to try and make time to listen to this oral argument tomorrow in the National Guard to Portland case.

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

Thank you for speaking up. We need it. Please encourage other individuals with major influence to speak out as well.

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

I could buy Pope Leo as a Gandalf elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

In Vatican meeting with El Pasoans, Pope Leo XIV offers support to migrants facing deportation - El Paso Matters

During a Vatican meeting, Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with migrants after hearing firsthand accounts gathered by El Paso’s Hope Border Institute and La Mujer Obrera about the human toll of U.S. ...

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2h

What is happening? Where am I?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on polls showing Republicans are getting blamed for the shutdown: "I'm not putting the blame on the president. I'm actually putting the the blame on the Speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate. This should not be happening ... we control the House & Senate & have the WH."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on polls showing Republicans are getting blamed for the shutdown: "I'm not putting the blame on the president. I'm actually putting the the blame on the Speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate. This should not be happening ... we control the House & Senate & have the WH."

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 2h

Yesterday: Trump bragged, "We took the freedom of speech away."

Today: New reporting on Trump's plans to go after opposition groups.

In 9 days: We mount the largest peaceful protest in modern history to say, loud and clear, that America has no king.

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USA Today: 'We took the freedom of speech away:' Trump on flag burning protection, First Amendment

Reuters: Trump's war on the left: inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3h

I am less concerned with fairness than I am with the country escaping this disaster.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3h

There’s no way out of this mess unless we figure out how to get a big chunk of Trump’s base to turn on him. What is the off-ramp from supporting him at this point? We have to figure out how to have space for enough of his supporters to abandon him.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3h

In the Two Towers movie, most of the defenders didn’t know Gandalf was coming. There isn’t always going to be a Gandalf, but if one gives up, he will certainly arrive too late. One can never know what the morning may bring.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3h

TFW when you realize you're about to fail the Lando test: "Harvard officials have since discussed internally the possibility of seeking additional assurances from the admin. that the university will not be subject to further demands once an agreement has been signed"

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 3h

People need to know what he just voted down.

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 5h

Republican Senators, with an assist from Sen. John Fetterman, voted down an attempt to block the Trump administration’s missile strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats. interc.pt/4o9CBur

A photo of Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., sits on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 1, 2025, in Washington, overlaid with the headline, "Fetterman Is Sole Democrat to Vote Against Blocking Caribbean Drug Boat Attacks," and the DEK, "It was the first time members of Congress were put on record about whether they supported or opposed the president’s war in the Caribbean."

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 17h

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

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3h

The media’s job is to inform voters of what’s happening, not merely what government is saying. And if the government is lying to citizens, that’s a huge part of what’s happening.

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