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Neil Alan Willard @neilwillard.bsky.social · 18h

I wasn't a math major, but . . .

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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Paul Flahive @paulflahive.bsky.social · 15h

These number dropped

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 15h

No good billionaires and none of them are okay

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 15h

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 15h

No good billionaires and none of them are okay

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Paul Flahive @paulflahive.bsky.social · 16h

Wut?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 22h

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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Paul Flahive @paulflahive.bsky.social · 16h

Sad

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 17h

AI videos being sent to him by Miller, Noem et al, right?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

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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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 20h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Paul Flahive @paulflahive.bsky.social · 22h

Side note: I dramatically underestimated how long it would take to get to opening statements. I will have a ticket when I return to my car.

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Paul Flahive @paulflahive.bsky.social · 22h

I am reporting on the trial of three former San Antonio Police officers in the shooting death of Melissa Perez. It is the first time in the city's history that an officer involved shooting resulted in murder charges.

There are so many people at the defense table (10) that the court brought in a separate table for when they cross examine witnesses.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 1d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

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

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

I spoke with this pastor and other clergy and faith leaders who have been protesting at the Chicago ICE facility.

All told me they've been shot by pepper balls or targeted by other non-lethal rounds. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 1d

Terry Gross: telling these stories that include voices of enslaved & women & indigenous might be called DEI; screening this at Smithsonian or NPS could get you canceled.
Ken Burns: i like to say DEI is "E Pluribus Unum" "A story is a story is a story." #AmericanRevolution #USHistory #PBS #FreshAir

Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 1d

Ken Burns to Terry Gross: Washington was against keeping & recruiting Black soldiers who fought bravely in Lexington & Concord, eventually realized mistake... Terry notes W describing colonists as enslaved to British. Ken says "irony & hypocrisy not lost on anybody." #AmericanRevolution #PBS

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Updated COVID shot led to less severe illness, fewer hospitalizations last year, US study finds reut.rs/3KEOvOE

Updated COVID shot led to less severe illness, fewer hospitalizations last year, US study finds

Last year's updated COVID-19 vaccines helped prevent severe outcomes including hospitalizations and deaths, according to data from a large study of U.S. military veterans published on Wednesday.

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Paul Flahive @paulflahive.bsky.social · 2d

Who is accountable?

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 3d

Local El Paso coverage has much more detail on the package of information presented to Pope Leo, including the video:

"Together, let us be a church that refuses to abandon our people, one that walks in faith, justice, and love"

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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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 3d

Trump wants to sell some student loans. What if yours is one of them?

Trump's considering selling US student loans to private investors. Can he do it? What happens if yours gets sold?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“..’ Our family gatherings are filled with crying and trying to figure out how we get past this moment,” Mr. Aguayo said. “People are being terrorized. People are being attacked. That’s what it feels like.”

@nytimes.com #chicago
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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