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Bender Rodríguez @plungerman.bsky.social · 6h

How ICE Tracks Every Move You Make

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HUD...

ICE Can Now See Where You Are At All Times

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19h

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

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The RIFs have begun.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 18h

The RIFs began months ago. This is just recycled DOGE, just as unpopular and just as illegal.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19h

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 18h

Please stop saying the problem is only Netanyahu. The Israeli electorate is deeply radicalized and this is a major problem.

www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-l...

Netanyahu’s Likud enjoys slight bump in support on heels of Gaza deal, poll shows

Ex-PM Bennett, who has been largely silent on the truce-hostage agreement, sinks to lowest number of Knesset seats in potential election since first being included in Maariv survey

www.timesofisrael.com

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Bender Rodríguez @plungerman.bsky.social · 11h

it’s almost like there’s actually no historical precedent for this nation’s cuisine

www.youtube.com/shorts/ExPVC...

🇮🇱 Favorite “israeli” food: I’m starting to notice a pattern 🧐

YouTube video by Bffr Moe

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 23h

Bro blocked me for pointing out that she supports Trump, the strikes, and Israel’s genocide

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social • 1h
I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 19h

Fascism is imperialism turned inward. Liberals are in an uproar about the announced Qatar facility in Idaho, but were perfectly fine with the US using its leverage to pressure other countries into surrendering their territorial sovereignty. The US empire consists of the 877 bases in 95 countries.

Military Empires: A Visual Guide to Foreign Bases - World BEYOND War

Explore All The Foreign Military Bases In The World Many countries operate foreign military bases; the U.S. by far operates the most, with 877 military bases around the world. But at least 18 other na...

worldbeyondwar.org

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not that rare for people to stop in the street to say hi and pet this guy👇🏽 or scream from their cars “I love your dog!”

But today we unlocked the guy-runs-out-of-his-house-to-say-“your dog is super cute!” level of neighborhood canine stardom.

Basset hound sitting on top of someone’s purse and making sad puppy eyes

Basset hound looking cute af while he demands a bite of my snack.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 20h

there's a secret domestic terrorism watchlist if anyone cares
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/senator-wa...

Senator Warns of Trump's Secret Watchlist for Americans

NSPM-7 finally gets Congressional attention

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 17h

If you want some insight into how we got here, check out any video on YouTube or Reels of ICE/border patrol behaving violently and abusively. There are always DOZENS of commenters eager to lick the boot, thrilling vicariously at watching someone beaten for not complying in exactly the right way.

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 17h

What exactly does it take for 8 guys to stop 3 guys from assaulting and abducting a middle-aged woman?

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 18h

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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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 17h

On October 6, US President Donald Trump ordered the termination of diplomacy with Venezuela. Richard Grenell, special presidential envoy, was directed by Trump to halt all diplomatic outreach and talks with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Trump chooses war over diplomacy in the Caribbean : Peoples Dispatch

After killing 21 people in a series of airstrikes on boats off the coast of Venezuela, the US closes all diplomatic channels and prepares for further military aggression in the region.

peoplesdispatch.org

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Bender Rodríguez @plungerman.bsky.social · 17h

Someone lied to you.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZU2...

Someone lied to you.

YouTube video by HasanAbi

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Bender Rodríguez @plungerman.bsky.social · 17h

portland city councilor angelita morillo responds to krisi noem about national guard in portland

www.instagram.com/p/DPm-BJlko7X/

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 20h

the Portland frog stuff is fun because i think they really are onto something providing absurdity in such a black + white time but i also get amused thinking about the amount of people who would have in the past slagged off this as like not a serious or respectable image for the lefty resistance

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h

Gothamist spoke to residents in East New York, Coney Island, Rochdale Village, Wakefield and East Harlem — and found widespread support for our plan to address public safety and the mental health crisis.

Mamdani mental health plan resonates in former Adams strongholds as NYC election nears

Interviews in five neighborhoods that were strongholds for the current mayor in 2021 suggest residents want the next mayor to focus on mental health issues.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18h

I think we need to be crystal clear about how Trump's creation of a nationwide police force—loyal only to him—threatens to create a feedback loop of lawlessness in which our constitutional right to dissent may vanish. slate.com/news-and-pol...

It is now beyond debate that one of Donald Trump’s key goals is the creation of a national police force that is loyal to him alone. To that end, the president has repeatedly federalized the National Guard—often over governors’ objections—and deployed troops to invade blue cities whose residents oppose his administration. He has also transformed Immigration and Customs Enforcement into a kind of secret police that targets, with especially sadistic brutality, journalists, protesters, and others exercising their First Amendment rights. Trump’s multifaceted attack on the Constitution creates a feedback loop of lawlessness: He first erodes the structural limits on his authority, then exploits his newly unchecked power to trample the people’s freedom to dissent.

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 18h

Were that I had five more lifetimes worth of time, I'd be transitioning to working more on surveillance in rural America, the inversion of how highly-surveilled systems and industries are pushed out to places with growing BIPOC, poor, elderly, populations.
Ex: drones are built and tested out here.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 19h

Nobel Peace Prize went to obama, the bomber, and kissinger, the butcher. That’s all you need to know about the credibility of this western award. María Corina Machado is a staunch zionist who begged netanyahu to intervene in Venezuela, and promises to hand over the country's oil to US corporations.

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 18h

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 20h

This is Twilight Sparkle. She was born with a bump on her head made of soft tissue instead of bone. It's led to a buildup of fluid in her brain and seizures. While there's no cure, it can be managed with lifelong medication and bloodwork. You can help her below ❤️‍🩹

15outof10.org/twilight-spa...

a tan puppy sits on a gray surface and looks at the camera. she has a bump in the middle of her forehead with a tuft of lighter colored fur, and her eyes are wideset. she's a magical unicorn.

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 18h

Hmm... 🤔

“'It really angered the Americans. It clearly angered Trump; Trump was no longer the unconditional supporter of Netanyahu from this point onward,' Bishara said of the Israeli attack on the Qatari capital."

Qatar has crucial role to play in Gaza ceasefire plan

That’s because nothing is set in stone in Trump’s 20-point plan for the Strip, says Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara.

“This plan is very ambiguous, this plan is quite problematic and its earlier version … looks like an Israeli plan,” Bishara explained. “And I think here comes the crucial role that Qatar has been playing … in order to redefine the plan in a way that is a bit more objective, a bit more credible, than the way the United States presented it.”

Bishara also said Israel’s attack on Qatar in September marked a turning point in getting to a Gaza agreement that could be agreed to by all the parties, as Qatar and other Arab nations worked to balance out Trump’s proposal.

“It really angered the Americans. It clearly angered Trump; Trump was no longer the unconditional supporter of Netanyahu from this point onward,” Bishara said of the Israeli attack on the Qatari capital.

“The Arab and Muslim-majority countries summit in Doha after that was the catalyst for the new pressure on Washington to stop playing ball [with Israel].”

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