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Spocko @spocko.bsky.social · 11h

Great idea! To counter Trump's lies about the cities he's sending in the National Guard. @jimmykimmel.com asked for videos of your war-torn community & post it with
#ShowMeYourHellhole

The reality is troops are being called in to stop inflatable characters dancing to YMCA! @emptywheel.bsky.social

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7h

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

Donald Trump: Stop trying to incite Illinoisans into violence. Pack up and go home.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2h

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.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1h

🚨 Today in Portland, large groups peacefully gathered to unite against hate and oppression. 1/2

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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 24m

Black Republican woman Earle-Sears discriminates against LGBT people and gaslights voters that her discrimination is not discrimination. Insulting voters intelligence

She has the delusion that the Black hating White Supremacist DEI Trump Nazi govt won't come for her or won't bring Jim Crow back

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1h

VA Gov debate:

Spanberger: my opponent has previously said that she does not think that gay couples should be allowed to marry

Earle-Sears: That's not discrimination

Spanberger: she thinks it's okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay

Earle-Sears: that's not discrimination

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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 28m

#ShowMeYourHellHole. Brilliant by Jimmy Kimmel.

Mock Hysterical Emotionally Fragile #TyrantTrump and his Gaslighting Blue State Cities when more crime in Red states.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1h

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1h

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 2h

Male a new prize. Make him the first winner of the Nobel Loser prize. We can all congratulate him on being the most pathetic loser in the entire world. He gets to say he won a Nobel. And we all get to laugh at him for taking great pride in being the biggest loser on Earth.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 7h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

give me a prize for how peaceful i am or i'm going to fucking destroy you

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 7h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

Republicans in Congress strangely silent on the Argentina bailout to benefit Bessent’s friends.

It also helps you to avoid talking about it when you are never asked about it.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4h

Horrifically creepy and emblematic of this rape-coded administration, but also a govt employee staying at the fuckin ritz on a business trip shows you how much the DC world has changed since the DOJ muffin scandal of 2011.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

"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.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 56m

I was worried that you'd see a lot of #BlackBloc people in Portland giving trump the visuals he craved which would be played for months if not years on fascist Fox News & its clones

Frog was far more effective

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 4h

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 4h

He was definitely hired *because* he's this kind of person, not in spite of it.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

"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.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3h

TIER ONE: Americans who Donald Trump pedophiled with: They get shielded from prosecution for the crimes they did commit.

TIER TWO: Americans who brought Donald to justice for the crimes he did commit, they get prosecuted as revenge even if they committed no crimes whatsoever.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 3h

Lindsey Halligan entered this as “AUSA” — presumably because no Assistant US Attorney will go along with this.

The form is unsigned and undated.

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🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 3h

did image search for him and literally the first one was him and Andrew Tate

Newest White House sex pest pictures with notorious professional misogynist Andrew Tate

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3h

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms

The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

they can see the polling

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 11h

“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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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 3h

After Pritzker and Newsom threatened to leave the NGA, the Republican Chair breaks with Trump. Pressure works. Keep it up!

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 11h

“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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