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J. R. R. Jokin

@joshcarlosjosh

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

"Imao" said Gandalf, "well it has.”

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

It would be cool to live in a country where the leader is not building a roided out army of racist misfits to attack his own people

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 BOO! 👻 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 6h

"To restore hope, the brain must gather new evidence that effort can still matter. This begins not with insight but with small, consistent acts." www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/an-i...

How Chronic Disappointment Rewires the Brain

Chronic disappointment can train the brain to expect pain instead of reward. Restoring hope means reawakening dopamine through small actions, enriched environments, and new desire.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 6h

October 27, 2025

There is a lot going on tonight, but the world is going to have to turn without me: it’s been a long run without a break and I need to sleep.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 BOO! 👻 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 6h

"The country was until this month one of the few places in the world that did not have a mosquito population. The other is Antarctica."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country

Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects

www.theguardian.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h

We all need to fight Trump's plan for voter suppression and election subversion. We need to recognize that it has multiple dimensions. We need to educate ourselves and our communities and then take action.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 6h

Inevitable and tracks with the cycles of regimes

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in:

- Los Angeles
- Phoenix
- Philadelphia
- Denver
- El Paso
- San Diego
- Seattle/Portland
- New Orleans

Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.

Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed.

Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino.

ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.

I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations.

I am hearing from both sides of this friction.

One senior DHS official tells me:

"ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?".

Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me:

"What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."

It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there.

Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results.

Official statement to
@FoxNews
via
@TriciaOhio
:

"While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country."
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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 BOO! 👻 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 6h

Jamaica's Prime Minister Andrew Holness... "You have been warned. It's now up to you to use that information to make the right decision," and to CNN "I don't believe there is any infrastructure within this region that could withstand a Category 5 storm..." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hurricane Melissa: Jamaica braces for world's strongest storm of 2025 - BBC News

Three reported dead in Jamaica as meteorologists warn of "life-threatening winds, flooding and storm surge".

www.bbc.com

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Wobbledance aka “Tony” @wobbledance.bsky.social · 18h

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 10h

Every mention of SNAP being frozen should include this simple fact:

TRUMP is CHOOSING TO CANCEL FOOD ASSISTANCE. There are literally emergency dollars available to keep SNAP funded.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10h

Senate Chaplain Dr. Barry Black on the floor today:

"Lord, remind our lawmakers that no gold medals are given for breaking shutdown records."

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 11h

In Chicago, ICE tried to seize a Latino man—but his Black neighbors refused to let it happen. They stepped in, stood tall, and claimed him as their own.

That’s what solidarity looks like: when the people say no, the raid ends there.
This is how we win: together.🔥

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🇨🇦Shauna🇨🇦 @domesticgoddess67.bsky.social · 22h

Please read ALL directions before assembling your cat.

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Rep. Bob Morgan @bobmorganil.bsky.social · 7h

You really have to go out of your way to be this cruel.

The Lever @levernews.com · 11h

🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will issue guidance blocking states from wiping medical debt off credit reports — siding with debt collectors over patients. The move could keep $220 billion in medical bills on Americans’ records.

www.levernews.com/trump-aims-t...

Trump Aims To Infect Your Credit

Trump’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is trying to stop states from wiping medical debt from your credit report.

www.levernews.com

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION

(not a typo)

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 6h

Michael Maslin
New Yorker
October 26, 1987

Cartoon:
Boss to secretary: "No calls for the rest of the day, Miss Bromley - I'll be carving my pumpkin."

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 8h

More miserable lies won’t change the facts: federal law ALREADY prohibits any undocumented immigrant from receiving Medicaid, Medicare, or coverage under the ACA.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h

In comments to reporters Monday, President Donald Trump did not rule out running for a third term — something the Constitution explicitly prohibits. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump Once Again Threatens Unlawful Third Term

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h

A lot of trolls out tonight on various platforms about the new lawsuit my firm filed in New York.

I told you we fight hard.
I told you Trump doesn't scare us.
And remember, I told you we usually win.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 8h

The USDA has funding set aside to keep food assistance programs running during emergencies.

Trump just won’t release it.

440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7h

In the Heart of Dixie, killings for fun and entertainment and plenty of torture just come naturally.

Prolonged Execution in Alabama Raises Alarms

Yesterday's execution by nitrogen suffocation was the longest recorded.

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prettylight @prettylight10.bsky.social · 6h

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

They've used Chicago as a testing/training ground for this roving army of BP dipshits after doing the same in LA. Feels pretty crucial that everyone not in Chicago continue paying attention to Chicago to know exactly what to expect when they move elsewhere.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7h

A former Cook county prosecutor describes how Trump's secret police lobbed a tear gas canister on his front lawn for no apparent reason. Elsewhere they appeared to be targeting principally children going to Halloween parties.

ICE deploys tear gas as costumed children head to Halloween parade

A former Cook County prosecutor said he had collected a tear gas canister from his own front lawn in a residential Chicago neighborhood and submitted it to a law firm that is preparing a lawsuit over ...

www.rawstory.com

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prettylight @prettylight10.bsky.social · 7h

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 7h

Whenever you hear a tech bro screeching about drug addiction in San Francisco, remember that crypto is supercharging the fentanyl trade and reflect on the quote historian Rick Perlstein attributed to Marc Andreessen in 2017:

“I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.”

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