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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 6h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 5h

Not hanging. The standard execution method for treason is firing squad.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 5h

The thing about police is that they don't seem to understand that literally everyone else hates their guts. No one is pretending you're heros anymore. It's well known what shitty little cowards every single one of you is

David Noll @david.noll.org · 21d

In response to California passing a law limiting law enforcement officers' ability to conceal their identities, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California contends that police are not subject to democratic control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Brian R. Marvel, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, which represents over 87,000 public safety officers, said he was outraged by the passage of the law.

He said in a statement that he believed that California did not have the authority to regulate federal agents, so it would ultimately apply only to local law enforcement officers, which he called a “troubling betrayal that California’s local law enforcement community will not soon forget.” He said that limiting face coverings and opening officers up to prosecution would most likely hurt recruitment and drive officers from the state.

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 5h

Gonna do the dangerous, foolhardy thing and make a prediction:

2025 MLS Cup: Philadelphia v. LAFC. The league's best defense vs. its scariest scoring tandem.

Feel free to blow me up if it turns out I'm wrong.

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 5h

Ain't no shade like kicker shade.

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 6h

HAHAHHAHAH FUCK YOU BUTKER, IF ONLY YOU KNEW SOMEONE WHO COULD TEACH YOU HOW TO NOT USE YOUR HIPS AND ALSO YOU WEREN’T A REGRESSIVE EVANGELICAL FUCKFACE

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 6h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 9h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14h

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 8h

just so we're clear, the same chicago where 50,000 people just ran a marathon, and the american record was broken … is the lawless warzone that justifies sending in national guard troops??

a cartoon of batman wearing a blue cape and mask with his hand on his chin .

ALT: a cartoon of batman wearing a blue cape and mask with his hand on his chin .

media.tenor.com

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe when Trump's $25,000 Whore sends ICE to take their guns away?

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 7h

Cali native (now in NM) here ... yeah, you're kind of wrong for finding yourself swayed by him. He's still the grasping, dishonest, craven anti-trans bigot he's always been; he just looks better when he's attacking someone everyone hates.

Also, Camille Zapata and her comms team write those tweets.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11h

This is infuriating. She excuses the orders as "preliminary," but that's an argument for applying settled law or preserving the status quo. Allowing POTUS to disregard Congressional appropriations and fire independent agency heads are neither, they're a radical restructuring of Constitutional order.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 10h

And when Weiss published a purported expose on a gender clinic in Missouri, local news outlets and national investigative reporters proved her piece was built entirely on the falsehoods of a right wing activist.

That ain’t hysteria, that’s calling out a purported journalist for spreading lies.

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 7h

Anselmo's 2nd Truism: You have the right to your opinion – but if you share it, your audience has an equal right to point out that your opinion is ill-formed, ignorant, or just plain loopy.

Post from @kibblesmith.com‬ earlier today: "Getting the impression that a lot of people think 1. Freedom of Speech is something you have a right to on privately owned social media platforms and 2. Conveniently stops after you’ve announced your opinion, but before anyone else is allowed to say it’s stupid."

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 8h

Even a stopped clock, etc.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 8h

He’s going to have Bondi indict the umbrella now, isn’t he?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump gets some help closing his umbrella while boarding Air Force One

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 8h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 10h

Math:

Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 10h

Every 👏 accusation 👏 is 👏 a 👏 confession.

Trump's $25,000 Whore Pam Bondi is creating a registry of gun owners. I.E., what gun owners for decades have been accusing Democrats of preparing to do.

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 10h

You're a very non-special kind of stupid.

Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 10h

It's funny but it's not?

"TRUMP JOINS ICE WHEN HE LEARNS THAT HE CAN JUST GRAB LITTLE GIRLS OFF THE STREETS"

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 11h

Thread for Minneapolis people!

Jacob Frey is, as my grandfather would say, a bum. A chronic liar, a bagman for the rich, and an enemy of any meaningful progress in the city. Please don’t rank him! Thank you.

David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 11h

I hope @dewayneforminneapolis.com doesn't mind me retelling a story he told me when we first met last winter. I kept it to myself because he wasn’t telling it publicly but he mentioned it yesterday. It’s one of the things that’s leading me to rank him first. A hope-its-ok-and-I-get-right 🧵:

Soren Stevenson @sorenwithward8.bsky.social · 12h

Yesterday, I hosted an incredible event, "Ward 8 for a New Mayor." We talked about why we need a new mayor and then @jazzformayor.bsky.social , @omarfatehmn.com , and @dewayneforminneapolis.com laid out why they should be our next mayor. I came away excited about all of them and will rank all three!

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