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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Pete. @pete.social · 4d

Spread this far and wide.

Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 8d

"How to Report ICE" 10/2:

Buffalo, CA, Chicago, CO, DC Metro, DE, FL, Indianapolis, KC Metro, MD, MA, NC Triangle, much of NJ, NM, NYC, Phoenix, Philly, Pittsburgh, Portland OR, RI, Rochester NY, St. Louis Metro, St. Peter & Mankato MN, VA, WI, WY

San Francisco in Spanish

tinyurl.com/mupyyr2x

Aloe plant "reading" a "How to Report ICE" zine.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14h

If you are a paying subscriber to The Washington Post, this is what you get.

If you are a free subscriber to Democracy Docket, this is what you get.

Support independent, pro-democracy media. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t think they can read and just spent every day of their youth watching ‘Falling Down’

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 2h

“Federal officials also said the surrounding South Shore neighborhood was a location known to be frequented by Tren de Aragua members and their associates…None of the residents said they had seen any signs of an international criminal enterprise operating out of the building”

Lying twats

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 7h

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.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5h

this man's name is written in the book of life

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 7h

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.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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...

chicago.suntimes.com

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10h

Dear AP, extortion is not leverage.

apnews.com/article/gove...

Budget office says 'substantial' firings of federal workers have started in government shutdown

The White House budget office says that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

apnews.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 4h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 10h

Dr. Seuss went hard during WWII.
Lessons should have been learned.

A satirical comic drawn by Dr. Seuss with a train with a swastika on the front of the engine is barreling down the tracks, and a man in a jacket is sitting on the train tracks wearing an "America First" jacket trying to reassure Uncle Same that the train will turn off at a point labeled "Appeasement Junction" onto a far too small track and not run him over.

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Toxidrone @toxidrone.bsky.social · 9h

Henry Kissinger got the Nobel peace prize. That's pretty much all you need to know about it.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Only 10 senators voted for Bernie Sanders's amendment to reduce the Pentagon budget by 10% and instead expand veteran dental care:

Baldwin (D-WI)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Sanders (I-VT)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 2h

“The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable”

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 12h

Excellent piece by @mjtoma.bsky.social pulling together everything that has happened in the last week. newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 2h

one day we’ll visit Anne Franks across the country

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 7h

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.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h

If GOP wants to abolish the filibuster over this, awesome. It helps Rs way more than Ds. It’s also a central reason for loss of faith in government over the last 25 yrs. Rs can reopen the govt tonight if they want. If they want to do it to make sure 15 million lose their health care that’s on them.

ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · 6h

“And that’s why we nuked it twice in the past month.”

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 2h

Lol

Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

Oh come on. On an official document?

*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 2h

Brett Kavanaugh :“The government can crack your skull and disappear you, an American citizen, for no fucking reason (to check the immigration status wink wink)”

Can Californians overstay their visas?

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 2h

Well it’s a good thing the FBI is going after immigrants, legal and otherwise, and citizens that look brown while they are going about their way

60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 2h

In his first television interview since retiring, Gen. Tim Haugh warns that China has hacked into U.S. computer networks to an astonishing degree. And he believes he knows why. Scott Pelley reports, Sunday on 60 Minutes.

*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 2h

Good! Your turn New York

Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 3h

Wow, this is great.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...