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Michelle L. Quinn @regionbroad.bsky.social · 2m

The lies just keep getting funnier

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.

SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

Reverend David Black has a Bible open and is preaching to the police now, inviting them to join him in standing with the persecuted inside the detention center.

"Which side do you think Jesus wanted his followers to be on?"

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Michelle L. Quinn @regionbroad.bsky.social · 4h

Good job, Doc!

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 5h

Fox News has “corrected” a piece about videos of Black women complaining about losing SNAP benefits, finally pointing out that they were AI-generated. Since these videos don’t involve real people, I imagine there’s little liability for so-called “news outlets” reporting racist AI propaganda as fact.

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John McQuaid @johnmcquaid.bsky.social · 5h

Say what you will about the collapse of local newspapers, when they focus on an issue with this level of consistency that means it is resonating locally

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

SNAP assistance makes Page One in Boston ..

.. Chattanooga ..

.. Palm Beach ..

.. Asbury Park, NJ.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price?

$2733.15 a month.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4h

An apparently “intentional” explosion at a Harvard University medical building is under investigation, authorities said

Officials investigate ‘intentional’ explosion at Harvard University medical building that left no injuries | CNN

An apparently “intentional” explosion at a Harvard University medical building early Saturday is under investigation, authorities said.

www.cnn.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security quietly formalized sweeping changes to a federal immigration database, turning it into a national “voter verification” tool that appears to sidestep federal privacy protections and will make it easier to remove large numbers of voters from the rolls.

In Late, Obscure Notice, DHS Turbocharges Trump’s Voter Purge Database, Evading Privacy Protections

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Dozens of photos of uniformed agents shot by Sun-Times photojournalists in four separate locations since the court order show how the feds have fallen short. Judge Ellis on Oct. 9 ordered “visible identification” that is “prominently displayed.” trib.al/U4qJYam

IDs are mismatched, illegible or still missing 3 weeks after judge’s order to immigration officers

In dozens of photographs at four locations, Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists documented federal officers failing to wear the “visible identification” needed to hold individuals accountable during the ongoing immigration “blitz.”

trib.al

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

Most Americans oppose the obliteration of a third of the White House. But most Republicans support it … and are more likely to support it if they’ve seen photos and videos of the destruction. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

Yes, most Americans oppose the East Wing demolition. But…

It's one of those sentences one can write about the second Trump administration that would have seemed ludicrously hyperbolic one year ago, but it is nonetheless true: The president of the United Stat...

www.pbump.net

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Michelle L. Quinn @regionbroad.bsky.social · 1d

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 2d

WOW: More than 220 immigrant drivers have been arrested in Indiana by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. That means 220 truck loads of goods from food to medicine to auto parts to toys are now sitting in a federal depot and businesses are missing goods. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

Homeland Security cracks down on undocumented truck drivers

Since September, 223 undocumented immigrant drivers have been arrested in Indiana as part of Operation Midway Blitz

spectrumlocalnews.com

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Michelle L. Quinn @regionbroad.bsky.social · 1d

When Cuba takes you to the woodshed

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

This is fucking amazing

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Michelle L. Quinn @regionbroad.bsky.social · 1d

How refreshing to see not just a country, but a family unequivocally putting out its perv trash

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor [formerly known as Prince] after this formal process concludes

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3d

2nd in line to the presidency, yet consistently has no idea what’s happening in the country

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?

MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos

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it’s me, aubrey plaza accord @sellingtheta.bsky.social · 3d

*FED CUTS 25BPS. SEES SOFTENING LABOR CONDITIONS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL HEADCOACHING

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 3d

Donald Trump Jr. in 2021: “Those Hunter no-show no-experience board seats didn’t come without an expected return!”

Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it.

New: me, for @forbes.com

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After Unusual Machines Names Donald Trump Jr. To New Advisory Board, Defense Contracts Follow

Donald Trump Jr. once mocked Hunter Biden's "no-show no-experience board seats." Now he's on his second newly activated advisory board—and that company just announced $15 million in contracts.

www.forbes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Neguse: "Does anyone here not believe that with one phone call from Speaker Johnson -- one phone call to the president or the secretary of ag -- that those funds would be released tomorrow? And that families wouldn't go starving by the weekend?"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

The Department of Justice misspells Kat's name several times in several ways throughout this indictment.

She is being charged with protesting outside of an ICE detention center, and the indictment dropped just days after she released an ad campaign showing the horrors of ICE detention.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Make no mistake about it: This administration is trying to take away your ability to protest their new secret police force and even stand next to those who do so, and they are abusing the legal system to do so.

Kat is not afraid. I'm not either. We all have to stand together here. We will win.

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Dan Vock @danvock.bsky.social · 3d

FYI. Illinois state senator and one of Abugazelah's opponents for a congressional seat.

Laura Fine for Congress @laurafine4congress.bsky.social · 3d

I am disgusted by the partisan and unethical indictments of Kat Abugazelah and five others at the direction of Donald Trump’s weaponized Justice Department.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto

She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card

Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.

She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.

It’s retaliation & it’s wrong

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 5d

To all those “Let them go without food for a month, maybe they’ll get a job” people: Most SNAP recipients have jobs. Exploitative jobs that keep them living just below the poverty line. — Should they starve to death? And then what?

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d

DOJ filed its response to Letitia James's motion today.

It argues that Lindsey Halligan's text exchange with me was appropriate because her comments were made "to protect [her] client from the substantial undue prejudicial effect of recent publicity..."

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Defendant asks the Court to remind the Government that it must comply with relevant law
involving media contacts. Such a reminder is important for all parties before the Court, not just
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Document 30 Filed 10/28/25 Page 2 of 10 PagelD# 158 the Government. Furthermore, Defendant's request to impose unilateral requirements that the
Government preserve Government/media communications and "create and maintain" a contact log
is not required and overly broad. If the Court imposes such requirements on the Government, it should impose them on all litigants. A criminal defendant's "right to a fair trial does not give him
the right to insist upon the opposite of that right - that is, a trial prejudiced in his favor." United States v. Trump, 88 F.4th 990, 1003 (D.C. Cir. 2023) (citations and quotations omitted). Finally, United States Attorney Lindsey Halligan's (Halligan) disclosure to protect her client from
substantial undue prejudice is permitted under the ABA Rules of Professional Conduct.

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · 5d

This Life Church, Jonathan Peternel story has gotten lots of questions and comments, so Im doing a special Substack live at 12p tomorrow w/ a behind the scenes look at the reporting

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