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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 8h

"Depends on who you ask" framing is one of the most grating tics in modern political journalism. Objective reality exists and your job is to describe it.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 10h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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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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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

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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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 1d

In slow-walking of Ábrego García case, judge sees ploy to punish via detention @ryanknappy.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/in-slow-walk...

In slow-walking of Ábrego García case, judge sees ploy to punish via detention

Ábrego García's attorneys say he's willing to be deported to Costa Rica. The government has ignored that request, instead floating the possibility of deporting him to a variety of African nations.

www.courthousenews.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 1d

Leo cited Arendt’s warning that “the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 1d

It’s SPOOKY season! Join TCDSA’s Queer Liberation for Fright the Right Night! Every ticket purchased goes to financially support LGBTQIA+ folx fleeing Red states.

RVSP Link in Bio

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

Jack Posobiec spread antisenitic hate on Twitter for years, including tagging Jews with triple parentheses.

JD Vance wrote the forward to Posobiec’s book, Unhuman.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org · 2d

Meet our St. Paul branch! Want to get plugged into supporting our unhoused neighbors, fighting for a fair St. Paul budget (no to Melvin Carter's proposed cuts to libraries and firefighters😡) and raising the minimum wage?

Join us for our next meeting on Wednesday, Nov 12 at 6:30pm: buff.ly/zO2paJT

Picture of DSA members in-person and online at the October Saint Paul Branch Meeting

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 3d

Posobiec, 2024

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Beyond his post-Trump shooting tweet, Posobiec has been even more explicit that he sees this “spiritual” battle as one against democracy itself. In February, in speeches to the Conservative Political Action Conference, he pledged to “overthrow” democracy and support January 6 insurrectionists. “We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it,” he said in one speech. In another, he said, “after we burn that swamp to the ground, we will establish the new American republic on its ashes, and our first order of business will be righteous retribution for those who betrayed America.” At the far right National Conservatism conference in Washington, D.C. earlier this month, where now-vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance also spoke, Posobiec laid out a fascistic vision for defeating “un-humans.” (He was also promoting his new book of that title, which has been endorsed by Donald Trump, Jr. and disgraced former Trump national security advisor and stolen election conspiracy theorist Michael Flynn.) Posobiec praised Joseph McCarthy and Viktor Orbán; he called for “investigations to identify the neo-cultural Marxists in seats of power all across Washington.” According to a transcript of the NatCon speech posted by journalist Hamilton Nolan, Posobiec said, “We don’t negotiate with globalist neo-Marxists. We don’t negotiate with the political version of an auto-immune disease. In a word, ladies and gentlemen — taken from the title of my book — we don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity. Populist nationalists versus atheist Marxist globalists. Strength, beauty, and genius versus weakness, ugliness, and stupidity. Civilization versus barbarism. Crime and chaos versus law and order.”

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 3d

This would have more weight to it if his state police weren’t actively helping federal paramilitary forces brutalize Illinois residents exercising their first amendment rights.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 3d

The Trump regime's war on Christianity continues, as regime troops attacks Americans across the United States and rounds up majority Christian immigrants, they've also targeted religious leaders.

Here the Trump regime ICE forces shot a pastor in the head in the latest attack on civilians.

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 3d

This is extremely cool. More people are getting their news from social media influencers and we should be helping those influencers develop their journalism skills as opposed to fighting against them.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 3d

From my new post. "I recently concluded a 39-year career as a professor of journalism at NYU. Here I’m trying to explain my next job, and the logic behind it." newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 3d

the problem with these dipshits is that they cant even lie well and theyre too lazy to figure out how to do so, so they pop off with shit that on its face even the average person can look at and say "huh, thats bullshit" like this

Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 3d

that's right Kash and all we have are Mids

Screenshot from twitter that shows Kash Patel on Fox News. The post states "Breaking FBI Director Kash Patel has just revealed nearly 5% of Chicago's 2.5 million residents, approx 110,000 people are active gang members."

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 21d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4d

Happening right now. To us. In America.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d

It isn’t surprising that this would be happening with a 79-year-old man. The crazy and dangerous part is that there’s an entire political movement and media ecosystem that rationalizes, justifies, and tries to retroactively validate every synapse misfire that escapes his mouth.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4d

I know invoking Latin terms can be a bit esoteric, and "dementia" is fine and accurate, but I think there's real merit in zeroing in on the relevant legal concept: he is non compos mentis. Not just that he's a batty old man, he is debilitated in a concrete legal sense, fit for conservatorship.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 4d

These people are such dorks.

Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 4d

Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."

"Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people," said Attorney General Paxton. "The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America.
There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells. To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."
The radical Left has incubated an environment where political violence is not only justified but celebrated and praised. In July, nearly two dozen armed leftists connected to various Texas-based Antifa-like groups ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") facility in Alvarado, Texas. On September 10, 2025, a leftist assassin connected to the radical transgender movement murdered Charlie Kirk because of Kirk's bold support for truth, love of country, and unshakable faith. Two weeks later, another deranged leftist opened fire at an ICE facility in Dallas.
President Donald Trump has officially designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and instructed his administration to "utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa." Building on President Trump's bold actions, Attorney General Paxton has instructed his office to initiate sweeping investigations into radical leftist organizations engaged in or providing support to those performing political violence.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 4d

regular reminder that being a normie online is good opsec

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 4d

Just saw someone slamming people for posting about sports during a moment of national democratic collapse, so I wandered over to see what they've been posting about, and it turns out that it's a lot of open advocacy for the commission of federal felonies.

Yeah, posting about sports is preferable.

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 4d

This picture is from 1992. This is yet another reason to stop giving your views and money to national news orgs who do this shit.

Please invest in local media that actually cares about the communities they report for.

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 5d

chasing "balance" in news can sound like it's noble but it's not. treating all possible sources as comparably expert, rational, experienced, insightful, relevant, disadvantaged or empowered does not result in objective, accurate reporting. it results in false equivalency.

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Mark Wasson @reportermark.bsky.social · 5d

This is worth a read.

Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 5d

“The reality is that the court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power.”

To understand the Supreme Court's role in Trump's authoritarian project, I turned to the idea of a dual state: an authoritarian regime that keeps up a facade of normalcy

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...