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Eric Lee
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Software engineer, science enthusiast, long-distance hiker trash. Reluctantly monitoring the attempted destruction of democracy.
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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 53m
Told my kids that if you want to get a tattoo, print out the design and mail it to yourself. One year after the date on the postmark, open the envelope and look at the design. If you're still thinking, "Yes. I want to wear this on my body forever," then go ahead and get the tattoo.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 51m
One of the best parts of the “Trump wants a $230 million payoff from the DOJ” story: The DOJ said the matter will be steered by officials who will “follow the guidance of career ethics officials.”

Left unsaid: Pam Bondi fired the DOJ’s top ethics official in July. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Trump eyes $230 million payout from Justice Dept. as repayment for earlier investigations
“What a travesty,” one ethics lawyer said. “The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don’t need a law professor to explain it.”
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 49m
Important subtext: Hard to oversell how rare this precise Christian coalition is, and how unusually defiant this letter they're signing is.
jackjenkins.me Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1h
NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer. Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back. One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground. All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb. "I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 50m
It sounds like the Republicans should stop protecting Bill Clinton and release the Epstein files.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h
Comer: The evidence we gathered does not implicate President Trump in any way. Public reporting, survivor testimony, and official documents show that Bill Clinton had far closer ties to Epstein
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 2h
Well I’ve been a physicist, specializing in optics, for 30 years and this man is saying gibberish based on stuff someone said to him that he cannot remotely understand.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Trump: "Buttigieg spent billions fixing the air traffic control. They used copper wire going into glass wire. Any union electrician here or any non-union electrician would say you can't hook copper into glass. It doesn't work. They spent billions, turned on the system & it was stone cold blank"
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 2h
Ah yes, you cannot hook up copper and glass, as demonstrated by the fact that the entire Internet does not at all work
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Trump: "Buttigieg spent billions fixing the air traffic control. They used copper wire going into glass wire. Any union electrician here or any non-union electrician would say you can't hook copper into glass. It doesn't work. They spent billions, turned on the system & it was stone cold blank"
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 2h
This isn't complicated, he's just straight up extorting the Justice Deparment and looting taxpayers to put $230 million in his own pocket. Don't hold your breath waiting for any Republicans in the party to speak up about this either. https://nyti.ms/4oxtpQW
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
www.nytimes.com
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Raskin details how he tried to get unanimous consent today to force Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the Acting Speaker Haridopolos "scurried out of the room"
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1h
Also those convictions have to be WRONGFUL
chadstanton.blacksky.app Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h
People with wrongful convictions have to go through an extensive appeals process demonstrating injury after they get awarded damages for having years of their lives taken.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2h
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4h
What, if anything, did the No Kings protests accomplish?

I've seen that pop up in everything from genuine inquiry to sneering dismissal. For anyone asking or facing that question, here's an answer.

Everything isn't all fixed, of course. But the protests accomplished at least these seven things:
7 Things the No Kings Protests Accomplished
The political emergency isn't over, of course, but who thought it would be. Here are seven things this weekend's protests accomplished.
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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 2h
Call me a luddite if you like - but I don't want a bed that stops working when Amazon Web Services goes down.
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AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto
The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1h
when the executive is unitary
bradheath.bsky.social Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 2h
President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.

Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h
Trump's shutdown isn't just imperiling millions of Americans' healthcare coverage.

Nearly 42M people could lose critical food assistance when SNAP funding runs out in two weeks.

Republicans think this shutdown is about punishing Democrats. But in reality, it hurts everyone.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h
Looting the treasury
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2h
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h
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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 2h
@EdwardGLuce: "Putin has fewer cards in his hand than Trump supposes. One of those cards is Trump."
www.ft.com/content/7deb...
Putin’s mesmeric sway on Trump
Russia bets it can gain in US negotiations what it cannot win on the battlefield
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Micah @rincewind.run · 1h
"the president is literally stealing $230 million of taxpayer money to pay himself and knocking down a wing of the white house in order to build a giant ballroom"

I dunno I feel like staggering levels of corruption could still be an effective campaign message
bradheath.bsky.social Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 2h
President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.

Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 4h
Here's my updated breakout of the Economist/YouGov weekly data. Trump is experiencing dramatic, across the board erosion. More here - www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/stuart-ste...
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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 1h
Donald Trump wants to steal another quarter of a billion dollars from the United States.

#ImpeachTrump. Now.
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 1h
If I were running for president, promising to bulldoze Trump's ballroom on Day One would be part of every speech:
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 2h
"Bobby is a threat to America." Founder of Stand Up for Science Colette Delawalla speaks out against RFK Jr.

We're leading the charge to impeach and remove RFK Jr. — join the fight! zurl.co/U3aFm

#impeachthequack #impeachrfkjr
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 3h
Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3h
“Normal people in the pro-democracy space seem to understand what time it is. Most elected Democrats do not.

And these elected Democrats also do not seem to understand that weakness is a provocation.”

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
No Kings and the Laws of Power
Understanding the Republican will to power and what Democrats must do to counter it.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 3h
The President of the Nebraska Farm Bureau wants it known how damaging Trump's announcements are for the beef industry. With a vacant seat in the midterms, would you trust a Republican to fix the problem they've made?
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Eric Lee @saintgimp.bsky.social · 2h
We'll find out eventually.