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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10h

The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 10h

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

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 12h

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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lolita shatter @shatterlo.bsky.social · 6h

#FreedomFrog

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

1. Today, I have a few things to say about that putz Stephen Miller. First, he’s been on TV a lot lately, because that’s how he pours more poison into the president’s already-poisoned brain.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 13h

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 17h

This was not why he won the Nobel Peace Prize and I do not understand why white people do not get it. He won it for getting elected to the presidency as a Black man in the US. They gave MLK the prize for his civil rights activism and basically treated Obama’s election as civil rights activism.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 17h

One of the only things Trump has ever been right about: Obama had no business winning the Nobel Peace Prize for what amounted to the accomplishment of being a US president who was not George W Bush. (Remember, he had been in office for eight months at the time.)

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 17h

Good morning from Greenbelt, Md.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's attorneys will argue in federal court for his release from immigration detention. Now feds want to send Abrego to Ghana.

Reporting live.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

He finally got the election-denying MAGA A.G. he always dreamed of. Bondi was openly partisan, scornful & highly combative, her non-answers dripping with disdain. Very telling when she was asked if she'd seen the photos of her boss "with half-naked young women." PATHETIC
#ProtectingHerPedophilePrez

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lolita shatter @shatterlo.bsky.social · 17h

2018: Qatar gave Jared Kushner $1.2 billion to bail out 666 Fifth Avenue (while he was working in our White House).

2025: Qatar gave Trump a $400 million luxury bribery jet.

2025: Trump green-lights Qatari air base on US soil.

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ALT Fish and Wildlife Service @altfws.altgov.info · 19h

I wish I had stock in an inflatable suit company.

Shoutout to KATU for live streaming of the weird and non-violent protests. katu.com/news/local/2...

Three people in identical inflatable frog costumes

An inflatable unicorn, t-Rex, and raccoon meet in Portland. They all hate ICE.

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 1d

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 2d

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Lindsey Halligan is now asking a grand jury in ED VA to indict the New York attorney general on mortgage fraud claims. The decision comes after Halligan was told by her professional staff that no basis for such indictments existed. This information will be withheld from the grand jury.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 1d

This is not good

The story is actually worse than the headline. The ex-GOP official worked in Missouri with Ed Martin.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

Axios headline: Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

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lolita shatter @shatterlo.bsky.social · 1d

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 1d

“Those who ban books fear ideas that set people free.

But censorship doesn’t just silence authors—it steals our freedom to learn, to question, to know ourselves and each other.

This #BannedBooksWeek, stand up for the freedom to read. Every story matters. Every voice counts.”

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

I went ahead and did the starting work for someone who wants to chase this angle. Most right-wing influencers who participated in the "Antifa" roundtable at the White House yesterday have easily provable ties to TPUSA (8 of 12). The other four need a closer look I don't have time for right now.

right-wing influencers standing for a photo together at the white house

(Left to Right)

Jack Posobiec - TPUSA employee
Seamus Bruner - Government Accountability Institute (GAI)
James Klug - TPUSA Ambassador
Jonathan Cho - TPUSA employee
Nick Sortor - Influencer
Julio Rosas - Former TPUSA, Blaze Media
Nick Shirley - Influencer
Andy Ngo - Human Events Media Group*
Brandi Kruse - Influencer
Savannah Hernandez - TPUSA employee
Katie Daviscourt - Former TPUSA, Human Events Media Group*
Cam Higby - TPUSA employee

(Human Events Media Group is closely tied to TPUSA. https://humanevents.com/about-human-events )

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 2d

Damn, The Las Vegas Sun newspaper, @lasvegassun.bsky.social, is calling it like it is:

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lolita shatter @shatterlo.bsky.social · 1d

How has he not burst into flames already?

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

NEW: Few states hold elections with such national prominence as Pennsylvania — and this year is no exception. With three of the state’s Supreme Court justices up for retention, the GOP could have an opening to control a court that influences the state’s elections.

Why Anti-Voting Activists Are Using the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Election to Spread Disinformation

Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

www.democracydocket.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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lolita shatter @shatterlo.bsky.social · 1d

There are so many clues.

A tweet alleging Donald Trump is 1950s-style closet gay: fav song gay anthem, home decor ala Liberace, old queen hair and makeup, rented beard wife, first lawyer, with photo of Trump in his shiny gold penthouse.

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lolita shatter @shatterlo.bsky.social · 1d

Pam Bondi didn't come to answer questions. She brought prepared notes with which to attack the Senators. It was a performance on her part, nothing more.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...