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Alex Holt

@skatingtomato.bsky.social

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Still your friendly neighborhood geek/“propogandist.” Baltimore/Maryland correspondent for GGW. He/him. Vocal advocacy classist. Tranist. #ActuallyAutistic

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Alex Holt @skatingtomato.bsky.social · Feb 20

My latest article for @ggwash.org takes a look at some of the biggest urbanist bills of #MDGA25, especially in transit, housing, & even the environment. Check it out, there's a lot of good stuff being discussed in Annapolis, even amidst all the chaos in Washington: ggwash.org/view/98490/w...

What to watch in the 2025 Maryland General Assembly

Between a budget crunch, a housing crisis, and a new appetite in Annapolis for tackling longstanding energy and environmental issues, this year’s Maryland General Assembly session could be a very prod...

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 11h

The feds really, really don't want this. No local support is a nightmare.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11h

head of Chicago PD says feds gasses his officers www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMDrmH1d/

Superintendent Larry Snelling says federal agents tear gassed 27 Chicago police officers. He addressed the incident while responding to criticism of how police have handled the ongoing ICE protests. #...

TikTok video by Fox 32 Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16h

Everyone, I’m just <sniffs> I’m just so proud of us all.

We finally did it.

LibsOfTikTok finally targeted me.

<single tear rolls down cheek>

I’ve been waiting for this moment for so long <unfolds acceptance speech> and first I want to thank everyone who made it possible: Harambe, Kony2012, my fa

A post from failed real estate agent and local ghoul Chaya Raichik aka LibsOfTikTok targeting me. Text of the post reads:

“Leftist CA State Assembly candidate Chris Kluwe, who promotes the harassment of ICE online, was ARRESTED at a Huntington Beach City Council meeting earlier this year.

Chris was protesting a proposed library plaque that featured a phrase similar to ‘Make America Great Again’

Chris called MAGA a ‘Nazi movement’ before leaving the podium and approaching the council member, where he was grabbed by police and carried out.

This unhinged lunatic wants to be an elected official…”

Thanks for the free advertising, Chaya!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 13h

an administration ruling Congress with an “iron fist” would be able to pass a budget. Johnson is keeping the House in recess because things are going to go completely off the rails once Grijalva gets sworn in, and he knows it

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 14h

They were absolutely 100% already planning for months to do these exact RIFs, and they’re so dumb that they think choosing to do it now will make somebody else take the blame.

Oriana González @oriana.bsky.social · 17h

NEWS: Trump administration officials have revealed that, so far, over 4,100 federal workers have been laid off in this round of RIFs

The administration is "actively considering whether to conduct additional RIFs related to" the shutdown, per a new court filing
www.notus.org/trump-white-...

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Erdogan Gwan Delilah @socialconcarne.bsky.social · 14h

that tweet train of "Vaxxed?" is gonna hit like crack

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 12h

Platner's had a hell of a campaign launch but he's starting from zero and Mills isn't.

Erdogan Gwan Delilah @socialconcarne.bsky.social · 15h

1. Finally a poll
2. Platner has a lot of work to do

substack.perfectunion.us/p/poll-platn...

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Erdogan Gwan Delilah @socialconcarne.bsky.social · 15h

1. Finally a poll
2. Platner has a lot of work to do

substack.perfectunion.us/p/poll-platn...

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 15h

Well. Here we are.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 20h

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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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 16h

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 15h

This is better than I expected from this panel

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 16h

9th Cir. grants an administrative stay blocking Judge Immergut's order that the National Guard not be federalized, but notes that bc DOJ didn't appeal her second order forbidding their deployment the effect is that the NG can be federalized during continuing litigation, but not deployed to Portland.

Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 16h

New filing: "Oregon v. Trump (national guard deployment [ca9])"
Doc #53: UPDATED ORDER FOR PUBLICATION FILED. (Susan P. GRABER, Ryan D. NELSON, Bridget S. BADE) Update: attached reformatted order. [Entered: 10/10/2025 04:15 PM]

Download PDF | View Full Case

#CL71554902

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 13h

it also means that Vince Polistina and George Norcross have roughly the same politics despite different partisan allegiances. shit's weird

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 13h

I've said previously that Florida is New Jersey's Wario and that also means all of our politicians are likewise insane maladjusted balls of rage, self-dealing, and unearned ego

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 15h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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🎃 Harm City Slasher 🔪 @sprawlhater.bsky.social · 11h

Renal system is 137 though

Reuters @reuters.com · 14h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 11h

I’ve said before that Republicans have reduced Congress to Supreme Soviet levels of supineness, but now Steve Bannon — America’s most noted double-Brownshirt — has just blurted it out.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12h

This is a whole lot of focus on swearing up and down he's got no cardio problems, we did lots of cardio checks and cardio consultations at his cardio follow-up, and his cardio signs are all good and fine, it's the greatest heart ever, definitely no heart problems here, no sir.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

This is AI.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

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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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 12h

Every ICE Agent is the worst person alive

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 15h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 12h

the new and improved kennedy center proudly honors a man who dresses like a racist hot wheels track, please give it up for 2003's hottest artist as voted on by a judging panel of uncles you weren't allowed to be alone with under any circumstances

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 12h

he looks like an evel knievel action figure that got recalled for saying slurs when you pulled the string

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 12h

"what if the janky tilt-a-whirl in a bossier city winn-dixie parking lot carnival wished upon a meth pipe to become an ostensibly human being" is gonna catch on any day though, mark my words

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Ed @ed3d.net · 12h

nah swole has it, they’ll all stand around the slumped mass atop the resolute desk, say they have to cover it up, and every one of them will text Maggie Haberman before they’re out of the west wing

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