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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 7h

🚨 Do ICE have MRE provisions? Oh, no. That’s a damn shame. All that income and no place to buy a meal. Hey, I know what they can eat… 1/2

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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 6m

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Trump administration began laying off more than 4,000 federal workers, according to a court filing, as the government remains shut down due to the inability of Congress to reach a funding deal.

Trump administration begins laying off more than 4,000 federal workers amid government shutdown, court filing shows

Affected agencies include the departments of Homeland Security, Education, Energy and Health and Human Services, among others, according to a Justice Department filing.

www.nbcnews.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

School performance, graduation rates, and proficiency are all making strides in Illinois.

We know that here we can’t abandon the pursuit of academic excellence.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 12h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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Jim @jimdjr1522.bsky.social · 16m

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 15h

⚡️Ukrainian delegation to offer purchase of air defense, HIMARS systems during upcoming US visit, Zelensky says.

Ukrainian delegation to offer purchase of air defense, HIMARS systems during upcoming US visit, Zelensky says

A Ukrainian delegation is set to visit Washington next week to negotiate the purchase of additional air defense systems as well as HIMARS rocket systems as part of a "Mega Deal", President Volodymyr Z...

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 6h

Anti-vax onstage, Pfizer backstage.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 14h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20m

In case anyone actually believed this🤔👇🏽

“Trump’s own WH website values major investment announcements at $8.8 trillion — half the ‘$17 trillion’ Trump used out loud… CNN review shows even 8.8 is a big exaggeration…” www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/p...

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CriticalThinking 🇨🇦 @tctinvr.bsky.social · 6h

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Anti-Trump Memes Get Man ARRESTED By MAGA Sheriff

YouTube video by Really American

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CriticalThinking 🇨🇦 @tctinvr.bsky.social · 6h

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Trump’s FATAL DECISION today is Identical TO GREAT DEPRESSION

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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Shaun Pinner @olddogua.bsky.social · 7h

Putin Failed Again! 🤡
The "First in history," as it was loudly declared, the Russian-Arab summit for Putin had to be canceled due to the refusal of Arab country leaders to attend the event, - Bloomberg

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pastajoe.bsky.social @pastajoe.bsky.social · 7h

No, if you have to campaign for it you probably don’t have the actual accomplishments to win it.

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Denise @cherokeechic71.bsky.social · 13h

Just in time for your holiday shopping!

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

REMINDER: American businesses and consumers will pay the 100% import tax www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/t...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

😳 800 citations in two years for ignoring the laws in Nevada and @GovBillLee invited this wrecking crew to dig through the capital city www.newschannel5.com/news/elon-mu...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

🤷🏽‍♂️ 🇺🇸 💰

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 12h

"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."

Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.

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bepis jr. @bepisjr.bsky.social · 12h

Tweet from “Thing Bad” username @Merman_Melville
“Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it’s probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day”
4:03 AM Jan 25, 2019
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CriticalThinking 🇨🇦 @tctinvr.bsky.social · 7h

Cat lattes for everyone. 🙄