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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 6h

Trump announces plan to steal $230 million from US taxpayers www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/trum...

Trump announces plan to steal $230 million from US taxpayers - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Or, as John Roberts would call it, an “official act” that means that the president lives in a law-free zone: President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in comp...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5h

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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That GD @thatgd.bsky.social · 7h

Mike Johnson's motto: "I know nothing!"

That GD @thatgd.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t think there’s much evidence that those who are unclear about this distinction are ready to abandon America to Trump’s fascist tendencies. If anything, they are less likely to surrender to him.

(There might be a few out there saying, “We’re fascist now. Run for the hills,” but that’s rare.)

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10h

Whether it’s Bill Clinton letting a donor sleep in the Lincoln bedroom or Donald Trump completely demolishing the east wing of the White House, neither president showed proper respect for our nation’s most sacred building.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

…and Santos is small change compared to the other pardons:

Trump Pardoned Him. Now He Won't Have to Pay Back $660 Million

Trevor Milton and his wife donated $1.8 million to Trump in 2024.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 1d

“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.”

Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.

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That GD @thatgd.bsky.social · 9h

You don’t have to be fit to work for ICE. You just have to be wiling to be an ICEhole.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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That GD @thatgd.bsky.social · 9h

I appreciate those former Republicans who understood how far their party has gone off the rails.

The arder step is to publicly align with the only other party that has the potential to stop Trump. They may not agree with the Democrats on everything, but joining them will make a difference.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"At every step along the way, I rationalized, compartmentalized, and found excuses to stay tethered to the party, even as I grew to believe it was undermining the foundations of our constitutional republic. ...
www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...

My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party

Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.

www.thebulwark.com

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That GD @thatgd.bsky.social · 9h

While splitting this hair accurately may have some value, the real issue seems to be that we have a fascist president in the US.

Using the term to describe him and his administration is appropriate, and concerns about fascism coming to the country more widely are not unfounded.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Moskowitz: We need $30 billion to extend, obviously, these healthcare subsidies, which allow Americans—Americans, not illegal—Americans, citizens, to afford healthcare.

And the president’s like, “We don’t have $30 billion, but I am going to send $40 billion to my dear friend in Argentina.”

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That GD @thatgd.bsky.social · 1d

Soros didn't pay for it. He didn't "look at the signs." We aren't leftist radicals.

He's full of that stuff he dumped out of his fake airplane in that recent video.

✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 1d

He sounds like a broken record.
A delusional one at that.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Beyer: I don’t like to do ad hominem attacks, but I’ve served with four different speakers. This is the fifth one—by far the weakest speaker, I think, in American history.

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That GD @thatgd.bsky.social · 1d

Destroying the White House, literally and figuratively. MAGA! (Make Architecture Gross Again)

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 10

In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.

StatesmanJournal.com
SERVING SALEM, KEIZER
AND THE MID-VALLEY
"If you don't say anything, you're accepting it."
Mari Jensen, McMinnville resident
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LOUR
WALLET
CHOICES
LIMIT GOVERNMENT
Oregon Taxpayers United
FREEDOM
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TIMOTHY J. GONZALEZ | Statesman Journal
Alan Grosso (center) of Happy Valley joins in chanting under the window of the speaker of the House on Wednesday during the Salem Tea Party protest at the Capitol.
Protesters slam Fed spending
Hundreds gather at Salem Tea Party to rally against bailouts, state-level taxes
BY DENNIS THOMPSON JR.
Statesman Journal
Hundreds of people uneasy over the future of their country gathered on the state Capitol steps on Wednesday to protest federal spending and state-level taxation.
Oregon State Police estimated more
SCRAP THE CODE
than 1,000 people attended the Salem Tea Party protest, which ran from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Organizers placed attendance at more than 2,000 people.
The rally was passionate but peace-ful, although many people carried handmade signs bearing stark and angry messages. A fake wooden pitchfork read "Politicians take note. We the people are about to revolt." Anoth er sign read "200+ years to build the Republic, 3 mos. to destroy it."
Many attendees said they were motivated to protest by the billions in stimulus spending and bailouts that have been doled out in recent months.
Willy Lowman of Falls City wears a label on his head that reads "Scrap the Code" at the tea party protest.
West Salem resident Steve Albin said he
came to protest federal bailouts of banks and automakers.
"They need to fail. That's what capitalism is all about," said Albin, who had a tea bag dangling from the brim
See Protest, 2A
Inside
Protesters take part in Tea Party events across the nation, Page 2A
Supporters to push for immigration reform, Page 2A
• ONLINE: See photo galleries and a video from the protest at StatesmanJournal.com.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2d

After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants

Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

www.gelliottmorris.com

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That GD @thatgd.bsky.social · 1d

That phony scheme has become increasingly popular in all kinds of media — asking the creators to pay to have their work seen or distributed.

To anyone who is tempted, you only want to deal with people who think your work has enough value that they’ll earn money by selling it, not by charging you.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Got buried in the news this weekend, but President Jesus said the F word on CNN at like 2pm in the afternoon. The next day he posted a poop-filled scat video, but tell Me more about the dignity of the office of the presidency.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Remember: According to the Atlantic, Stephen Miller is murdering people on boats because he wants people to believe Latinos are a menace.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Then there are the senior officials who see Venezuela as a means to project a tough-guy, defender-of-the-homeland image. Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 2d

We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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That GD @thatgd.bsky.social · 1d

And if you think Trump’s ICE will only be sent to terrorize immigrants, you have not been paying attention.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes.”

@propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

When do you think Trump and Republicans will realize they drove up No Kings protest attendance by calling it a “hate America rally”?

She nails it🔥

“I am a patriot and I will not… let anyone tell me that I am not here because I love my country.”

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