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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 50m

Look, maybe not *all* ICE and CBP agents are bloodthirsty psychopaths, but there are plenty of stories like this one and the rest of them sure as shit don't seem to mind, so ...

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 1h

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 1d

When "all of this" is over and the centrist pundits and politicians are kissing Musk's ass again, don't let them. Don't let anyone ignore that Musk is a mass murderer.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 1d

all at once? won’t that make him autistic

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

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Zack Hunt @zackhunt.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not too late!

Donald Trump can still win the Nobel Peace Prize is Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing!!

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 2d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Zack Hunt @zackhunt.bsky.social · 3d

I didn’t think RFK Jr.’s insane conspiracy theories about autism could get any more insane than they already are, but I stand corrected.

Apparently circumcision also causes autism now.

And you know it’s true because Trump agrees and he’s famously been studying the causes of autism for a long time.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3d

Ah yes, as well we all know, Jews worldwide are all autistic.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Zack Hunt @zackhunt.bsky.social · 3d

Donald Trump is currently waging war on his own country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Sen. Daines: "I'm reminded, those words of 'blessed are the peacemakers,' those are the words spoken by Christ in northern Israel over 2,000 years ago. And President Trump has blessed the world with his peacemaking ability."

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Bibi’s BS push for Trump to get a Nobel prize.

This is what you do when you don’t think someone is going to get the prize, but you want credit for advocating for them.

Because anyone who knows how the Nobel Committee makes its decisions knows that this sort of public advocacy — particularly this imagery, not to mention the person advocating for it — is not the way to go!

An AI-generated image shows former U.S. President Donald Trump standing on a stage with his arms raised triumphantly while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu places a large gold Nobel Peace Prize medallion around Trump’s neck. Behind them, a blue backdrop reads “PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH.” Confetti falls as an audience applauds, and several people wave Israeli flags. The image is accompanied by a tweet from the official “Prime Minister of Israel” X account reading: “Give @realDonaldTrump the Nobel Peace Prize – he deserves it! 🏅🥇.”

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

My choice for the Nobel Peace Prize this year:

Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 3d

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 3d

A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security.

www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4d

DEI for me, not for thee.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4d

Trump is desperate...he's going for martial law.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 4d

3 MAGA extremists have introduced a bill in South Carolina that would allow the state to execute women who get an abortion.

South Carolina govt lists their cell phone numbers, in case you want to call them directly & let them know what you think.

Details here:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion

Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

www.qasimrashid.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4d

THIS is the energy we’ve been waiting for. Credit where credit is due.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 4d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 4d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...