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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 6h

Drone footage over frontline Pokrovsk City in Donetsk Oblast shows what's left after Russian daily shelling: not much.

Russians continue to raze to the ground all frontline cities they can reach with artillery.
🎥 Libkos

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Astro Attorney ⚖️ @astroattorney.com · 5h

What happens if everyone in Chicago dresses up as ICE for Halloween? 🤔

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Sahara Stevens ❤️🇺🇸 @sahara-stevens.bsky.social · 10h

Here is video of ICE kidnapping a child that was walking home from school.

A CHILD!!!

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ticosfrancisco.bsky.social @ticosfrancisco.bsky.social · 8h

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NonViolet @not-a-violet.bsky.social · 10h

It would be wrong NOT to call 911 if you see someone grabbing people off the street and can't tell who they are. I just hope that local police are actually checking ID and not just taking their word for it when someone claims to be a federal agent.

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The Rest of Us Party @restofusparty.bsky.social · 10h

This is also why you need to call the cops anytime to see someone masked saying they are ICE. At very least it will make the real ICE's job harder.

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Diaspora2022 @diaspora2022.bsky.social · 10h

Chris, have you seen this news from Seattle? 👏🏽

www.opb.org/article/2025...

Mayor signs orders to protect Seattle from federal law enforcement as Trump wields National Guard

Mayor Bruce Harrell on Wednesday signed two executive orders aimed at protecting Seattle and its residents from federal law enforcement actions taken by President Donald Trump's administration.

www.opb.org

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 14h

"The Church cannot be silent."

"Pope Leo XIV’s eyes grew misty Wednesday as an El Paso delegation led by Bishop Mark Seitz presented him letters and a video that captured the fears and anxieties of people facing mass deportation in the United States..."

In Vatican meeting with El Pasoans, Pope Leo XIV offers support to migrants facing deportation - El Paso Matters

During a Vatican meeting, Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with migrants after hearing firsthand accounts gathered by El Paso’s Hope Border Institute and La Mujer Obrera about the human toll of U.S. ...

elpasomatters.org

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 6h

“He’s the healthiest & most brilliant president America has ever or WILL have! With an IQ of 170, he can run 6 marathons without tiring & can dunk circles around Barack Obama. He’s grown to 6’3” while in office; 215 lbs & 2% body fat. America is lucky to have this specimen of manhood at its helm.”

Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

Trump to get routine yearly checkup on Friday, White House says reut.rs/4q1zaI3

Trump to get routine yearly checkup on Friday, White House says

U.S. President Donald Trump will visit Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday and undergo his routine yearly check up, the White House said on Wednesday.

reut.rs

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 10h

There’s no way around this. They are calling the actual nazis good and the the anti fascists bad. Directly. Explicitly. On camera.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 14h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Amy @amymerz.bsky.social · 13h

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 9h

Trump (1) reveals he doesn't know what habeas corpus is and (2) punts to Noem, who famously revealed her own ignorance at a Senate hearing when she defined habeas corpus as "a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."
www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

John Fetterman, ladies and gentlemen

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 9h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 6h

I have been hard on Congressional Democratic leaders the past few months. So I want to make sure to be positive here. This is seriously good from @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social.
Conflict drives attention and reaches the low-engagement public.

It feels like we are seeing a real shift from Dems! 1/

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Jeffries to Lawler: "You're a complete and total embarrassment. You're embarrassing yourself and your district right now. And you're going down to defeat next year."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Republicans 2026: "We took the freedom of speech away."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 7h

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Liam Jeffries @sorathecyclist.bsky.social · 7h

This is the absolute dream challenger to Jeffries. Please, please, please let this happen.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 9h

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

This is why Trump & Republicans went into the shutdown so confident. They banked on the Democratic Party’s weak reputation and assumed they would cave.

Well that’s not happening. Democrats are on the right side of the healthcare fight, and rank-and-file Dems want this battle because it’s worth it.

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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 7h

Give this a read. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Can Canada Survive Donald Trump?

Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.

www.bloomberg.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts.

For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

(Published June)

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts

We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

www.propublica.org

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 7h

“I haven’t done anything,” Miranda said to the officers in the video.

“Turn around or you’re going to get the dog,” an officer said. “We’re going to put you in cuffs, or you’re going to get the dog.”

Renee (paix120) @paix120.bsky.social · 7h

Masked ICE agents threatened an American citizen, put him into an unmarked van, held him for several hours, and dropped him back off at his workplace, without ever explaining why they abducted him

VIDEO: ICE detains, threatens Oregon man despite U.S. citizenship
www.koin.com/news/portlan...

www.koin.com

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Astro Attorney ⚖️ @astroattorney.com · 7h

I'm convinced that the right wing media asks questions that are actually directives.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: There's compelling proof that antifa did infiltrate on January 6 dressed up like Trump supporters and incited violence. Is that something you'd like the new J6 committee to look at?

TRUMP: Well I've heard that. Yeah. We will be acting on some of that.

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Antifaminophen @voidyodeling.bsky.social · 20h

Trump’s stupids have justified Border Patrol participation in the ethnic cleansing of Chicago by claiming the border has been retracted to the shore of Lake Michigan. So basically Trump threatened to annex Canada and then turned around and gives them all of Lake Michigan instead.That tracks.

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