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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

One thing @govpritzker.illinois.gov does here, which WE ALL need to do more often, is lead with Trump's crimes.

A sex assaulted fraudster serial felon who freed HUNDREDS of cop assailants--and some terrorists--on his first day is trying to claim Democrats are criminals.

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

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 3h

This is fucking delusional.
https://bird.makeup/users/acyn/statuses/1976093573230756351

Trump says we’re taking in trillions of dollars and saving millions of lives with the tariffs

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 13h

Damning study of the bias-amplification attributes of word-extruders. And yet certain billionaires claim they're "woke"! 🙄
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09581-z

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 2d

Kinda proud I came up with this independently yesterday, though "tax escrow" is a much more compact phrase for communicating the idea! See 1 and 4 here.
https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/trump-cut-funding-to-16-dem-states?r=5w913v&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

Trump Cut Funding to 16 Dem States. Can States Cut His?

Within 72 hours of the October 1st government shutdown, the Trump administration weaponized federal funding against Democratic states with surgical precision.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 2d

Kinda proud I came up with this independently yesterday, though "tax escrow" is a much more compact phrase for communicating the idea! See 1 and 4 here.
https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/trump-cut-funding-to-16-dem-states?r=5w913v&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

Trump Cut Funding to 16 Dem States. Can States Cut His?

Within 72 hours of the October 1st government shutdown, the Trump administration weaponized federal funding against Democratic states with surgical precision.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 2d

"likely to occur" 🙄
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115327699896080683

Nonilex (@[email protected])

#Illinois, #Texas #NationalGuard troop mobilization to #Chicago to begin 'immediately,' & last 60 days Ofcls confirmed 300 troops from IL & another 400 troops from TX are being mobilized to go to Chicago, Portland & other locations. The #troops will be stationed “in places where there are violent demonstrations in the state, or where they’re *likely to occur* based on current threat assessments,” a #Pentagon memo says. #Trump #law #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/05/illinois-national-guard-troops-deployed-chicago-immigration

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 2d

This is a huge development for #solar
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/breakthrough-solar-tech-for-new-panels

Breakthrough solar tech could power next-gen panels to 30% efficiency

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking solar technology that uses "singlet fission" to boost panel efficiency.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 3d

Happening a lot lately: The federal government is withholding money from states on unrelated matters to cause chaos and try to force compliance with fascist demands, then getting sued, then having to deliver the money.

Is there any way for states to respond immediately with something like […]

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Every DoJ attorney promoting and defending at this stuff should never again eat food that is less than 10% spit

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Meanwhile, in related military developments, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says that Trump has ordered deployment of the TEXAS National Guard to Illinois, Oregon, and elsewhere within the U.S. https://bsky.app/profile/govpritzker.illinois.gov/post/3m2iigmky6s2o Pritzker is calling on TX governor […]

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

“We”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

We went from "we will deport the worst of the worst" to "we will deport anyone here illegally" to "we will round up anyone who looks wrong" to "people who live in cities are the enemy" essentially overnight.

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Phaistos Disco @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Josh Crowley (sp?) @jdcrowley

If I built a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Pertissue Fisher came out to the hallway of her apartment in her nightgown to find armed agents yelling “police.”

She had a gun pointed in her face.
She was handcuffed.
She was held until 3 AM before being released.

Fisher isn’t suspected of any crime.
She lives in the building.

Alicia Brooks […]

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 4d

(And yes, replace "animals" with "humans" in that post and it's just as true.)

Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 4d

I know animals suffer at the hands of humans everywhere, but I will never tire of videos of humans being kind and helping animals in need.
https://bird.makeup/users/amazlngnature/statuses/1974447009722519699

bird.makeup - Tweet

Do good to those who need it

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4d

You.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.

It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.

That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.

Rightly confident in his impunity.

“[t]he freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4d

/5 Look at Vance, or Yarvin, or Miller, or any of these true believers and see how unhappy they are in their own skin, how they ooze resentment towards the world that finds them strange and creepy and doesn’t want to sit with them at lunch.

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Tim Bray @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 5d

The canceling of ICEBlock is more evidence, were any needed, that the Web is the platform of the future, the only platform without a controlling vendor. Anything controversial should be available through a pure browser interface.

#uspolitics

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 5d

@kenwhite.bsky.social Pure DARVO. "Won't someone think of poor, poor Russ Vought?!"

Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 5d

@kenwhite.bsky.social I don't understand why the constant unconstitutional moves aren't sufficient grounds for impeachment all by themselves. "He clearly can't carry out the responsibilities of office because he doesn't understand the Constitution, see exhibits 1 through 10000..."

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matdevdug @matdevdug.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 5d

My favorite part of #alienearth is how they give you the future we were afraid of in the late 70s/80s which were Japanese megacorps taking over the world AND the hellscape we actually ended up with which is megacorps run by annoying man children whose businesses rely on exploiting children.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 6d

Don't have full confirmation on this yet, but hearing that Guevara was sent to El Salvador this morning, which is just fucking shameful. He was here with legal permission and this was 100% punishment for his journalism about protests.

Shawn Musgrave @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social · 6d

Like Mahmoud Khalil's case, Mario Guevara's shows how courts will let the Trump administration use facially legal, bureaucratic mechanisms in unconstitutional ways. In a concurrence, Judge Kidd stresses that the First Amendment protects Guevara. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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