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

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 1h

I saw ICE Barbie on Fox News complaining about DHS agents not being able to find places to eat or use the bathroom in Chicago and maybe I'm being too nice but I think next time she visits she should try Q-Bar in Darien, IL.

Photo of outside of Q-Bar, which appears to be located in a mini mall.

screenshot from an article about Q-Bar that states "The owner of Darien's Q Bar is doubling down on his decision to let a singer with ties to the Proud Boys perform at his bar.

And this week, he supported another person's comment on his Facebook page that suggested death for those who disagree.

Last weekend, the bar's owner, Bob Taft, said on Facebook that he had received many "nasty" and "hateful" messages from strangers since it was revealed he was hosting former Misfits frontman Michale Graves next Wednesday."

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1h

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 1h

Pew Research finds only 31 percent of transgender adults surveyed said they are accepted by their parents.

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

More than 9 in 10 LGBTQ adults in the U.S. are ‘out’ to someone

Today, 96% of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer adults in the United States say they have told someone that they are or might be LGBTQ.

www.pewresearch.org

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Bryan Quinn @bryanquinn1981.bsky.social · 25m

That’s her! After those first two romances, she’d go on to marry an aspiring young lawyer named Juris Corpus II, and they had a son they named Habeas! More and more people are talking about him.

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 1h

Re: the discourse about the Seattle Link station:

Going under a tunnel is going to be painful, but there's a lot of stuff separate from the tunnel depth that should be looked at. The deeper you go, the worse the station costs get and it happens in almost an exponential fashion.

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 3h

Two things immediately jump out separate from the tunnel depth.

First, the depth of the station box, what’s going on those two bottom levels? Passengers won’t be using them, they’ll be following the passageway.

Second, 34’ wide platform seems way excessive. (SAS was 28’)

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1h

Just picturing that.

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Bryan Quinn @bryanquinn1981.bsky.social · 35m

Biggest surprise? Same woman: Julie Antifa, born 1917, Ames, IA, left home at 17 to see the world.

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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: While Qatar helps with Gaza talks, it's trying to mediate the US-Venezuela conflict. But Trump is cold on diplomacy. He has put 10,000 troops in the Caribbean and is continuing airstrikes on civilian boats. And Rubio pushes to oust Maduro. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Qatar Pushes U.S.-Venezuela Diplomacy as Trump Focuses on Military Action

www.nytimes.com

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 1h

Political sectarianism in America: A poisonous cocktail of othering, aversion, and moralization poses a threat to democracy
pcl.sites.stanford.edu/sites/g/file...

pcl.sites.stanford.edu

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 1h

"Republicans estimate that 32% of Democrats are LGBT when in reality it is 6%; Democrats estimate that 38% of Republicans earn over $250,000 per year when in reality it is 2%"

Reading an academic article on "political sectarianism.:"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h

Part of me was like “there’s no way it was actually a failed DM” but I guess so?!

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 2h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Mike Watkins @watkinsimmigration.bsky.social · 1h

USCIS Q3 data dropped today and woof, it's not pretty. Total pending cases at a new record high of 11.5m, net backlog increased from 4.9m to 5.4m cases, and "frontlog" bizarrely increased to 60K cases.

A lot of red flags in this data.

www.uscis.gov/tools/report...

Immigration and Citizenship Data

These reports provide data on various aspects of USCIS operations. In addition, certain tables list the USCIS office responsible for the adjudication.

www.uscis.gov

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1h

It's just a spat between billionaires. One trying to burn democracy to the ground, the other standing up for basic rule of law norms.

One saying "don't shoot my citizens" while the other says "I'll lock you in prison for no reason at all."

Some light repartee. A scuffle. Tiff. Donnybrook.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1h

There's a betting pool out there, right?

Sitting in some vault is a huge pile of cash, waiting to be awarded to the headline writer who can write THE most preposterous both-sides headline?

Right? Please? I could at least accept that: that this is a competition gone awry.

Not sincere. No. no no.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1h

President Trump’s declaration that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker should be jailed is the latest clash between two feuding billionaires.

The Bad Blood Between Trump and Pritzker Goes Back Decades

President Trump’s declaration that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker should be jailed is the latest clash between two feuding billionaires.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1h

I have a friend who owns a restaurant. He says tourism and travel to DC in recent months has devastated many restaurants in DC. So, yes, Trump is lying. Again.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "You can go and eat at the restaurants. The restaurants are booming. They were closing one after another and now they're booming, they're opening. Nobody has ever seen a transformation like they have in Washington DC. It's as hot as it can get."

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Bryan Quinn @bryanquinn1981.bsky.social · 49m

These people, have they no shame?? What next, are they gonna go after his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Antifa?

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 1d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 1h

My guy knew

NBC reporter Deion Broxton making the wise decision to avoid a herd of bison.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2h

If you’d like a more realistic assessment; I wrote about it today. www.pbump.net/o/dethawing-...

Thawing out ‘Arctic Frost’ and the new Biden-was-worse argument

A recent American presidency, you may be alarmed to hear, engaged in an action that was "arguably worse than Watergate" — an event still positioned in some circles as the gold-standard of presidential...

www.pbump.net

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1h

I wrote legal editorials for the Post for a hot minute many years ago, and I was constantly anxious about making sure I got the details right. This editorial is just humiliating for everyone involved

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 5h

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 7h

He's so cognitively garbled that I can't guess what he means at the end, when he says freedom of speech "is always something I felt strongly about, but it never passed the courts."

At this point, it's important for Democratic politicians to raise questions about his brain function every single day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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