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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 9h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

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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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 9h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 15h

Does that mean you’d support repealing the ban on rent control as Gov?

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 15h

The Mayor says everyone has to do their part w/r/t cuts when justifying the cuts to the Clerk, but his own budget excludes the police department from cuts.

To this Mayor, police are essential to society but democratic participation is not.

denverite.com/2025/10/07/d...

These voting centers and ballot boxes will be cut if the mayor’s proposed budget passes, clerk says

Clerk and Recorder Paul López says Johnston’s plan is a “threat to democracy.”

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 15h

Turns out that whole slavery thing, not a settled issue

coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/07/c...

Colorado trial over coerced prison labor begins in Denver | Colorado Newsline

The lawsuit alleges Colorado prisons violate the law by punishing incarcerated people who refuse to participate in mandatory work programs.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 4d

Living in this country is cool because every day I read another story where my reaction is, I do not think God will forgive the people responsible for this

Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 4d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 4d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 16h

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 17h

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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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

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...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21h

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

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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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 2d

Really brave of a city employee to talk to press with criticism of the Mayor. Grateful to their courage, knowing that this Mayor already has pending legal claims against him from laid off employees alleging retaliation.

Elliott Wenzler @elliottwenzler.bsky.social · 2d

Could Denver harness AI to renew trust in government? Mayor Mike Johnston thinks so, but others are skeptical.
www.denverpost.com/2025/10/06/d... @denverpost.com #denver

Could Denver harness AI to renew trust in government? Mayor Mike Johnston thinks so, but others are skeptical.

Mayor Mike Johnston and his chief AI and information officer, Suma Nallapati — whose role was just expanded to include an AI focus — are planning to make it a major part of how Denver o…

www.denverpost.com

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting piece to write as the president sends troops to occupy major blue cities

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

really should get around to writing my take that "AI uprising/robot uprising" fiction is just barely sublimated fear of domestic slave revolt

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 3d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 4d

We are here, in part, because guys like Schatz would never say this to "ezra klein" - a rich media guy - but somehow think "adam" is suppose to be dismissed and ignored but also do unpaid comms work for them

Lifelong Democrats for Zohran #ImWithHim 🌊🌊🌊 @vodkasnowflake.bsky.social · 4d

brutal lol

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4d

Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 4d

This is climate denial from RTD. Insanity

www.denverpost.com/2025/10/04/r...

RTD’s plans to borrow $539 million for diesel buses, sidelining hopes for electric

“If the agency is now saying we are not buying hybrids, that’s a big deal. It means we are moving backward.”

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d

The New York Times doesn't tell you why the alleged murderer said he sent pizzas to the victim's house just before he ran down the girl and her best friend. He said on video that he was getting revenge for social media comments about death of Charlie Kirk.

2 Teen Girls Died In a Hit-And-Run. Another Teen Faces Murder Charges.

www.nytimes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 6d

This is evil.

Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 6d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 6d

“Johnston also uses AI himself, including to research football stadiums ahead of the announcement that the Broncos could move to Burnham Yard.”

denverite.com/2025/10/01/d...

Denver embraces AI as mayor tries to shrink government

The city is already using AI to cut its call center budget.

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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 6d

NEW INVESTIGATION

California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030

A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants

Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...

The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California

By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 6d

Remember the role of shitty landlords in those early raids in Aurora, Colorado?

Jones, who lives on the fourth floor, said most of his neighbors were Venezuelan and often took turns cleaning the hallway because the property owners did little to maintain it.
"They were cool people," Jones said as he looked into his next door neighbor's unit. "They didn't speak a lick of English, but we used translator apps to talk to each other."
Jones wondered what would happen to his neighbor's young children.
Jones and Johnson said they believed the landlord would kick out the remaining residents from the building, which public records show had previously received code violations.
Owners of the property could not be reached for comment.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 7d

It's becoming difficult to hide that a major purpose of the Trump administration is siphoning tax revenues from Blue states and redirecting them into subsidies for Red states. At what point does this become intolerable?

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 7d

Next move from OMB - canceling $8 billion in clean energy funds. You will note, all of the projects are in states led by Democrats

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