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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5h

This you, Kristi?

A screenshot of a post from X (formerly Twitter). The top tweet is from user @covie_93 with the caption: “This tweet aged like Stephen Miller…..”. Below it is a tweet from Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) that reads:
“If Joe Biden federalizes the National Guard, that would be a direct attack on states' rights.
Over the last several years, we've seen Democrats try to take away our Freedoms of religion, assembly, and speech. We can't let them take away our right to defend ourselves, too.
South Dakota defends the Constitution.”

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 5h

open.substack.com/pub/decoding...

Fox News - The 'ILLEGALS' Stole Your Health Care!

A condensed overview of 15 hours of Fox News for the week ending 10/5/25

open.substack.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

#WarRavagedPortland

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5h

We all wanted Trump to be more pro-woman; we just didn't expect that woman to be Ghislaine Maxwell

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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charliesurfs.bsky.social @charliesurfs.bsky.social · 5h

I’m stuck on the whole, “…some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm…” thing. WTF is little boy man talking about?

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 5h

Imagine if health care was just something everyone had, and not a zero sum competition between "good" people and "bad" people

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 6h

Sens Ted Cruz and Eric Schmitt are holding their hearing on the Biden Censorship Regime of 2018. Watch live here as they try to figure out: who was president in 2020?

Witnesses: Alex Berenson, Sean Davis of the Federalist,
Eugene Volokh, Gene Kimmelman

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QRu...

LIVE: Ted Cruz Leads Senate Hearing About 'How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans'

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 6h

The Trump regime's war on Christianity continues, as regime troops attacks Americans across the United States and rounds up majority Christian immigrants, they've also targeted religious leaders.

Here the Trump regime ICE forces shot a pastor in the head in the latest attack on civilians.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 6h

➡️ The Trump economy SUCKS

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

The Unofficial Jobs Numbers Are In and It’s Rough Out There

In a federal data blackout, Wall Street numbers and surveys are filling the void, and the nongovernment numbers are telling the same basic story: Few companies are hiring.

www.wsj.com

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charliesurfs.bsky.social @charliesurfs.bsky.social · 5h

"Trump is a criminal. He was convicted in one case and remains untried in three others." Indeed.

Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 6h

"Republicans are trying to do to [Jack] Smith’s investigations what they did to the Russia investigation: They’re trying to recast Trump as the victim."

In today's Morning Shots, we debunk the lies. "Trump is a criminal. He was convicted in one case and remains untried in three others."

Bondi to Congress: 🖕

The attorney general came to the Hill to deliver a message to Democrats: Your ‘oversight’ couldn't matter to us less.

www.thebulwark.com

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Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 6h

Mike Johnson furiously backpedaling on the back pay thing is a pretty good indication that nobody in the GOP has the slightest clue how to deal with the shutdown.

Jennifer Shutt @jennifershutt.bsky.social · 6h

Speaker Johnson appears to say furloughed federal workers should get back pay under 2019 law

"It has always been the case. It is tradition and I think it is statutory law that federal employees be paid. And that’s my position."

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Jerry Brennan @jerrybrennan.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent piece...I learned in 4th grade that when someone cheats at Monopoly, you have to stop playing Monopoly with them--but that baseball card analogy works, too.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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charliesurfs.bsky.social @charliesurfs.bsky.social · 6h

Second this. The National Guard are doing this because they volunteered to serve their nation and their communities. They are not the bad guys. If anything , they probably want to be home more than the citizens where they’ve been sent want them gone. They don’t get recruitment bonuses.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7h

This is an important point.

Everyone one of these people has been asked to leave their home, their family, and their job to work without pay bc of the shutdown. We're better off thinking of ways to make this backfire on Abbott than to treat them poorly.

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 16h

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Mike Johnson is holding Congress out of session for two reasons: number one, so that way there are no negotiations; and number two, to cover for all the pedophiles on Epstein's list...They're covering for pedophiles and dropping your healthcare coverage."

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 22h

Because you called Brad Raffensperger at Trump’s request to talk about the vote count in GA because Trump couldn’t accept losing a free & fair election. Enough of Graham’s constantly playing the victim card & his amoral service in the Senate. SC can do better by electing @drannieandrews.com.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Graham: Can you tell me why my phone records were sought by the jack Smith agents. Why did they ask to know who I called and what I was doing from January 4th to the seventh? Can you tell me that?

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 17h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 6h

AG Pam Bondi was unprofessional and partisan, but most importantly, she was evasive, refusing to answer good questions she didn’t like.

Fortunately, Adam Schiff kept the receipts. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

AG Pam Bondi refused to answer key questions, and Adam Schiff kept the receipts

Over several hours, the attorney general was unprofessional and partisan, but most importantly, she was evasive, rejecting important lines of inquiry.

www.msnbc.com

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 6h

Think Miller needs to send in a few more battalions. Maybe Hegseth can send some elite units. Things are getting dangerous in Portland

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

I’m shocked.

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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 6h

Really glad none of the people calling American cities “war zones” were with us in Afghanistan. Would’ve become tiresome constantly hosing them down after they soiled themselves.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 7h

📌Trump shut down the government, and Mike Johnson shut down Congress, which makes it clear as hell that whatever is in the Epstein Files would wreck this lawless regime.

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 12h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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charliesurfs.bsky.social @charliesurfs.bsky.social · 6h

This ⬆️ ⬆️⬆️
I don’t think Jeff Bezos needs the help and he certainly doesn’t deserve it.

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