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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18h

In a Chicago suburb, Berwyn, IL, multiple ICE goons and a cameraman surrounded a resident who blew his horn and walked down the street in his own neighborhood. They demanded his ID and threatened to arrest him for impeding their audit.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2h

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h

One of the most perverse ideas on the anti-trans side is that trans people are instantly affirmed and celebrated by everyone when they come out and that acceptance is driving a social contagion.

It's the ultimate form of gaslighting against our community.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/pew-survey...

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d

The administration offer is a tempting one though: Big financial gains for any university willing to convert itself from a factory of ideas to a slaughterhouse of democracy.

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 1d

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Anne Grete (GoogeliArt) 🦋💙PD @googeliart.bsky.social · 1d

Why Trump Could Pardon Maxwell as Soon as This Week: Author

DON’S DEAL
Donald Trump biographer Michael Wolff believes that the sex trafficker’s pardoning is a matter of when, not if.

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Why Trump Could Pardon Maxwell as Soon as This Week: Author

Donald Trump biographer Michael Wolff believes that the sex trafficker’s pardoning is a matter of when, not if.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: As Linda McMahon guts the Dept. of Education, she’s operated in what she calls “a parallel universe” to radically shift how future kids will learn -- seeking to dismantle the public school system in favor of private and Christian schools or homeschooling.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 1d

In a Superior location!

Kenneth W. Noe @kennethwnoe.bsky.social · 1d

How far upper and northern?

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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting that the current Texas Tech Provost is a finalist for a university presidency in the far upper northern Midwest. 🤔

Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 1d

The Tribune spoke with several Texas Tech professors about new restrictions on instruction related to gender identity.

They described a system where politics shapes what can be taught and faculty have little protection if they resist.

Texas Tech system’s vague guidelines on gender identity spur more questions than answers

Faculty have spent weeks seeking clarity on new restrictions, which have often been issued by word of mouth. A written Q&A was rescinded.

www.texastribune.org

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem was the governor of South Dakota when Biden was President. Guess what she said regarding Biden potentially federalizing the Guard.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

You need to fix this @cnn.com.

Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 2d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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Douglas M. Charles, PhD @dmcharles.bsky.social · 3d

EVERYTHING with this clown is informed by his pathology

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3d

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

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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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 4d

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 4d

Chief advisor (along with Laura Loomer) to the most powerful person on earth

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4d

idk man, if you’re getting to the point where you’re accusing prosecutors, judges, and metro police of being the enemy, i am skeptical you have achieved the kind of consolidation you need for this kind of a project

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 4d

Stephen Miller again lashes out at the judiciary, suggesting federal judges are aiding and abetting domestic terrorism:

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4d

Always interesting exactly who is called upon to denounce what.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 4d

Has Trump said anything about his former “spiritual leader”, Robert Morris, who was just sentenced to 6 months in prison for sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl? Will the media even bother to ask him?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned

This feels like more and more of our media now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 5d

Since 2020, disabled people have been pointing out the rising ease with ableist rhetoric/language, the comfort with which so many people used the r word, the number of people willing to abandon disabled people for some notion of the "normal."
All of it mattered/matters to understand fascism today.

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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile, in the Heart of America. . .

Midwest Princess mural, next to Hamburger Mary's in Kansas City

A fan of Chappell Roan, wearing a pink feathered hat and pink hot pants

Chappel Roan fans wait in line to get their photo taken in front of the Midwest Princess mural

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6d

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

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Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters

Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 7d

Every day is a new adventure in discovering whether words still have their meanings

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 7d

University presidents it’s time for a united front. I mean, it’s past time. What are you going to do.

From the NYT: “The White House on Wednesday sent letters to nine of the nation's top public and private universities, urging campus leaders to pledge support for President Trump's political agenda to help ensure access to federal research funds.”

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