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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 5h

Sanchez now facing felony charge for altercation

Mark Sanchez is facing a felony battery charge over the altercation between the former NFL quarterback and 69-year-old truck driver Perry Tole early Saturday in Indianapolis.

www.espn.com

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 6h

Yes that was *very* funny.

Josh @yetanotherjosh.bsky.social · 6h

I was hootin' and hollerin' at the way they stopped selling the product at all to explain how to scan a QR code to their (I assume) septuagenarian and up target audience

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 9h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 8h

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.

southsideweekly.com

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 6h

Um… anyone else see the bizarre ad for a three month survival food kit on FS1 during the Blue Jays-Yankees game?

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 6h

commitment to the bit is the highest virtue.

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 7h

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Aryeh @aryehcw.bsky.social · 6h

There are people on here who complain that NYT headlines are written to be friendly to Trump

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 20h

I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 8h

Here’s video of the incident

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Gordon Gray @ambgordongray.bsky.social · 13h

The latest analysis by @dandrezner.bsky.social.

open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

The Strategic Costs of the Gaza War

Or, how Israel is losing America after two years of bloodshed.

open.substack.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h

Remember that Trump has said that if SCOTUS rules the tariffs illegal next month, Trump has said they'll pay all the tariffs back.

Consumers, of course, are fucked--they get nothing back.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 13h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12h

Just go ahead and delete article 1 entirely while you’re at it.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 13h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 12h

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

George Pearkes @peark.es · 13h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 12h

👏👏👏

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 14h

I am once again asking people who encounter a poll to ask whether they have the necessary information to fully understand at a minimum a) who was surveyed and b) what they were asked

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 14h

Oh you should read the whole thing. It’s… something. But on the particular line that the NYT quoted, she meant it as a joke.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 15h

Draw on your own experience:

Is there any situation you've ever been part of, with you or anyone else in the hot seat, in which a person who does NOT have something to hide, reacts the way Bondi does?

I've been on trial juries that concluded "we can't trust that witness," after evasions like this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 15h

Always cool when the Trump administration explicitly signals it won’t follow the law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers

www.nytimes.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 16h

The top comments on Trump's TikTok - in which he tells young users that he saved the app so "you owe me big" - are all about the Epstein files. "cool you got them files ready?" www.tiktok.com/@realdonaldt...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Danielle Allen fails the Lando test / lives out the Arrested Development meme: "A deal on the core principles in a compact could then become a framework for negotiating on legislation." Come ON. With this administration and this Congress?
therenovator.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 18h

For the record, it WAS clearly a laugh line - however she does NOT say "seriously"

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17h

If this was a no, it would be really easy to say no.

Bondi’s ad hominem attack on Whitehouse is WAY more of an answer than she realizes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 20h

she's made herself a handmaiden of a movement that loathes everything actually great about western civilization. fascism only cares about 'the west' as a form of racial identity and nothing more

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a lot in Bari Weiss’ 2023 FedSoc speech that merits scrutiny but I think the Times did a disservice by closing with this quote — given what she says immediately after. fedsoc.org/commentary/f...

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 20h

No it doesn’t risk short term security. It obviously risks Israel’s long term security — which was the point of my essay.

Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 21h

They might be more militarily secure in the short term, but...

They're demanding pariah status from Europe and if that doesn't risk short term security across the board?

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 21h

Uh oh; "A fire at Novelis’s Oswego, N.Y., plant, which supplies about 40% of U.S. auto industry aluminum, will disrupt automakers for months"
www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Fortunately, imported aluminum can fill the void and mitigate this massive domestic supply chain disrupti-

Oh.

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