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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 9h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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sighdell.bsky.social @sighdell.bsky.social · 13h

As @daviddark.bsky.social would say, there are many ways to hate God.

ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 1d

“For I was a stranger and you turned me over to ICE.” — The Gospel of Christian Nationalism, 1:1

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 12h

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute. Even for lying.

David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 15h

"The Tahoe was unmarked. You can’t charge someone under 18 USC 111 for ramming an unmarked car unless you can prove that they knew you were a Federal law enforcement officer." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/07/t...

The Brutal CBP Assault Tied to the Marimar Martinez Shooting - emptywheel

The criminal charges against Marimar Martinez -- the woman shot by a Customs and Border Patrol agent on Saturday -- fail to mention that CBP was already looking for her for doxing an officer who would...

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Jennifer 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 12h

the more that comes out with this the more it seems like ICE got stuck in traffic (normal thing) and panicked and opened fire.

David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 15h

"The Tahoe was unmarked. You can’t charge someone under 18 USC 111 for ramming an unmarked car unless you can prove that they knew you were a Federal law enforcement officer." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/07/t...

The Brutal CBP Assault Tied to the Marimar Martinez Shooting - emptywheel

The criminal charges against Marimar Martinez -- the woman shot by a Customs and Border Patrol agent on Saturday -- fail to mention that CBP was already looking for her for doxing an officer who would...

www.emptywheel.net

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 15h

"The Tahoe was unmarked. You can’t charge someone under 18 USC 111 for ramming an unmarked car unless you can prove that they knew you were a Federal law enforcement officer." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/07/t...

The Brutal CBP Assault Tied to the Marimar Martinez Shooting - emptywheel

The criminal charges against Marimar Martinez -- the woman shot by a Customs and Border Patrol agent on Saturday -- fail to mention that CBP was already looking for her for doxing an officer who would...

www.emptywheel.net

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 16h

I get that everyone thinks it's a funny little joke when Trump says nonsense about "trangender for everybody" (because really, wtf does that even mean?), but I gotta say that as a trans person, I find it absolutely fucking insane that he's constantly obsessing over trans people existing. It sucks.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 17h

Deflection as data point.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

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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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17h

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17h

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 17h

Deflection as data point.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

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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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 17h

So since I'm annoyed let me say a few things today.Some folks have been writing about Christian Nationalism and apocalyptic right wing movements for YEARS here in the US. YEARS. Do we get to have a platform in major mags and newspapers... rarely.

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 1d

"Prosecutors were convinced that no one could force herself to drink a liter of hydrochloric acid." @astille.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/201...

Breaking the Silence in Calabria | Alexander Stille

When I traveled to Calabria in the early 1990s, its mafia, known as the ’Ndrangheta, had a far more pervasive and suffocating hold on the region than the

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 1d

"I believe the Constitution—particularly the Bill of Rights— became, for Snowden, a kind of lonely companion, or perhaps something like a rescue animal that only he cares for sufficiently." www.nybooks.com/articles/201...

Snowden in the Labyrinth | Jonathan Lethem

Edward Snowden might seem forever defined by a single act—his decision to leak highly classified information copied from the NSA—and a single moment in time. Having gazed through the windows of the pa...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 1d

"It was pretty much consensus by all of the friends in both cases that it was absurd, not just to say that these shooters were left wing, but to say that they’re right wing or any wing." @kenklippenstein.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...

The meme-ification of political violence

It's less ideology than the internet — what the media and Trump don't understand about the current wave of shootings.

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 1d

I am & thank you!

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 9d

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 9d

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 2d

Citizen power, y’all. This is the way.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Vaughan Roberts @vaughanroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Gosh!

David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 2d

Wow.

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 2d

Wow.

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 6d

After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects

Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

If you watch closely, you'll see they're doing this opposite an actual funeral procession.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 2d

The babahuck, may I ask you a question?

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

so you were too stupid to understand the point of kid shows when you were a kid

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 2d

This is what the Internet is for.

Robert G. Callahan, II ⚖️ 📚 ⚖️ 📚 @rcallahanwaco.bsky.social · 2d

#exvangelical #deconstruction #antiracism #fireinthewhole #dignity

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