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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 8m

Also I realize it's completely fucking ridiculous to even suggest, but a reporter *could* write it up into a *story* that the president keeps making totally insane false accusations of paid protesters, and these are at least in part informing his illegal military deployments to US cities

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 12m

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

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15m

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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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5h

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 2h

I remember when NYT (or WaPo?) had this live tracker of people endorsing Harris versus people calling for an open primary, and when the former column filled up with exactly one person in the latter column they changed it to Endorsed/Has Not Endorsed

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3h

I think some of it was that, some of it was people angry that they weren't able to replace Biden with a pro-crypto, pro-tech Trojan horse in a "blitz primary" which was part of the goal of pushing Biden out to begin with bsky.app/profile/lilb...

Working Class Hero / Coddled Office Worker @lilbird9702.bsky.social · 3h

It's the same as 2024. Commentators never forgave Democrats for rallying around a woman of color, and robbing them of endless, "Democrats in disarray," narratives.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 2h

it's honestly only a hard argument to make because everyone is living inside their own personal hallucinated reality and so you end up arguing against, like, AI-generated advertising brochures from the 1940s

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 4h

Basically this was the entire logic fo neoliberalism and globalization - yes lots of job destruction, but prices falling on all kinds of goods and new jobs in new areas. It was taken as gospel that all of it was a net benefit, but that's a bit harder argument to make these days.

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undeadDunn @deaddunn.bsky.social · 2h

he only got exposed during the playoffs routinely, so sure, give him more minutes. hell, let him quarterback the power play

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

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.

apnews.com

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 6h

Florida cops were investigating James O’Gara, a Vietnam vet, because he had sent the state CFO a postcard that said, “You lack values.”

Said his wife: “I expected them to show up eventually because I’m an organizer, and it follows the state of play these days"

www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/10/07/a...

Armed investigators visit man who sent postcard critical of Florida CFO Ingoglia

The politically active couple expected a knock on their door because of their criticism of Trump and DeSantis, but not over a seemingly innocuous postcard.

www.sun-sentinel.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19h

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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undeadDunn @deaddunn.bsky.social · 6h

it is very important that the Kings continue to suck at all facets, because then I will have been right, and that is the most important outcome

undeadDunn @deaddunn.bsky.social · 14h

*has several too many*

yOuR LiTtLe hOoDrAt fRiEnD

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undeadDunn @deaddunn.bsky.social · 15h

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undeadDunn @deaddunn.bsky.social · 15h

no kings day more like no kings season oh ho ho

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undeadDunn @deaddunn.bsky.social · 16h

woof kings just got cooked

undeadDunn @deaddunn.bsky.social · 16h

a whole season of these stupid helmets and this ceci/doumulin pairing is gonna have me like this

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undeadDunn @deaddunn.bsky.social · 16h

these things look like practice jerseys. Bland but gimmicky. and these helmets are a crime

undeadDunn @deaddunn.bsky.social · 17h

These kings jerseys bloooooooow

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 20h

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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undeadDunn @deaddunn.bsky.social · 19h

ah tbs cut off your scorebug too

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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undeadDunn @deaddunn.bsky.social · 1d

I did not have Emmet Sheehan k’ing schwarber with a fastball over the plate on my bingo card

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Durbin to Bondi: "Although you've been a registered foreign agent for Qatar, you didn't recuse yourself from signing off on Trump's solicitation of a free jet from the royal family, even though this gift was clearly illegal. Connections to Bondi seem to yield more favorable outcomes for defendants."

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undeadDunn @deaddunn.bsky.social · 1d

the funding isn’t coming back