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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h

The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 5h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 19h

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SaveDemocracy123 @savedemocracy123.bsky.social · 1d

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

THIS is the energy we’ve been waiting for. Credit where credit is due.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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🫶🏻LaylaBella🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 1d

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skippyoz @skippyoz.bsky.social · 2d

The ugly dictator is about to invoke the Insurrection act & send troops to US cities , he told reporters.

'If people were getting killed & courts held us up, or Governor's or Mayor's were holding us up, sure I would do that'.

Remember he is creating all this crap for control over you.
Sieg heil.

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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 2d

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 “I refuse to let Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, and Gregory Bevino, continue on this march towards autocracy.” Posted 15 minutes ago. 1/2

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deequan.bsky.social @deequan.bsky.social · 1d

It's part of their "insurrection" concept. They are trying to create a paper trail.

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 2d

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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deequan.bsky.social @deequan.bsky.social · 1d

What's more scared than a million dollars? The hundred billion trying to protect that million.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

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One Eyed Jack @one-eyed-jack.bsky.social · 3d

There are days when it can feel like it’s already over and the bad guys won. That’s how they want us to feel. But it isn’t. Not by a long shot. Let’s not make it easy for them.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d

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He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d

DHS describes detaining people w/o knowing who they are and then, unironically, claims they won't stand by and watch [or commit] crime.

edition.cnn.com/2025/10/03/u...

In its statement addressing the raid, DHS noted it was still gathering information about those arrested “due to the size” of the operation and will provide more information.

“Federal law enforcement officers will not stand by and allow criminal activity flourish in our American neighborhoods,” DHS said.

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 4d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 4d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

www.reuters.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

Petitioner’s counsel has requested documentation of a judicial warrant for his arrest, any charging documents, or other authority supporting his detention. See Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 18–20. ICE has provided no response. Id. To date, ICE has not placed Petitioner in removal proceedings, charged him with violating immigration law, set bond, issued a Notice to Appear, or otherwise processed him. See Pet. ¶¶ 16, 49. In Respondent’s Opposition brief, the government states “ICE intends to take further action consistent with the laws prescribed under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) once Petitioner is released from medical care and it can conduct the examination as [prescribed] in 8 C.F.R § 287.3.” Opp. at 4. Neither Petitioner nor Respondents have provided the Court with information about Petitioner’s citizenship, whether he has violated any law or regulation, or any information that would suggest that Petitioner is a flight risk.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d

The New York Times doesn't tell you why the alleged murderer said he sent pizzas to the victim's house just before he ran down the girl and her best friend. He said on video that he was getting revenge for social media comments about death of Charlie Kirk.

2 Teen Girls Died In a Hit-And-Run. Another Teen Faces Murder Charges.

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 5d

Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it.

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deequan.bsky.social @deequan.bsky.social · 5d

Why are people talking about "four corners?" Please talk about Republicans being anti-constitutional, unhinged, and dangerous.

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deequan.bsky.social @deequan.bsky.social · 5d

Unabashed fun for the writer and reader alike in celebration of a beloved shared medium. In today's commentary/content environment, this is rare when the target audience is adults.

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