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digitaldesert.bsky.social @digitaldesert.bsky.social · 5m

Reminds me of the Rosa Klebb character from the James Bond film “From Russia with Love”

a woman in a military uniform is standing in a room with the year 2022 on the bottom right

ALT: a woman in a military uniform is standing in a room with the year 2022 on the bottom right

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1h

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 4h

My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games

If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.

www.msnbc.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 51m

Antisemitic, pro-Putin, in league with white nationalists, promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory - and now being platformed by the president of the United States

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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digitaldesert.bsky.social @digitaldesert.bsky.social · 38m

Kind of like how we didn’t destroy villages in Vietnam, we saved them.

digitaldesert.bsky.social @digitaldesert.bsky.social · 44m

Yeah, my Grandfather and his brothers were heavily into Antifa.

digitaldesert.bsky.social @digitaldesert.bsky.social · 50m

As Mad Men’s Bert Cooper once famously said, “There are rules, and then there are other rules.”

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 54m

😵‍💫 Putin arrived in Tajikistan for a three-day visit to participate in the Russia-Central Asia summit.

At Dushanbe Airport, he was greeted with a red carpet and two parallel flowerbeds.

❗️Tajikistan recognizes the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

digitaldesert.bsky.social @digitaldesert.bsky.social · 54m

Great, if true. Just need to get Johnson to stop protecting Trump and swear in Grijalva.

digitaldesert.bsky.social @digitaldesert.bsky.social · 1h

Deported after 36 years.(Yes, that’s George and Laura Bush pictured with the deportee)

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

digitaldesert.bsky.social @digitaldesert.bsky.social · 1h

Can you imagine sit, kneel, stand, sit Catholics standing up for an hour and 45 minutes of an Orthodox liturgy?

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

imo Orthodox

Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 4h

Again there will not be a "schism". A bunch of Catholics will do what they've been dying to do anyway and just become evangelicals.

digitaldesert.bsky.social @digitaldesert.bsky.social · 1h

@cnn.com Only Congress can rename the Department of Defense. 🤨👎

Stop being cowards and bending your knees to unconstitutional acts.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 4h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

digitaldesert.bsky.social @digitaldesert.bsky.social · 1h

"I do solemnly swear that I will *faithfully* execute the Office of President of the United States, and will *to the best of my ability*, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Obviously not happening with #47.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

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."

digitaldesert.bsky.social @digitaldesert.bsky.social · 2h

Gazprom is Russian, so yeah, another TACO for Trump.

Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 2h

The US has postponed the sanction on the Serbian oil company NIS. The majority owner of the company happens to be Gazprom.

www.kommersant.ru/doc/8100470?...

Nova ekonomija: санкции против нефтяной компании NIS отложены еще на неделю

Подробнее на сайте

www.kommersant.ru

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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digitaldesert.bsky.social @digitaldesert.bsky.social · 3h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

“.. NDFIs now account for some 33% of all commercial and industrial loans originated by large banks, according to J.P. Morgan Securities ..” 👀

$JEF
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 5h

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 6h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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digitaldesert.bsky.social @digitaldesert.bsky.social · 3h

Interesting one of the top exoplanets astronomers are fascinated with is both Earth sized, and orbits in a “habitable zone”(liquid water friendly) around its star, is also the closest star to the Earth. Like a cosmic carrot being dangled in front of us.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/afte...

Astronomers Have Picked Their Favorite Exoplanets. Their Choices Might Surprise You

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits

www.scientificamerican.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

i find it hilarious that Barron never really thought through the implications of this

"Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope." Bishop Robert Barron, who serves
on Trump's Commission on Religious Liberty, said to CBS a few days ago.

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digitaldesert.bsky.social @digitaldesert.bsky.social · 7h

Current GOP thought process is: “If you oppose anything Trump does, you’re a Marxist and a Communist.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Johnson on nuking the filibuster: "Is it wise? A lot of people would tell you it's not. I mean, on the Republican side, I would be deeply concerned if the Democrats had a bare majority in the Senate right now of Marxist ideology taking over the Democrat Party...turning us into a communist country"

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digitaldesert.bsky.social @digitaldesert.bsky.social · 7h

GOP Moses has the backbone of a jellyfish fish.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

digitaldesert.bsky.social @digitaldesert.bsky.social · 7h

Trump Admin desperately wants to cheat federal workers out of pay their owed for some reason, but the law won’t let them.

Joshua Smith @smithmachine.bsky.social · 7h

Russ, call your office.

"On Tuesday, the Trump admin said furloughed feds were not guaranteed back pay. On Wednesday, it sent notices saying they were"

On Tuesday, the Trump admin said furloughed feds were not guaranteed back pay. On Wednesday, it sent notices saying they were

Just one day after taking a different argument, the Trump administration notes federal law guarantees back pay for employees sent home during a shutdown.

www.govexec.com

digitaldesert.bsky.social @digitaldesert.bsky.social · 7h

If you’re a young, pregnant woman showing up in an ER with a life threatening complication in a Red state, they’re going to send you home.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 8h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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