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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14h

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
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Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14h

I wrote legal editorials for the Post for a hot minute many years ago, and I was constantly anxious about making sure I got the details right. This editorial is just humiliating for everyone involved

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 17h

I mean, obviously.

Federal judge in Chicago finds ICE repeatedly violated consent decree over ‘warrantless arrests’

A Chicago federal judge has extended a nationwide consent decree requiring ICE to better document and report probable cause for immigration arrests and found the agency repeatedly violated the 2022…

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 2d

🤳EXCLUSIVE: We analyzed real data from over 800 U.S. TikTok users to reveal how the app transforms casual users into power users.

Extremely proud of this one, over a year in the making w/ @richardsima.bsky.social Leslie Shapiro @asteckelberg.bsky.social @ence.bsky.social

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Here’s how TikTok ‘power users’ end up scrolling 4 hours a day or more

Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

When you read this about people being *afraid to go to. church* lest they be snatched by ICE, remember that Cardinal Timothy Dolan serves on Trump's Religious Liberty Commission (www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...) and was honored by the Becket Fund this year (becketfund.org/media/cardin...)

The letters and video he brought to Leo detail the fear that even legal migrants are facing every day. U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters by federal agents. In Leo’s hometown of Chicago, agents have stormed apartment complexes by helicopter as families slept, deployed chemical agents near a public school and arrested a city councilman in the hospital.

“They can’t go out. They are afraid to shop, to go to church and so they stay home,” wrote Maria in one of the letters delivered to Leo. Originally from Guatemala, she has lived in San Francisco for a quarter-century and qualified for asylum years ago, but has relatives in the U.S. who are not legal.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration is considering selling parts of its $1.6 trillion portfolio of student loan debt to the private market, per Forbes

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

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A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

We are in Week 2 of a government shutdown and Week Too Many of randomized terror in our neighborhoods, and I am fucking begging Democrats to connect the dots and take a little agency in shaping the national narrative on living in fascism.

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts 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.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 1d

Add it to the tally.

Seems like we’re getting up to 20+ grand jury no true bills just from what I’ve seen. Absolutely remarkable.

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 1d

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

The "Axis of Evil" speechwriter?

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 1d

Columbus City Schools may have to stop bussing high school students entirely because Ohio law requires public school districts to prioritize bussing for charter and private school students - and the state is already fining Columbus more than $10 million/year for not complying enough

Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 1d

Columbus City Schools Board of Education has voted to remove a requirement that the district provide busing for high schoolers as a potential cost-saving move amid district financial challenges.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

Columbus Schools board votes to remove requirement to bus high schoolers

Columbus City Schools voted to remove a requirement that the district provide busing for high schoolers as a potential cost-saving move.

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 1d

This is the guy that you accidentally start a conversation with at a party and instantly regret it. but then when can’t break away you introduce him to the next person you know and immediately find an excuse to walk away.

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 1d

Make sure you remember who those who didn’t sign. Alderman Fuentes was doing the right thing and protecting her constituents. This is the type of leadership we should be supporting,

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 1d

NEW — A message of support has been circulating online for Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes, who was temporarily detained by federal agents last week.

A few signatures were noticeably missing: 13, to be specific.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/so-a...

So, about that letter of support for Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes: 13 alderpeople didn’t sign it • The TRiiBE

The letter describes what the agents did to Fuentes as an “abuse of power.” Mayor Brandon Johnson, City Clerk, Anna Valencia and City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin also signed it.

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C’airra Cortez • Documentarian • Coffee Enthusiast @reelblackcoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Great Read!

Democrat doesn’t mean they are pushing Democracy..😒 And the signatures missing are really telling of the Alderpeople of these neighborhoods.

Here is where you do you ballot research folks!

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 1d

NEW — A message of support has been circulating online for Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes, who was temporarily detained by federal agents last week.

A few signatures were noticeably missing: 13, to be specific.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/so-a...

So, about that letter of support for Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes: 13 alderpeople didn’t sign it • The TRiiBE

The letter describes what the agents did to Fuentes as an “abuse of power.” Mayor Brandon Johnson, City Clerk, Anna Valencia and City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin also signed it.

thetriibe.com

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

File state charges. This is a crime.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 1d

A resident of a nearby building asks a very important question:

“You claim you have warrants, but do you have a warrant to seize the entire building?” she asked the agents. “Do you have warrants to detain the entire building?”

Or: do people lose their rights if they live near undocumented people?

I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel

Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 1d

Dumbest f-Ing timeline.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 1d

I think that’s why in person community input meeting may not be the best metric by which to make these decisions.

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Steven @stevevance.net · 1d

there are two steps left in the Broadway corridor upzoning (zoning cmte. + city council)

Passing both steps isn’t guaranteed so showing up in SUPPORT on Tuesday is needed to counter those who prefer the status quo

Abundant Housing Illinois @abundanthousingil.bsky.social · 1d

Your attendance is requested at City Hall!

At 10am on October 14th, the Zoning Committee will vote on the Broadway Land Use Framework, allowing thousands of new homes to be built next to four brand-new Red Line stations. 🏘️🤝🚇

Please RSVP if you plan to attend.

www.eventbrite.com/e/1769724907...

Tell the Zoning Cmte. to Support 1000s of New Homes in Uptown & Edgewater

City Council's Zoning Committee will take up the Broadway upzoning ordinances on 10/14/25.

www.eventbrite.com

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Abundant Housing Illinois @abundanthousingil.bsky.social · 1d

Your attendance is requested at City Hall!

At 10am on October 14th, the Zoning Committee will vote on the Broadway Land Use Framework, allowing thousands of new homes to be built next to four brand-new Red Line stations. 🏘️🤝🚇

Please RSVP if you plan to attend.

www.eventbrite.com/e/1769724907...

Tell the Zoning Cmte. to Support 1000s of New Homes in Uptown & Edgewater

City Council's Zoning Committee will take up the Broadway upzoning ordinances on 10/14/25.

www.eventbrite.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 1d

Legend

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

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