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a very well-mannered man, trying earnestly to be accepted by people who should know better #ICEBlockFiles

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a tiny series of thoughts @explosionrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

Josh Hawley is complaining about "hitman" Jack Smith and said, "Let's take a trip down memory lane." Okay.

Hawley showing support for Jan. 6 insurrectionists by raising his fist

Hawley running for his life from said insurrectionists

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a tiny series of thoughts @explosionrobinson.bsky.social · 30m

Hey, pro athletes relying on love from cities to survive, America can only handle one Colin Kaepernick at a time! Please stop clamoring to let your voices be heard about military invasions and ICE. Put the megaphones down! It's overwhelming and deafening.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 1h

honestly you could express my cat's anal glands into a sippy cup and you'd have a better lawmaker than Jeffries

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 5h

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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a tiny series of thoughts @explosionrobinson.bsky.social · 7h

Marjorie Taylor Greenparty?

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 7h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on extending ACA credits: It is hurting so many people... let's take off our Democrat jerseys, let's take off our Republican jerseys, and we should do something responsible for the American people and fix this.

a tiny series of thoughts @explosionrobinson.bsky.social · 7h

Honestly, I put her in the Google machine and all I got out of it was confusion.

a tiny series of thoughts @explosionrobinson.bsky.social · 7h

Who in the fuck is Brandi Kruse?

a tiny series of thoughts @explosionrobinson.bsky.social · 8h

Woke. Antifa. DEI. Portland on Fire. Bad Bunny.

These maladjusted dopes seem to believe that all of these things are real.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 9h

Bumble Jack Posobiec called Luigi Mangione and would be-Trump assassin Thomas Crooks "antifa" to Trump at this roundtable.

These people have literally no idea what is going on.

a tiny series of thoughts @explosionrobinson.bsky.social · 9h

“I even think I got a little more attractive after I got rid of my Trump Derangement System"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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a tiny series of thoughts @explosionrobinson.bsky.social · 11h

Well played

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 16h

To be fair, it's hard for anyone to maintain their poise and dignity when arguing with poultry. Just try it.

To be fair as well, with regard to dignity, she was playing for very small stakes.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 16h

The DHS secretary faced down a man dressed as a chicken, calling the Portland protesters “uneducated and ill-informed.”

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a tiny series of thoughts @explosionrobinson.bsky.social · 16h

Endorse. Endorse. Endorse. 👇👇👇

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

It’s official - Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social is throwing his hat in the ring for Congress in MEMPHIS. (For the only congressional seat Dems still currently control after racist GOP gerrymandering)

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a tiny series of thoughts @explosionrobinson.bsky.social · 16h

Love Wired, but their Prime promotion posts here have been a bit much.

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Zachary Krueger @zkffb.bsky.social · 17h

The inability to think of anyone other than Lee Greenwood as an alternative to Bad Bunny in the Super Bowl is peak robot brain. Imagine thinking he has appeal in any capacity. 99% of MAGA couldn’t tell you a Lee Greenwood song that’s not God Bless the USA.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 16h

I mean read this, the Trump administration in an official document is saying that Americans won't ever pick crops and America won't have enough food to eat because of ICE raids!
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As a result, employers are facing significant economic harms, the filing claims. And incredibly, given the administration’s unceasing rhetoric to the contrary, the Labor Department definitively rejects the idea of Americans replacing the missing workers. “The Department does not believe American workers currently unemployed or marginally employed will make themselves readily available in sufficient numbers to replace large numbers of aliens,” the filing states, adding that agricultural work involves “a distinct set of skills and is among the most physically demanding and hazardous occupations in the U.S. labor market.” (For what it’s worth, nearly half of all agricultural workers are native-born, and significantly more than half are U.S. citizens, according to Department of Agriculture data.)

The Labor Department even claims that broadly advertising agricultural jobs, which is required under the H2-A rules, has not led to a boost in applications from U.S. workers. This is a bit of a fiction; workers who apply often do not receive jobs, and nobody is really checking to see if applications are coming in. “The system isn’t set up to prove that there’s a labor shortage of U.S. workers,” said Costa, of EPI.

In the end, the Labor Department concludes, the only way to protect agricultural employers from disaster and consumers from rising prices and food shortages is to slash wages in the H-2A program to make it more viable to bring in workers. This is an odd response to a workforce crisis, since cutting wages across the sector will likely drive existing workers to look elsewhere for jobs. In fact, farm employers in Florida fear that H-2A foreign workers won’t apply for these jobs anymore because the wages are so low. (There were 384,900 H-2A applications last year.)

But the filing states, “Without swift action, agricultural employers will be unable to maintain operations, and the nation's food supply will be at risk.”

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a tiny series of thoughts @explosionrobinson.bsky.social · 16h

Not at all happy that a bunch of slobbering survivalist goons are scoring with gold right now.

All I've got is a bunch of Eightball comics, a good amount of vinyl that might be worth something, and some random body parts that I'm partially okay with selling on the dark web.

Gold climbs over $4,000; silver, bitcoin surge as 'debasement trade' flight to havens continues

Bitcoin, gold, and silver continue to be the preferred "debasement trade" as investors move into hard assets and crypto.

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a tiny series of thoughts @explosionrobinson.bsky.social · 20h

"We can't let people throw around that word. I call it the C-word. There are two C-words, and you can’t use either of them.”

One word is c******. The other one is...

a tiny series of thoughts @explosionrobinson.bsky.social · 21h

Will this shake Dubya into doing something more than painting lousy acrylic still lifes in his bathtub? No, but his paintings really do suck.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h

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

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

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

a tiny series of thoughts @explosionrobinson.bsky.social · 21h

Kinda torn what to wear today. Should I go with libtard or shitlib?

a tiny series of thoughts @explosionrobinson.bsky.social · 22h

There really should be a ton more leaks than we're seeing now. It should be unprecedented.

It's not.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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a tiny series of thoughts @explosionrobinson.bsky.social · 22h

Insert whoever you want above. Wallace has shit at-home lighting for her constant remotes and it makes her look sickly, so a little fresh air might help.

a tiny series of thoughts @explosionrobinson.bsky.social · 22h

For years I've watched cable news hosts whisk themselves away within minutes to locales of big news stories, including *real* war zones, to cover the story (hi Anderson!). So why aren't CNN or MSNBC hosts broadcasting from Chicago and/or Portland now? Hey, Nicolle Wallace, get the fuck out there.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

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

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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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