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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Molotovsky @grifftheimpaler.bsky.social · 5h

We don't hate Tim Cook enough.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 7h

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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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

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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Molotovsky @grifftheimpaler.bsky.social · 6h

@jaketapper.bsky.social would you call this cognitive decline in a president or nah because he's Republican?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Molotovsky @grifftheimpaler.bsky.social · 6h

I'm being informed that Campos was in Real World SF with Pedro, and Duffy was in Boston. 🤷

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 6h

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 10h

Bill Burr reminds me of another person from Boston some of you film critics know who I saw make a performative defense of a gay person and then unleash some homophobia a few sentences later.

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 10h

Life moves pretty fast, Bill www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10h

REI to close its soho location, the first shop that unionized. www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-new...

REI to close three stores, including NYC SoHo location

SEATTLE (BRAIN) — A week after announcing a strategic plan to employees that would involve difficult decisions to grow sales, REI Co-op said it will close three stores next year, including the New Yor...

www.bicycleretailer.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10h

Blonde Ambition

B-List bimbo Bondi flaunts her faith like she's the Madonna, but she's on the borderline of total fraud when she says there aren't pics of Trump and Epstein on La Isla Bonita with a girl who looks like a virgin. Release the Epstein material, girl!

by Maureen Dowd

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Molotovsky @grifftheimpaler.bsky.social · 9h

We don't hate Tim Cook enough. He is as awful as Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 10h

DEI for me, not for thee.

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Molotovsky @grifftheimpaler.bsky.social · 9h

Sean Duffy and his wife Rachel Campos (of Fox) became famous when they shared an MTV house with Pedro Zamora, one of the earliest gay men on American television living with AIDS. They pretended to be sad when Pedro died.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Molotovsky @grifftheimpaler.bsky.social · 9h

Someone on here recently asked why the anchors of the evening news shows are not doing their shows out of Portland and Chicago. Why is Wolf Blitzer not? I remember he was standing in front of a gas station screaming about gas prices during Biden.

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 12h

I’m not a political strategist or a social psychologist, but to me this seems true and important. Values must be activated. Surviving a real crisis takes real leadership.

Highlighted: “We've learned, hearteningly, that majorities seem to harbor a deep attachment to liberal rights and liberties, one that instinctively recoils at masked kidnappings, at hypermilitarized vehicles on urban boulevards, at the trappings of totalitarian dictatorship. But this must be activated. That takes conflict and controversy-powerful imagery and language that rivets attention.”

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Molotovsky @grifftheimpaler.bsky.social · 9h

Do Republican Reps know that Mike Johnson serves at their pleasure? They've gotten rid of their Speakers before.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 10h

Ruben @gallego.senate.gov, D-Ariz., says GOP senators tell him they want a health care deal. “The biggest sticking point now that I’m hearing from them is like, even if we get something, [Mike] Johnson is just going to tank it. So why? Why would we move if Johnson is going to tank it?”

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 11h

I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.

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Molotovsky @grifftheimpaler.bsky.social · 9h

Nazis were also so proud of what they were doing that they meticulously documented it all.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

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.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

“It’s true, all of it… it’s all true.”

Daily Beast: lol Republicans’ polls suck

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13h

Donald Trump is calling for the jailing of his political opponents in Chicago. His DOJ lackeys have already indicted a NJ Congresswoman for conducting ICE facility oversight and James Comey. John Bolton's house was raided.

We must treat these latest threats seriously and all stand up against them.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 13h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Molotovsky @grifftheimpaler.bsky.social · 13h

Chicken gizzards, braised with fried onions.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Antti Gronow @anttigronow.bsky.social · 14h

Pure evil.

"A study published in The Lancet journal in June said the U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030."

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 15h

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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Molotovsky @grifftheimpaler.bsky.social · 13h

Aren't pigs extremely smart? I don't blame them for trying to eat humans, tbh. Not just because we kind of deserve it, but also because we keep eating their relatives.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

i have met a number of pigs, including pigs i later went on to eat (we have small farmers in our family) and quite frankly, getting to know pigs has made me feel even less bad about eating them

they would 100% eat us if given the chance

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Molotovsky @grifftheimpaler.bsky.social · 14h

It would be dumb to interfere when the Polish prime minister said that the real criminals are those that built Nordstream 2.

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 17h

⚡️ Kyiv says not interfering in case of Ukrainian detained in Poland over Nord Stream sabotage.

"The Ukrainian side is acting in accordance with Polish law," Ukraine's Ambassador to Poland Vasyl Bodnar said.

Kyiv says not interfering in case of Ukrainian detained in Poland over Nord Stream sabotage

"The Ukrainian side is acting in accordance with Polish law," Ukraine's Ambassador to Poland Vasyl Bodnar said.

kyivindependent.com

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