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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 8h

wow what happened to the "free state of florida" smh

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Hein Goemans @heingoemans.bsky.social · 33m

Yeah, and it will fer sure be a lot more incisive.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 57m

Honestly, the Harvard newspaper ought to run a piece on all of the NYT’s coverage and what they distort and why.

THAT I would read.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 13h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1h

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Hein Goemans @heingoemans.bsky.social · 1h

Scheveningen. In WW II the Dutch asked people to say "Scheveningse scholletjes op schoongeschuurde schoteltjes." No German could pronunciate that correctly.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 4h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11h

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump smiles along as Sortor refers to the White House press as "the garbage standing over here"

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6h

The sigh I expel when you undermine the whole “without fear or favor” part by using Trump and Hegseth’s make-believe name for the Defense Department.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 7h

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

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I forgor my name lol @cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 2d

I mean I’ve seen shit that’s just “greedy companies” and literal banks be labeled as spiritually Israeli.

It’s 100% a dog whistle for Jew-coded

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 5h

I am never going to be a fan of a politician. That way lies disappointment. But Pritzker right now is the person I think is calibrating it right.

This isn’t negotiating about social security with W. You either get that or you don’t.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 21h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 6h

This was not a sample of academics.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 8h

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5h

Israel making Russia look like amateurs.

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James E. Clyburn @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · 8h

This act of violence by Trump’s masked DHS agents against a minister peacefully protesting reminds me of the darkest days of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Now as then, we will not be intimidated.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

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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JFA @jabbott28.bsky.social · 8h

Love this one!

ljoeckel.bsky.social @ljoeckel.bsky.social · 1d

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 9h

On ICE raids and attacks in Chicago, local reporters have consistently shown up the national outlets attempting to report remotely.

Locals continue to break story after story even as the nationals are summarizing govt press releases. They've shown physical bravery in very dangerous circumstances.

COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social · 1d

"With local news in a severe tailspin for decades, there was a real question about whether Chicago’s media would meet the moment. But they have indeed," writes @markjacob.bsky.social in Stop The Presses.

The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago

Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable

www.stopthepresses.news

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 1d

We could hear them laughing

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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