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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

www.rollingstone.com

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 10h

Once they wanted to dismantle the Dept of Education.

Now these activists want to use it for their own goals.

One of those? Eliminating public schooling.

@megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/educ...

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 22h

Here’s video of the incident

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 20h

Trying to figure out which Safdie I should be more worried about: Lovable But Flawed Brute Has One Last Chance or Quirky Dreamer Overcomes Great Odds

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 21h

This reporter handled a ridiculous situation with grace.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 21h

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

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Defakator (Officiel) 🧆 @defakator.bsky.social · 2d

Haddock : Quelle semaine, hein ?
Tintin : Capitaine, on est lundi, il est 10h

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 2d

I covered cops for years.

Cops
-are identifiable; hence badge numbers
-have body-cams so civilians can perhaps see the facts
-have conduct subject to civilian oversight

Immigration agents
-identities are secret
-aren't using body-cams
-face no oversight office. Trump killed it

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

“Body slamming, teargas and pepper balls: viral videos show 🧊 using extreme force in Chicago

A facility in Broadview, a mostly Black suburb, has become the site of escalation and ‘targeted attacks’ on protesters”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Body slamming, teargas and pepper balls: viral videos show Ice using extreme force in Chicago

A facility in Broadview, a mostly Black suburb, has become the site of escalation and ‘targeted attacks’ on protesters

www.theguardian.com

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4d

correspondent for The Economist

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: A 20-year federal prosecutor, fired abruptly this week even as he lead case against Abbey Gate bomber, warns his colleagues: the Trump administration is sacrificing national security to purge Trump's perceived adversaries.

w/ @dnlbrns

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 7d

You'll be shocked to learn New College of Florida is on the brink of implosion just a couple of years after DeSantis engineered an extreme right-wing takeover

Fun fact: NCF's new overlords spend $134K per student (!!...the average at other FL publics is $10K) www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida

Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.

www.insidehighered.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7d

Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews.

Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 7d

The ADL’s reaction to Musk’s Nazi salute was to say, pretty much, “Who knows? He could have been just confident in his deodorant!”

Maybe there’s a lesson in here for whether you should try to placate MAGA.

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 7d

This is both shocking and a long time coming. As I reported for @nymag.com, the ADL made few friends in the Trump administration, despite its many, many attempts to please MAGA. nymag.com/intelligence...

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 7d

This is both shocking and a long time coming. As I reported for @nymag.com, the ADL made few friends in the Trump administration, despite its many, many attempts to please MAGA. nymag.com/intelligence...

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 7d

OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 7d

1/6 The Anti-Defamation League has removed an online resource guide about extremism, one day after Elon Musk escalated a wave of right-wing criticism against the group by criticizing an entry.

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 7d

Judging by the Gaetz/Bondi pattern, we could easily get a new appointee who has the conventional attributes but is actually just as radical and willing to juke the stats for Trump

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 7d

🫡🫡🫡🫡

News: The White House has withdrawn EJ
ANTONI's nomination to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 3 sources tell CNN.
Comes less than 2 months after Trump tapped him following the post-jobs report firing of Erik McEntarfer.
w/@KristenhCNN @emsteck:

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.bsky.social · 9d

"...one woman who identified herself as the wife of one of the dead men said that her husband was a fisherman with four children who left one day for work and never came back." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w...

Fear and Hope in Venezuela as U.S. Warships Lurk

www.nytimes.com

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 10d

US Magistrate Judge Vaala trying to untangle Lindsey Halligan's first adventure in indicting someone:

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11d

Calling Ed “Zillow” Whalen a “communist” is wild.

But it is also a good reminder to conservatives in power: the problem w personalist governance is that once you’ve disappeared enough other commissars, you may be the next one airbrushed out.

No one is ever “inside” enough.

Nikolai Yezhov: now you see him w Stalin, now you don’t.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11d

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines.

What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.

By @tilleckert.com

I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman. It Felt Like the New Normal.

I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.

www.propublica.org

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Alan Rozenshtein @alanrozenshtein.com · 12d

Even during the first Trump administration I used to enthusiastically encourage my students to apply to all DOJ positions except for a very small number of highly politically exposed ones. It breaks my heart that I now have to advise them to stay far, far away. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 12d

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

Thread 👇

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 12d

BREAKING: The Federal Bureau of Prisons just terminated its union's collective bargaining agreement this afternoon, according to this letter posted online by the national union president:

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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