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jam @socialistboat.dad · 14h

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 7h

Great turnout here in DC for @thebulwark.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

It’s so funny that we finally got confirmation it was an accident and even funnier that we didn’t know for sure because he tweets such crazy, criminal shit all the time

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 8h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 10h

Coming around to the theory that they're Truman Showing him

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 13h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

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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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 8h

Tomorrow is the 77th anniversary of the Steve Gromek/Larry Doby photo from the 1948 World Series. I wrote about it today--its importance in "Our Team" and how a research discovery almost sunk the climax of my book. Enjoy. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Staging of One of Baseball’s Most Famous Images

The Steve Gromek/Larry Doby Photo Revisited

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

The detail that two different states, a red and a blue state, are being pitted against each by the president is only one aspect of how dangerous this all is. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 8h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Shoshanna from Inglorious Basterds, laughing as she enacts fiery posthumous revenge.

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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 12h

Speak up, Mister President. We have. Why haven't you?

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18h

TONIGHT! Join the Bulwark team in DC for a special live event at @thelincolndc.bsky.social! We're low on tickets, so get yours now: www.ticketmaster.com/event/150063...

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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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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

ICE now very literally at war with Presbyterians

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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JM =^) @jm539581.bsky.social · 1d

Cal Raleigh with a RBI single to make it 4-0 Mariners

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

A populace that is agitated without being informed. A leader who encourages the worst suspicions, fuels the most dangerous lies, and mocks compromise and tolerance. It is getting close to being too late. ICYMI: www.thebulwark.com/p/everything...

Everything Is Awful. And It’s Changing Us.

It’s great that Disney is bringing Jimmy Kimmel back—but is it too late?

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

Hey guys. It's your boy J Edgar here. I have something new that I'm really excited to share with you—it's called COINTELPRO and I really think you're gonna love it

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 1d

Obviously not the main point here, but it's interesting how this is framed as content rather than policy.

"BREAKING" is typically what journalists or influencers say when they have a big story -- not what government officials say when they launch "undercover" operations

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

quality

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Full show:

Substack: www.thebulwark.com/s/betweenus?...

YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRum...

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/67gQOzW...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

When the media repeats the phrase "Trump enemies," they do Trump a favor. They're not his "enemies," they're his critics exercising their fundamental right to criticize the president.

@saletan.bsky.social joins @monacharen.bsky.social on Just Between Us, for Bulwark+ members only:

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"Perhaps the strongest defense of Blanche came from former Trump lawyer Alina Habba, now fighting her own battle to remain as the lead federal prosecutor in New Jersey." www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-turns...

MAGA Turns on Trump’s Top Lawyer

Todd Blanche discovers that your place is never totally secure in the modern conservative movement.

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

"DOGE’s indiscriminate, slash-and-burn approach is a preposterous and cruel way to treat the nation’s best and brightest, its future leaders."

I got a bonus and a raise. Then DOGE fired me for ‘performance.’

Trump and Musk are lying to get rid of people like me.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 1d

That's a good point, I'm sorry. I'm deleting.

My point was the framing is often different than the reality and I expressed it poorly. A better way would have been "this isn't the elite units that Trump wanted to send, it's everyday people.."

Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 1d

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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 1d

I don't wish that on anyone, except the Steelers and Ravens.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 1d

HOMAN COVERUP

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi refuses to answer questions about the Homan bribery scandal but deflects with personal attacks on Padilla

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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