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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12h

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8h

Decimating the alert system for critical infrastructure so as to provide for more raids of Home Depot parking lots

Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 10h

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 7h

Into what, his pyramid-style fraud schemes?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h

Trump: plans to incorporate deceased individuals

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K. Liakos @kliakos.com · 8h

America 2025:

The facade of a store in a Delaware strip mall called its fashion but the lights on the o n and exclamation point are out so it says it’s fashi

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 8h

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 9h

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 8h

Can I vote again for breakfast burritos? I love bagels as much as the next guy, but some variety would be nice.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone who attends on October 9 will be eligible to win this embroidery in our raffle. Join us to explore how YOU can take real, specific, and immediate actions in your own community to strengthen and expand public libraries. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

An embroidery hoop displays the words "Libraries Are For The People" in cursive, surrounded by embroidered green and blue leaves, and topped with a blue satin ribbon. It rests on a marble surface.

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Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 9h

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

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

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 9h

I love that he’s convinced himself that he’s owed a Nobel Peace Prize. Friday will be fun.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9h

Q: Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday. You have been nominated. Do you think you will win?

DJT: We settled 7 wars. We're close to settling 8. I think we'll end up settling the Russia situation. Nobody in history has settled that many. Perhaps they'll find a reason not to give it to me

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 18h

If I'm hearing the Speaker and Republican leadership right in this press conference they are now saying they will keep the House in recess for the fourth week in a row as troops and federal workers start missing their paychecks

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 11h

So the pattern is, these guys go out there in masks with no ID and no warrant. They assault and kidnap people off the street. The Feds film this and turn it into sizzle reels specifically to scare people. And then this guy comes out and says, ‘If you look scared, I can reasonably arrest you.’

Trump Watch @trumpwat.ch · 17h

Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino: "We need reasonable suspicion to make an immigration arrest. Notice I did not say probable cause, nor did I say I need a warrant? Perhaps you look panicked when you see a Border Patrol agent. Perhaps you look scared ..."

So they scare people and then can arrest them.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 13h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

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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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11h

Congrats again to Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t even know who he is. But I deleted my repost of that tweet.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 11h

It's not a shock collar. Every day now there are out if context clips on here going after this guy.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Trusting Grok with medical diagnoses is definitely the funniest way to use AI but I think legal advice is probably a close second

Elon Musk: Try it out!

Dan: hot tip:

before you sign any legal forms, dump the who thing into Grok and ask it to "read this for me and tell me what I should know before signing"

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Er-EEK! Winick @eawinick.bsky.social · 11h

Antifa doesn't exist as an organization, but hey, who's counting

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

Noem: “We are hoping…we will get more and more information about the network and how we can route them out and eliminate them from the existence of American society…Antifa is just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA, as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them. They are just as dangerous.”

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

Me, a guy who covers a lot of protests: Uhhhhhhhh what.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 11h

Some dispute over journalists "shouting" at protests.

Plaintiff attys bring up a journalist shouting "don't shoot," rather than shouting protest chants.

Govt. atty brings up the issue of presence.

"From our point of view, being at a protest can be construed" as protest activity, he says.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 13h

This is why I love Chicago so much. Their “we will fuck with you” reserves are BOTTOMLESS.

NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 14h

This is amazing.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 12h

can't we go back to a government run by normies?

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 12h

Also, side note: DHS sent me this as a statement minutes before it was published as a tweet.

I had a hunch it'd end up on Twitter, however, since the statement referred to the DHS secretary as "@Sec_Noem."

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 12h

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

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

"I'm attacked every time I do my job" -- it's the victimhood olympics today at the White House

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