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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 1h

The Trump-Noem immigration raids in Chicago are illegal.

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2h

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

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Bane Jirkin @parochialnimrod.bsky.social · 1h

The "lie": it's being shut down because people don't like that ceo jay follows transphobes

The truth: it's being shut down because people don't like that coo rose follows the transphobe and general bigotry org

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2h

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

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2h

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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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 11m

These are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 51m

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 22m

Ok everyone, I’m assigning you your resistance homework for the week.

Everyone ready?

Do something silly that makes you smile. I just waved at a dog that had its head out the car window because it made me happy. Don’t let the assholes take your joy.

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joemag @joemag.games · 13m

This feels a lot like where we're going.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 3h

I think Trump would rather Congress never vote to reopen the government than let Adelrita Grijalva trigger the Epstein Files discharge. And I bet he doesn’t have a plan other than the Insurrection Act.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 34m

it always blows my mind when these people act like “the left just calls everyone nazis” these days and it’s like no. we’re calling nazis nazis! there just happens to be a lot of them in and around the government these days!

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 6h

I'll probably migrate to myatproto.social in the next week or so, at least with my personal account, and I hugely appreciate the Blacksky folks for giving nonblack Bsky users this option.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 6h

So last night I migrated @gregpak.net from Bluesky to Blacksky's myatproto.social server for non-Black users! A few thoughts on the process for anyone thinking about this...

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16h

whew. that took a while! but it looks like i'm done! all blobbed up in blobtown!

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 33m

Neither of them know what habeas corpus is

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

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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the homophobic boy detective @gaorush.bsky.social · 19h

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 47m

WHITE HOUSE: Trump is headed to Walter Reed on Friday for some totally normal and routine stuff.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
10/08/25
Statement from the Press Secretary
"On Friday morning, President Trump will visit Walter Reed Medical Center for a planned meeting and remarks with the troops. While there, President Trump will stop by for his routine yearly check up. He will then return to the White House. President Trump is considering going to the Middle East shortly thereafter." - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 1h

Setting the over/under at 3.5 months until CNN gets taken over by Ellison

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 4h

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

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1h

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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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 11h

i love this website actually

Mr. Cait @chas.bsky.social • 13h
Gavin Newsom would take a puppy from an orphan, rip the puppy apart with his bare hands and eat it while the orphan screamed if he thought it would win him one vote in Wisconsin.

ILLEGIT PREc
@illegitprez.bsky.so... • 13h
there is something wrong with you.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social • 10h
"anti far left" in bio, hard pass

ILLEGIT PREc & E @illegitprez.bsky.so... • 10h no one invited you

cait (and adonis)
@cait.bsky.social
that's my husband you dumb bitch

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 1h

Didn't think that, in 2025 Year of Our Gritty, "opposition to Nazi Germany was bad, actually" would literally have a seat at the White House.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 2h

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1h

Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

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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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

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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onion person @junlper.beer · 1h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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joemag @joemag.games · 1h

Trump and those supporting him have just become totally unmoored from reality, they are living in fear of a world that does not exist so they can imagine themselves as the heroes, the tough guys. What even is there to say anymore?

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joemag @joemag.games · 1h

It just boggles the mind how disconnected from reality this all is. There is not a mass wave of flag burning (ignoring that it is still explicitly protected speech per SCOTUS). All of this shit just purely exists in their heads.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

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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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

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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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 2h

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

NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 4h

This is amazing.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 21h

What we’re seeing now is not people “[beginning] to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army”—the federal agents are becoming an occupying army, and the violence is theirs. The violence is already here.

Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 22h

Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied.

"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1h

Is it good when the commander in chief is untethered to reality?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

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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hfdmama @hfdmama.bsky.social · 2h

Jimmy Kimmel: "Trump was confused by old footage of the Portland protests from 2020, that were being played on a loop by Fox News, so he sent in the National Guard to stop a protest that ended five years ago. God forbid they ever show him footage of Pearl Harbor — Japan will be in a LOT of trouble."

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