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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 11h

Here’s video of the incident

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Joe Ura @joeura.bsky.social · 57m

The NFL is the most successful sports league in the US, and it wants to go global. They've scheduled 7 games overseas this year, including games in Spain and Brazil. All 32 teams have designated international "home marketing areas."

Bad Bunny's halftime show isn't woke politics, it's big business.

eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 1h

Trump meme post? “Haven’t seen it.”

Trump speech? “Didn’t hear it.”

Miller post? “I’m too busy for social media.”

Bad Bunny?

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House Speaker Johnson Calls Bad Bunny at Super Bowl ‘a Terrible Decision,’ Says It Should’ve Been Someone With ‘a Broader Audience’ — Like Lee Greenwood

House Speaker Mike Johnson says it is 'a terrible decision' to book Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl, saying Lee Greenwood would have been a better pick.

variety.com

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 14h

Senator Slotkin asks Army GC nominee about how many "designated terrorist organizations" the US is now supposedly in an armed conflict with and whether he can name them.

Army GC nominee refuses to answer.

Administration refuses to tell American public and Congress who POTUS has declared war on.

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Joe Ura @joeura.bsky.social · 22h

Is this real?

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 1d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social:

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 3d

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

sites.stat.columbia.edu

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Joe Ura @joeura.bsky.social · 3d

It's important that Puerto Rico is an American territory and that Puerto Ricans are American citizens.

A more vital point is that no one is less American because they speak Spanish or have darker skin. And, folks from anywhere can become Americans, and they're no less American than those born here.

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 3d

Granderson: Anyone calling Bad Bunny un-American needs a geography lesson

Column: Anyone calling Bad Bunny un-American needs a geography lesson

Instead of making people fear Spanish at the Super Bowl, maybe spend this NFL season learning something beyond “gracias.” After all, Spanish is the first language of many U.S. citizens.

www.latimes.com

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Joe Ura @joeura.bsky.social · 3d

Republicans control both houses of Congress. They could just change the law, but lawlessness seems to be the point. Trump's position is that law does not apply to him.

Also, the Treasury took down a website listing the "no living person on money" rule? Really? Come on!

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Joe Ura @joeura.bsky.social · 4d

ACLU-SC sues Clemson for firing faculty member who criticized Charlie Kirk

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 5d

RIP music artist Woody Guthrie, died this day 1967.

"This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York island
From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiM...

Woody Guthrie- This Land Is Your Land

YouTube video by rutaloot

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5d

You can't raid and arrest everyone in an entire apartment building, or even legitimately get a warrant to do that, any more than you could for a whole neighborhood. That would be a general warrant. This is the most specific core the-British-did-it-to-us thing the Fourth Amendment is written to ban.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 7d

NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.

A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community.

thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...

Feds detain dozens of immigrants in 'massive' South Shore apartment building raid in Chicago • The TRiiBE

An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in the course of the overnight raid in the predominately-Black neighborhood.

thetriibe.com

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Joe Ura @joeura.bsky.social · 5d

"No Internet gambling" has entered "no smoking" and "wear your seatbelt" dad lecture territory in my household.

John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 5d

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports

Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

www.pewresearch.org

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 5d

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports

Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

www.pewresearch.org

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 6d

Incredible that they put this in writing

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6d

An “immigration judge” is not an actual judge in the judicial branch. They are a DOJ employee.

As Judge Young, an actual judge, made clear in one of the truly essential parts of his Tuesday ruling. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...

Detailing the reality of ICE and immigration enforcement, Young wrote:

ICE has nothing whatever to do with criminal law enforcement and seeks to avoid the actual criminal courts at all costs. It is carrying a civil law mandate passed by our Congress and pressed to its furthest reach oy the President. Even so, it drapes itself in the public's understanding of the criminal law though its "warrants" are but unreviewed orders from an ICE superior and its
"immigration courts" are not true courts at all but hearings before officers who cannot challenge the legal interpretations they are given.

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Joe Ura @joeura.bsky.social · 5d

from children, held them for hours, didn't show a warrant, ransacked apartments, and deployed helicopters and drones over the neighborhood.

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Joe Ura @joeura.bsky.social · 5d

“targeted immigration enforcement operation”

Armed federal agents in
military fatigues approached or entered nearly every apartment overnight, knocked down doors, removed residents including children without allowing them to dress, separated parents...

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Joe Ura @joeura.bsky.social · 6d

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Joe Ura @joeura.bsky.social · 6d

To the extent there's constitutional logic in ICE's building sweeps, it's the same as the Kavanaugh: the Constitution provides less protection to a concentration of people of certain apparent ethnicities and professions associated with illegal immigration than others.

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 6d

It seems pointless even to say this, but the Fourth Amendment does not permit federal agents to kick down every door in an apartment building just because *some* people in that building are allegedly undocumented. Even in the unlikely event they had a warrant, warrants have to be specific.

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 6d

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 6d

I am literally begging institutions of higher education to open their eyes and recognize that they will not stop once they have extracted concessions. They will screw you, and just you think they’re going to stop, they’ll screw you again.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 6d

May the United States be inscribed for a good year in the book of life.

A year of empathy and community.

A year of peace.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

"Lutnick, in a notable break with the DOJ, claimed late pedophile Epstein was 'the greatest blackmailer ever' — and may have traded the feds video of his rich and well-connected associates getting massages from young women in exchange for a controversial 2008 plea deal."

Exclusive | Howard Lutnick tells ‘Pod Force One’ ex-neighbor Jeffrey Epstein showed off massage room, made creepy comment during townhouse tour

“This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever. … That’s how he had money,” Lutnick said on the latest episode of “Pod Force One,” out Wednesday.

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james 🐎🔫 @buffalocia.bsky.social · 6d

If the President can raise his own revenues and direct his own spending without congressional approval we are squarely in the only situation the Constitution was actually drafted to avoid: English civil war territory

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

File this under “essential function.” 🤡

#Shutdown
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