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onion person @junlper.beer · 2h

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

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3h

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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JRGrif @jrkanji1.bsky.social · 2h

Over my dead body

ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: Just a week after Houston's rainbow crosswalk was repainted, Gov. Greg Abbott, seemingly at the urging of Brian Harrison and Libs of TikTok, is declaring war on Texas' rainbow crosswalks: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Texas governor to cities: remove rainbow crosswalks or lose funding

Greg Abbott is following Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in declaring war on rainbow paint.

www.chron.com

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 2h

CA9 grants Trump’s request for an admin stay of Judge Immergut’s first TRO, sets next-day oral args on Trump’s full stay request.

The bipartisan, unanimous panel (Clinton/Trump/Trump) says Trump still can’t deploy OR NG bc he didn’t appeal her 2nd TRO.

cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 3h

"We took freedom of speech away" is probably the most honest thing Trump has said or done in a long time

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3h

In an ordinary time, this would be an impeachable offense. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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JRGrif @jrkanji1.bsky.social · 3h

Great get Sharon! I am listening the moment it drops

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h

Softening up the public. If they’re saying they’re talking about it, they’re going to use it.

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 4h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 4h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4h

The sigh I expel when you undermine the whole “without fear or favor” part by using Trump and Hegseth’s make-believe name for the Defense Department.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 5h

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

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 4h

This man is a domestic terrorist. Why is he only charged with destruction by fire? No different than a school shooter. Killed 12 people, too.

Rinderknecht used his iPhone to take videos at the Hidden Buddha clearing and listened to a French rap song "Un Zder, Un The," according to the affidavit. The music video for the song, which the affidavit described as about despair and bitterness, shows a trash can being lit on fire. Rinderknecht had listened to the song nine times in the four days before he allegedly set the fire, the affidavit said.

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 5h

FBI fires special agents who worked on Jack Smith's probe into Trump

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

FBI fires special agents who worked on Jack Smith's probe into Trump

The three agents were fired after Kash Patel disclosed that Jack Smith's team obtained phone records of members of Congress, which the Smith report itself referenced.

www.nbcnews.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

Sickening.

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 8h

The Dallas area Palestinian Youth Movement reported yesterday that Ya'Kub Ira, an activist and martial arts instructor, was abducted by ICE despite Ira's legal status under DACA.

"This is the second unexpected arrest of someone with proximity to the Palestine movement in the past two weeks."

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 8h

This is not what democracy looks like. Anyone who cares at all about the Constitution has to take a stand against this and against MAGA.

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JRGrif @jrkanji1.bsky.social · 19h

Ahhhhhhhhhhh

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 22h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 23h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.

American citizens are being detained & brutalized.

This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

www.pbs.org

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 22h

spent half the last inning laughing at the budweiser crown being over the pitchers head every pitch

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 1d

See that small, moving splotch?

That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS

last Friday

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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STROSFANiknow @strosfaniknow.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re mad about a crosswalk then I suggest logging off and getting a fucking life

Houston Public Media @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 1d

Houston reinstated the rainbow crosswalks in Montrose. Some conservative leaders are calling for its removal.

Conservative leaders call for removal of Montrose rainbow crosswalks, days after they were reinstated

A post from “Libs of TikTok” on X has been viewed more than three million times and shared by thousands of users. Governor Greg Abbott’s office said he wants Texas cities to comply with federal guidelines.

www.houstonpublicmedia.org

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 1d

This is personalism. It's the Charles I scenario -- the king rules without the a legislature and simply taxes and spends in whatever way he feels like.

Impeach, remove, disqualify.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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