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Kate Sills

@katelynsills.com

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Book lover, writer, gardener, hiker, farm kid, terrible skier. Software engineer. Atheist, anarchist, anti-authoritarian.

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Kate Sills @katelynsills.com · Mar 6

I don't know why the press doesn't have his photo yet, but this is what Nikhil Rajpal looks like. I know him from Berkeley. He's part of DOGE, and if you're a government employee, you should not let him into your office.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

“.. On Sept. 20, Trump meant to send a private message to Attorney General Pam Bondi urging her to prosecute” Comey.

“.. Trump believed he had sent Bondi the message directly .. and was surprised to learn it was public, the officials said.” 🤡

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

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 3h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 7h

ICE brought a videographer to record its criminality.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 1h

BREAKING: I just forced a vote with Senator Kaine to block the unauthorized boat strikes in the Caribbean.

In an important step forward, the vote was bipartisan, even if it fell two votes short.

Bipartisan measure to restrict Trump’s war powers fails in Senate

A bipartisan Senate resolution to restrain Trump’s ability to wage war against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers failed in a 48-51 vote.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 6h

I prefer governments that don’t try to “take the freedom of speech away.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 12h

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.

If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 6h

Impeachable offenses committed publicly and on TV are still impeachable offenses.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

SORTOR: I took this flag from the man that was burning it in the street

TRUMP: Do you know who he is?

SORTOR: Oh yeah

TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 6h

NEW: A Ninth Circuit panel temporarily permits the federalization but NOT the deployment of National Guard troops in Oregon, in advance of tomorrow's oral arguments.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In the circumstances here, granting an administrative stay will best preserve the status quo. Prior to the October 4 temporary restraining order, Oregon National Guard members had been federalized but not deployed. The Memorandum
authorized federalization of the Oregon National Guard members. An
administrative stay of the October 4 temporary restraining order will maintain the
federalization of Oregon National Guard members, because that order prohibits
implementation of the Memorandum. Additionally, the second temporary
restraining order has not been challenged or appealed, and it prohibits the
deployment of National Guard members in Oregon. Thus, the effect of granting an administrative stay preserves the status quo in which National Guard members have been federalized but not deployed.
Administrative Stay GRANTED.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6h

Posobiec isn't a nazi in some generic rhetorical sense of having fascistic impulses or simply being far-right. He is a full-blown Hitler-loving Jew-hating mask-off literal capital-N Nazi, with a longstanding public record to match.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

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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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Charles Johnson Antifa ID Confirmed @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 2h

It’s a criminal administration populated by sycophants, weirdos, grifters, and hardcore gutter racists.

Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 3h

We are ruled by criminal morons

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bmaz @bmaz.bsky.social · 4h

Is Trump going to have Americans extrajudicially executed in their homes?

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

Another ambulance arrives at the detention center. Presuming it could be the one from earlier returning, but either way, a grim reminder of what's happening behind the gates and boarded up windows.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 2h

every time you see a man with the pork sweats lecturing on what “women really want,” remember that the ideal father is whoever this guy is.

i don’t even want kids but like: this is who you have ‘em with!

Sass Transylvania🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @thesasstransit.bsky.social · 3h

Timeline cleanse.

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Kelly² @anarchakelly.bsky.social · 2h

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h

Dizzying how some of the biggest doofuses who skulked around the most feverish, fetid corners of the internet now whisper in the ears of the people who run the government.

Ten years ago, Posobiec was an Infowars clown who was throwing out 1488s and parenthesizing Jews on Twitter.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6h

Antisemitic, pro-Putin, in league with white nationalists, promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory - and now being platformed by the president of the United States

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3h

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3h

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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