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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 9h

As soon as we start accepting "proving innocence" into our vernacular, we start normalizing really insidious and dangerous shit, especially now when that is the language being used by this administration to racially profile people.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 9h

I see a lot of people saying that a person charged with a crime deserves the chance to prove their innocence.

Please stop doing this because you have it backwards and this is really important.

It is ALWAYS the government's burden to prove a person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 31m

Not naming Lawler was a good decision.

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 8h

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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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 5h

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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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 2h

Here’s an angle for a journalist looking for a fresh take on the White House “Antifa” roundtable — most of the people who participated are employed by or have a direct financial connection to Turning Point USA. I think that’s pretty telling, no?

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 2h

He keeps asking questions like this so I feel like I'm repeating myself but, for those asking, the fuck here is Jordan Conradson, a Gateway Pundit propagandist who got his start running cover for the Cyber Ninjas "audit" & getting bossed around by Kari Lake. He also assaulted his girlfriend in 2022.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4h

Reporter: "Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending Habeus Corpus to not only deal with these insurrectionists across the nation but also to continue rapidly deporting illegal aliens?"

Trump: "I'd rather leave that to Kristi [Noem]"

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3h

I HAVE to grade but I WANT to write 1200-1500 words on Posobiec admitting the Trump administration are fascists and putting them in context of the 20th century American fascist movements.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2h

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 2h

This is really scary. If large companies start others will folllow.

Google tells employees: If you want health benefits, sign up with a third-party AI tool

Employees must provide access to a third-party AI tool to receive health benefits, sparking concerns about data privacy and consent among Googlers.

www.businessinsider.com

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 2h

My Dad gets like this in the evenings but he doesn’t control nuclear weapon launch codes or a military.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

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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TresTiffany @trestiffany.bsky.social · 8h

“What’s your barber name?” is crazy 😂

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 7h

Lmao

“we will continue to report on the actions and decision-making processes of the U.S. government without fear or favor.”

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 8h

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

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 8h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 7h

Former Oklahoma state superintendent of education Ryan Walters says that his new mission is to "destroy the teachers union." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 10h

Our New York Times Visual Investigations team is hiring a reporter. It's the same job I have -- use visual investigation/OSINT/etc. skills to report on the world.

You'll need to be based in/near NYC. Pay range is ~110-130k.

www.nytco.com/careers/job-...

Open-Source Reporter (Video Journalist), Visual Investigations | The New York Times Company

www.nytco.com

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 11h

All anyone wanted to do with OpenAI's new Sora 2 app was make clips of copyrighted characters. Now they can't, they're pissed. Literally what is the point of this app www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

www.404media.co

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 22h

“Johnson, a former journalist who reinvented himself as a Christian nationalist influencer after he was fired from BuzzFeed for plagiarism”

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

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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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

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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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 1d

Do these ones catch on fire or self crash at a higher rate than the expensive ones?

Tesla Unveils New $39,990 Version of the Model Y

Tesla Inc. introduced new versions of its top-selling models priced at under $40,000, making its main vehicles more affordable to counteract the loss of US incentives for electric cars.

www.bloomberg.com

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