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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 33m

"official communications of legislators are not supposed to be seized by the executive except in extraordinary circumstances"

Does a president attempting to stay in office illegally by getting others to falsify the results of an election not count as extraordinary circumstances?

Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 2h

I believe the person who says they have to wear a gas mask in their house, but the protesters aren't the ones indiscriminately throwing tear gas everywhere. They should be blaming ICE.

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Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social · 7h

This is a nightmare.

PoPville @popville.bsky.social · 9h

No good deed my friends... "Everyone seems to be hanging on to the railing for dear life": www.popville.com/2025/10/no-g...

MBT PSA: “Watch that first step, if you can see it.” - PoPville

"Dear PoPville, Somebody thought it would be a good idea to paint a mural on the stairs at the end of the MBT in NoMa on L Street NE. The pattern makes it very hard to tell one step from another. Ever...

www.popville.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23h

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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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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23h

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversaw a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, TN, with a staggering history of throwing children in jail.

In one case, 11 Black children, as young as 8, were arrested for a crime that doesn't exist.

Revisit our 2021 story w/ @wpln.bsky.social:

Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem t...

www.propublica.org

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 21h

Yes. Aside from the way it looks, it's not on the previous photo, which is of the same page. Adding it was a bad idea.

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 21h

That's text added to the photo, since it doesn't appear in the previous photo of the same page (and its appearance should be enough to make it obvious anyway). Adding it was a bad idea, since it makes it easier for people to claim the whole thing is fake.

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 23h

Remarkably similar to DC's special election in July (except that it didn't return someone to office who'd been expelled after being indicted for accepting a bribe).

Special Election 2025 - Certified Results
Election Date: Tuesday, July 15th 2025

WARD EIGHT MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

DEM Trayon White Sr. 2,392 27.72%
DEM Mike Austin 2,103 24.37%
DEM Sheila Bunn 2,140 24.8%
DEM Salim Adofo 1,932 22.39%
Write-in 63 0.73%

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 1d

I was afraid you meant they were asking Grok who to fire. Not sure that would be much worse than the polygraph.

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 1d

"The president is unhinged. He is unwell."
"A lot of folks on your side are too."
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/...

"The president is unhinged": Dem Rep. confronts Johnson about Trump

WATCH: Rep. Madeleine Dean (PA-D) confronted Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (LA-R) in the halls of the Capitol on Tuesday about President Trump's recent speech to military leaders. "The president i...

www.msnbc.com

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 1d

She's quietly supporting herself behind the scenes. She doesn't want to make a public announcement because in the past her endorsement has been the kiss of death.

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 1d

Clear discrimination against Gary Goodweather and Anthony Muhammad.

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Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 1d

I've never seen anything like this in the history of American Families United. 💔

Please read this heartbreaking story of one of our deeply loved members and leaders, Julie Moreno, who just landed back in New Jersey this afternoon from a trip to Mexico.

Here's her story... 🧵 (Then please amplify.)

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1d

Have you have been following the Defense Department's attempt to prevent reporters with credentials from publishing anything that hasn't been approved? Well, by sticking together they appear to have won that fight. But there's more coming. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b... [gift article]

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Andria in DC @antzzz10.bsky.social · 1d

We need a Congress that works for constituents and the country instead of picking petty fights for fundraising email talking points.

Michelle Chappell she/her @michellechap76.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a fun fact for week 2 of the federal shutdown:

Number of appropriations bills passed by the House this year: 3

Number of anti-DC bills passed by the House this year: 7

Even when the House was in session, Republicans were spending time harassing DC instead of doing their jobs #FreeDC

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Alex Koma @alexkoma.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, we haven’t had one of these news cycles in a while: I hear someone is polling about a potential Jack Evans challenge to Phil Mendelson next year.

Most 2026 speculation has been about a challenge to Mendo’s left, but Evans would be running to his right…

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Shaun Barnes @scbesque.bsky.social · 1d

Important piece from @brianbeutler.bsky.social One feature of conservatives’ refusal to provide any reasoning in emergency docket orders is it allows to see which way the political winds are blowing when they finally rule on the merits & adjust outcomes as needed

open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 1d

Among other things the reason is apparently "time spent looking at the CCTV footage", indicating that BTP have *still* not understood the binary chop algorithm despite having it explained to them by numerous angry computer science professors.

Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 1d

The British Transport Police (BTP) says it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

seeing otherwise smart people share the story that a south carolina judge’s beach house was burned to the ground because of a ruling against trump despite there being no evidence of that has been frustrating. just because the other side has abandoned facts doesn’t mean we can, too.

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 1d

True.

Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 1d

Immergut herself is a Trump appointee though. Remember the judges he chose in his first term were mostly not members of the cult (with a few exceptions). All is not lost yet.

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 1d

What percentage of the times he's said "low IQ" has he been referring to a Black person, especially a Black woman?

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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 1d

This for more is as much confirmation as you can get that there isn't some secret evidence they have. There is (or was, as of 2/3/25) over 150 lawyers in USAO EDVA, the vast majority of which are federal prosecutors, and not ONE would assist on this? That's a "facts don't support the law" problem.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 1d

I've had this experience too when hallucinated bibliographies cite to me - the entries are so much the least surprising prediction that I'm not sure for a minute whether I wrote the damn thing or not.

Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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