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K.M. Kowalski @kmkowalski.bsky.social · 1d

The guidelines were unconstitutional in the first place.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: The Pentagon loosened its new press restrictions after weeks of negotiations with national news organizations.

Pentagon Relaxes Press Access Rules

Under new guidelines, journalists will not need approval from the Defense Department before publishing articles containing information not officially released.

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K.M. Kowalski @kmkowalski.bsky.social · 2d

Decarbonization work sails ahead at the Port of Cleveland and elsewhere on the Great Lakes. @canarymedia.com @ejtodaynews.bsky.social www.canarymedia.com/articles/sea...

Major Midwest port begins electrifying operations to reduce emissions

The Port of Cleveland is adding charging ports, batteries, and solar to its main warehouse — work funded by a federal program that has so far survived…

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 3d

The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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K.M. Kowalski @kmkowalski.bsky.social · 3d

Bugs Bunny cartoons often used classical music, such as The Barber of Seville.

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K.M. Kowalski @kmkowalski.bsky.social · 3d

While you might have caught the episode later as a rerun, Gilligan’s Island’s 3 seasons were squarely in the 60s.
That said, 60s sitcoms were awesome.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 3d

How exactly is this different from Kristallnacht?

Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 4d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 4d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 3d

There was clearly no physical threat. He just didn’t like what she had to say.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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K.M. Kowalski @kmkowalski.bsky.social · 3d

If it isn’t already a crime for a guy heading up the executive branch to order something the Supreme Court said is unconstitutional, then it should be. And shame on all lawmakers & judges who don’t call home out for it.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

Spot on.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

This Sunday, we’re SHREDDING 🎸

Join me (or someone who looks a lot like me) at one of two locations to safely dispose of old bills, bank statements and documents you no longer need.

+ DJs, family portraits and frozen treats.

12-3pm in Harlem and the Bronx. Details in the video ⬇️

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K.M. Kowalski @kmkowalski.bsky.social · 3d

And if only journalists would report on the importance of people getting such a vaccine.

www.snexplores.org/article/vacc...

Vaccines help everyone — even the unvaccinated

Vaccines are safe and save lives. But when people say no to them, there can be big — and even deadly — costs to their families and many others, too.

www.snexplores.org

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 6d

Swear her in.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d

I’m confused how it is despicable to ask that question. These are exactly the kinds of questions we have been begging reporters & TV hosts to ask. You see when they do get asked how sensitive they are about it. Much, much more of this. More crypto questions, Qatar, UAE, etc bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Q: How did the White House decide it was appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia -- 3 countries combined that have given him more than $2.5b

LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6d

Just naked and brazen corruption. All states represented by Democrats in the Senate.

Time to stiffen our spines and demand that we only fund a government that obeys the law.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 7d

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising

www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Robert Daniel Pickard @notpickard.com · 7d

why does this tool even exist??

oh right
techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/t...

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 7d

It's fucking fascism is what it is

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7d

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.

My story:

Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown

Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."

www.thehandbasket.co

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Coleman Rogers @colemanrogers.com · 8d

Congress must not pass a budget unless it protects ACA subsidies, releases the Epstein files, and addresses Trump’s unconstitutional impoundment of funds. Text SIGN PFPWUB to 50409 or go to
resist.bot/petitions/PF... @resist.bot @campaigns.resist.bot #resist #resisttrump #fucktrump #indivisible

No Budget Without Healthcare Protection, Epstein Files, and Fiscal Control

Text SIGN PFPWUB to 50409 to send this to your officials.

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Kevin Rector @kevrector.bsky.social · 7d

Judge halts Trump administration cuts to disaster aid for ‘sanctuary’ states

www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Judge halts Trump administration cuts to disaster aid for 'sanctuary' states

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily halted a Trump administration plan to reduce disaster aid for states with so-called 'sanctuary' policies for undocumented immigrants.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7d

Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing.

“In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”

And there's the issue of masks. This Court has listened
carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk's captors for masking-
up and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd
Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as
disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a
single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small
wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard
them
as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It
should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks.
Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and
honor still matters.
To us, masks are associated with cowardly
desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we
have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.
Carrying on
in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this
administration and everyone who works in it
"We can not escape
history," Lincoln righty said. "[It] will light us down in
honor or dishonor, to the latest generation." Abraham Lincoln,
Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862) .
Perhaps we're now afraid to stick our necks out. If the
distinguished Homeland Security intelligence agency can be
weaponized to squelch the free speech rights of a small, hapless
group of non-citizens in our midst, so too can the Federal Home
Loan Mortgage Corporation, and the audit divisions of the I.R.s.
and the Social Security Administration be unconstitutionally
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 8d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9d

So now we're back to *not* ascribing one person's actions to a whole political movement. It's dizzying I tell you!

David Earl Williams III @dewforpolitics.bsky.social · 9d

2 dead, 8+ hurt after Thomas Sanford of Burton, MI, rammed a truck into a Mormon church, opened fire, and set it ablaze before police killed him. His home had a Trump–Vance 2024 sign and FB shows years of pro-Trump posts. Motive unconfirmed, but points to far-right politics.

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