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@lucinme.bsky.social
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Eagles fan • Dog mom • desert dweller • married • retired
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gbrockell.bsky.social
This dude’s private jet is airborne over Africa again.
gbrockell.bsky.social Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · Oct 10
NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
December 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Just for muscle memory's sake, it would be fun if everyone thought of one way to make political hay over this. Got a GOP MoC? Call them out for being the party of crime publicly. Got a MAGAt family member? Call and ask why they're freeing cocaine traffickers.
December 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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blairpaddock.bsky.social
NEW: I found 17 sheriffs in Illinois that have contracts to detain people for ICE through U.S. Marshals Service contracts. IL law explicitly prohibits these types of intergovernmental service agreements. news.wttw.com/2025/10/22/d...
Despite Illinois Sanctuary Laws, At Least 17 County Sheriffs Have Contracts to Hold People in ICE Custody
To ascertain if county jails are complying with the state’s TRUST Act, WTTW News sent Freedom of Information Act requests to each of the 90 county jails in Illinois to obtain copies of intergovernment...
news.wttw.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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elleisanisland.bsky.social
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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cbarbermd.bsky.social
“Are you telling me we can spend $40B on Argentina, $1B on Trump’s Qatar jet, $250M on Trump’s ballroom, $150M on Trump’s golf, $520M on Trump's National Guard deployments & $172M on Kristi Noem’s jets - but we can’t spend a penny on lowering our healthcare
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #EMSky
October 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
look at the framing of this story, placed in the most important position of yesterday's new york times, and tell me this newspaper isn't trying to take out the democratic party
October 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
But now Vance is on it.
October 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Plaintiffs (basically Chicago's civil society, including journalists targeted) response: "How convenient. ... Give us Bovino."

By ALL means, let's get Greg Bovino under oath about ... everything.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
4. Now, the government actually asks that Deputy Incident Commander Harvick be permitted to testify while informing that Mr. Hott is no longer going to be assigned to the “Chicago area of responsibility” is actually today—one business day before this Court has directed he testify about these incidents, and one day after Plaintiffs sought his deposition for the preliminary injunction hearing. Dkt. 55 at 2 n.2. How convenient. 5. Plaintiffs object because the government should not be allowed to play a game of hot potato with its different agencies using force against civilians in this District. Operation Midway Blitz presumably has a chain of command. Bovino, Hott, and Parra appear to be within that chain of command, and the government has submitted evidence in this and other pending cases that these individuals have knowledge of and authority over the operation. See, e.g., Dkt. 54 at 4-5 (collecting sources about Bovino’s involvement); Dkt. 35-1 (Hott Declaration); Dkt. 35-9 (Parra declaration). 6. This Court should reject the government’s effort to substitute someone lower down the chain of command withing CBP. This Court should order Hott to appear as an ICE supervisor, particularly given that the government has not represented in its filing that ICE was uninvolved. To the extent that the government is representing that a CBP supervisor is necessary, then this Court should direct Parra to appear as a CBP supervisor, in addition to Hott. To the extent that Court needs a single witness, Bonvio appears to be the functional commander of Operation Midway Blitz. See Dkt. 54 at 4-5.
October 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
On Thursday, Judge Sarah Ellis ordered that the guy in charge of ICE Chicago, Russell Hott, show up for a hearing on Monday bc ICE is violating so many parts of an order she issued last week.

On Friday, DHS decided Hott was no longer overseeing Chicago.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
2 Defendants’ counsel have been advised that Mr. Hott’s final day as Field Office Director ERO for the ICE ERO Chicago Field Office is October 17, 2025. Mr. Hott will no longer be assigned to the Chicago area of responsibility.
October 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Bessent’s friends have huge investments in Argentina.

Elon Musk does too.

Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come.

There is zero oversight. Congress not involved.

One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,
October 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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charlotteclymer.bsky.social
Holy shit.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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paulhutch.com
Looking back at old forum posts I see that since at least 2018 the GOP has successfully convinced at least 1/3rd and maybe over 2/3rds of US voters that antifa is a single organized group supported by the Democrats who show up to protests to engage in brutal violence. It's not true but it has stuck.
October 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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kcwilson.bsky.social
“Antifa” instead of “Pro Democracy”

“Defund the Police” instead of “Reform Policing”

“Pro-Abortion” instead of “Right to Choose”

I could keep going but I hope the point is clear - allowing the opposition to define you or, worse yet, adopting stupid labels is, well, stupid.
October 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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nmerhar.bsky.social
Protest organizers are also recommending that you don't lean into antifa.
October 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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willmckinley.bsky.social
"CBS is no longer independent, but under the tutelage of a conservative billionaire who is putting more than his thumb on the scale."

Kudos to Dan Rather, a 44-year veteran of CBS News, for speaking truth to power.

deadline.com/2025/10/dan-... #CBS #Paramount
Dan Rather Says Bari Weiss Hire And Skydance-Paramount Merger Mark “A Dark Day In The Halls Of CBS News”
Rather said that Weiss' hire will add to fears journalists have of losing their jobs.
deadline.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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radiofreetom.bsky.social
My man
October 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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meidastouch.com
Wow 👇
denisedwheeler.bsky.social Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · Oct 7
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 Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators
October 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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dammitdougsmith.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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truckfumpco.bsky.social
This is some of the best messaging I’ve seen so far from the Democratic Party. Please forward far and wide.

@indivisible.org
@indivisiblenoco.com
@indivisible-co.bsky.social
NOCO
#copolitics
@hcrichardson.bsky.social

Hold the line -
@hickenlooper.senate.gov
@bennet.senate.gov
October 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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radiofreetom.bsky.social
The United States is not a signatory to the ICC.
strictlychristo.bsky.social StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · Oct 1
Zohran Mamdani: “If Netanyahu comes to deliver a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next year while I am mayor, I will move to honor the ICC arrest warrant issued in The Hague against him — just as I would against Putin."
October 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump's Nutjobs to Kill Democrats

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/02/s...
Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump's Nutjobs to Kill Democrats - emptywheel
Stephen Miller just confessed on Fox News that when he uses dehumanizing language -- when he calls Democrats "fascists" or "Marxists" or "radical" -- he intends it as a message to "all the crazies and...
www.emptywheel.net
October 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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mjfree.bsky.social
TRUMP IS A PEDOPHILE!!!

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
October 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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shamalamadingbong.bsky.social
Never forget!!
September 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
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barackobama.bsky.social Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · Sep 18
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM