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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 8h

We saw this previewed with Kash Patel. Democratic members need to go into hearings anticipating this insolent behavior and be ready to counter effectively.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 16h

So Bondi plans her congressional hearings by bringing up dirt on the senators who questioned her rather than answering the questions. This is the lying schemer that is running the DOJ.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 10h

Their read on it was spot on. He was so happy to indulge in telling his story he completely lost sight of walking into the trap that makes Trump look terrible.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 11h

Ah, @brianbeutler.bsky.social sees the gambit too:

“I don’t think most Dem critics of the court have thought through how this approach can be used to give Trump a one-time only pass to break laws and steal spoils that will never apply, under their eventual precedents, to future administrations.”

The Supreme Court's Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory

If Democrats can't avoid the trap Republican justices are setting, we'll never recover from the Trump fiasco.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 11h

They've declared due process does not apply to "drug traffickers" and "terrorists."

Then they've decided they can kill them.

Then labeled his political opponents terrorists.

It doesn't take much to connect the dots here.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Trump just posted what looks like an old DOJ memo about President Kennedy’s use of the National Guard in Alabama to desegregate schools in 1963.

It’s a gross comparison, given the fact that Trump is basically George Wallace and he wants to use the Guard to invade cities, not advance civil rights.

Trump: U.S. Code. Those provisions authorize the President, when faced with such unlawful obstructions against the authority of the United States as existed in Alabama, to "call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary" (10
U.S.C. § 332) and to use
"the militia or the armed forces,
or both, or
• other means" (10 U.S.C. $ 333). The
militia of the United States includes the national guard, meaning the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of the several states. 10 U.S.C. § 311 and $ 101 (9), (10), (12) .
In furtherance of the President's order the Secretary of Defense immediately called into active military service all of the units and members of the Army National Guard and Air National Guard of the State of Alabama to serve in the active military service of the United States for an indefinite period and until relieved by appropriate orders.
This call was transmitted by the Secretary of the Army, acting by direction of, and under delegation of authority from, the Secretary of Defense.
Copies of the Department
of the Army message (No. D.A. 340638, June 11, 1963) were furnished immediately to the Governor of Alabama and to the commanding officers of the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of the State of Alabama.
It is apparent that the Alabama National Guard was properly called into federal service pursuant to 10 U.S.C.
§5 332-4, and in accordance with the procedure provided in those sections. Since the call to federal service did not invoke the authority of 10 U.S.C. $ 3500, referred to by Mr. Bowen, the procedure prescribed by that section was
not
used.
I trust that the foregoing information will be of
assistance to you.
Sincerely,
¡enera.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 12h

They had to buy the Post, gut the newsroom, and restaff with reactionary grifters that don't deserve to carry their predecessors' dirty socks; that was the only way to remake the paper, because they were never gonna get through the front door on merit.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 12h

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo??

Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 13h

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

This made me laugh so hard. Second screenshot is of the video posted by Benny Johnson of the event.

Benny Johnson « @bennyjohnson
X.com
BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stares down army of Antifa and a guy in a chicken suit from the rooftop of the ICE facility here in Portland.
Noem says:
"Hey; Guy in the chicken suit. You can do better.
Too bad they are uneducated and ill-informed."
Noem isn't chicken: [chicken emoji]

A view from the roof of the building. There are about 15-20 people visible in total, several of whom appear to be reporters. Most are holding signs. They aren’t even taking up the whole sidewalk. One guy is wearing a chicken suit.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 12h

I'm a facist, as in, I think ICE agents should show their faces.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 12h

Cowabunga, 10/10.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 13h

The guy did a desk pop.

Aryeh @aryehcw.bsky.social · 13h

There are people on here who complain that NYT headlines are written to be friendly to Trump

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 13h

When my grandmother died in 2012 a few months shy of 92, at her service the priest noted all the change which her life encompassed from 1918 to 2012, especially considering how much occurred in the 20th century.

Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 13h

This is wild.

A video posted to social media by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) portrayed the raid at 7500 S. South Shore as a military-style operation to capture young brown men. In reality, 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.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 13h

The former probably leads to the latter, tbh

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 13h

Trump generates clicks and sells books and these people refuse to believe the Overton Window shifted, stuck in a mindset that "it can't happen here."

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 13h

Taking over a podcast and declaring a Thousand Year Reich.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 13h

Some scoops in here: Adam O'Neal is telling people he will helm The WaPo's flagship opinion podcast, spending upwards of four hours a day on it. He's also indicated, per a source, that he plans to remain in his current job for decades. www.status.news/p/washington...

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 13h

So this is *your* fault. Got it.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 13h

Separating them by what now?

Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social · 15h

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 13h

B: You took money from someone who knew Epstein!

Jeffrey Epstein called Trump his "best friend."

Pam Bondi regularly failed Epstein victims as Florida attorney general.

I mean, come on.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 13h

There were like a dozen haymaker counterpunches Whitehouse could have swung at Bondi here and instead of "uh, um" stammering.

Democratic members need to understand these hearings are not going to be polite sparring. These Trump ghouls are there to earn points with Trump and his lunatic base.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 16h

These dudes got Pete Hegseth big mad

Military personnel in uniform, with the Texas National Guard patch on, are seen at the U.S. Army Reserve Center, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, in Elwood, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 18h

Churchill was a racist shit but damn if that speech isn't rousing as hell.

And even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 18h

“In one case, a Florida state trooper tried to tase a US citizen in a vehicle stop as the citizen shouted, ‘I’m from here!’

'You’ve got no rights here. You’re illegal, brother,’ a trooper is heard saying on video, a phrase that is simultaneously factually incorrect and deeply chilling.”

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 18h

Another successful “Kavanaugh Stop,” just as the good Justice intended!

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 18h

Familiar with that move. I've been pulled over as a teenager and told by the cop that my ID was fake to match the car registration (I bought my dad's Camaro off him and he put it in my name) until the cop's partner called him off.

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 18h

When US citizen Leo Garcia Venegas tried to prove his identity by showing federal agents his REAL ID, they dismissed it as a fake and kept him detained, releasing him only after they bothered to run his Social Security number.

Just a few weeks later, they detained him again:

Mass Deportation Is A Threat To Us All

Aided by the Supreme Court and the insidious "Kavanaugh stop," the administration's chaotic mass deportation operations are sweeping up Americans – including children and U.S. military veterans.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

We’re getting very used to this but the statement is unusually unhinged.

Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 23h

Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."

"Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people," said Attorney General Paxton. "The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America.
There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells. To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."
The radical Left has incubated an environment where political violence is not only justified but celebrated and praised. In July, nearly two dozen armed leftists connected to various Texas-based Antifa-like groups ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") facility in Alvarado, Texas. On September 10, 2025, a leftist assassin connected to the radical transgender movement murdered Charlie Kirk because of Kirk's bold support for truth, love of country, and unshakable faith. Two weeks later, another deranged leftist opened fire at an ICE facility in Dallas.
President Donald Trump has officially designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and instructed his administration to "utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa." Building on President Trump's bold actions, Attorney General Paxton has instructed his office to initiate sweeping investigations into radical leftist organizations engaged in or providing support to those performing political violence.

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