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Chris Benson @thechrisbenson.com · 20m

DEEP STATE.

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 19m

Our forebearers fought and died on battlefields to protect our right to free speech from tyrants. This right is so central to the Constitution we vowed to protect that it is enshrined in the very first amendment. You will NEVER take our freedom of speech away on our watch.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 19m

these fuckin guys are literally bonkers
certifiably bonkers

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 20m

wat

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1h

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16m

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if the prosecution is just getting its hands around the evidence *after* it criminally charged the former FBI director?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7h

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 1h

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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 16m

Yeah, what a hellscape.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 37m

People are following
ICE in their cars to warn
Chicagoans

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Nation At Risk - #DefundICE #RemoveRFK Jr ❌👑🧡 @kdjs-1.bsky.social · 18m

and it's not like Trump has a problem with crime...
Trump has pardoned drug traffickers, sex traffickers, insurrectionists, crypto crooks, domestic terrorists...

www.themarshallproject.org/2025/07/28/t...

How Trump Is Flouting Government Rules on Pardons to Help Allies

Many of the president’s recent pardons violate Justice Department policies designed to ensure fairness and public safety.

www.themarshallproject.org

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 26m

“This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” said @govpritzker.illinois.gov. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head … He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.”

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

Democratic governor’s comments came as he continues to oppose President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago area for deportation efforts.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 20m

One thing I’ve noticed that I feel like I haven’t seen remarked on (doesn’t mean others haven’t) is a kind of flattening of roles. DoJ talking about running foreign ops, DoD deploying at home, DHS meeting with Kuwait, State doing a kind of all of the above thing.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2h

This is the President not only purporting to arrogate unto himself the ability to “take away free speech rights,” but also to do so for speech because it “aggravates and irritates.”

The bottom line is these people running our country are literally foreigners to the concept of democracy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2h

Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

www.nytimes.com

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meta @metatheory.bsky.social · 34m

Their financial future depends on agreeing with every lunatic thing he says.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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meta @metatheory.bsky.social · 39m

SO who are the ones he wants to hurt???

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 1h

Hakeem Jeffries came to play today as Lawler tries to confront him: "You’re not going to talk over me because you don’t want to hear what I have to say so why don’t you just keep your mouth shut."

More 👏🏼Of👏🏼This👏🏼

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 56m

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social does fact the President is living in a fantasy world, and deploying military based on delusions a problem for US? Or only a problem if he were a Democrat?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 55m

Trump: We took the freedom of speech away.
Americans: Yeah, we know.
www.pbump.net/o/even-2-in-...

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 54m

All it requires is the determination to do the right thing. The Russian military is beatable and the Russian economy is weakening

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 54m

The most frustrating thing about this war is that the US could step in forcefully now with harsh sanctions against Russia and a large military package for Ukraine with ranged weapons as the centrepiece, and the war would end soon with a Russian defeat.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1h

Me, a guy who covers a lot of protests: Uhhhhhhhh what.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1h

Some dispute over journalists "shouting" at protests.

Plaintiff attys bring up a journalist shouting "don't shoot," rather than shouting protest chants.

Govt. atty brings up the issue of presence.

"From our point of view, being at a protest can be construed" as protest activity, he says.

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EmmyEm 🇺🇸🇬🇧💙 @emmyem24.bsky.social · 1h

Or, you know, a stone cold liar and gaslighter.

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