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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 1h

Plot twist: it's the Demon Spawn lady.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 5h

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Elena @loverhersports50.bsky.social · 10h

A criminal thinking he's fit to judge others is disgusting.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

BEHN: “Feed kids. Fix roads. And fund hospitals. Instead of handing out corporate tax breaks.”

TN-07 Democratic nominee @aftynbehn.bsky.social puts her people-first priorities front and center in a high-energy victory speech

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J.D. Scholten @jdscholten.bsky.social · 23h

Amen! 🇺🇸

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

BEHN: “Feed kids. Fix roads. And fund hospitals. Instead of handing out corporate tax breaks.”

TN-07 Democratic nominee @aftynbehn.bsky.social puts her people-first priorities front and center in a high-energy victory speech

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

Setting aside the absurdly xenophobic framing, once again, there is ZERO truth to any of this. Everyone qualifies for Emergency Medicaid equally. Hospitals do not receive more for treating undocumented immigrants in an emergency than Americans. Speaker Johnson is flatly wrong.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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justme113.bsky.social @justme113.bsky.social · 1d

If you are armchair politicking and have negative views on PM Carney’s meeting at the Whitehouse,take a breath.
He’s dealing with a completely unhinged, narcissistic baby felon who has sights on our country.
He has to handle it carefully.
It’s called diplomacy.

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 1d

“Rather than combating the rapid spread of health misinformation with facts and clarity, Kennedy is amplifying it...The consequences aren’t abstract. They are measured in lives lost, disease outbreaks and an erosion of public trust that will take years to rebuild:”
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Six former surgeons general warn that RFK Jr. is ‘endangering the health of the nation’

This is the first time six former surgeons general have linked arms and urged the public to recognize the nation’s health secretary as dangerous.

www.msnbc.com

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Michellemybelle @michellemitch.bsky.social · 10h

Follow Jack for religion news. Religion is behind or related to so many issues, both political and social. His stories are always interesting and informative.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

BTW: if you're wondering why you haven't heard much about this, it's partly because there aren't many religion reporters.

But @rns.org — a small, independent, nonprofit newsroom — covers stories like these across the country.

Like our coverage? Consider supporting us: religionnews.com/donate/

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Heidi Schlumpf @heidischlumpf.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you to Jack Jenkins for this report on religious protesters in Chicago and how they're being treated. @jackjenkins.me

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Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 10h

Shades of the Aurora, CO Tren de Aragua origin story.

Similar scapegoating there by another neglectful landlord.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13h

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

With apologies, because it’s scary, because it really is scary: latest in my project of messing with stills from ICE vids. Stylizing them to sharpen the focus on the aesthetic project of fascist terror. Chicago today, aiming at a protester named Jess, for documenting him.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "This president is unstable, unhinged, a double-minded individual that quite frankly is a threat to our democracy. It's certainly not the first time that Donald Trump has called for the arresting of a Black man unjustly."

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 10h

This is NOT making Chicago safer. And this must NOT be what America is.👇

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Michellemybelle @michellemitch.bsky.social · 10h

Media needs to Call them out..

Danilo, Juicero Aspect 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 11h

They’ve been running this scam since 2017, and the media needs to be smarter about cornering them on it

any time there’s a question like this suddenly they’ve been in a cave with no cell service for 48 hours

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 11h

I love how Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House and #2 in line for the presidency, is always like, “What? News?! I never read or hear anything that happens in the world, anywhere. I’m totally offline. What even is ‘social media’? They play news all day on TV!? Wow! That’s a surprise!”

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Danilo, Juicero Aspect 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 11h

They’ve been running this scam since 2017, and the media needs to be smarter about cornering them on it

any time there’s a question like this suddenly they’ve been in a cave with no cell service for 48 hours

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 11h

I love how Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House and #2 in line for the presidency, is always like, “What? News?! I never read or hear anything that happens in the world, anywhere. I’m totally offline. What even is ‘social media’? They play news all day on TV!? Wow! That’s a surprise!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 11h

NEWS: Ranking Members Raskin and Swalwell issued the following statement on Senate Republicans’ latest attacks on the Department of Justice’s investigation and prosecution of Trump and his co-conspirators for their criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Ranking Members Raskin, Swalwell Statement on Senate Republicans’ Misdirected Outrage Regarding DOJ’s Investigation of the Criminal Conspiracy to Overturn the 2020 Presidential Election

Washington, D.C. (October 8, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, Ranking Member of the Select Subcommittee to Investigate the Remaining Questions Surrounding January 6, 2021, released the following statement on Senate Republicans’ latest attacks on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigation and prosecution of Donald Trump and his co-conspirators for their efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election:

democrats-judiciary.house.gov

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Really looking forward to the @jasonleopold.bsky.social FOIA for the staffer's notes who put this together, DURING a shutdown.

Not least bc (as @whitehouse.senate.gov noted), the Reid Hoffman slur was false.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

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

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

thank you brett kavanaugh!

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

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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.

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 14h

"That’s is the thing about corruption. It is the price of admission and the reward for loyalty. But it also a double-edged sword when you fall out of favor." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/h...

How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller - emptywheel

By indicting the first of Trump's FBI Directors and preparing to frame the second, Kash Patel may have signed his own arrest warrant.

www.emptywheel.net

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Michellemybelle @michellemitch.bsky.social · 12h

Examples of what Nobel Prize winners achieve in order to deserve their Nobel.

Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 12h

A trio of scientists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a form of molecular architecture that packs vast amounts of space into tiny structures – which the committee likened to Hermione Granger’s handbag in the Harry Potter novels.

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Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to scientist trio for Harry Potter-like work in molecular architecture | CNN

A trio of scientists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” a form of molecular architecture that packs vast amounts of space into tiny structur...

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 21h

Yes on 50!

The days of Democrats taking what they perceive to be the moral highroad, as Republicans dismantle American democracy, are over.

Thank goodness Gavin Newsom is taking real action and fighting fire with fire.

New Dems for a new era.

Peter Paige @thepeterpaige.bsky.social · 21h

YES ON 50, CALIFORNIA!

It's a temporary solution to what will become an intractable problem if it doesn't pass. We cannot let Trump and the GOP steal unrestrained power. It's bad enough that SCOTUS refuses to rein him in - if he is able to commandeer Congress, democracy is over for US.

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