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Neera Tanden @neeratanden.bsky.social · 4d

I could not eat them. 😔

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that?

MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement

STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 8d

OK y'all. Democrats are holding strong and now IT'S OUR JOB TO HAVE THEIR BACKS and demand Republicans stop the Trump shutdown.

Start here:

indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

STOP THE TRUMP SHUTDOWN

indivisible.org

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 8d

Me and @Eleanor_Mueller on how little the shutdown threat is mattering to voters - as seen most vividly in the NJGov/VAGov races.

CW is that Dems will be hurt by a shutdown, and might want to avoid it to protect Spanberger/Sherill. Not so! www.semafor.com/article/09/3...

US shutdown isn’t landing in key 2025 elections

In Virginia and New Jersey, both parties see other advantages and are making other campaign plans.

www.semafor.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13d

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

PARTIES3. Plaintiff José Escobar Molina is a 47-year-old man who has lived in D.C. for 25 years. He has maintained valid Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for El Salvador since 2001. On August 21, 2025, Mr. Escobar Molina was walking from his apartment building in Northwest D.C.to his work truck, about to start his workday, when two cars pulled up next to him. As he was about to get into his truck, plain-clothed and unidentified federal agents exited the cars and—without conducting any inquiry—seized Mr. Escobar Molina, grabbing him by the arms and legs and immediately handcuffing him. The agents arrested him without a warrant and without asking for his name, his identification, or anything about his immigration status. The agents also did not ask him where he lives, whom he lives with, how long he has lived here, or anything else about his ties to the community prior to arresting him. After ICE detained Mr. Escobar Molina overnight at its processing center in Chantilly, Virginia, the next day an ICE supervisor finally realized that he had valid TPS, which statutorily prohibits ICE from detaining him, and released him. Due tohis Latino ethnicity, Mr. Escobar Molina fears being arrested and detained again while going about his daily life in D.C.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15d

Trump just threatened to sue ABC again for allowing Jimmy Kimmel back on the air, which is SUPER weird, because all of these Republicans said that the decision to pull Kimmel’s show was a “business decision.”

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15d

Jimmy Kimmel: "Most of all, I want to thank the people who don’t support my show and what I believe, but support my right to share those beliefs anyway."

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15d

Whatever else you think of him, I don't think he is insincere about this stuff, and it should be recognized as extraordinary that he, Pritzker, and other governors are talking about the federal government in these terms. It's not normal political rhetoric, it's the language of existential emergency.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Newsom: "I fear that we will not have an election in 2028 -- I really mean that in the core of my soul -- unless we wake up to the code red, what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is."

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 15d

Tonight @jimmykimmel.com and Disney stood up for free speech and our constitution.

They are going toe to toe with an authoritarian president who is threatening all of our freedoms.

Kimmel and Disney deserve our full support going forward. Let’s show them they have it and win this for freedom.

Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 15d

As I was saying…

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16d

Breaking News: The Secret Service said it had discovered a cache of devices — more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers — that could have disrupted the cellular network ahead of the UN General Assembly.

Cache of Devices Capable of Crashing Cell Network Is Found Near U.N.

The Secret Service discovered more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers, which could disable cellular towers or be used to conduct surveillance.

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