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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 20h

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1h

*10/8/2025 noncooperation thread*

Back of the Yards is a ~65% Hispanic/Latine neighborhood in Chicago - and hey now! Look what I found!

The website & phone number for Friedman Real Estate in Michigan: friedmanrealestate.com/property-sea...

888-848-1671

brb I have to make a phone call

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 19h

The feds have been using a Back of the Yards Plaza for staging and other operations. Activists are calling on out of town (Michigan) management Friedman Real Estate to block ICE operations on their property. A story from SW side. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/b...

Back of the Yards activists call on shopping plaza to block ICE operations on their property

Activists said they have seen federal immigration agents repeatedly use the shopping center at 46th Street and Damen Avenue for staging, sometimes as early as 6 a.m.

www.chicagotribune.com

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 44m

a fortunate quirk is that doing food and medical support for impoverished children, foreign and domestic, *also* is about the biggest bang it is possible to get for our buck.

so you can analyze aid on a moral basis or a realpolitik basis and you get the same answer: we should do it

Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 46m

Here's the thing. I am a lucky person and pay a fair bit in taxes. I can think of no better use for my tax dollars than feeding children, because I think all people are equally deserving of basic humanity.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 47m

(there are even boats which are steered entirely by rowing! steering and rowing are, basically, really bad examples of two activities that can be separated)

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 48m

it's just struck me that "steering not rowing", the slogan always used to describe New Public Management, is a metaphor that could only have been come up with by someone who had never rowed crew. The cox is always having to work with and understand the oars!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 40m

A tweet from Mayor Brandon Johnson says Trump has tried to unjustly arrest a Black man and he’s not going anywhere. A reply from Donald Trump says the Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 2h

Y2K was real. You weren’t impacted because the IT industry expended massive effort to update every piece of critical software that was written prior to the problem’s recognition.

Miss J @morelovelessus.bsky.social · 8h

Superb idea.
We could take a moment and remember the Y2K scam … and the one where when your phone stopped working they told you it was because your hand got sweaty …. Ah Tech they are such trickers

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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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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2h

and when I said “the violence is already here” I also meant: the actual police

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h

What we’re seeing now is not people “[beginning] to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army”—the federal agents are becoming an occupying army, and the violence is theirs. The violence is already here.

Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 15h

Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 10h

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Leslie Gray Streeter @lesliegraystreeter.bsky.social · 2h

Hey Maryland parents! I know we were told we weren't supposed to expect applause - AND I DON'T - but sometimes I think it's healthy to celebrate small wins and say "Yeah, I did that like a boss." I'd like to talk about that for Baltimore Banner. DM me here or at [email protected] !!

a woman wearing a white trench coat is talking on a cell phone

ALT: a woman wearing a white trench coat is talking on a cell phone

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2h

Florida cops were investigating James O’Gara, a Vietnam vet, because he had sent the state CFO a postcard that said, “You lack values.”

Said his wife: “I expected them to show up eventually because I’m an organizer, and it follows the state of play these days"

www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/10/07/a...

Armed investigators visit man who sent postcard critical of Florida CFO Ingoglia

The politically active couple expected a knock on their door because of their criticism of Trump and DeSantis, but not over a seemingly innocuous postcard.

www.sun-sentinel.com

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 2h

I do actually think making Miller more and more salient is a good thing, as he’s an unpleasant, sweaty little fascist rat and i find it hard to imagine the public will be charmed

🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 2h

As increasing attention focuses on Stephen Miller's unhinged rants, he risks making himself—like Elon Musk—a toxic figure w/o the loyal fan base his boss enjoys.

While 47 blames the left for violence (statistically false), one wonders how long he will let Miller stomp all over his messaging.

Stephen Miller is the Poster Boy for the Rabid MAGA Movement

The more voters see of him, the more repulsed they’ll be

open.substack.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 2h

They spelled Epstein wrong: www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/p...

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, sources say | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, and New York to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia ...

www.cnn.com

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2h

I'm Going To Transition The Windmills

Bloody Marla 🏳️‍⚧️ @desperatemarlas.bsky.social · 17h

trump: transgenders and windmills all over the place

This is a real quote. This is the most horrific thing he can conjure up

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2h

Resistance to authoritarianism is a coordination game. That's why universities and law firms and nonprofits can't let themselves be picked off one by one. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Anne Caprara @annecaprara.bsky.social · 3h

Greg has correctly articulated our theory of the case - and accurately laid out the one battleground on which Governors and other electeds can successfully fight the feds, other than the courts (and there is delicate strategy there as well that I’m not sure everyone fully appreciates.)

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 2h

I think it's telling that the reaction of DHS / ICE is so over-the-top.

nypost.com/2025/10/08/u...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

i love this fucking city, i have been here ten years and if i am lucky, i will get at least another ten or twenty, but, today, this city made a fucking fool of the entire department of homeland security.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 12h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · 3h

This. Read Burke!

Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 4h

I understand that Kemi Badenoch hates people like me and wants to stop more of us being formed, but even on conservative terms she’s a fool. If she’d read some Burke she might be skeptical that a nation can be held together with business studies and comp sci

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Sarah M. - Blerdy Baddie @killianfantasy.bsky.social · 3h

For the morning crowd: I'm one of the federal workers affected by the shutdown. I'm the sole earner of my family rn and have no idea when I'll get paid again.

Sarah M. - Blerdy Baddie @killianfantasy.bsky.social · 1d

Since I'm going to be broke as a joke for a little while, I'd love to get some work. I'd love to do covers but I do fantasy maps and pinups too. Or if you just want to help out, here's how:

www.ko-fi.com/sarahamacklin
paypal.me/SarahAMacklin
📧 [email protected]

Storm from the X-men in a night sky with a lightning bolt striking her outstretched right hand.

The Marvel comics villain Taskmaster in the conspiracy wall meme pose. His wall has pictures of other Marvel characters and papers with items and subjects from the Marvel universe.

Four older women in their fifties stand menacingly on a staircase. The closest on the left is in a pink shirt and jeans, holding a gun. She has white hair, fair skin and green eyes.The woman on the right is of persian decent and is holding magical fire in her left hand. The next closest on is Black with a blue shirt and jeans. She's adjusting her glasses. The woman farthest away is grinning wildly up with an orange aura around her.

In a dark ominous cave three Black women adventurers walk along while a huge spider lurks behind them. The woman closest to the viewer is dressed like a warrior with a west African styled sword and purple, brown, and red outfit. She holds a lit torch. The woman in the middle is very short, wielding a large ornate axe and wearing furs and leathers. The woman to the rear is an elf, holding a glowing staff and in a blue gown with a collar that looks vaguely Egyptian. On the ceiling behind them the spider is brown and tarantula-like. The light shines off its many eyes.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14h

“In a city once choked with cars and infamous for its traffic snarls, Paris has pulled off a remarkable turnaround…the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

A victory for FAST leadership.

Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists

The French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently

momentummag.com

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