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Teeklin @teeklin.bsky.social · 39m

Something I hadn't thought about until just now but seems like common sense after Asha said it: we definitely need immediate new laws about how agencies create and share videos after this administration full of 10 year old boys is done trying to meme us into authoritarianism

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1h

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 3h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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gelbach @gelbach.bsky.social · 1h

Simple principle: if it would be a war crime when done to enemy soldiers, then it shouldn’t be done to civilians by the US government

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1h

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 3h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17m

Pat Fitzgerald is extremely mad and I simply would not want to be anywhere near the prosecution in this case

I don't think it makes it to trial and if it does they are going to be humiliated

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3h

A second set of pre-trial motions is due by Oct. 30.

Comey’s defense counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, said he expects that batch to include a motion regarding abuse of grand jury process and an “outrageous government conduct” motion.

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Autopia Furiosa @pierrette1789.bsky.social · 2m

I’ve met *many* cool people in real life over the years, as a result of “meeting” them first on social media: DailyKos, Tumblr, old Facebook and old Twitter.😊

Not so much recently though.🤔

Damn the enshittification!😒

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18m

Doing crowd work from notes. Pitiful

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 5h

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

trib.al

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not an art thief @famousartthief.bsky.social · 15m

ngl i think the discourse around having babies is weird and minding your own business remains undefeated

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

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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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 42m

Imagine being the Secretary of Transportation for the entire country and cheering ripping up a crosswalk because of your hatred. Sad little man

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Autopia Furiosa @pierrette1789.bsky.social · 30m

I once got to meet Ambassador Joe Wilson.

He had that same fiercely protective energy. Hard to overstate the impact it can have.

Screenshot of Wikipedia article about Ambassador Wilson:

“In the wake of Saddam's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, he became the last American diplomat to meet with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, sternly telling him in very clear terms to leave Kuwait. When Hussein sent a note to Wilson (along with other embassy heads in Baghdad) threatening to execute anyone sheltering foreigners in Iraq as a deterrent, Wilson publicly repudiated the President by appearing at a press conference wearing a homemade noose around his neck and declaring, "If the choice is to allow American citizens to be taken hostage or to be executed, I will bring my own fucking rope."

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 53m

Leadership right here

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 59m

“If you come for my people, you come for me. So come and get me.”
IL Gov. JB Pritzker talks to @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social about Pres. Trump's call for the governor to be jailed

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 1h

dem strategists hate social media because its full of 15 million people who are way better at their jobs than they are

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 4h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2h

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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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 50m

So the Labor Department is going to be fired, I see?

Trump takes food.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 5h

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.

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Autopia Furiosa @pierrette1789.bsky.social · 49m

I knew a girl in my youth, who begged her overindulgent parents to buy her the meanest, worst-trained pony at the stables. 😒

They did. 😳

She crawled underneath him to groom his belly, and got kicked in the head, leaving her with brain damage, lucky to be alive. 😖

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

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.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 6h

I wish "antifa" had not gained such widespread usage. If we just said "anti-fascist," then it would be immediately clear to anyone what the opposite of that is.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4h

Weird. It’s almost like making accusations generates friction which generates news which rallies your supporters.

2 Key Democrats Come Out And Say It: Trump Has 'Some Kind Of Dementia'

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4h

"This is where we’ve been headed since Jan. 6.

The man who fomented an actual insurrection will invent a fantasy insurrection to justify overturning the rule of law & deploying the military against civilians.

The thing about Rubicons is they can’t be uncrossed."

www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social · 2d

Why learn big words when you can productatiously contrivicate your own?

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 4h

Education Secretary Linda McMahon says she's leading the department's "final mission" to shut down. But @megomatz.bsky.social and I found it's more than that: Political appointees from ultraconservative groups are in power at ED now, and they hope to dismantle public schools.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 5h

Newly elected Congressmember Adelita Grijalva says she will provide the final vote needed for a petition that could force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Is that why Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to swear her in for the last two weeks?

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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 4h

It isn't just that you can't express verbal support for Palestine Action. You may also not even be free to simply question the government's decision to ban it. This is the most basic political expression — challenging how leaders govern. And yet.

Rick @rick-sco.bsky.social · 4h

Yeh, you can't even disagree with the action of declaring Palestine Action a terrorist group. Pretty sure they will just try to arrest anyone with the words Action & Palestine in what they deem to be the wrong order at this point. Some politicians are really in need of swift replacement.

Woman 'arrested' over 'I oppose proscription of Palestine Action' sign

A PROTESTER has claimed she was arrested for holding a sign saying “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”.

www.thenational.scot

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