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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 3m

I can't wrap my head around how bonkers this is. Here's a man who has posted Neo-Nazi memes with extensive ties to white supremacist groups, telling the President about the dangers of Antifa by connecting its modern incarnation with the anti-Nazi movement in 1930s Germany, like it's a bad thing.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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🖤♡Amanda♡🖤 @zephyrsky.bsky.social · 6m

Between this and the note from earlier. It’s becoming more and more obvious that this man isn’t running anything in this government

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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LuUuUuUuke Knox 👻 @lukeknox.me · 5m

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12m

Along with the fascism, the other way you know this is not OK is to imagine the hysterical National Conversation™️ about freedom of religion & the separation of church & state we'd be having if an observant Muslim or Jew in a Democratic president's Cabinet opened a government meeting with prayers.

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11m

One fun fact: Judge Immurgut, who granted the restraining order keeping the OR Nat Guard out of Portland, isn 't just a FedSoc stalwart and Trump appointee. She worked on Ken Starr's investigation of Clinton and personally interrogated Monica Lewinsky.

Mattathias Schwartz @schwartzesque.bsky.social · 9h

I spoke with The Daily about the judiciary's response to Trump's attempt to deploy the National Guard into US cities, and the question of whether simply declaring a "rebellion" makes it so, for legal purposes: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/p...

Trump Claims ‘Rebellion’ in American Cities

www.nytimes.com

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 12m

Unitary executive theory in action

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Hans Christian Moleman @voncornhole2.bsky.social · 56m

They looked at this angle and definitively said he lost possession before crossing the goal line? Get the fuck out of here

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14m

NOTE: Leavitt says Trump will "stop by for his routine yearly check up."

But…Trump had his annual check up already. 5 months ago. On April 11.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 23m

New — White House says Donald Trump will visit Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday.

"On Friday morning, President Trump will visit Walter Reed Medical Center for a planned meeting and remarks with the troops. While there, President Trump will stop by for his routine yearly check up. He will then return to the White House. President Trump is considering going to the Middle East shortly thereafter." - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 3h

At Bari Weiss’s “Cheers to the Republic” mixer, I met anti-vaxxers, was recruited for a trip to Israel, and heard the word “heterodox” more than I would have liked to.

I Went to the “Free Press” Party for Under-30s. All I Got Was Ennui.

At Bari Weiss's “Cheers to the Republic” mixer, I met anti-vaxxers, was recruited for a trip to Israel, and heard the word “heterodox” more than I would have liked to.

www.thenation.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14m

There are some real clownholes on this site

Ed @ed3d.net · 2h

I lack the words to describe what is wrong with these people.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20m

More and more Democrats are calling out the Mad King, you love to see it

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 25m

“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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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 20m

Trump says he has nothing to do with prosecutions...

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2h

To sustain his rage against "Antifa," Trump summons a team of proven fabulists and conspiracy theorists including the notorious inventor of the Pizzagate conspiracy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

SORTOR: I took this flag from the man that was burning it in the street

TRUMP: Do you know who he is?

SORTOR: Oh yeah

TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 36m

One of the basic points in my new Dispatch piece on the right to record immigration raids and raiders is that ICE agents are already informally “enforcing” their disapproval of at-the-scene recording by roughing up journalists, freelance photographers, and others with cellphone cameras. /1

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 12h

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2h

Jack Posobiec is on TV saying antifa comes from the 1930s and is bad because he's a Nazi. It's real simple.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 2h

Posobiec's book "Unhumans" says Fracisco Franco was a great man of history. Of course he thinks antifascism is bad.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2h

"Anti fascists are bad and come from shooting fascists in Spain during the Civil War and we hate that because I'm a fascist" he's just a Nazi, babe, he's not very complicated.

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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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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5h

I managed to conceive of a reason Jack Smith might want call logs for GOP senators that isn't rooted in Joe Biden "weaponizing" the government.
www.pbump.net/o/dethawing-...

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 43m

Trump is moving us closer to authoritarianism with each deployment of troops into states.

From Illinois to Oregon to California—

None of our states asked for this, nor need this.

I and every U.S. Senator from these states are demanding Trump to end these deployments ASAP.

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 31m

OK, she really said that they arrested “the girlfriend of the founder of ANTIFA”

The girlfriend

of the FOUNDER

of - anti fascism?

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 1h

lest anyone think the girlfriend line was a hilarious joke I concocted...

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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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 43m

Temporary Restraining Order to be granted tomorrow in the Chicago case filed by journalists, pastors, and others hit with riot control munitions by ICE!

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2h

Ellis rules that the plaintiffs have standing for their case. She cites the "ongoing and sustained record of conduct" by federal agents gathered over the last month.

She further finds the plaintiffs have plausibly shown feds have "frustrated" efforts to "protect journalist safety."

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27m

Congrats again to Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29m

How much is policy driven now by rabidly right wing “press” asking leading questions?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Bell @pocono.bsky.social · 29m

Smh

Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 42m

www.huffpost.com/entry/noem-j...

Jan. 6 Insurrectionist Travels In Kristi Noem’s Portland Motorcade

The Oregon GOP political operative was pardoned by Trump on his first day back in office. On Tuesday, he was part of Noem’s entourage.

www.huffpost.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30m

Read this thread for a frankly breathtaking example of the utter garbage you get when Techbrahs try their hand at law.

Although if you say "I have an issue that's important to me, huh, I guess I will try Vibe Lawyering," I am basically ok with whatever happens to you.

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 1h

The bros are at it again! and make no mistake, they are LITERALLY calling it "Vibe Lawyering"

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