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Radical Centrist
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Show me the data, Jerry. Makes annoyingly nonpartisan decisions based on data and logic. Dislikes identity politics. Proud to be an American. Slava Ukraini!
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johnnyryan.bsky.social
Big piece in POLITICO asking about the independence of Ireland's process of appointing people to its Data Protection Commission. There is deep unease in Brussels about Ireland appointing a former Meta lobbyist as Meta's watchdog. Now questions about who was involved.

www.politico.eu/article/big-...
Big Tech lawyer played key role in picking Ireland’s new privacy regulator
Former Meta lobbyist Niamh Sweeney will co-lead the Irish Data Protection Commission from mid-October.
www.politico.eu
October 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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yolo0311.bsky.social
Johnson knows Felon47 isn't well...
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Oct 2
REP. DEAN: “The president is unhinged… That performance in front of the generals?”

SPEAKER JOHNSON: “I didn’t see it.” 🤔🤥

@repdean.bsky.social: “Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing at us.”
October 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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onthemedia.bsky.social
"'Is this a call for violence?' the third paragraph says. “Yes. Explicitly it is.'"

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...
Daily Caller Opinion Column ‘Explicitly’ Calls for Violence
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Both @bradlander.bsky.social and @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co wrote Bondi and told her to do that--to arrest the guy.
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Sep 27
This footage of unquestionable abuse of power and assault has haunted me all day.

The New York Times reports this ICE officer was relieved of his duties and is under investigation.

He should be under arrest.
September 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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markfollman.bsky.social
Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order

The top federal prosecutor in Sacramento was fired hours after she reminded a Border Patrol chief to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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martylederman.bsky.social
Six Justices shockingly conclude that it's likely the Impoundment Control precludes an otherwise valid APA claim to require expenditure of obligated funds. This argument, which turns the ICA on its head, is so absurd that the Trump DOJ itself wisely disclaimed it a month ago. Utterly lawless.
September 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
radicalcentrist70.bsky.social
taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

This guy was a BEAST! You owe it to yourself to read about this Marine. You'll be better for it.
The Marine veteran behind this viral photo at the Chicago ICE protest
The flag-waving Marine was at the anti-ICE protest near Chicago because of his beliefs, and said his training helped him weather tear gas.
taskandpurpose.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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drewharwell.com
Proud to announce our unnamed tech partners tracked the cell phone locations of hundreds of thousands of people without their knowledge or consent
I just broke the news that our tech partners tracked over 277,000 devices in and around State Farm Stadium yesterday. They came from all across the country because Charlie pointed us all to Christ, and in his martyrdom given us the courage to do the same.
September 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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theonion.com
Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall
Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall
September 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
Putting hyperpartisan liars in charge of federal law enforcement has bad results.
September 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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chuckcjmmn.bsky.social
How to separate a country.

Lets provide a current exa:
When Minnesota state senator Michelle Hortman was assassinated there was no outcry from Trump. No flags ordered to half staff.

Now the death of conservative Charlie Kirk will get 4 days of flags at half staff.

Separation.
September 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
radicalcentrist70.bsky.social
Looks like a bullet just proved Charlie Kirk wrong. About the 2nd Amendment.
September 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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theintellectualist.bsky.social
🚨On Black Sunday, Aug 31, 2025, the Trump administration tried to deport unaccompanied children to Guatemala, defying a judge—echoing March 15’s “Black Saturday” and a broader pattern of judicial defiance.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
September 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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mattbegins.bsky.social
Arby’s is about to enter a new golden age.
Poorly cropped together (by me) picture of the Arby’s sign with text from Laura Loomer’a deposition on it.
August 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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pauleric70.bsky.social
Wow Phil McGraw only had a PHD in Psychology and was never a medical doctor! He has been sued numerous times for negligence among other things.He is still using his tv name Dr.Phil, but hasn’t had a Medical License since 2006 that’s almost 20 years! He’s a Hypocrite and Fake!
August 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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wayneesmith.bsky.social
An image with a black and white background and a Latin American immigrant and a title Schröinger's Immigrant. On the left, it reads, "Lazily collecting all the welfare." On the right, it reads, "But also somehow taking all the jobs."
July 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
NEW: The Trump administration has conceded that it improperly deported another Salvadoran man in violation of a court order — blaming a "confluence of administrative errors."

The man's lawyer plans to demand his return.

www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
May 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
Attacked Volodymyr Zelenskyy for arriving in DC in military garb while his country was at war.

Repeatedly had clandestine contacts with Putin, then showed up _himself_ in the Oval in a tee shirt and trucker hat—and now, today, in a tee shirt and trucker hat with a black eye.

No more billionaires.
May 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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deeceetee.bsky.social
Trump hasn't left private business for public service. Trump has vertically diversified his business to incorporate the presidency.
May 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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reuters.com
Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said that the US had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized US President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like ‘a Roman emperor’ reut.rs/4iRDMfK
Costa Rican former President Oscar Arias says US revoked his visa
Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like "a Roman emperor."
reut.rs
April 2, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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djrothkopf.bsky.social
Happy Liberation Day everyone, the day on which we commemorate being liberated from our leadership role in the global economy, from growth, from vast numbers of jobs, and from better futures for our children. Trumponomics is junkonomics, the stupidest, most destructive of all policy approaches.
April 2, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Here's the evidence ICE submitted in his case: a "gang worksheet" filled out by local cops in 2019 saying:

1) he had on Chicago Bulls gear
2) a confidential information said he was part of an MS-13 clique in a state he'd never lived in.

ICE agreed they had nothing else. Read the full context here:
25. On March 28, 2019, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia went to a Home Depot in Hyattsville, Maryland to solicit employment. When he arrived, he joined three other young men who were also at Home Depot soliciting employment, two of whom he recognized from prior occasions at the Home Depot, though he had never interacted with them in any other context. The young men proceeded to chat to pass the time. 26. At 2:27 PM, while the four of them were chatting, a detective from the Hyattsville City Police approached the group. The detective did not speak to Plaintiff Abrego Garcia, but only one of the other men. Soon thereafter, officers from Prince George County Police Department (“PGPD”) arrived on the scene and proceeded to handcuff all four young men, including Plaintiff Abrego Garcia. At no point did police explain why they were arresting Plaintiff Abrego Garcia, nor was Plaintiff Abrego Garcia ever charged with any crime. This was Plaintiff Abrego Garcia’s first and only time in state custody. 27. At the police station, the four young men were placed into different rooms and questioned. Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was asked if he was a gang member; when he told police he was not, they said that they did not believe him and repeatedly demanded that he provide information about other gang members. The police told Plaintiff Abrego Garcia that he would be released if he cooperated, but he repeatedly explained that he did not have any information to give because he did not know anything. 28. Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was then transferred to another room and told that ICE officers would be coming to take him into federal immigration custody. Eventually, ICE officers arrived and took Plaintiff Abrego Garcia into detention 30. On April 24, 2019, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia appeared for his first hearing in immigration court. Through counsel, he moved for release on bond pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a), submitting over seventy pages of evidence in support thereof. ICE opposed a change in custody status, arguing that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia presented a danger to the community because local police had supposedly “verified” that he is an active gang member. 31. In support thereof, ICE offered a Gang Field Interview Sheet (“GFIS”) generated by PGPD. The GFIS explained that the only reason to believe Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was a gang member was that he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie; and that a confidential informant advised that he was an active member of MS-13 with the Westerns clique. The GFIS had been entered into PGPD’s database at 6:47 PM, approximately four hours after police met Plaintiff Abrego Garcia for the first time. 32. According to the Department of Justice and the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, the “Westerns” clique operates in Brentwood, Long Island, in New York, a state that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia has never lived in. 33. The attorney for Plaintiff Abrego Garcia subsequently made multiple attempts to obtain additional information from law enforcement concerning these allegations. PGPD indicated that it did not have any incident report related to the Home Deport episode at all, nor did the Department have any incident reports containing his name. The Hyattsville City Police Department (“HCPD”), on the other hand, confirmed it had an incident report for the Home Depot incident, but that only 3 people were named and Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was not one of them, nor did it have any other incident reports with his name in its database. His attorney also contacted the PGPD Inspector General requesting to speak to the detective who authored the GFIS sheet, but was informed that the detective had been suspended. A request to speak to other officers in the Gang Unit was declined. 36. In advance of his hearing, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia, through counsel, filed a motion for a subpoena to require the appearance of two PGPD detectives, and any evidence substantiating his alleged gang membership. 37. In addition, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia, through counsel, submitted a legal brief and a voluminous evidentiary filing establishing his eligibility for protection and contesting the unfounded allegation of gang membership levied against him. 38. On August 9, 2019, the attorney for ICE indicated on the record that ICE had conferred with its law enforcement partners and that all the evidence and intelligence they had was what was contained in the GFIS. As a result, a subpoena was deemed unnecessary.
April 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM