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Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 2h

This is...kinda brilliant

Not sure hot dogs will do it, but think we can get them to show who they are with the right incentives?

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 4h

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

🤷🏽‍♂️ 🇺🇸 💰

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 13h

This is a FANTASTIC opinion

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 14h

Where can I buy this?

alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 18h

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19h

Please keep making podcasts about how democrats need to stop being so condescending about red states

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 1d

Genius!

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

Without comment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 2d

I teach in my undergrad class on the history of the US jury system that the institution's roots are in colonial juries serving as a counterweight to abuses of imperial power. The American jury has problems for sure but still can serve that roll. Don't blow off jury service.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2d

Underrated part of this story is that official USG business is done by Truth Social DM. It almost makes you miss the good old days of the PC small group Signal Chat.

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 2d

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 2d

Can just one reporter do this? Please? @kaitlancollins.bsky.social

WK Britt @wkbtravels.bsky.social · 3d

maybe one reporter could ask who the head of "antifa" is and where the hq is, who all is in antifa, what has antifa done in the last month and how can you prove it's a organized group....JUST ONCE! FFS!

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 3d

This is why I love Chicago so much. Their “we will fuck with you” reserves are BOTTOMLESS.

NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 3d

This is amazing.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 3d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 2d

It's the girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa!

Drew @drewavery.bsky.social · 3d

Exhibit # 1

From the charging documents.
Picture of older woman hitting a nazi with her purse

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Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 2d

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Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 2d

"The founders of Antifa"

Noem claims to have recently arrested one of their girlfriends...?

Black and white photo of United States soldiers deploying off the end of a carrier boat then wading through ocean water on Normandy beach during D-day, World War II.

A 3rd division tank of the US military with at least 10 men sitting on top of it rolls past the sign marking the German town of Berchtesgaden. The photo is dated May 4, 1945 and states it is a US Army Photo. NOTE: Berchtesgaden was Hitler's headquarters during much of World War II and is where he was ultimately found dead, having shot himself in the head in his home there.

General Patton talks to World War II Allied troops gathered around him during World War II.

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Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 2d

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Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 2d

"The founders of Antifa"

Noem claims to have recently arrested one of their girlfriends...?

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 3d

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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