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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 18m

“They make a desert and call it peace.”—Tacitus

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 1h

It's very revealing that Trump supporters see anti-fascists in Germany, during the 1920s and 30s, as the BAD guys.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 2h

Belichick's communication with his staff in the past two weeks has been described as "weird" and "distant" by multiple members of UNC's coaching staff. Multiple coaches were unable to get hold of him during UNC's bye week

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 2h

Has Pam Bondi seen the Trump/Epstein photos mentioned by Michael Wolff? She didn't definitively say no yesterday. Their existence would explain a lot of Trump's guilty behavior in relation to the Epstein story over the past several months.

elsievoteblue.bsky.social @elsievoteblue.bsky.social · 4h

Listen up people 💙That lying witch Pam Bondi , can keep denying anything involved Trump and Epstein!!
Michael Wolff has receipts 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
#DemVoice1
#ProudBlue
#DemsUnited

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 21h

They said on-line isn’t real life, and Bluesky is a niche social media site.

But here is @akalhan.bsky.social getting “Kavanaugh Stops” into the Boston Globe!

With a pic of Kav looking a little petulant too (but then when doesn’t he?).

Glad to see this is sticking to him.

Critics of Trump’s immigration crackdown are using the term ‘Kavanaugh stop.’ Here’s what it means. - The Boston Globe

The phrase, is "a window into where [the administration] can go next," some advocates say.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 23h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Well done by @whitehouse.senate.gov

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 1d

She's utterly corrupt and will literally say anything to protect Epstein's best friend for ten years, Donald Trump. It's interesting she somehow knew details about Reid Hoffmann but never seems to remember anything about Trump's close relationship with Epstein.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

apnews.com

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 1d

Lawrence O’Donnell is absolutely skewering Jake Tapper for his embarrassing and disgraceful “text” interview with Trump. Does Tapper have any journalistic integrity?

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions.

He also did not explain whether he’d made any effort to speak with the president by phone, something that has become commonplace for reporters covering the second Trump administration because Trump has maintained use of his personal mobile phone since returning to the presidency and frequently uses it to contact reporters directly.

The president’s purported text message exchange with Tapper was also unusual because Trump is not known to be a frequent user of his phone’s text message capacity.

He also famously eschews email and other written forms of communication and during his first term he openly complained when attorneys working for his administration took notes during meetings.

Trump’s unconventional use of text-based communications to purportedly respond to Tapper comes as questions continue to swirl about the state of his health

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is like “who is this Ghislaine Maxwell of whom you speak?”

Trump is either lying through his teeth or his mind is mush. Most likely the former in this case.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 4d

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/ice-agents...

ICE agents storm Chicago apartment

Children are separated from their parents and detained in vans

anntelnaes.substack.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4d

The violated the 4th amendment rights of everybody in that building and zip tied children for this

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 4d

DHS says an operation last week in which agents raided a Chicago apartment building, rappelled in from helicopters, broke down doors and detained numerous residents, resulted in the arrest of two suspected gang members.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 5d

Every single person involved in this raid should be held accountable someday if we ever get back to normal.

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 5d

Sickening: "Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked...Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in the five-story building, and U.S. citizens were among those detained for hours."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 5d

Is everyone appreciating how utterly sick this is

Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 5d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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Parker Butler @parkerbutler.bsky.social · 6d

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 7d

Pope Leo, "Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhumane treatment of immigrants, they're not pro life"

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 5d

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls

Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

people.com

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 5d

I have to watch the game on mute. This broadcast team is insufferable.

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