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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Federal law says only the deceased can appear on U.S. currency. But on Monday, the Trump administration defended its plan to mint a $1 coin bearing the image of President Trump.

Treasury Defends Minting a $1 Trump Coin Despite 1866 Law

The Treasury Department said that a 2020 collectible coinage law allows a living person to appear on U.S. currency.

nyti.ms

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The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

MAGA turns on country star Zach Bryan over teaser for new song mentioning ICE

www.independent.co.uk

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s a gift link to my New York Times piece on what Dems can learn from bad bunny

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Opinion | What Chuck Schumer Can Learn From Bad Bunny

www.nytimes.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

The judge is a woman.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 6d

"Since strangers will call the police if kids in the Goon Docks wander around on their own, the boys don’t get a chance to search for One-Eyed Willy’s gold. Instead, they compete in a Mr. Beast challenge in hopes of winning enough money to save their parents’ home."

If 1980s Teen Movies Took Place Today

Goonies Since strangers will call the police if kids in the Goon Docks wander around on their own, the boys don’t get a chance to search for One-Ey...

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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 5d

dragging people (some children) out of their homes in the middle of the night - ICE is uniformly despicable, but this feels like the next level of horror
www.wbez.org/immigration/...

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.

www.wbez.org

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants.

KBJ, dissenting, says she "cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference" while "lives hang in the balance."
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

I view today's decision as yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. This Court should have stayed its hand. Having opted instead to join the fray, the Court plainly mis- judges the irreparable harm and balance-of-the-equities factors by privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families’ pleas for the sta- bility our Government has promised them. Because, re- spectfully, I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago:

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 6d

More than a few critics called Mary Lee's It's a Great War! the best American novel of World War One. And yet, you've probably never heard of it. I hadn't until I stumbled across a mention back in 2021. It's a stunning impressionistic account of war from a woman's viewpoint.

neglectedbooks.com/?...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 6d

huh

“I have nothing to do with Project 2025,” Trump said in the opening moments of his September debate against Vice President Kamala Harris. “That’s out there. I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it, purposely. I’m not going to read it.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d

When you see how excited Trump, Russ Vought, and Republicans are about the government shutdown, it becomes pretty obvious the reason why they refused to negotiate a compromise with Democrats is because they wanted this and they completely own this, regardless of their lies.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 8d

This is now Trump’s America.

So freaking sad

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

SHUTDOWN STAKES: Democrats want to renew ACA Marketplace tax credits to keep health insurance costs from skyrocketing for 24 million Americans.

Trump & Republicans refuse to negotiate because “iLlEgaL iMmigRaNts.”

Who’s gonna tell them the truth? www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/g...

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Barb Ristine @renobarb.bsky.social · 6d

I want to be in your bookclub!

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Barb Ristine @renobarb.bsky.social · 6d

Writers everywhere now.

Bookshelfie @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 7d

#booksky

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Barb Ristine @renobarb.bsky.social · 6d

Writers everywhere now.

Kris Clink, author & podcast host @krisclink.bsky.social · 6d

I feel seen.

Bookshelfie @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 7d

#booksky

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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 7d

My book came out October 8, 2024. (After 30+ years of writing, a book!)

I've been so grateful to anyone who has read it. I had a little goal of reaching 1000 copies sold (small press goals!), and we're close to that. I hope you'll consider ordering, reading, sharing reviewing on Goodreads, etc.💙

Sad Grownups

Check out Sad Grownups - For those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world. Winne...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that?

MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement

STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 7d

Priorities.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7d

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d

If they claim they haven't heard the quote, play it for them and ask for a response.

If they claim it's being taken out of context, play a longer version and ask for a response.

If they try to sidestep the issue, play it over again and ask for a response.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'?

JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said.

S: Those are quotes

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