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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 11h

And the whole time "law and order" is just a dog whistle for wanting everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like them in jail or deported.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 11h

Honest to god the biggest scam in America right now is whatever Dem consultants are being paid

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 12h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 11h

Refreshing change from most Democrats who keep saying, "If you come for my people, that's fine by me, because I don't like them either."

Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 11h

The fact that there is not wall to wall coverage about Donald Trump's age and speculation about how mental decline when he is obviously not living in this reality tells me all I need to know about the agenda being forwarded by billionaire-owned media.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

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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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14h

1. In a devastating new Pew Research Survey, only 3 in 10 transgender adults report being accepted by their parents.

And only 1 in 10 say they are accepted by their extended family.

This is the lowest number ever found in surveys asking similar questions.

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Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!

NBC news: The discussions come as Trump has sought to deploy National Guard troops in several major cities — including Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon — saying they’re needed to reduce crime and protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from protesters. Critics have said that the Trump administration is exaggerating issues in those cities.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 2d

"99.97 percent of families, even when given the option, chose to let their children learn about LGBTQ+ people."
Nice result, and it reinforces everything Montgomery County said to SCOTUS before its theocrats made their dehumanizing ruling. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

open.substack.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 1d

Scoop, by @lorenzofb.bsky.social: A federal contract shows ICE spent $825,000 on vans equipped with fake cellphone towers known as cell-site simulators, which can be used to spy on nearby phones.

ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones | TechCrunch

The federal contract shows ICE spent $825,000 on vans equipped with “cell-site simulators” which allow the real-world location tracking of nearby phones and their owners.

techcrunch.com

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

With farm bailouts back in the news, it's a great time to remind everyone that US Treasury Secretary Bessent owns thousands of acres of of soybean farms.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

Bessent Has Yet to Fully Divest Assets, Raising Concern at Ethics Agency

www.nytimes.com

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Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 2d

He did. And at the time, cross-platform harassment was against their TOS.

They changed the TOS to keep Singal and changed it to ban Link.

Mind you, Link is a user they invited.

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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 2d

I think it looks like exactly what it is, which is blatant double standards from people who don't want us here. If Singal harasses trans people off the platform: great! If Jay can permaban leftists off the platform for hurting her feelings: great!

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 2d

Link has always been a positive plus for Bluesky.

Let's be crystal clear the reason for his ban is goalpost moving because the CEO didn't like being called out for racism and bigotry.

That's it. That's literally it.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

NEW: Judge Immergut schedules a hearing TONIGHT, in 45 min, to hear arguments on SECOND TRO to block federalized California National Guard from deploying in Portland, Oregon. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...

SCHEDULING ORDER: This Court, having received Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and request for Expedited Hearing, ECF 59, sets a hearing by Telephonic Conference at 7:00 p.m. tonight, October 5, 2025, before Judge Karin J. Immergut. Access information for "LISTEN ONLY" phone number for the Hearing. Telephone Number: 1-571-353-2301 (toll-free 1-833-990-9400); Guest Meeting ID:
812-980-324#. Note: If dropped from the conference, please rejoin the conference. For complete conference connection instructions and etiquette guidelines, refer to ord.uscourts.gov/cms. Ordered on 10/5/25
by Judge Karin J. Immergut. (iy) (Entered: 10/05/2025)

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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 3d

I've spent about half my time since I turned 35 in PT for joint injuries from doing real basic stuff like *bending over* and *sleeping*, and that's not an exaggeration.

Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 3d

If you have ovaries, perimenopause is coming for you, probably sooner than you think, and you're not going to give a single fuck about any of the things you thought you cared about before. Also, your body is going to go haywire, so a regular *low-impact* exercise routine will come in clutch.

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Skalman @owallstromer.bsky.social · 3d

Trying to survive a genocide gets you banned over and over and without any answers to your emails when you appeal.

Being a famous terf who has a history of harassing people online and whose shitty work gets cited in anti-trans legislation gets you unbanned and private zoom calls with the head mod.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 5d

Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 3d

I just want to keep saying that tear gas is

1) an abortifacient

2) extremely painful and scary

3) outright dangerous for people with respiratory issues

4) has effects, especially reproductive health effects, that long outlast the acute stage of exposure. I'm talking months of symptoms.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 5d

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show

A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

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

Justice Jackson's sharp dissent accuses her Republican-appointed colleagues of abusing the court's shadow docket "to allow this Administration to disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible." She also takes a dig at their refusal to write opinions explaining their actions.

exigency or any other pru dent threshold limitation on the exercise of our discretion— and wordlessly override the considered judgments of our colleagues. We once again use our equitable power (but not our opinion-writing capacity) to allow this Administration to disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible.

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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 5d

This GOP move does several things:
+ No votes in the House until at least October 14
+ No swearing-in for Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva D-AZ
+ No 218th signature from Grijalva on the Epstein Files discharge petition
+ Continues the House 'jam' of the Senate on the CR

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 5d

🚨🚨The House reading clerk just read a letter from House Speaker Mike Johnson where he declares a 'District Work Period' from October 7 to October 13.

That would mean no votes in the House until mid-month.

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Pete Fuller @petefullerga.bsky.social · 9d

This makes my Monday Morning. An actual progressive who has been working on progressive issues in the state. Home grown girl with international concerns.
Lets Gooooo @ruwaromman.bsky.social #gapol
www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Democrat state Rep. Ruwa Romman begins progressive run for Georgia governor

The first Muslim woman elected to the Georgia Legislature positions herself as a voice for working-class families and younger progressives.

www.ajc.com

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 5d

Good piece by Greg Kim about the impacts of Mayor Harrell's policies toward unsheltered people, now scattered and destabilized by the city's sweeps team. The lede anecdote is about a woman who sees the same unhoused person over and over and, instead of talking to them, reports them to the city.

Seattle residents report encampments in record numbers

More than 50,000 reports of homeless camping were made in the first eight months of this year, a 66% increase compared to the same time period last year.

www.seattletimes.com

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Marcello Graziano 🇺🇦 @marcellograz.bsky.social · 5d

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social FYI

One of the few instances of a sudden general strike.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 5d

Sweeping strikes and nationwide protests seized parts of Italy today as pressure mounts on Giorgia Meloni’s government to take a stronger stand against Israel over its war in Gaza.

Mass protests and strikes for Gaza bring Italy to a standstill

Roads and ports were blocked and schools closed after unions called for general strike over Israel’s war on Gaza.

www.politico.eu

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