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David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 7h

Noem thinks habeas corpus is the president’s constitutional right to remove people from the country.

Trump?

Thinks Habeas is a person.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

"While ICE is invading immigrant neighborhoods and kidnapping people by the thousands, the fact that a hugely popular artist would sing in Spanish at the Super Bowl is a sign that America is still a polyglot nation. And that is unacceptable." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Whiny MAGA freaks out over Super Bowl halftime show

Songs in Spanish? In America?

www.publicnotice.co

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avery 🪩 @aefrankes.bsky.social · 11h

they're all about thought experiments until you experiment with the way we think...

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14h

one thing that me and my postpartum mental illness are not in the mood for today is men going “well actually you’ve misunderstood the metaphor”

yeah no shit m8 that’s the point

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15h

this is indeed a direct response to that person who said we should abandon trans folk because “ppl won’t die on that hill, it’s not a winning political strategy”

Me. I will die on that hill. We leave nobody on the tracks.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15h

the only solution here is to point out that no minority group is causing shit. What’s causing problems is an exploitative system geared at making some people richer than god at the expense of everyone else

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15h

labour/democrats/whoever are not losing because they’re discussing supporting trans people. they’re losing because they agreed, by engaging in the argument at all, with the premise that some minority groups can be blamed for social problems.

it’s only ever going to be a question of who is blamed.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15h

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Crosseyed Noli @crosseyednoli.bsky.social · 14h

We leave nobody.

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15h

this is indeed a direct response to that person who said we should abandon trans folk because “ppl won’t die on that hill, it’s not a winning political strategy”

Me. I will die on that hill. We leave nobody on the tracks.

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 14h

Protest now while it’s still legal. No Kings 10.18

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 13h

"We took the freedom of speech away..." needs to be blasted across the nation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 9h

"The thing about irrational, increasingly unfit authoritarians guarded by an even more ruthless henchman is that demands for loyalty only keep going up."

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h

How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/h...

How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller - emptywheel

By indicting the first of Trump's FBI Directors and preparing to frame the second, Kash Patel may have signed his own arrest warrant.

www.emptywheel.net

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 18h

If I'm hearing the Speaker and Republican leadership right in this press conference they are now saying they will keep the House in recess for the fourth week in a row as troops and federal workers start missing their paychecks

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Matt Stocum @matt.stocum.us · 9h

The greatest crime Trump has committed is making me support Bolton and Comey.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

WSJ reports that DOJ is going to charge John Bolton.

In case you needed anyone less sympathetic to rally behind than Jim Comey.

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

Prosecutors in Maryland are expected in coming days to charge one of Trump’s first-term national security advisers, John Bolton, now a top Trump critic, with mishandling classified information, according to people familiar with the matter.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

a high armhole allows for freer and more comfortable movement

Joey Mannarino in a dark brown tailored jacket. The low armhole is causing his jacket to lift.

Someone in an inflatable frog costume. The high armhole allows them to raise their arm without disturbing the rest of the garment

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

Can somebody liberate that thread Popehat just did as antifa General Counsel because I want to include it in a collection of important American treatises.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: TN’s Senators Blackburn & Hagerty joined Republicans in blocking a resolution that would’ve forced Trump to get congressional approval for targeted killings.

AP: The Trump admin hasn’t shown Congress any evidence that the targeted boats were smuggling drugs.

apnews.com/article/trum...

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

CHICAGO—People are marching in the streets to protest Donald Trump’s federal invasion and the aggressive harassment of citizens.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 9h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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thewakan.bsky.social @thewakan.bsky.social · 7h

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 16h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 7h

This is really embarrassing. And it shows how isolated they have him. The man holding the most powerful office in the history of the world is outside of reality. If Miller told him China launched a nuke… that’d probably be the end of it.

If anything is scary, it’s that.

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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 6h

Well, Sir, how convenient for you that profanity was at the top of your list in considering that military briefing and not the thousands of trans service members who swore an oath to protecting your constitutional right to that priority.

It must be nice to be so sheltered from all this.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 6h

Because I wanted to write about politicians swearing too much.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 6h

Mr. Nichols, I would like to believe that 5,000 trans service members being kicked out and insulted by Hegseth in the military briefing you literally summarized in your piece without mentioning them should be a topic we all prefer to tackle. And I wonder why you couldn't do that.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6h

I was selected for House Hunters, Let’s Make a Deal and Price is Right so I should be the head of ABC.

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 6h

Words to live by.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 9h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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