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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 1h

LOL

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3h

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 2h

Jack Posobiec is at Trump’s “Antifa roundtable” at the White House today. Last week we reported about Posobiec voting in a state he didn’t seem to live in.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

SORTOR: I took this flag from the man that was burning it in the street

TRUMP: Do you know who he is?

SORTOR: Oh yeah

TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 1h

Someone please put this to a child's lullaby.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 2h

The Emperor's new war. A complete fantasy presented in a room full of nodding sycophants who don't question a thing he says.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

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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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2h

Pretty sure Eleanor Roosevelt is dead

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 3h

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

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 2h

We need her back.

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 2h

WHAT

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 2h

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say via nbcnews - www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3h

Dems should have adopted Pritzker’s current orientation towards Trump from day one.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 5h

Hey, that was something great that happened to me, too!

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 7h

@sarahburnes.bsky.social reached out after seeing one of my tweets and ended up publishing my book.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 18h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 5h

The kids* are all right, folks: from U Penn's satirical rag, Under the Button.

"For the teensy price of your worthless anti-zionist soul, you get a small sum of money and an Apollo Global Management crew neck."

*I know this kid and he's fucking funny.

www.underthebutton.com/article/2025...

Marc Rowan Adopts New Name: "Galactus"

Please stop by Galactus’ Little Shop— which is actually a Sukkah this week— and say hello to your benevolent overlord’s wealthiest benevolent overlord.

www.underthebutton.com

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 6h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Halbeerz @halz.bsky.social · 1d

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 20h

Came here to say this.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 22h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 22h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 20h

Am I wrong or is it HER videographer who zooms in on the chicken? Nice shot, bud!

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 20h

Couldn't have heppened to a more deserving guy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/n...

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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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 20h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 22h

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h

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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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

well, that ought to put it to bed, great work everyone

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 1d

@schiff.senate.gov v Bondi, and he's got all the cards, to coin a phrase. What a mess we're in.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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