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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

Greg Abbott sends the elite Meal Team 6 from the Texas National Guard into Illinois.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 11h

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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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11h

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 12h

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 17h

Can’t stop thinking about this and what it says about a person.

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Bill Menezes @shuckabee.bsky.social · 10h

You can mobilize the Illinois National Guard and protect them

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20h

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 12h

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14h

When US citizen Leo Garcia Venegas tried to prove his identity by showing federal agents his REAL ID, they dismissed it as a fake and kept him detained, releasing him only after they bothered to run his Social Security number.

Just a few weeks later, they detained him again:

Mass Deportation Is A Threat To Us All

Aided by the Supreme Court and the insidious "Kavanaugh stop," the administration's chaotic mass deportation operations are sweeping up Americans – including children and U.S. military veterans.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15h

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

George Pearkes @peark.es · 15h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 15h

the thing I love about our current era is how dignified everything is

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 1d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 15h

aside from the whole "that definitely isn't constitutional" part can anyone see any problems with Trump just transferring government revenue to whatever bank account he wants or nah?

George Pearkes @peark.es · 15h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15h

the way he fuckin talks it sounds like he’s going to murder them

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 15h

President Trump addressed backpay for furloughed workers, saying that some "don't deserve to be taken care of" and that he'll take care of them in a different way.

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Bill Menezes @shuckabee.bsky.social · 14h

It’s like a movie where ne’er do well Vince Vaughn inherits a TV news operation

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 22h

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 15h

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

Tweet from @laura_n_rod

Text: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15h

Picture here is from 1992. LA riots. Ive seen this called bad news judgment. In any real journalism outfit this is more like a firing offense. I basically say such things. Beyond belief.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 15h

yeah okay

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Bill Menezes @shuckabee.bsky.social · 15h

“It should stop” implies that the mysterious forces governing the universe will make it happen, instead of the people we’ve designated as our representatives and protectors of the Constitution

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15h

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 21h

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Bill Menezes @shuckabee.bsky.social · 15h

Truth

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 15h

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15h

Josh Hawley is trending again? You know what that means. Let's revisit this 2021 banger from @davidcorn.bsky.social:

Is Josh Hawley Dumb or Evil? No, the Answer Is Not Both.

link.motherjones.com

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 17h

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 15h

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 1d

Everything that's wrong with legal journalism in one New York Times headline and pie chart.

If all these "legal experts" are so shocked by the threats to the rule of law, maybe they're not the experts we should be asking in the first place.

All of this was foreseeable. Many forecast it.

NYT headline: "Bow to the Emperor: We asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency."

Pie chart showing over 50% of surveyed legal experts saying that Trump's second term has posed "much more threat" to the rule of law "than I expected."

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 16h

"Mr. Defendant, what kind of collection do you--"

*interrupting* "I HAPPEN TO BE A COLLECTOR OF SPECIFICALLY NAZI AND CONFEDERATE HISTORY"

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