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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 14h

Bondi does not testify to anything but her slavish loyalty to Trump, not the law, not the Constitution and certainly not truth or accountability. And her demeanor toward Democratic Senators asking legitimate questions of her is nothing short of grotesque for an alleged Attorney General of the U.S.

sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 16h

Like most such claims, I'll believe it when I see it. Even if there's real substance here, nothing we've seen so far suggests that the MAGA House will abandon their Dear Leader.

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'Epstein bomb about to drop': Dem lawmaker claims House Republicans ready to abandon Trump

Republican lawmakers in the House are ready to abandon Donald Trump because of the fallout over files related to convicted child abuser Jeffrey Epstein, according to one Dem in Congress.Rep. Eric Swal...

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 16h

"In deploying troops to American cities, he has set up a confrontation in which military commanders may soon have to choose between obeying the president and obeying the law."

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The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 1d

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There is no war, just a fascist government bearing down on its citizens’ rights.

YouTube video by The Warning with Steve Schmidt

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 1d

There's a very thin line between not fearing it (Civil War) and deliberately trying to provoke it.

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Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 1d

Escher-ish. Awesome.

sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 1d

"They frequently appeal to an idea that only some Americans are truly legitimate—and often this means Americans of European ancestry—while leaving room for enough plausible deniability to avoid seeming straightforwardly racist."

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Are You a ‘Heritage American’?

Why some on the right want to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 1d

ICE data (Sept. 2025): According to the official data, 16,523 people in immigration detention with no criminal record were arrested by Ice, compared to 15,725 who do have a criminal record and 13,767 with pending criminal charges.

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Immigrants with no criminal record now largest group in Ice detention

Government data shows 16,523 people with no record, versus 15,725 with a record and 13,767 with pending charges

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 1d

This was the situation in June 2025. I am posting data from September 2025 separately to update this.

sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 1d

"New nonpublic data from ICE indicate that [it] is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions... Among those with criminal convictions, they are overwhelmingly not the violent offenses that ICE continuously uses to justify its deportation agenda."

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65 Percent of People Taken by ICE Had No Convictions, 93 Percent No Violent Convictions

ICE’s deportation agenda is not what is being advertised to the American public. ICE is not interested in prioritizing public safety, yet it constantly pretends that anyone who objects to its tactics ...

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 2d

'[Alleged] Commerce Secretary Howard Nutlick (sic)...described Epstein as the “greatest blackmailer ever"... and "claimed of Epstein's approach toward his associates: “Get a massage, get a massage,” and added, “what happened in that massage room... was on video.”

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'Unforced error': Trump admin reportedly hit by new internal 'jolt' over Epstein scandal

In an article for Salon published Sunday, the outlet's senior writer, Sophia Tesfaye, argued that a deep and destabilizing fissure has opened within the Trump administration over how to control the na...

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 3d

The public cannot stay silent in the face of such reckless and authoritarian conduct by the President of the United States.

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 3d

Correction: My bad. Meiselas wrote "Democratic leaders" not Democrat as adjective and MAGA slight. Which annoys the hell out of me, so I can't believe I did it. But I inadvertently did.

sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 3d

And Robin Williams is sorely missed.

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 3d

"I was thrilled that Democrat leaders are challenging Trump and Republican leaders to meet in public in front of cameras in connection with the shutdown... and that they're calling Trump out for his claim of bringing in $17 trillion while we are in a shutdown."

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When they come for me, I have zero regrets…

By Ben Meiselas

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 3d

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to [American and Chinese] social networks, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”

Very much worth reading and taking to heart.

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"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 3d

As a dear friend reminded me: Stephen "Goebbels" Miller recently said that law enforcement should act lethally and not worry about it because Trump will pardon them. We're seeing behavior shielded by impunity that belies any suggestion they will ever leave power because of a lost election.

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 3d

"There is a large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country," [Miller] claimed. "It is well organized and funded. And it is shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors and attorneys general."

His lies do violence to our language and nation.

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Stephen Miller accused of 'incitement to violence against judges' with new 'purge' comment

U.S. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller Saturday was accused of "incitement to violence against judges."Miller, who has been accused of making his subordinates cry at work, took to socia...

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly what the orange menace ordered up.

sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 4d

'Say "I did it for that good money," say that. At least be honest with me. Don't insult my intelligence. Like, just say that. Why don't they all just say that?"'

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Bill Burr Drops Truth Bombs About the Saudi Gig! 💣

YouTube video by Breaking View USA

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 4d

A rose is a rose is a rose, and the Ellison's (Larry and David) holdings in movies, TV networks, CBS and soon a stake in TikTok, tells me there's a Murdoch by another name on the horizon. And depending on where you are closer than that.

sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 4d

Much of this was well underway before the shutdown and furloughed workers at the decimated Department of Education reported that their nonpartisan out-of-office messages were automatically changed to blame Democrats for the shutdown.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Project 2025 Shutdown Is Here

It’s become another avenue to turn power into partisan gain.

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 4d

Burchett voted for ex-post facto Congressional oversight of Trump's lawless attacks on Venezuelan boats - but only after the attacks occur and lives are taken on no evidence. And he supported H.R.5389: Restoring the United States Department of War Act last month - which has not even been voted on.

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 4d

Extortionist Trump's threat - "that if New York voters exercise their political aspirations... by selecting leaders that personally displease him, he will use the federal government to inflict suffering on them however he can" - is backfiring.

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Trump’s Rage at Zohran Just Backfired in a Surprisingly Revealing Way

The Democrats who are breaking through are the ones who talk about Trump’s disastrous economic record while also leveling with the public about our slide into authoritarianism.

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 4d

"To be fair, I do believe that Klein has been asking a lot of the right questions. The problem—and it’s a big one—is that he’s answered those questions with a fundamentally blinkered political analysis that leads to the wrong conclusions."

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What Is Ezra Klein Thinking?

The New York Times columnist is asking the right questions, but pushing the wrong answers.

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