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#TeslaTakedown LA @teslatakedownla.bsky.social · 14h

Musk purchased X, the burnt out husk of Twitter, from himself for $45B. His next act will be using Tesla to buy his new cash furnace, xAI, from himself for even more.

Unless TSLA collapses first. That could make things quite messy.

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macatoo.bsky.social @macatoo.bsky.social · 3h

Stand up. Fight back. This is what democracy and patriotism looks like.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 6h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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macatoo.bsky.social @macatoo.bsky.social · 2h

2026 Election nullification planning in process. Let’s not let it get to this point.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4h

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h

🚨BREAKING: The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified in federal court Wednesday that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, he received no such direction when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander this summer.

Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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macatoo.bsky.social @macatoo.bsky.social · 2h

Oh look! More violent #KavanaughStops.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 6h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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macatoo.bsky.social @macatoo.bsky.social · 2h

Stand up. Fight back.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 4h

"A rival petition began circulating Sunday, calling on the Rutgers chapter of TPUSA to be disbanded, accusing it of inciting violence. As of today, that petition had several hundred more signatures than the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s firing..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Receiving Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Fight 4 Democracy Continues @politically.bsky.social · 1d

So...Felony?

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls

Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls.

www.cbsnews.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

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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KC Momkin @kc-momkin.bsky.social · 4h

What is happening in Chicago is not just wrong. It is an intentional betrayal of American values. Based on lies. Based on hate. We are the "United" states, and they are turning on their neighbors.

All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 6h

WATCH: "People at a deep level understand that what they are seeing in Chicago is wrong. They know that they are free citizens of a free country," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the backlash to Trump's takeover in Chicago.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 6h

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 10h

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 7h

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 11h

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 6h

So of course the weirdest and most alarming thing here is that Trump intended to DM the AG on Truth Social to order her to indict Comey and accidentally posted it publicly. But there are other very weird details within...

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

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m Just a File (Classified Edition)”
Schoolhouse Rock parody by channelpoor

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 7h

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

Drop Site reports journalists from multiple legacy media outlets are mentors for a journalism fellowship founded to help Israel “shift the narrative” — including journalists from The Atlantic, The NY Times… and Van Jones.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/karsh-fell...

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 9h

“The rule change amounts to an immediate transfer of income from poor farm workers to the very rich, very large agribusinesses which dominate US farms.“
unherd.com/newsroom/tru...

Trump’s new farm rule betrays American workers

Last week, the Trump administration pushed through a rule change that went largely unnoticed by the mainstream press. Under the new rules, H-2A workers — the only uncapped guest worker programme in th...

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macatoo.bsky.social @macatoo.bsky.social · 8h

Deep thoughts with MAGA.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 9h

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 14h

MAGA lawmakers regularly share its content. Elon called it "one of the best accounts on X." It's run by a Macedonian who has never set foot in America — and who illegally donated to a U.S. congressional campaign.

Great stuff from @jsweetli.bsky.social:

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

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Michael Steele @michaelsteele.bsky.social · 9h

This has always been the end game. It's how Trump gets to Marshall Law and ultimately suspending the '26 Elections. The fact they are "debating" it should have alarms sounding off. It won't help to wake up to this fact after he does it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 9h

No one even knows whether he's a) lying or b) confabulating or c) someone has shown him unrelated/dated/fake images that he somehow believed and did not verify

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

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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macatoo.bsky.social @macatoo.bsky.social · 8h

Well this is not good.

The American Prospect @prospect.org · 10h

Ignoring a judge’s recommendation, the Minnesota regulators unanimously approved BlackRock’s plan to take Minnesota Power private. Private equity is buying up utilities as profits from fueling data centers grow. From James Baratta: trib.al/DhfuUOy

BlackRock Just Bought a Minnesota Utility

On Friday, state regulators voted unanimously in favor of allowing private equity to take a Duluth-based utility holding company private. The Prospect takes you inside the room where it all went down.

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macatoo.bsky.social @macatoo.bsky.social · 8h

This is really not good.

Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 13h

"A copy of the arrangement I reviewed shows that the United States has agreed to pay Eswatini $5.1 million to take in up to 160 so-called 'third country nationals'" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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