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Marty Olliff @martyolliff.bsky.social · 3h

Brother Erich has come up with THE very American label for the deployed troops among us.

Erich Luepke @erichluepke.bsky.social · 3h

Get those Greencoats out of here!!!

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 3h

This is very unusual. And really a sign of the times.

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 6h

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue. For @reuters.com:

www.reuters.com

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 3h

Attention university presidents and boards of trustees:

"Those who oppose authoritarianism have to play a different game, creating solidarity among an unwieldy coalition, which knows that if everyone holds together, they will surely succeed."

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7h

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 2h

"AI has not proven itsef to be as good as human employees in most fields. But it doesn’t have to be. It only has to be good enough to convince the employers in these fields that its lack of quality is more than made up for by its potential to lower labor costs."

Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 19h

I maintain that we are in grave danger due not only to the trends noted by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social in this piece, but by the failure of the Democratic party 1) to grasp these dangers and act in advance to prevent or minimize them; (1)

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/thinking-o...

Thinking of AI as a Social Problem

No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 19h

I maintain that we are in grave danger due not only to the trends noted by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social in this piece, but by the failure of the Democratic party 1) to grasp these dangers and act in advance to prevent or minimize them; (1)

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/thinking-o...

Thinking of AI as a Social Problem

No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 4h

“Their strategy is to play divide and conquer, rewarding friends and brutally punishing opponents. They win when society cracks, creating a self-enforcing set of expectations, in which everyone shuts up and complies because everyone expects everyone else to shut up and comply, too.” - excellent

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 4h

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 19h

Once again "imminence." Once again, an unaccountable expansion of Presidential power to deploy force. As I told @npr.org last week, this has the potential to be another forever war, any group can end up being treated in the same manner.

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

The Senate Judiciary Committee needs to get a copy of this OLC memo publicly released.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...

www.cnn.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The entire administration is "new legal analysis."

Is the President a King? Yes, according to new legal analysis. Can we fire civil servants, impound funds and eliminate agencies? *Touches earpiece* Yes, according to new legal analysis.

The shame is that SCOTUS has gone along with much of this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 1d

LOL: the AHA asked me to join a book prize committee but in order to serve on that book prize committee I am required to pay to become an AHA member again. OK guys

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 1d

Lol. Lmao

Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 2d

Oh good lord, the Dems on the Senate HELP Committee released this report that is apparently… “a ChatGPT-based analysis”🧐

Here’s an op-ed about it by Sanders for Fox News: www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-...

www.axios.com/2025/10/06/a...

Exclusive: AI could erase 100 million U.S. jobs, Senate Dem report finds

A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs

www.axios.com

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 2d

The academic culture of working through the weekend needs to die. I should not have 40 substantive emails arrive in my inbox between 5pm Friday and 8am Monday

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

there’s no other way to put this other than full military invasion into america

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 3d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3d

Pritzker needs to take some sort of demonstrative action against this. But nothing he does will stop this.

Still, liberal voters and elected leaders are confronted by the fact that the police are not democratically accountable. They have no interest in protecting you or your rights from the feds.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

Gov. Pritzker has said all the right things, but now he needs to act and get these state troopers out of there.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

A protester with a mobility aid (cane) was sitting in the road. Illinois state troopers dragged them to the grass and arrested them.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 4d

Cool!!

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 5d

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 5d

“Some see a trap.” That’s because it IS a trap.

Also, for the love of god, could the media EVER point out how illegal this in? “Emerging trend” and “skirt” don’t cut it, @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6d

Trump will under this document take control of the admissions process. As currently interpreted, any college admitting more than 5% Blacks to an incoming class will be in serious trouble.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5d

Chris Rufo's disastrous takeover of New College in Florida shows what universities would become if they sign the Trump regime's extortionary "compact."

New College was supposed to model the anti-woke conservative higher-ed Americans crave. Instead, it showed the opposite, and serves as a warning.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 5d

This is where the core of my thoughts have been the last few days

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 6d

Hegseth’s obsession with physical appearance and the kinetic, flesh-and-blood lethality of each individual soldier is both a bit old-timey (something @jvl.bsky.social has noted) and, as I stress, also deeply reminiscent of Mussolini’s view of fascism as a politics of action and war.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Mister November @misternov3mber.bsky.social · 6d

From the local CBS news story:

Neighbors like Eboni Watson say they ducked for cover as they heard several flash bangs.

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said,

'f*** them kids.""

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.

Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.

“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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