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To See Afar @toseeafar.bsky.social · 16h

Glad they’re having so much fun while tens of thousands of furloughed feds try to figure out what they’re going to do without their next paycheck

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 16h

Overheard in the Senate, @kim.senate.gov and Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio were apparently set to play pickleball on Wednesday. Winner gets their preferred CR on the floor?

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To See Afar @toseeafar.bsky.social · 1d

I just issued a memo requiring all beltway media to go back to journalism school

To See Afar @toseeafar.bsky.social · 1d

This framing - which I’m seeing everywhere - is so irresponsible. Guaranteed back pay for furloughed feds was signed into law BY THE LAST TRUMP ADMIN.

A memo means nothing except signaling that they intend to break the law, and that’s how it should be reported.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

A new White House memo says government workers furloughed during the shutdown might not get back pay.

White House memo says furloughed workers might not get back pay

Trump is using the threat of federal workforce cuts to force them to back the GOP’s clean continuing resolution.

www.politico.com

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To See Afar @toseeafar.bsky.social · 1d

Cortez masto

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 2d

There is no sense in which the Enabling Act of 1933 would have become an acceptable piece of legislation if it had included a carve-out requiring Hitler to stabilize out-of-pocket health care costs. Same goes for the Enabling Act of 2025. www.offmessage.net/p/the-end-of...

The End Of Non-Sequitur Politics

Let's have more politics about the thing itself.

www.offmessage.net

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 2d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 2d

Texas once feared a phantom federal occupation. Now Gov. Abbott’s troops are helping carry it out under Trump. And Houston may be next, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board. bit.ly/48Q3D5C

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To See Afar @toseeafar.bsky.social · 2d

Extremely!

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

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To See Afar @toseeafar.bsky.social · 2d

tfw you are consolidating your regime

lynnechester cathedral 🎶🗽 @lynnh1.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Pam Bondi has officially filed a petition asking the NFL to remove Bad Bunny from the 2026 Super Bowl halftime lineup, while owner Jerry Jones expressed strong opposition and warned of a potential player strike.

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To See Afar @toseeafar.bsky.social · 2d

I can think of only three institutions that are still holding after 8 months of Trump II:

-the judiciary (lower courts, not you SCOTUS)

-journalism (independent)

-communities (us).

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

you! are! a! lawyer!

I fear that the legal community will act like Trump admin's lawyers are normal lawyers--like they'll get nice firm jobs and their law schools will invite them to talk to students, etc--but the lawyers facilitating Trump's lawlessness should be professionally and socially shamed

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

DOJ: CA NG is already federalized

Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with?

DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker

Judge: You're a lawyer

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

Abbott egged on the Jade Helm conspiracists, who claimed that a military training operation was actually Obama invading the state of Texas.

Now a U.S. president is deploying Texas troops to other states to dominate and intimidate those states, and Abbott is complicit.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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To See Afar @toseeafar.bsky.social · 5d

What’s your sense of Judge Immergut? I understand her to be pretty by-the-book and fair, and have never thought of her as a partisan hack despite who appointed her. Hoping that’s still relatively true!

To See Afar @toseeafar.bsky.social · 5d

Lmao we’re so fucked

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d

I asked Chris Murphy if he privately talks to Dem colleagues about why they don't sound the alarm loudly. His answers were depressing. Dems tell him they don't want to be "alarmist" or that "democracy" didn't work in 2024, so they want to stick to health care. 5/

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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To See Afar @toseeafar.bsky.social · 6d

I know his chin smells crazy

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To See Afar @toseeafar.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like Republicans haplessly surrendering their Article I powers to a guy who looks like he has old cottage cheese stuck in his beard doesn’t get talked about enough

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

“.. This is the risk of shutting down the government and handing the keys to Russ Vought,” the Senate majority leader said ..

@politico.com
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6d

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:

Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the
Department's operational status.
Thank you.

Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

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To See Afar @toseeafar.bsky.social · 6d

What on earth did I just destroy my middle aged eyeballs squinting to read

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 6d

taylor, come on, you gotta chill out. you cannot be writing about charli like that. this is less a diss track and more you seething for several minutes. oh my god.

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To See Afar @toseeafar.bsky.social · 6d

When Democrats folded to pass the CR in March, Trump issued an executive order *that same night* eliminating seven federal agencies

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut ... I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity."

I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent. I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 6d

Vance's most monumental achievement to date has been being told off by two popes in one year.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6d

Pope Leo, "Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhumane treatment of immigrants, they're not pro life"

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 6d

“The Govt sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to the check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where ppl are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as landscaping, construction, agriculture, or car washes…” -Justice Kavanaugh

Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 6d

"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."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 6d

This is the message.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 7d

Priorities.

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