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Mybuddysully @mybuddysully.bsky.social · 7h

Meet the 22 artists, scientists and authors who will each get $800,000 MacArthur genius grants

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced its 2025 class of fellows on Wednesday, a prize often called the “genius award.”

apnews.com

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Just Tom @tpa1960.bsky.social · 8h

OK Mr. Durbin. Yes, they are. What the fuck are you going to do about it? You are a United States Senator. We can't do it. Only you guys can. DO SOMETHING!!!!

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Bud Jamison "FUCK you, make me!" @grunteledboomer.bsky.social · 8h

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

Federal judge further limits ICE ability to arrest without warrants, probable cause

A federal judge's ruling is a legal win for people wrongfully arrested in recent ICE and Border Patrol sweeps.

www.cbsnews.com

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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe shooting the priest in the head was the scale tipper!🤷

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 8h

Trump’s obsession with immigration is really an obsession with segregation. It was never about immigrants, it was always about hate and racism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...

Trump’s obsession with immigration is really an obsession with segregation | Heba Gowayed

His policies are the latest instantiation of a centuries-long American tradition: laws meant to exclude people of color and privilege whiteness

www.theguardian.com

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 9h

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

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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 9h

He just said it. 100% unironically and unmistakably.

“We took the freedom of speech away.”

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🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 13h

👏👏

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 9h

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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Rebba.bsky.social @rebba.bsky.social · 16h

Release the Epstein files!

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12h

The vindictive prosecutions of political enemies are not a distraction from the Epstein files - they’re one and the same: wielding the power of the DoJ to persecute your foes AND to protect your friends.

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Boboloca @boboloca.bsky.social · 8h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 9h

Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.

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

WEST VIRGINIAN: “If the subsidies go away I won’t have health insurance. I won’t go to the doctor. This really is a life or death situation.” #TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

(This shutdown is making the case for #MedicareForAll better than we ever could)

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 9h

it’s all just a grift

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11h

I continue to just respect the hell out of this guy

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

“.. the debate inside the administration has shifted recently, from whether it makes sense to invoke the act to more deeply exploring how and when it might be invoked ..”

@nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 13h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 8h

Oh this is not great

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

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 9h

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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