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❄️Winter Magic❄️ 🐀Rat Verified🐀 @wmrina.bsky.social · 2h

These states are attempting to file in support of Trump’s use of National Guard members in Illinois over Gov. Pritzker’s objection. We can let our representatives know that we don’t like them doing this.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 19h

This is getting wild.

The states of Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and 14 others have just asked for permission to file THEIR amicus brief in IL v. Trump.

The States of Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and 14 additional States
respectfully move for leave to submit the attached amicus curiae brief in support of Defendants
and their opposition to Plaintiffs’ requested temporary restraining order and preliminary
injunction. Proposed amici are States with a vested interest in federalism, the relationship between
States and the federal government, and deploying the National Guard. We also each have a vital
interest in supporting the President and Congress in enacting and enforcing valid immigration
laws. Every State has a responsibility to protect our citizens.
The federalization of States’ National Guard units is a matter of profound public
importance, as it directly implicates the delicate balance of power between state and federal
governments—a true cornerstone of Federalism. States generally maintain authority over their
National Guard units, allowing governors to deploy them for state-specific needs, such as disaster
response or public safety. Federalization of state National Guard units without gubernatorial

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Shelley Leppert @shellital.bsky.social · 4h

Not to hijack the thread, but I thought this one might be useful to share with Maga folks. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Opinion | This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up

www.nytimes.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h

Credit where credit is due. The Democrats' message that the GOP shut down the government because they want to throw millions of people off healthcare has broken through. Two of my cousins who are NOT AT ALL tuned into national politics told me that this is why the government is shut down.

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 3h

‘No backsies’: The REAL reason Mike Johnson won’t swear in new Dem rep

@chrislhayes.bsky.social explains precisely why Mike Johnson is stalling the new Dem rep's swear-in over the Epstein vote.

‘No backsies’: The REAL reason Mike Johnson won’t swear in new Dem rep

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 3h

For years, we have said privacy laws are only as strong as their enforcement. It's critical that regulators such as the CA Privacy Protection Agency are active, strategic, and bold. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

California Targets Tractor Supply's Tricky Tracking

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) fined Tractor Supply, the country's self-proclaimed largest "rural lifestyle" retailer, $1,350,000 for apparently ducking its responsibilities to

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lindaisee.bsky.social @lindaisee.bsky.social · 1d

Most Americans say that trump has not only failed to protect us but has endangered all of us in countless ways from national security failures to committing murder on the high seas. We think he belongs in jail. If Republicans had an ounce of courage he would be.

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JessicaBlack @jessbheart.bsky.social · 4h

Incase anyone wants an explanation that includes the occasional joke as they explain it...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yd9...

Tasers & Excited Delirium: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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ALD9119 @ald9119.bsky.social · 4h

#LinwoodLambert

He called an ambulance but cops showed up and “transported” him to the hospital instead of the ambulance. Multiple cops tased him at one time until his heart stopped then claimed it was drugs that killed him. The cops were never held accountable.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncn...

Feds Close Inquiry Into Death of Linwood Lambert After Virginia Police Tasing

There will be no federal charges against three police officers who repeatedly tased a man outside a Virginia hospital in May 2013, the DOJ announced.

www.nbcnews.com

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Pank 🦑 @pankraru.bsky.social · 4h

If anyone wants to know a bit more about the history of "Excited Delirium" and how it came to be used, Behind the Bastards did a great 2 parter on it.

Heres Part 1:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRc...

Part One: Excited Delirium: How Cops Invented A Disease | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

YouTube video by Behind the Bastards

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4h

Whilst we're on the subject of shocking living things, did you know police departments routinely shock human beings with tasers until they die and chalk up their deaths to a fake medical condition they call "excited delirium" that was invented by taser companies to absolve themselves of liability?

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 7h

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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rambler68.bsky.social @rambler68.bsky.social · 3h

It’s “free speech “ if you’re engaged in converting but not if you’re affirming someone’s gender identity.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

Turns out, the MAGA Supreme Court is the one interested in converting your kids through the use of quack doctors with medically unsound practices based on no scientific evidence. "Every accusation is a confession" with them.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Supreme Court Wants to Convert Your Kids

During a hearing this week, the court’s theocrats made it clear that they’ll vote to end a ban on conversion therapy for minors.

www.thenation.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

Love to see it! Purchases support REBUILD: ollycostelloshop.com/products/wil...

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CFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social · 3h

"We're just very hamstrung. We're like frozen in an ice cube."

-- CFPB worker and NTEU 335 member Alexis Goldstein helping to explain to @npr.org that the shutdown has been happening since Feb. at the CFPB.

Listen beginning at 6:28.

A week into the shutdown, federal workers are stuck in limbo : Consider This from NPR

It's been a week since a federal shutdown ground work at numerous government agencies to a halt. There's no indication that an agreement could come soon, as Republicans and Democrats in congress…

www.npr.org

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NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 2d

I taught mostly freshman level physics and astronomy so I would often include basic scientific philosophy and terminology, including the scientific method and what this implies about scientific theories.

Turns out learning exactly why creationism doesn’t work for science is bad for conservatism.

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NuclearNoises @nuclearnoises.bsky.social · 2d

You’re getting threats because conservatives are saying you teaching about how fascism is bad as a threat to conservatism. Gee, what an interesting opinion they have.

I was on that watchlist for a little while too for teaching students that they can’t just have conservative ideology as science.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

1a) 1 takeaway is comparison between the "fascism-producing crisis[es]" of past + present characterized by the prevalence of the "nonintelligibility of power."

When a prominent historian of interwar Europe says we are living through a similar crisis amidst the rise of fascism, we need to listen.

A page of text from the essay with certain sections underlined.

With dynamics already apparent from the early 2000s, but sharply
worsening since2008-2010, the US polity has entered a steadily escalating version of the dual crisis outlined earlier, one suddenly magnifed and massively jolted by COVID-19: a crisis of cohesion, a crisis of legitimacy.

Not only is the polity broken, but very large masses of people have
stopped believing in its repair. On the one hand, we have the extreme
atrophy of democratic practices in the state, whether inside the legislature or in the relations of the presidency, Senate/Congress, and Supreme Court; or in the attack on voting rights, voting access, and the conduct of elections; or in the curtailment of civil liberties and the scale and character of the carceral state. On the other hand, there is now a default conviction among the citizenry that government consists only in burdensomeness, corruption, incompetence, and nonaccountability– a still-widening popular belief in what I would call the nonintelligibility of power, the belief that power is exercised in a distant place, behind closed doors and opaque glass, by conspiracies of elites who are beholden to no one and simply do not care.
crisis of consent; government paralysis, democratic impasse– the prospects can be severe indeed. If we add the fields of structural determation outlined briefly at the very start of this chapter, whose ruinous consequences are now immeasurably expanded and sharpened by the intervening calamity of the COVID-19 pandemic, the severity grows further again. The deeper structural setting will need to be fully proceeding from the huge transformations begun in the 1980s. Here, we need to talk about fundamental capitalist restructuring: deindustrialization and neoliberal globalization. We need to talk about drastic class recomposition, including the reorganization of work and labor circuits and the rewriting of the labor contract...etc

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 7h

Miller is what happens when people don't pay attention to the danger ahead and either are too purposely uninformed to see it and vote for the danger or can't bring themselves to vote for the better alternative. You end up with someone running the country NO ONE VOTED FOR.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h

the only appropriate response will be to triple down on supporting the targeted groups rather than to do what so many people usually do which is to run away from them.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 7h

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

www.reuters.com

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❄️Winter Magic❄️ 🐀Rat Verified🐀 @wmrina.bsky.social · 14h

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 19h

This is getting wild.

The states of Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and 14 others have just asked for permission to file THEIR amicus brief in IL v. Trump.

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Mark Romoser @mfromoser.bsky.social · 15h

Former Philippine ruler Duterte also murdered suspected drug dealers. He is presently incarcerated in The Hague.

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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 1d

Because certainly there's no reason why this history might be terrifyingly relevant right now, here's a link to preorder @stschrader1.bsky.social's "Blue Power" on how police in the US organized to exempt themselves from democratic oversight and control: redemmas.org/titles/48838...

Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves

Buy from Red Emma's, a worker-owned radical bookstore

redemmas.org

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 18h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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