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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 1h

It didn't even happen during the Civil War, which was an actual insurrection; Union troops occupied places that claimed not to be in the United States.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7h

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 5h

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 5h

"Should Trump be allowed jus primae noctis as he demanded in his latest truth social post?"

"OK, first I don't speak latin, and second, I don't read social media, and third, I am actually undergoing sensory deprivation therapy at all times and thus cannot comment on anything happening around me."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 9h

Since people are posting the video without crediting the source, the source:

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 8h

The new makeup is mortuary color. Hate to say it but he needs to go back to the orange.

|Between The Lines| @frankjones25.bsky.social · 9h

Trump and the Republican Party are Responsible for the Government Shutdown. Pass It On.

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Dave Jenkins @mzeedave.bsky.social · 1d

Neighbors Warn Neighbors as Fear of ICE Ripples Across Chicago www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Neighbors Warn Neighbors as Fear of ICE Ripples Across Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 9h

I *do* want to be a pedant here (based on the comments): declining to indict is not the same as jury nullification. In these cases the evidence is thin and ICE/the prosecutors are constantly lying, meaning the case has no chance of success at the jury stage to prove a crime beyond a reasonable doubt

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 18h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 8h

and all over the world
www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/ne...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 14h

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 21h

Some people might want to read this again

Leviticus 19:33-34

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 8h

😂😂😂

TheReal_Jaime @thereal-jaime.bsky.social · 21h

A Republican state lawmaker in Michigan who condemned LGBTQ rights, called oral sex "a crime against God," & introduced legislation to ban pornography, has been linked to an account on an extremely graphic adult dating website that promises hookups of all kinds www.rawstory.com/josh-schriver/

GOP lawmaker who compared adult websites to heroin linked to graphic hookup site account

A Republican state lawmaker in Michigan who has condemned LGBTQ rights, called oral sex "a crime against God," and introduced legislation to ban pornography in the state has been linked to an account ...

www.rawstory.com

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 8h

Somebody should tell their donors how they evidently feel about campaign donors.

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 21h

“We’re targeting only hardened criminals”

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22h

Man…man.

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

“Why Sergio?”: Deportation ends 36-year dream for celebrated Waco chef

Sergio Garcia built a wide following for his regional Mexican cuisine over the decades, becoming a favorite of the White House press corps visiting Waco during the Bush presidency. Then in March, ICE ...

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 9h

This carnage must stop!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 9h

No comparison to Blumenthal's misstatement, annoying but in no way illegal. www.npr.org/2010/05/18/1... Better compare Santos to Trump himself, with his $25 million "Trump University" fraud and $355 million bank fraud and other crimes (document theft, insurrection) for which he's avoided trial.

Blumenthal Says He Misspoke About Vietnam Service

The New York Times reported Monday the Connecticut attorney general and Democratic Senate candidate had distorted his military service. At a press conference Tuesday, Blumenthal said he meant to say h...

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 9h

If Trump is talking about his ally and soul mate George Santos, it's 23 felonies, mostly theft adding up to $375,000 in restitution and over $200,000 in ill-gotten gains. The only "lying about his past" he was charged with was to FEC and Congress www.newsweek.com/george-santo...

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about ukulele protests is that they can so easily escalate to violins.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 19h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 21h

Here’s video of the incident

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 20h

Right. Haven't done one since I stopped Twitter, but I'm noticing some of those more harmless Twitter things are starting to take off here.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This strikes me as pretty bad

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 21h

Clarification www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release...

AG Bondi Lobs Demonstrably False Claims at Senator Whitehouse to Avoid Answering Simple Questions About Alleged Homan Bribe, Patel Lies, Epstein Scandal - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a former U.S. Attorney and Rhode Island Attorney General, today released the following statement after the Attorney General made demonstrably f...

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 1d

Pam Bondi just reminded us that she's part of the Epstein cover up. Bondi's defensiveness/evasive at Tuesday's Senate hearing when asked about Epstein is what prosecutors call consciousness of guilt. Bondi is guilty of being part of cover up. My article: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/pam-bondi-...

Pam Bondi just reminded us that she's part of the Jeffrey Epstein cover up

Tuesday's Senate hearing gave us even more proof

deanobeidallah.substack.com

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