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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Eric Lopez @astroericl.bsky.social · 3h

oh yay. Yeah I would say Bluesky does have a critical mass these days of political and sports shitposters for my timeline at least but it does lack the weirdness and pop culture conversation of twitter classic still

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 17h

The UAW has waded into the Maine Senate race with an endorsement for oyster farmer (and former Tune Inn bartender!) Graham Platner

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Eric Lopez @astroericl.bsky.social · 3h

ngl I didn't know there another big move

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

this ballroom is the best evidence that trump doesn’t intend to leave

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 9h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Eric Lopez @astroericl.bsky.social · 14h

ahh yes but you see originalism only counts for the original 10 amendments, not those later woke amendments /s

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 14h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 14h

‼️ this was a striking moment, to me

Louisiana was basically like 'here come these Black people always asking for more' and Justice Jackson was like, 'that's not what the fuck they're asking for, they're saying: stop discriminating against us'

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 15h

Louisiana: "The plaintiffs came in and said 'we want a second majority-minority district."
KBJ: "NO THEY DID NOT. They said our votes are being dilluted."
Louisiana: "That's the same thing."
KBJ: "No it's not. ... trust me on this."
:)

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Eric Lopez @astroericl.bsky.social · 1d

“ahh you see your honor we did take down the fence you told us to, this is a whole new fence”

on the upside maybe we finally get an official ruling on the ship of Theseus

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Thomas Beatty @tgbeatty.bsky.social · 1d

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Eric Lopez @astroericl.bsky.social · 1d

"restructure" my ass, this is just them shamelessly cutting vital US science infrastructure because the Trump family doesn't know how to personally profit off it

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social · 2d

“Restructuring” because the Whitehouse and their allies choose destruction of all the good parts of the United States federal government because it won’t make them a personal profit. Also, they hate science, people who do good things for everyone instead of for them only, and actual reality.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 2d

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 2d

Happy "Fuck Christopher Columbus Day" to all who celebrate.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 3d

She’s doing the Dril post 😂

wint @dril
go ahead. keep screaming "Shut The Fuck Up " at me. it only makes my opinions Worse
3/10/18, 13:09

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Eric Lopez @astroericl.bsky.social · 4d

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025

"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"

"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"

solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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PetePeteRe-Animator @petepeterepeat.bsky.social · 4d

Cry Ribbit and let slip the frogs of war

Silence 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @b-dogood.bsky.social · 5d

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 5d

It’s true: the cities are lawless and scary, if you live here sell your property as fast as possible, particularly if you have a 2 family row house from the 1920s with those nice bay windows.

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