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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 8h

Congrats to Mike Lindell and Jack Posobiec on their Pentagon gigs!

The Baffler @thebaffler.com · Sep 10

From James O’Keefe to Mike Lindell to Jack Posobiec, plenty of right-wing misfits and serial grifters were in Chicago for the DNC last month. @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social bore witness.

Noise Pollution | Amanda Moore

During the DNC, a menagerie of right-wing misfits and career grifters descended on Chicago, hoping to sow discord and confusion.

thebaffler.com

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Banquosghost @banquosghost.bsky.social · 8h

It’s cover for re-doing the bunker underneath?

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 8h

Assaulting and kidnapping people under a pillar of gift cards in a big box store shopping aisle. Armed men decked out in camo with a backdrop of orange adverts, concrete, fluorescent lights. Typifying this era of American fascism.

Nothing that makes this possible can be allowed to stand.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

Threads post from julieceye

At my local Home Depot today in Evanston, IL. They abducted 5 people in my immediate area.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 8h

A Cuban man deported by the U.S. to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison having been held there for more than three months without being charged or having access to legal counsel under the Trump administration’s third-country program.

A Cuban man deported by the US to Africa is on a hunger strike in prison, his lawyer says

A lawyer representing a Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini says he is on a hunger strike after being held at a maximum-security prison for more than three months without charge or access to legal counsel.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16h

Awful: Trump's $230 million shakedown from DOJ can be paid to him confidentially at first, without the public ever finding out about it until later, Rep Jamie Raskin tells me.

Raskin will formally demand full communications between WH and DOJ on this.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2021...

Trump’s Vile New $230 Million Shakedown of DOJ Just Got Even Worse

It’s bad enough that Trump wants—and DOJ will likely fork over—this tribute payment. Now, get this: It can probably be done at first without even being revealed publicly.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

👀 "By holding back federal tax revenues, Democratic governors can turn a one-sided assault into a constitutional showdown."

@eric-reinhart.com suggests "creation of state-administered escrow accounts, or “in trust” funds" to temporarily hold fed tax revenues" until fed gov meets const obligations.

How can blue states fight back against Trump? With fiscal disobedience | Eric Reinhart

By holding back federal tax revenues, Democratic governors can turn a one-sided assault into a constitutional showdown

www.theguardian.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:

“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

Still going. In which now they’re making the case about how the White House and DHS are trying to manufacture riots to justify deploying military to Portland.

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 1d

LIVE NOW: Senator Merkley holds floor to 'protest Trump’s threats to Democracy' www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1VL...

LIVE: Senator Merkley holds floor to 'protest Trump’s threats to Democracy'

YouTube video by MSNBC

www.youtube.com

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 1d

“Once my colleague pulled out his camera, the agent put away the gun," Huynh told the Sun-Times Tuesday night. "[But] if they can do this in broad daylight to an elected official, and point a gun at someone, imagine what’s happening behind closed doors.”

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Banquosghost @banquosghost.bsky.social · 1d

Sunset on the tracks.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

This lawsuit, which demands that the House of Representatives finally seat Rep. Adelita Grijalva, has, um, fairly major implications for our democracy's survival in 2026 and beyond. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This case is about whether someone duly elected to the House – who indisputably
meets the constitutional qualifications of the office – may be denied her rightful office simply
because the Speaker has decided to keep the House out of “regular session.”
2. If the Speaker were granted that authority, he could thwart the peoples’ choice of
who should represent them in Congress by denying them representation for a significant portion
of the two-year term provided by the Constitution.
3. Fortunately, the Constitution does not give that authority to the Speaker—or anyone
else

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 1d

Here's the link to the complaint, which is a public document and available to share freely:

“[T]he Constitution leaves the House without authority to exclude any person, duly elected by his constituents, who meets all the requirements for membership expressly prescribed in the Constitution.”

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

Read this: “15 More Ways You Can Fight for Democracy”

By @gabelezra.bsky.social

@contrariannews.org

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

15 More Ways You Can Fight for Democracy

By Gabriel Lezra

open.substack.com

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d

Trump is extorting his own Justice Department for $230 million in taxpayer funds.

He refuses to open the government or lower health care costs — but he's eager to steal YOUR money to enrich himself.

Unprecedented, unfathomable corruption.

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

www.nytimes.com

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Banquosghost @banquosghost.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. How about that @govmurphy.bsky.social ?

Dave Lee @davelee.me · 1d

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

www.bloomberg.com

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 1d

“ICE was always going to be Trump’s private military to deploy domestically against Americans,” said one critic.

Trump’s ICE jacks up weapons spending by 700%—including ‘guided missile warheads’

“ICE was always going to be Trump’s private military to deploy domestically against Americans,” said one critic.

therealnews.com

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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 1d

BELOW: When destroying a rose garden isn't symbolic enough.

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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 1d

The Trump administration's politicization of US national security

Through purges in intelligence agencies, institutional politicization and an authoritarian drift, the American president has shaken US democracy and elevated a new imagined 'enemy within.'

www.lemonde.fr

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 2d

Thinking bout this right now for no real reason—

“When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead”

When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead | Artnet News

Read an excerpt from the book 'Art and Crime: The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World.'

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Truthout @truthout.org · 2d

The informants reportedly provided information on alleged ties between the gang and Bukele’s government.

Rubio Reportedly Gave Up MS-13 Informants in Deal With Bukele to Jail Deportees

The informants reportedly provided information on alleged ties between the gang and Bukele’s government.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 2d

American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 2d

Along with the $20 billion U.S. taxpayer bailout to Argentina, the Trump admin announced another $20 billion for Argentina from private banks. But the banks won’t lend the money without a guarantee from the federal government. So it’s a $40B taxpayer bailout.

www.wsj.com/finance/arge...

www.wsj.com

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 2d

T-Mobile US Inc. donated to have the side of the White House torn off illegally in a sadistic way to embarrass us in front of the world.

They are forever friends with nazis.

I mean, ya'll know what to do.

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 Give this man a microphone. Speaking truth to power! ✊🏼
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