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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 1h

Amazing that it took a decade for the "stand your ground" party to become the "we're going to use our drones to watch you get dressed so we can maybe arrest you" party.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 17h

Drones flying around Chicago suburban houses and apartments to peer through their windows in search of Latino people to target for assault and arrest by federal agents is not a world we should accept. And Chicagoans are not accepting it. This is an anti-fascist city.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 1h

This single story is worth the cost of my year's subscription to
@wired.com

What do you like about the truck? What I love about the truck is just how it's so polarizing. The shape of it, the body of it, the manufacturing technique with the body panels and everything. I just love that it's completely outside of the box. And are you married? I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle. In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it? Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4h

“I’m not worried about nazis in the party because this is a Nazi party that uses Nazi methods to achieve Nazi goals and I’m a Nazi. Does that make sense?”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: Are you worried about extremist pro-Hitler sentiment among young Republicans?

JOHNSON: No. I don't know who any of these people are. I've never heard of them. Somebody posted a photo of me standing next to these guys wearing tuxedos. It was at the inauguration, people were coming up for selfies

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 6h

Glenn Beck has been targeting these same groups for so long that a viewer of his attempted to murder people at the Tides Foundation in SF *a decade and a half ago* (and settled for a shoutout with cops on 580) www.democracynow.org/2010/10/12/p...

"Progressive Hunter": Gunman Cites Listening to Glenn Beck and Others as Inspiration for Armed Plot Against ACLU & Tides

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 8h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

share.google

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Bobby @bobbyspumoni.bsky.social · 5h

Lol

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 6h

In 2024, I wrote a story for Texas Monthly about Michelle Haas, whose complaints resulted in the removal of books about slavery from historic Texas slave plantations. Haas sued us, alleging defamation, and was represented by the preferred lawyer of billionaire J.P. Bryan. Today, we won on appeal.

The header of the appeals court decision:

NUMBER 13-25-00005-CV

COURT OF APPEALS

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

The conclusion of the appeals court decision, which states: The trial court's judgment is reversed. We remand the cause to the trial court with

instructions to (1) grant appellants' TCPA motion to dismiss, (2) award court costs and reasonable attorney's fees to appellants in accordance with the statute, (3) consider whether to assess sanctions against Haas in accordance with the statute. See TEX. Civ. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 27.009(a).

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Dziga Vertov, communist "spinning top", he was a hero @dziga.bsky.social · 10h

Supporting BDS, opposing the US funding Israel's genocide, holding a Palestinian flag = anti-Semitism

Saying you love Hitler = not anti-Semitism

Our society is a joke

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’

Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

www.theguardian.com

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alexmckinnon.bsky.social @alexmckinnon.bsky.social · 23h

I asked DFAT and the PM&C if they had any response to an Israeli government minister allegedly threatening to gas Australian captives. No reply.

Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 1d

Australian activists who took part in the Global Sumud Flotilla claim Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, personally threatened to “gas” them.

www.deepcutnews.com/p/shut-the-f...

'Shut the f--k up or we'll gas you' – Australian flotilla activists allege direct threats from Israeli minister

Australians aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla claim Israeli soldiers sexually assaulted them in captivity

www.deepcutnews.com

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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 17h

Further illustrating that Chelly Bouferrache is basically just a Proud Boy videographer, she is being sued by a PDX ICE protestor for pepper spraying them & Henry "Enrique" Tarrio is promoting her legal fundraiser.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17h

When Big Balls got beat up by 15-year-olds they said DC should prosecute 14-year-olds as adults.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17h

Hitlergate wasn't "kids"—it was 20- and 30-something GOP flacks.

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 20h

Days since DHS last lied: 0

Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 21h

DHS claims a “high-ranking Latin Kings member” from Chicago, solicited the murder of top Border Patrol chief.

But at his indictment, there was no mention of gang ties. His lawyers & family say DHS’s narrative of Juan Espinoza Martinez, is false.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/15/c...

Chicago man indicted for allegedly soliciting killing of Gregory Bovino, but without contention of gang involvement

A Chicago man has been indicted on charges he solicited the murder of U.S. Border Patrol field boss Gregory Bovino, but the bare-bones document makes no mention of previous allegations that he is a…

www.chicagotribune.com

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 22h

4 months apart

Official ICE government account
June 6, 2025:
"To call us 'Nazis' - to compare us to one of the worst groups in history - is disgusting and just outright wrong.
"What the men and women of ICE are doing in Massachusetts and all over this country is making communities safer."
—ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1d

"you should bow down to the king who provides for you" is certainly one possible counter-message

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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nattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social · 1d

[to mafia thugs extorting me in a “protection” racket] excuse me, but you took an oath to protect me

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Bobby @bobbyspumoni.bsky.social · 1d

Still, give me this day my daily lead

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Bobby @bobbyspumoni.bsky.social · 1d

Was happy to find that mine is on the extremely low side

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 2d

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 2d

"The DOJ will continue engaging tech companies to *eliminate platforms* . . ."

This is your daily reminder Bondi specifically, and MAGA generally, spent the last 4 years accusing the Biden admin of jawboning tech companies to take down content in violation of the 1A.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.

She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.

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

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Tito Blanco @acabcats.bsky.social · 1d

Yelling from the mountaintop that they’re being 1000% disingenuous when saying this. They’re saying it as a pretext to justify assaulting the most peaceful of protesters on No Kings day

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 2d

“‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat *** Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.”

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Bobby @bobbyspumoni.bsky.social · 2d

Hey man remember when you platformed Richard Spencer

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Bobby @bobbyspumoni.bsky.social · 2d

The number one thing about fascists is that they’re all dumb as dogshit

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

3M is antifa now

Kimberly Vega

@caligurlluv

Replying to @MrAndyNgo and @patrioticmouse

Interesting same pink gas mask as those whose them in Portland, Oregon!!!!!

Who's supplying them?!!!

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