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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 24d

This is the most real life Bluesky exchange ever.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24d

OBAMA: Sir, I’m not the President of the United States, currently. So, there’s no point in shouting at me. I’m not in charge of foreign policy currently.

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 19h

Trump claims the “Biden FBI” placed 274 agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Trump was president on Jan. 6.

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 7m

Sounds like his second annual physical went well.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 13m

If they don't want to be called the secret police or be accused of disappearing people, then they should probably stop secretly disappearing people.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2h

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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Greedo @greedo.bsky.social · 5h

lauren
@NotABigJerk

I’m not falling for that hot take that’s clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at I refuse to participate in that kind of perversion

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 3h

I Watch about 20 minutes of a Browns game every Sunday. I give myself about 5 minutes of enduring the suckage and then go do something else for about 45 minutes.

It's like working at a nuclear plant. You have to rotate out frequently and get some fresh air.

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 6h

“No, what the House has done is pass a 7-week Continuing Resolution,” Kiley posted Wednesday on X. “The entire reason a CR is necessary is that Congress has not done its job in passing a timely budget. The Speaker shouldn’t even think about cancelling session for a third straight week.”

CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 6h

There's a great quote from a House R in here.

Government shutdown: Pressure growing on Speaker Mike Johnson to call House back share.google/uhPOKhl47NRU...

Pressure growing on Johnson to call House back amid shutdown fight

House GOP leaders are facing increasing pressure to bring the chamber back to Washington amid a shutdown fight with no end in sight. A growing number of GOP lawmakers are voicing frustrations with …

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 6h

This is precisely how you should handle elected officials who appear on your air for purely performative purposes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 6h

I don't think you have to be particularly brave to take on Palestinian Americans or college students. There's a rather large audience for punching down.

CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 6h

Are you really *taking on the mob* if you're appealing to the worst instincts of the majority of the public?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 7h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 7h

We might be stuck with precedent we ourselves established, and could you imagine a Democrat with this power?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, the Republicans signed over a pretty big blank check with BBB on ICE, but eventually you run out of appropriated money to move around.

Congress would matter a lot more if Democrats were in the majority.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 1d

Those fucking troublemakers accusing (squints at screen) German right wingers in the 1930s of fascism

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 1d

There's a lot of money in the market right now because there's a lot of money sitting in retirement accounts and pension funds and it has to go somewhere. As a whole, P/E hasn't resembled anything close to sanity since Obama was in office.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Mad king watch: when *RFK Jr.* is telling you to stop with the vaccine crazy talk www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Ha ha ha they're like authoritarians www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 1d

It's a wild ride but well worth it. I grow more frustrated with the adult enablers than her.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t say what I’m thinking. But I’m thinking it hard.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 1d

But Democrats were willing to vote on a stand alone bill to make sure the troops would get paid. Johnson wouldn't bring it up. They can say we don't think it's constitutional, like everything else he does, but we're glad the troops are getting paid.

CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, they're your toys. Yes, you can play with them later. Right now, we're tidying up and they need to go in the containers.

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 1d

This is the second circuit court to issue an order that's very analogous to how I manage my mischievous toddler.

Donald Trump's National Guard control in Illinois partially restored share.google/S90O0pHRcQNP...

Appeals court restores Trump’s control over National Guard in Illinois, but blocks deployment

A federal appeals court on Saturday partially restored President Trump’s control of the National Guard in Chicago and across Illinois, but prevented him from being able to actually deploy ser…

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think Democrats care if he spends the entirety of DOD's budget on the troops from now until the midterms. This is, however, the first time he's unilaterally raided a GOP priority. What mechanism does Johnson have left to force capitulation now?

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economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 1d

Spain invested heavily in energy production especially solar given their climate. Making energy consistently cheap has fueled growth.

Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 15d

The Spanish boom continues.

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

Spain Wins Double Upgrade at Moody’s and Fitch on Strong Economy

Spain was upgraded by Moody’s Ratings and Fitch Ratings, a double-whammy that recognizes the economy’s standout growth performance in the euro area.

www.bloomberg.com

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