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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 40m

Not surprised by this at all, but I hope the more media like @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social fearlessly report on this, perhaps more Americans will start to understand how deeply wrong ICE and this Admin are.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant ⬇️

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Andrew Donaldson @four4thefire.bsky.social · 3h

She should be run out of office and investigated. A sitting member of congress being a conduit of information for a hostile foreign government ought to have people in the streets demanding her removal, but we are a deeply unserious people

kmphfox26.bsky.social @kmphfox26.bsky.social · 5h

Florida GOP Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna announced Tuesday that the ambassador from Russia to the U.S. will be giving documents to her office about the Russian government’s findings on who killed former President John F. Kennedy.

https://bit.ly/4onYZAw

Rep. Luna says ambassador from Russia will give docs to her office on JFK assassination

Florida GOP Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna announced Tuesday that the ambassador from Russia to the U.S. will be giving documents to her office.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 3h

It makes you wonder how much of that particular Biden narrative was just being annoyed they weren't being spoon-fed content.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 7h

The entire first two months of the Biden administration were taken up by obsessive complaining about how he wouldn't do press conferences & wasn't taking policy questions (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).

This? Gone tomorrow. Totally different set of standards applied to two totally different parties.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "I don't take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States."

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 3h

Mike was worried that his son would get a notification and would rat him out.

Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 3h

How pathetic do you have to be to see naked people as “threatening?”

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4h

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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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 1d

The future is an armed / masked / lawless force wandering around America abusing anyone they want like a sectarian Basij.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Trudeus @trudeus.gg · 6h

4chan levels of stupidity. "I dodged my bullet, Charlie had a skill issue" type energy

Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 6h

Trump playing up his bullet dodging skills at the Charlie Kirk memorial is really beyond parody.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 6h

Trump playing up his bullet dodging skills at the Charlie Kirk memorial is really beyond parody.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 7h

an older man in a police uniform is smiling and holding a cigarette in his hand .

Alt: Dennis Hopper in True Romance is smiling and holding a Chesterfield cigarette in his hand .

media.tenor.com

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 7h

Screenshotting in case they fix their mistake.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 7h

When I think about free markets and limited government, I think about the President of the United States micromanaging trade in "Cooking Oil."

George Pearkes @peark.es · 8h

"We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil" is an all-timer. Thank you Mr President, we appreciate your insights.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

I believe that China purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers, is an Economically Hostile Act. We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution. As an example, we can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves, we don’t need to purchase it from China.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 7h

Uh, Reuters? Wrong Susan Collins.

Boston Federal Reserve President Susan Collins, not to be confused with the Maine senator of the same name

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 9h

$20 billion of our tax money going to buy an election in Argentina. Apparently that’s “America first.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump on Milei: "He's done an incredible job, but with that comes some pain. They have some pain and now they're coming out of it. I think the victory is very important. Your polls numbers I hear are pretty good, but I think they'll be better after this."

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 9h

“If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” -Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/emil...

Emily Bregel @emilybregel.bsky.social · 2d

Despite having no criminal record and a valid work permit, Cielo was arrested during a February immigration operation at his home and spent seven months in detention. He's one of the thousands of non-criminals swept up in Trump's expanding mass-detention net. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/s...

'Hell on earth': DHS mass-detention net ensnares more non-criminals

Seventy-one percent of those held in ICE detention have no criminal convictions. Trump's mass-detention net is ensnaring long-time residents with deep community ties, as well as those with valid work

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Deirdre Assenza @deirdreassenza.bsky.social · 12h

I’m gonna cry this is so good

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 23h

Amy Coney Barrett and her GOP-appointed colleagues are Republican political operatives masquerading as nonpartisan judges, and it’s long past time for Democrats to start talking about them that way. If she can go on Fox to push partisan talking points, then she is a partisan.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

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Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

www.lawdork.com

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 23h

Will Amy Coney Barrett’s adopted children have to carry immigration paperwork everywhere they go for the rest of their lives because they were born overseas? Maybe Amy is still trying to figure that out, and so it’s on the shadow docket for now.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 23h

Amy Coney Barrett and her GOP-appointed colleagues are Republican political operatives masquerading as nonpartisan judges, and it’s long past time for Democrats to start talking about them that way. If she can go on Fox to push partisan talking points, then she is a partisan.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

some words

Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

www.lawdork.com

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1d

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1d

“I heard about this frog…” 🐸 youtu.be/7Ep4B1LuRnE?...

M83 - Raconte-moi une histoire (audio)

YouTube video by M83

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1d

I will watch this as many times as it shows up in my feed. Love this guy’s fighting spirit.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 8d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 4d

Just found out the name for mocking the powers-that-be while doing whimsical protesting:

Tactical frivolity.

There, now you know too.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactica...

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe if Trump took a moment to reflect on how Biden treats him versus the way he treats Biden, he might understand why Joe Biden is going to heaven and he isn’t.

Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 1d

Joe Biden is a class act. Trump reviles him nonstop yet Biden praises Trump for the hostage release.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1d

That Bari, Inc. is complaining about what is essentially the “Great Books” stuff these jackoffs are constantly pining for really makes the whole thing hilarious.

The Core Curriculum - Contemporary
Civilization
Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West-taught in sections of about twenty-two students by an interdepartmental staff— emphasizes critical inquiry and active participation in discussion and argument.
The central purpose of the course is to introduce students to a range of issues concerning all kinds of communities— political, social, moral, and religious- that human beings construct for themselves and the values that inform and define such communities. Among the readings currently required are the Bible, the Koran, and works by Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Smith, Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche, DuBois, Freud, and Woolf.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1d

“I heard about this frog…” 🐸 youtu.be/7Ep4B1LuRnE?...

M83 - Raconte-moi une histoire (audio)

YouTube video by M83

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 1d

Wyoming is by an order of magnitude the US's largest coal producer (and produces more than the whole of the northern Appalachia and Midwest states *combined*).

Nearly all of that comes out of the Powder River Basin.

Coal is a dead industry.

J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 1d

New coal leases in the Powder River Basin have been paused after the first one had only a bid for 1/10th of a penny. They are trying to blame previous administrations, but the writing is on the wall. We should be supporting coal workers and communities not doing wtf this clown show is doing.

US postpones Wyoming coal lease sale after disappointing Montana auction

The Trump administration has postponed a scheduled sale of coal leases on federal lands in Wyoming two days after a disappointing auction in Montana, an Interior Department spokesperson said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

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