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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 4h

Remember when Biden bungled a comment and it sounded like he called all MAGA garbage, quickly corrected and it was still a 3 day news story?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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coalminephoenix.bsky.social @coalminephoenix.bsky.social · 1m

So racially biased abuses are #kavanaughstops and if no racial bias, just abuse because annoyed with peaceful protest it is #StayPuff to go with your beer bellies and buttcrack brigade —ghostbusters were the good guys. The StayPuff man got corrupted and blown up too big.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6h

While we're all calling detentions of US citizens bc racist ICE goons think Latinos must be undocumented "Kavanaugh stops," I hereby propose we start calling the arrests of US citizens who get assaulted by ICE while just standing there "Ghostbusters," after the clarinetist who was charged.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6h

Here's how ProPublica categorizes the 170 US citizens ICE has kidnapped. 50 Kavanaugh stops and 120 cases where ICE claimed they were assaulted, usually (IMO) after assaulting the person in question.

Remember that 2 of the electeds--Ras Baraka and Brad Lander--were arrested DURING their election.

We reviewed more than 170 cases overall, which we sorted into two categories.

The first is Americans who were held because agents questioned their citizenship. We found more than 50 such cases. The second category is Americans arrested by immigration agents after being accused of assaulting or impeding officers at protests or during immigration arrests of others. In that category, we tallied about 130 Americans, including more than a dozen elected officials. In many of these cases, the government never charged these individuals or the cases were dismissed.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 20h

Soooo, DOJ is just like declining to argue its own position on the merits?

This is in the shutdown RIFs TRO order.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

4 As noted below, at the hearing defense counsel declined to discuss the merits of the motion,
despite being requested to do so several times by the Court.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 6h

Trying to imagine the furor if Democratic leadership had called the Tea Party protests "Hate America" protests. Every day a new lesson in how different the rules really are.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 2h

BREAKING: Georgia Public Broadcasting reports ICE has confirmed it will reopen a controversial detention center in Irwin County.

The center was closed in 2021 amid allegations of medical abuse, such as forcibly sterilizing migrant women.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DP4gepf...

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Dan @refried-dan.bsky.social · 4h

Johnson sounds more frustrated and angry the longer the shutdown goes on. They have been throwing everything they can in order to change the narrative and it’s not working.

Now he’s coming off as desperately defensive and whining.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

That’s some peak cynicism about trying to “make sure people don’t die ..”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Mike Johnson: "Let me predict what Sen. Kelly is gonna say on the show. He's gonna give you a long, impassioned speech about healthcare and how the subsidies are so important to make sure people don't die and all of this. Let me tell you something. This is not a healthcare fight."

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Vet Voice Foundation @vetvoicefoundation.bsky.social · 1h

"We have to draw a line in the sand, respectfully, firmly, and without equivocation. This is not normal. This is not American, and this is not what the military is for," said Janessa Goldbeck, a Marine Corps veteran and the CEO of Vet Voice Foundation.

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 13m

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6h

Congratulations to my friend a co-host of the @dailybeanspod.com. Well deserved!

Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 6h

I am BEYOND thrilled to share that I have been inducted into the iconic #Out100 for 2025! It’s a huge honor to be recognized alongside so many brilliant and inspiring individuals who are shaping our world and advocating for greater inclusivity and diversity.

www.out.com/out100/2025/...

The 2025 Out100: Dana Goldberg

These are the LGBTQ+ people making the world bolder and brighter in 2025.

www.out.com

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 4h

Please understand that the Trump regime is dehumanizing Democrats the same way the Nazis dehumanized Jews. Trump is laying the groundwork to arrest, imprison and even kill us. History is warning us that is where we are heading.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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FAIR GOP PRIMARIES @demconservative.bsky.social · 21m

The GOP is set to win at SCOTUS to gut VRA and eliminate limits on corporate contributions. A grassroots solution to this is to overwhelm MAGA in GOP primaries.

19 states allow open primaries including numerous southern states where gutting of VRA will be impactful. See my profile for more info.

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concerned2.bsky.social @concerned2.bsky.social · 21m

Everyone participate in NO Kings March October 18

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Ed Hirsch @edhirsch.bsky.social · 20m

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Insurrectionists: Proud Boys and Oath Keepers among over 1,500 J6 Capitol Riot defendants pardoned by Donald Trump
www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Freedom Fighter 2025 @beherenownyc.bsky.social · 21m

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, we recorded this morning.

CNN @cnn.com · 2h

John Bolton, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser-turned-adversary, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland, according to two sources. https://cnn.it/4qk5rKE

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 55m

The NYT reports: "Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats."

He did what he had to do. He and other senior leadership know how illegal their orders are.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 8h

"the main danger of being impeached would come precisely from the public’s being conditioned to the idea that I was going to be impeached. In the end, therefore, it would come down to a race for public support: in other words, a campaign."

THE MEMOIRS OF RICHARD NIXON 972 (1978).

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Paul Rosenzweig @rosenzweigp.bsky.social · 8h

8. “In the first week of this administration, 17 inspector generals from across the government were fired,” Smith reminded the George Mason audience. “If you wanted to deter whistleblowers from coming forward and allow active corruption to happen, one of the first things you’d do is to /9

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Paul Rosenzweig @rosenzweigp.bsky.social · 8h

brought somebody in who had never been a criminal prosecutor, on days’ notice, to secure an indictment a day before the statute of limitations ended.”
5. “Dismissing a criminal case against the current New York City mayor [Eric Adams] in exchange for his cooperation with the president’s political

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Paul Rosenzweig @rosenzweigp.bsky.social · 8h

4. The unwarranted “prosecution of the former director of the FBI,” James Comey. Smith pointed out that “the career prosecutors . . . who analyzed this said there wasn’t a case. And so they [apparently alluding to DOJ leaders and the White House] /4

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Paul Rosenzweig @rosenzweigp.bsky.social · 8h

2. The terminations of FBI agents and “the January 6 prosecutors and their staffs . . . for doing their jobs.”
3. The appointment, as a senior adviser to the attorney general, of a man (Jared Wise) who “was at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, telling other rioters to kill police officers.” /3

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Paul Rosenzweig @rosenzweigp.bsky.social · 8h

1. The pardons and commutations given to everyone convicted of violent crimes on January 6, 2021. Smith put it starkly: “They were pardoned by the president because they committed their crimes in his name and in his interest.” /2

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Paul Rosenzweig @rosenzweigp.bsky.social · 8h

Jack Smith speaks -- and he outlines a few of the horrors of Trumpism's assault on the Rule of Law, as a reminder of what has happened in the last 8 months (during two recent speeches):
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