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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

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Must-read for NYC voters

When I Look at Zohran Mamdani, Here’s What I See

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

Opinion | When I Look at Zohran Mamdani, Here’s What I See

www.nytimes.com

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 4d

His granddaughter was saying, “ ‘Oh my God. Why are the police talking to pop-pop?’”

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/10/07/a...

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 6d

Armed agents in Florida showed up at the door of a 77-year-old anti-Trump protester who wrote a postcard to the state's finance chief that said only "You lack values" www.axios.com/local/tampa-...

Armed Florida agents visited Largo man over postcard critical of CFO Ingoglia

The situation raises questions about how Ingoglia's office is utilizing law enforcement.

www.axios.com

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 5d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Joey Shea @joeyshea.bsky.social · 5d

🚩On @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social, Aziz Ansari said he would donate part of his Riyadh Comedy Fest fee to @hrw.org

While HRW cannot accept the donation, it's not too late for him to call for the release of detained Saudi activists Manahel al Otaibi & Waleed Abu al Khair
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Saudi Arabia: Comedians Silent on Detained Activists

Comedians performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival did not use their public platform to urge Saudi authorities to free unjustly detained Saudi dissidents, journalists, and human rights activists

www.hrw.org

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 5d

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español.

The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal...

By Erick Galindo

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 13d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13d

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Emma Daly @emmadaly.bsky.social · 13d

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How long will we let these atrocities continue??

A Doctor in Sudan Described the Horror of War. Days Later, He Was Killed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/w...

A Doctor in Sudan Described the Horror of War. Days Later, He Was Killed.

www.nytimes.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks for posting, Senator. It's hard to do. Too bad you have no power to do anything. Maybe next time.

Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 24d

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash.

Pam Bondi knew.

Kash Patel knew.

Emil Bove knew.

And they made the investigation go away.

A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 25d

A woman protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, was brutally assaulted by goons who used mace and sting balls on her.

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NPR @npr.org · 27d

The head of an independent United Nations commission that concludes Israel has committed genocide in Gaza argues that countries supplying weapons to Israel, like the United States, are also complicit.

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a UN inquiry finds

The head of an independent United Nations commission that concludes Israel has committed genocide in Gaza argues that countries supplying weapons to Israel, like the United States, are also complicit.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 13

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

www.nytimes.com

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Emma Daly @emmadaly.bsky.social · Sep 13

So gross (especially as a Brit) to watch a bunch of white nationalists march through London - racist and pathetic. Well done the counter protesters for underscoring the truth that Britain is far better, more interesting, more creative and wealthier for all the immigrants and their descendants

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Sep 12

Kash Patel fired the 'legendary' special agent in charge of Utah's FBI division a month ago. Her colleagues say she was “absolutely the best” agent in the bureau but she was a woman of color so she had to go:

www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 6

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law.

May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is abhorrent.

America should not tolerate a president relishing in Pinochet-style rule over our own citizens.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Among those detained were South Korean employees on business travel....

"The raid could raise concerns for South Korean companies that are sending personnel to the US and hiring locally."

It comes weeks after Hyundai pledged $26 billion in US investments.

Gift link ⬇️

www.wsj.com/us-news/u-s-...

Hundreds Arrested in Immigration Raid at Hyundai Site in Georgia

South Korea said it had expressed concerns to the U.S. about the raid and that it was trying to secure the release of its citizens.

www.wsj.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 4

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 5

How many people gonna die because some women laughed at these guys‘ dicks

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5

Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 5

just an ongoing embarrassment that this barely sentient meathead is secretary of defense

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5

Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · Sep 5

It seems painfully evident that we lacked legal, moral, or other justification for the killing of eleven individuals aboard a small boat in the Caribbean.

It is also entirely clear that the Trump administration, having begun by obfuscating and lying, is now simply stonewalling. They fear the truth.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Sep 5

NEW: Fox News reports that the government is now threatening to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Eswatini, a small country in southern Africa where the U.S. recently sent several migrants, some of whom remain imprisoned there.

@FoxNews has obtained an email ICE sent to Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers this afternoon notifying them that ICE now plans to deport him to the tiny African country of ESWATINI due to him claiming fear of persecution/torture in Uganda & 20+ other countries, which ICE
says is "hard to take seriously".

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