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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 9h

Lawler seems to know all these guys.

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PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 7h

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 13h

They're all gonna get fellowships at the University of Austin, aren't they?

John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 13h

Vile and racist comments when they think no outsiders can listen in. Because Chatham house rules, right? A lot of bold, outside-– box thinking going on here on “forbidden” topics.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 13h

We Rate Dogs has joined the frogs.

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 17h

Members of the most extreme Proud Boys chapters are on encrypted appa sharing DHS recruiting materials and memes about joining ICE.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

In the New Trump Era, the Proud Boys Are ‘Not Apologizing Anymore’

To hear him tell it, Gavin McInnes’ recent return to the site...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 12h

Here we go again

Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 14h

Just in: “Secret Service has spent nearly $100k at Trump properties”

Rebecca Jacobs for @citizensforethics.org

Secret Service has spent nearly $100k at Trump properties - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

The Secret Service spent nearly $100,000 in taxpayer money at Trump properties in the first months of his second term.

www.citizensforethics.org

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 20h

"The American founders expected better leaders than Johnson. They thought Congress would check the president. They didn’t think one branch would surrender completely to another."

This is the whole ballgame, folks.

The authoritarianism will continue until coequal branches decide it will not.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

If you put your ear against the Capitol, you can hear the sound of a man who will do nothing to challenge—and anything to justify—presidential violations of the Constitution, as long as the president is of his own party. www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mi...

The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism

Every Trump needs his Johnson: a flunky who will rationalize his crimes.

www.thebulwark.com

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 22h

Future historians may well argue that the Jim Crow era, which, depending on how one periodizes, lasted for roughly 75 years, represented a longer time period than the modern civil rights era, which, even if one starts with Brown v. Board, is barely 70 years old.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Will the Supreme Court Use a Louisiana Case to Gut the Voting Rights Act?

www.nytimes.com

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 19h

Jones was proto-MAGA.

Bloomberg Law @bloomberglaw.com · 20h

The US Supreme Court denied conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ request to review and overturn a nearly $1.4 billion defamation judgment against him stemming from his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.

Alex Jones’ $1 Billion Defamation Case Rejected by Supreme Court

The US Supreme Court denied conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ request to review and overturn a nearly $1.4 billion defamation judgment against him stemming from his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

He's enjoying a legit accomplishment and can't help but confess to conspiring with a foreign government to affect a federal election

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "There was a reason we chose Egypt because you were very helpful. Everybody wanted to have this. You are a great leader. You have very little crime. I want to thank you. He's been my friend right from the beginning during the campaign against Crooked Hillary Clinton. Have you heard of her?"

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

oh. right.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 2d

Secret police staffed by thugs.

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 3d

“The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.”

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

See below for the incredible way Meta’s AI tool describes this video.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3d

This alone should get him impeached and subsequently prosecuted and it’s barely even a story

Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 3d

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 3d

Little Accents by Vasily Kandinsky, 1940
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137937

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Hilla Rebay Collection

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 3d

Death cult update.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 3d

At last, we have located the real “war zone.”

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 3d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 4d

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 3d

“The jobs that low-skilled migrants do…let people in other parts of the economy take on more skilled work. Florence Jaumotte of the IMF and colleagues find that in rich countries a 1 pct pt rise in migrants’ share of the adult population ultimately raises GDP per person by 2%.”

Welcome to Zero Migration America

Closed borders will make the country smaller, poorer and less innovative

economist.com

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 3d

Canada is surrounded by ocean on 3 sides. And by Donald Trump on the 4th. Long read on a precarious state.

Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 7d

Gift Link// Whether the US's ongoing act of political suicide evolves as a murder-suicide is of more than passing interest to the US’s northern domestic partner. Canada is extremely -- uniquely -- vulnerable. I spoke to executives, defense analysts, others. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Can Canada Survive Donald Trump?

Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.

www.bloomberg.com

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve met billionaires who are not idiots. I just didn’t realize how rare they are.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

“.. Since the pandemic, he has mostly lived on the Big Island of Hawaii, where he has bought up numerous parcels of land. He said that he wasn’t sure how many days he spends each year in San Francisco ..”

@nytimes.com $CRM
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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