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Beck Poppins @beckpoppins.bsky.social · 3h

Y'know what I love about lowbudget horror movie commentaries? when they show some blood soaked body in the background & someone on the commentary announces something like "that was jo-ann from wardrobe!" & everyone else on the commentary is hooting "jo-ann!" "I love her!" while the horrors continue.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

As I've noted, central to Stephen Miller's propaganda is the claim that the Chicago complex targeted by ICE was "filled" with Tren de Aragua "terrorists."

Now @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports that the number of TdA members netted in that raid is down to *one.*

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 8d

Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition.

It's growing in seriousness by the hour.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 4d

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 11d

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 9h

shocked to see racial slurs and Nazi rhetoric in that Young Republicans group chat, the same way that I am often shocked to open my sock drawer and find socks in there

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NewJukeboxCafe 🇨🇦 📎 @newjukeboxcafe.bsky.social · 6h

Arizona AG Threatens Legal Action Against Mike Johnson for ‘Egregious’ Refusal to Seat Grijalva
“With the House in possession of the certificate of election,” Kris Mayes noted, “it is now a simple ministerial duty to administer the oath of office.”

www.commondreams.org/news/grijalv...

Arizona AG Threatens Legal Action Against Mike Johnson for 'Egregious' Refusal to Seat Grijalva | Common Dreams

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is threatening to "seek judicial relief" if US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson does not immediately swear in Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva or "otherwis...

www.commondreams.org

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Taoubt @taoubt.bsky.social · 7h

Orographic Lenticular Atmospheric Wave Formation.

#photography
#skyphotography
#cloudscape
#naturephotography
#visualatmosphere
#skyview
#stormhour
#lenticularclouds

Orographic Lenticular Atmospheric Wave Formation. Stationary lens-shaped clouds formed by laminar airflow oscillating over terrain-induced standing waves. Resulting condensation at wave crests produces stratified altocumulus lenticularis structures, often mistaken for unidentified aerial phenomena due to their symmetry and persistence.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 21h

African violets 🌱🪴

#Bloomscrolling #TuesdayBlue #EastCoastKin #BlueTue #Flowers #Houseplants

Blue flowers above dark green hairy leaves

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 9h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 11h

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

What did Tom Homan do with the $50K he took in a CAVA bag from undercover FBI agents?

Just keep asking this everyday. Its a big scandal they can't escape because Pam Bondi and her DOJ killed the investigation. They're cornered on this and the Epstein Files.

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 1d

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

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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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 1d

So many similarities to GOP candidate Nixon dispatching Kissinger to sabotage LBJ's Vietnam talks, initiating a horrendous Cambodian bombing campaign after winning the 1968 election - only to sign essentially the same deal in 1973 that LBJ had put together 5 years earlier.
t.co/joY390u4V0

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.