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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

The Presbyterian minister who was repeatedly shot by Trump's secret police when he tried to lead protesters in prayer at an ICE facility.

it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 1d

Rev. David Black who was shot multiple times by ICE with rubber bullets speaks.

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Elissa Taub @ejtaub.bsky.social · 3h

But I thought red cities and states have no crime? 🤔

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 22h

Shootings at Alcorn State University and Jackson State University on Saturday bring the death toll for this weekend's shootings across five Mississippi counties to nine, with at least 15 injured.

Other shootings hit three Mississippi high schools on Friday night, including two homecoming games.

Nine Dead, at Least 15 Injured in Shootings Across 5 Mississippi Counties

Six people are confirmed dead and at least 12 others injured in three separate shootings in Mississippi on the night of Friday, Oct. 10.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 4h

it’s striking to me that the admin seems focused on promoting the no kings protests as much as possible.

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Hopefully Hypervigilant (a.k.a. Libby Milliken) @hpfllyhyprvglnt.bsky.social · 4h

🎁 link: wapo.st/492t6sH

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

The thing is that Loomer is a very principled person, and her key principle is that Muslim people have no place in America

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 2d

Shortly after the announcement, Loomer said she did not think she would vote in next year's mid-term elections. …

She posted a clip of Trump speaking in 2017, when he accused Qatar of historically funding terrorism "at a very high level."

www.reuters.com/world/us/act...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Ebola in the snow ❄️ ❄️❄️| COZY TIME 🧤 @gert001badger.bsky.social · 12h

A hero

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The recent trajectory, in broad strokes:

- Regime starts militarizing the conflict in early summer
- Regime declares all liberal/leftwing political activity as domestic terrorist or terrorism-adjacent in presidential memo
- Regime ramps up the propaganda against “the Left” across all channels

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1d

This article's framing truly captures the problem with the media: Republican lies can't be factually assessed by the media itself, only courts can do it. In fairness, this article does actually point out all of the lies, but it concludes with the idea that only judges can establish veracity now.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"Repeatedly now, judges have said Trump’s proclaimed hellscape isn’t reality," writes Aaron Blake | Analysis
https://cnn.it/46OsBBd

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Filip Vanevski, PhD @filipvanevski.bsky.social · 1d

The Roberts court cannot be understood outside the context of the decades old far-right project to resuscitate the most successful business strategy in history: convince society that there are different groups of people, with some inherently better than others.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it

"Roberts will go down in history as the most destructive chief justice."

www.motherjones.com

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

"[Trump v US] was the fullest expression the Court has ever made of a maximalist view of that power, narrowly checked by the Court and Congress."

But that is merely the R unitary executive (presidnet as King; authoritarian) theory. Roberts was fulfilling a lifetime agenda, not protecting the Court.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

"As the legal scholar Peter Shane ’74 wrote in The Atlantic in July, Roberts’s opinion didn’t anticipate Trump acting in any of those ways"

Please. Only a political naif would not anticipate that. And Roberts is highly politically skilled.

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 2d

“EIGHT children and she’s AMAZING? Out of the 20–35 THOUSAND Russia’s kidnapped, that’s 0.02%. Maybe Putin sent her flowers for the optics. But sure — let’s cue Fox’s halo lighting. Saint Melania saves the world! 🙄”

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 1d

If you ever doubt the existence of affirmative action for conservative white men just remember that Ross Douthat exists…

David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 1d

On NYT Home Page there's a Douthat column w/the headline "Trump's Foreign Policy is Succeeding. He Should Apply It's Lessons at Home." On what planet? Betraying our allies. Blowing up the global trading system. Embracing autocrats. Pulling back support for Ukraine. Helping to support Gaza slaughter.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is in the ballpark of twenty to thirty thousand people, we're not talking millions. Some of them are doing relatively mundane things, even things a post-Trump reconstructed government might still reasonably do. It doesn't matter. They're permanently tainted and they're replaceable.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Redshift ❌👑 @redshift42.bsky.social · 1d

And it should be repeated often by Democratic officials and candidates (which is starting to happen more), immunity from the Supreme Court only covers the president, and everyone else is subject to prosecution. Do you really trust this crew enough to risk it all on their dictatorship?

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memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 1d

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him (Antonio María Delgado/Miami Herald)

Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 1d

This is pretty straightforward because we need to amend the FTCA and we can just set it to be retroactive. May be some ex post facto questions if we lift Westfell Act protections retroactively but this is debatable.

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 2d

In addition to destroying ICE and DHS, we should probably start thinking about a reparations framework. If they keep records on which officers conduct arrests, we could make individual officers liable to pay damages to their victims.

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Hopefully Hypervigilant (a.k.a. Libby Milliken) @hpfllyhyprvglnt.bsky.social · 1d

They overestimated themselves, and now they’re finding out that governance is a whole lot harder than they thought it would be.

Thank goodness for Dunning & Kruger; without their work, we would find this baffling.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

In Berlin they have Stolpersteine marking where Jews, Gypsies and others were abducted off to concentration camps. In the US, we now have site of abduction notices.

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