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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 22m

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12m

Brown rejected the compact!

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

www.brown.edu

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20m

And this is part of the problem with laying all the conservative racism of the 90s-00s at the feet of the YCT and YAFers, it really misses the cross-pollination and frequency with which people and ideas moved across them and the official organs.

Joel Reinstein @joelreinstein.bsky.social · 24m

When I was at MSU a scrawny guy who always wore a 10-gallon cowboy hat was constantly doing shit like this

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Joel Reinstein @joelreinstein.bsky.social · 24m

When I was at MSU a scrawny guy who always wore a 10-gallon cowboy hat was constantly doing shit like this

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 28m

"The decision means the government must halt action on notices that already went out while the judge weighs whether to impose a longer-term block"

Even if the shutdown ends soon, federal workers are going to spend weeks in limbo

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
— by @zoetillman.bsky.social

Judge Blocks Federal Firings During Government Shutdown for Now

A US judge has ordered the Trump administration to pause plans to fire thousands of federal workers during the government shutdown while labor unions challenge the move.

www.bloomberg.com

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 2h

Stated vs revealed preferences

These people *desperately* want to be adored and feted rather than shunned

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 3h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 2h

A U.S. Marine says his parents were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials after they visited Camp Pendleton and one of them was later deported.

A family visit to Camp Pendleton ended with ICE deporting a Marine’s dad

www.stripes.com

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Joel Reinstein @joelreinstein.bsky.social · 2h

Simplest explanation is that JD Vance is a liar and a nazi who's pro- gas chambers and slavery

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2h

• Prison was 40 degrees but no water was given to Greta and her friends for days

• People fell sick. Guards mocked them saying they would gas them, showing them cylinders

• She was kept in solitary confinement for hours with bugs

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 3h

Horrific testimony by Greta Thunberg

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Brandon Pope TV @bpopetv.bsky.social · 3h

Appears SCOTUS is poised to gut the Voting Rights Act, potentially barring states from considering the racial makeup of voting populations when drawing district lines. That would have a major impact on the midterm elections, and any in the future. Could gut Congressional Black Caucus by a THIRD

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

Marquette Park this morning, ~45 min ago at 70th and Washtenaw per anon FB post. Through a screen, someone films Border Patrol agents taking a man into a red minivan and driving away. Another angle of this shared to social media shows it happened in front of a daycare.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 1d

At least 19 Palestinian doctors are still being held in Israeli detention without charge.

Free Dr. Abu Safiya: Calls Grow for Israel to Release Imprisoned Gaza Healthcare Workers

Pressure is mounting for Israel to release many more detainees as part of the U.S.-backed Gaza ceasefire deal, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, who has been he...

www.democracynow.org

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 4h

the left is actually so weak in this country that they whittled their demands down to "let us talk about gaza once at the convention for 15 minutes" and the party still refused

Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 1d

Leftists are just wreckers. They are a huge part of why we currently have no bench.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 15h

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 15h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 15h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Terzilla Ford @bassdiesel.bsky.social · 1d

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15h

No it isn’t stop complying in advance

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Joel Reinstein @joelreinstein.bsky.social · 15h

Very hard to accept the ways fascist mores were normalized in large parts of the US long before trump came down an escalator

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 15h

This is the work of photojournalist Anthony Vazquez of
@chicago.suntimes.com. He risked life and limb today to get these incredible photographs. His name needs to be on these. And the Sun-Times too.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 15h

Chicago today

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17h

A judge issued a protective order against a Republican congressman from Florida on Tuesday, forbidding him to contact a former girlfriend who in court proceedings said he had threatened her with revenge porn after she broke up with him.

Woman Is Granted a Protective Order Against Representative Cory Mills

Representative Cory Mills’s former girlfriend, Lindsey Langston, the reigning Miss United States, told a judge that he had threatened to release sexually explicit videos of her.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: 45,000 health care workers just launched the biggest strike of the year.

Workers at Kaiser Permanente on the West Coast and in Hawaii have walked out to secure a contract.

These essential workers are fighting for patient care, good wages, and decent staffing.

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