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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 2h

I very much take them at their word. I mean, their “elders” and mentors and managers are currently governing like mass death is an important part of the platform.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 3h

This is otherwise not a thing a president would or should control. FIFA, soccer federations, national organizations, cities, and states are mostly closely aligned for hosting the games. But trump thinks he owns America now and wants to control every decision. And everyone just…lets him.

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 3h

President Trump has once again suggested relocating World Cup matches from cities that he deems unsafe.

This time it’s Boston.

President Trump once again suggests relocating World Cup matches

Trump claims he would consider calling FIFA’s president Gianni Infantino to move games from cities that he deems unsafe.

www.nytimes.com

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 5h

Most Americans are truly not prepared to live in a country where the government and police openly manufacture evidence and lie to the courts in an effort to justify their increasingly brutal and lawless behavior against the population

The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 10h

City officials said an Everett 13-year-old in ICE detention was arrested with only a knife, not a gun, which federal officials previously claimed.

Everett teen detained by ICE was in possession of a knife when arrested - The Boston Globe

An official from the Department of Homeland Security previously said that the teen was in possession of a gun when he was arrested.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 7h

I just want you all to know that when we told you that they wanted to destroy everything and you thought Black women were exaggerating? This was the "ironic" racism you said we were overreacting to 10 years ago. Racism has never had generational limits

Politico @politico.com · 12h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 3h

Playstation has waaaay to many server down moments.

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 5h

Legitimately the first politician I’ve heard threaten accountability.

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 5h

"The tables will turn one day," @govpritzker.illinois.gov said. "These people should recognize that maybe they’re not gonna get prosecuted today, although we’re looking at doing that, but they may get prosecuted after the Trump admin because the statute of limitations would not have run out.”

'The tables will turn one day': Pritzker blasts ICE, CBP in Chicago

Governor Pritzker is speaking out about the federal immigration raids of the last few days.

www.fox32chicago.com

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 5h

"The tables will turn one day," @govpritzker.illinois.gov said. "These people should recognize that maybe they’re not gonna get prosecuted today, although we’re looking at doing that, but they may get prosecuted after the Trump admin because the statute of limitations would not have run out.”

'The tables will turn one day': Pritzker blasts ICE, CBP in Chicago

Governor Pritzker is speaking out about the federal immigration raids of the last few days.

www.fox32chicago.com

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 13h

Not D’Angelo, 😭, I hate cancer.

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 15h

Zuckerberg and his ilk are so gross.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 14d

Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for how A.I. could be used in Meta's universe.

But the actor and filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt is here to point out a flaw in the technology: an apparent lack of guardrails around how the company's chatbot interacts with underage users. nyti.ms/3ILwCNo

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 15h

As I read this, I keep thinking over and over again about the two major groups I see in politics and policy spaces: folks who take opinion polls as gospel and folks who see them as indicators of what people believe at the moment that can be *shaped* into something else.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

Ta-Nehisi Coates speaking to Ezra Klein. Quote: "Was silence not an option?"

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 1d

Whew, yes

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 2d

The amount of audience people have does equate to some power and this sounds to me like the relationship to power on the left. Instead of engaging with it, the want is to destroy it - no matter who has it or what it can do.

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Eddie @doctaughtme.bsky.social · 2d

Removing people from this country has never been the only goal for this administration. They want to do that but they also want to do it in the cruelest manner possible. They get joy from inflicting pain during the deportation process.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 2d

Hadn’t seen one like that in awhile.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 3d

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 3d

It sounds funny but that is how afraid they are of their own pain. Zero confidence in their own emotional resilience and thus use the bandaid of domination to soothe themselves.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3d

Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 3d

This article is amazing

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 4d

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory

Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

ballsandstrikes.substack.com

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 3d

Phew. This one got me. There is so much heart and soul and love behind a campaign like this.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 3d

Always amazed at how care creeps its way into our hearts.

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