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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 12h

Oh wow. This feels like an important milestone.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12h

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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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 11h

Big day for the Dodgers.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11h

At about 0:55, a couple in a nearby car gets out and hurries away with an infant in a carseat to try and escape the tear gas:

Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 14h

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

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 14h

Peralta off to a good start against Ohtani! #ThisIsMyCrew

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 19h

Janet Mills for Senate, because technically she's not 80.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20h

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20h

Young Republicans say they love Hitler. But what does that tell us about their politics?

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 20h

"Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.

Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely" 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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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21h

"The richest man in the world and the owner of the most influential social media site in US politics is a nazi who openly supports and amplifies other nazis" would, on its face, seem to be rather newsworthy!

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22h

Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 23h

NEW: I took a long look at the Proud Boys and found some of their most extreme chapters are sharing ICE recruiting materials on encrypted apps and even suggesting members have joined up. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

The first
Antifa
Counter Terrorism
Task Force
Trump already gave so many of us jobs with ICE. We may have to start recruiting soon to fill all these spots.

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d

It turns out the project developers might need to pay more bribes to Trump.

Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 1d

“The BLM did not cancel the project,” the email reads. “During routine discussions prior to the lapse in appropriations, the proponents and BLM agreed to change their approach for the Esmeralda 7 Solar Project in Nevada.”

cleantechnica.com/2025/10/12/w...

Wait, The Esmaralda 7 Solar Power Projects Are Not Dead, Yet

Rumors of the death of the Esmeralda 7 solar power and energy storage projects in Nevada have been greatly exaggerated, for the time being...

cleantechnica.com

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 1d

AP News: 'Jonathan Toews returns to NHL with hometown Jets after being out 2 seasons with long COVID'

apnews.com/article/jona...

Jonathan Toews returns to NHL with hometown Jets after being out 2 seasons with long COVID

The spotlight was on Jonathan Toews when the Winnipeg Jets skated onto the ice for their opener against Dallas.

apnews.com

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d

"Early EV adopters tended to charge at home . . . According to EVgo, one of the country’s largest public charging providers, newer EV buyers — especially rideshare drivers and those purchasing used electric cars — are far more likely to rely on public chargers." www.autoblog.com/news/the-us-...

The US is Adding EV Chargers at a Record Pace

The U.S. is expanding its EV charging network faster than ever, making electric vehicle ownership more convenient nationwide.

www.autoblog.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d

Go Brewers! #ThisIsMyCrew

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d

Baseball is one of the best things about the US, and it is full of players who were born in the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Mexico, Japan, and the US. Same with coaches, beer vendors, and fans. The US is at its best when we welcome people from all around the world. Go Brewers! #ThisIsMyCrew

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George McGovern Fan 🇺🇸 @georgemcgovernfan.bsky.social · 1d

He basically proved a thousand pundits wrong by going to El Salvador and almost singlehandedly making immigration a losing issue for Trump.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 11d

"You can be angry about the assault on our democracy and our freedoms and still be a happy warrior in how you confront that. Roosevelt, when he was going after big-money special interests, said, 'I welcome their hatred," says @vanhollen.senate.gov. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Chris Van Hollen Is Angry—at Trump, and at His Party’s Lame Pollsters

The Maryland senator explains why he went to El Salvador earlier this year while the rest of the party tried to downplay immigration issues, and his decision to go to Iowa and flirt with a 2028 presid...

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Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social · 1d

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor.

“He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said.

Read more at @windycitytimes.com

Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times

Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...

windycitytimes.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Remember we're already in a world of Kavanaugh stops based solely on ethnicity. If you are from a targeted group, this can happen to you no matter what your citizenship status is. What if you forget your wallet at home? You could end up in detention for days or worse.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Do you want to live in a "papers, please" country?

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d

I hope this is true. Toyota would sell a lot of these, and there are hardly any sedans left on the market. www.autoblog.com/news/toyotas...

Toyota's Real McCoy — Is the Corolla Finally Going All-Electric?

While everyone was tuned in waiting for Lexus and Toyota to finally show off the rumored LFR supercar, Toyota decided to flip the script.

www.autoblog.com

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 2d

Here is some material Bari Weiss published regarding Covid.

So when anyone defends her in any way, what they are saying is that real world victims of medical disinformation don’t matter.

It’s all just a game to these pundits.

• Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: The Government Censored Me and Other Scientists. We Fought Back-and Won
• Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: Free Speech on Trial
• Dr. Marty Makary: Dr. Fauci's Legacy
• Drs. Tracy Hoeg and Marty Makary: U.S.
Public Health Agencies Aren't 'Following the Science,'
• Dr. Marty Makary: Officials Say, Universities' Covid Policies Defy Science and Reason,
• Drs. Vinay Prasad, Stefan Baral, Lucy McBride: Bringing Sanity to the Omicron Chaos, Talking To Three Doctors Who Have Been Islands Of Reason In A Sea Of Confusion.
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: Let Djokovic Play
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: We Have a Tripledemic.
Not of Disease, But of Fear,
• Drs. Vinay Prasad and John Mandrola: The Epidemic of #DiedSuddenly
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: How to Save Science From
Covid Politics
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: What RFK Jr. Gets Right— and What He Gets Wrong,
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: Vinay Prasad: Why Was My Talk at a Medical Conference Canceled?
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: Covid Vaccines Shouldn't Be 'Routine' for Kids.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Matt McGovern @mattmcgovern.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

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