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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h

Contrast this with the administration’s justification of kidnapping a 14-year-old kid by calling them a “hardened criminal”

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

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

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

"a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority"

The phrasing you're looking for is that he's suspending parts of the Constitution by decree.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

nyti.ms

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Ken Reid @kennethwreid.bsky.social · 21h

ICE agents, who have no jurisdiction or legal right to TOUCH a U.S. Citizen, violently assaulting and kidnapping U.S. citizens, with no Miranda rights, and taking them over state lines.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

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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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 10h

Vance telling people to “grow up” about Young Republicans joking about gas chambers and r**e says it all. The bare minimum of decency is to say, “Yes, this is wrong.” If you can’t, you’re the one who needs to grow up. America has a child for a VP.

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Noah Joad @noahjoad.bsky.social · 11h

The worst person you know just made a great point meme

Noah Joad @noahjoad.bsky.social · 11h

You mean the “Gewokeva Convenwoke”?

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11h

4 months apart

Official ICE government account
June 6, 2025:
"To call us 'Nazis' - to compare us to one of the worst groups in history - is disgusting and just outright wrong.
"What the men and women of ICE are doing in Massachusetts and all over this country is making communities safer."
—ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 14h

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h

I have a lot of respect for Zolan Kanno-Youngs and @haleaziz.bsky.social and have talked to both many times in the past. That the Times lets them be so blunt about what is happening with the U.S. refugee admissions program is a good sign of how much the Trump admin is not even trying to deny it.

Zolan Kanno-YoungsHamed Aleaziz
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz
Reporting from Washington

Oct. 15, 2025
Updated 3:44 p.m. ET

The Trump administration is considering a radical overhaul of the U.S. refugee system that would slash the program to its bare bones while giving preference to English speakers, white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.

The proposals, some of which already have gone into effect, would transform a decades-old program aimed at helping the world’s most desperate people into one that conforms to Mr. Trump’s vision of immigration — which is to help mostly white people who say they are being persecuted while keeping the vast majority of other people out.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

if you're black and 14, you're a man. if you're white and 40, you're just a kid

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Noah Joad @noahjoad.bsky.social · 12h

The dog caught the car it was chasing; let's see what he does with it now.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 13h

The plan to force taxpayers to cover emergency medical costs for non-citizens is a law called EMTALA: signed into law by the infamous democrat Ronald Reagan.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Lisa McClain: "Democrats' plan forces taxpayers to cover the majority of emergency medical costs for all non-citizens. Another $28 billion tab for who? You guessed it, the American people."

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La La La Llorona @marisasandlin.bsky.social · 16d

He stopped at my door and looked me in the eye, and I’ll never, ever forget this. I repeated it recently. He said, “Jim, our job is to protect empathy at all costs, and to live groovy lives.”

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 12h

#20SongsByYear
1986
#MusicChallenge

5—Expressway to yr skull: Sonic Youth

A magnificent piece of noise rock. Buried in reverb, it sounds like something you might dream; combined with the wild alt tuning on the guitars, and it might just have come from outer space.

#nowplaying #musicsky

Sonic Youth - Expressway To Your Skull

YouTube video by Brahiam Garcia Flores

youtu.be

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 14h

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico).

In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.