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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 6h

Anyway here's a picture of Mike Lawler hanging out with one of the Young Republicans who suggested putting their political opponents in gas chambers

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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Peter Shulman deplores the Competitive Sycophancy @petershulman.bsky.social · 1h

Surely he won’t stand for this:

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 8h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 4h

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow."

(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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Peter Shulman deplores the Competitive Sycophancy @petershulman.bsky.social · 10h

JFC

Peter Shulman deplores the Competitive Sycophancy @petershulman.bsky.social · 11h

a man is sitting on a couch with the words `` that 's a shame '' written on the screen .

ALT: a man is sitting on a couch with the words `` that 's a shame '' written on the screen .

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Peter Shulman deplores the Competitive Sycophancy @petershulman.bsky.social · 11h

word

Peter Shulman deplores the Competitive Sycophancy @petershulman.bsky.social · 11h

Don't think any of these guys has ever grown anything in a field in their lives.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple 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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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 1d

A giant weiner dog has entered the fray in war ravaged Portland. Apparently, Trump's Nazi ICE Gestapo did not have a collar big enough to arrest the weiner. 😂🤣👇

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Peter Shulman deplores the Competitive Sycophancy @petershulman.bsky.social · 1d

#Kavanaughed

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

"She wants to grab him," Ricky Patel said before he had had any exchange w/Ras Baraka. Even after Baraka left the facility, Patel said, "I’m going to place the Mayor in handcuffs. We are arresting the Mayor, per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States."

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/s...

"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka - emptywheel

Even before anyone had spoken with Ras Baraka on May 9 at Delaney Hall, someone had decided "she" wanted to "grab" Newark's Mayor.

www.emptywheel.net

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Peter Shulman deplores the Competitive Sycophancy @petershulman.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure that Manchin and Sinema weren't the only Dems (Coons, probably, for example), but if 47 of them wanted to do it and 3 didn't, says Democrats didn't want to do it doesn't seem at all accurate.

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 1d

Solar and wind are growing so quickly that they outpaced all the growth in electricity demand this year. Which means they started eating into fossil fuelled power, leading to a modest drop in fossil generation. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/13/o...

Our friendly neighbourhood fireball

Solar and wind are growing so quickly that they outpaced all the growth in electricity demand this year. Which means they started eating into fossil fuelled power, leading to a modest but significant ...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 2d

The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown.

Inmates say she's getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 2d

Truly disgusting

ICE detained an autistic 5 year old girl in Leominster, Mass

Using this child-a US citizen-as bait to lure her father-who has lived in the country for 20 years-out so they could arrest him

How do these people live with themselves

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A Leominster family who has lived in the United States for more than 20 years said federal immigration agents held their 5-year-old daughter, who is a US-citizen and autistic, in custody outside their...

TikTok video by The Boston Globe

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Peter Shulman deplores the Competitive Sycophancy @petershulman.bsky.social · 2d

Dude probably got whiplash when he saw a news camera that he could get in front of, or maybe he got some of his spike hair gel in his eyes.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Aug 8

we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan

join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice

www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...

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Peter Shulman deplores the Competitive Sycophancy @petershulman.bsky.social · 2d

Yes Definitely GIF

ALT: Yes Definitely GIF

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Peter Shulman deplores the Competitive Sycophancy @petershulman.bsky.social · 2d

When protest becomes filtered through the lens of purification rituals we all lose. And it's boring AF.

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