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Padraic @pheneghan.bsky.social · 2h

Trump has succeeded in creating divisions in relatively harmonious communities that will last long after he's gone.

Padraic @pheneghan.bsky.social · 2h

ICE operating in my old neighborhood of Carpentersville Ill. On a community FB page, a man offered to tow vehicles of people seized, to their home for free. A lot of replies of "God bless you" in Spanish and a lot of white men with taunting replies including "You ret--d. I hope ICE gets you next". 😢

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Padraic @pheneghan.bsky.social · 2h

I guess "Just One King" wasn't going to cut it.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3h

Lol that the London No Kings event is called No Tyrants because…you know…

www.nokings.org#map

A box overlaid on a map showing southern England, with London prominently marked. The box features bold black text reading:

"NO TYRANTS
INDIVISIBLE
LONDON UK"

Below this heading, the event details are listed:

Date: Sat, Oct 18

Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

Location: US EMBASSY LONDON (UK)

The time and date information is accompanied by red calendar and map pin icons. At the bottom of the flyer is a large red button labeled “RSVP” in white text.

Padraic @pheneghan.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, that is hard to believe.

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Padraic @pheneghan.bsky.social · 3h

Reminds me of Reagan's "Murphy the Spy" joke.
youtu.be/Jjb_Nd7yjYk?...

Reagan's Humor - Murphy the Spy #shorts #spies #Ireland #military #code #recognition

YouTube video by The Making of a US President

youtu.be

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 3h

I think we know where this is going:

A tiny Stonehenge descends in This Is Spinal Tap.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 8h

Where we stand, in long arc of history:

-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.

-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.

I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."

Two headlines on front page of NYT.

First is "Trump Weighs Transforming Refugee Policy. White People Would be Given Preference."

Second is "Justices May Ban Race as a Factor in District Maps. Nation's Political Balance Could Shift If Court Guts 1964 Law."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10h

If the United States refuses to bail out my government, I’m going to become an even bigger libertarian.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

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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Padraic @pheneghan.bsky.social · 1d

When will we know if Trump will pull games from Boston? Would love to go back there.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

Padraic @pheneghan.bsky.social · 1d

No way World Cup fans can book tickets for games that the mad king might take away on a whim.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 1d

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Padraic @pheneghan.bsky.social · 1d

Family Guy race card meme with Ex-pat and immigrant captions

Padraic @pheneghan.bsky.social · 1d

Or a spice tolerance test.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2d

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 3d

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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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 3d

This is great

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Padraic @pheneghan.bsky.social · 3d

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 3d

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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Padraic @pheneghan.bsky.social · 3d

IDF tactics, now in Portland.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3d

Opinion | It's time for corporate America to end DEI and choose its leaders on the basis of merit alone.

by Barron Trump

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Dasha Burns said she talked with Trump on the phone 4 days ago. But now he doesn’t know who she is 🤔

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Padraic @pheneghan.bsky.social · 3d

Why would anyone have thought that?

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 3d

Sounds like his second annual physical went well.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Padraic @pheneghan.bsky.social · 3d

For everyone saying "the local police should arrest ICE agents for [not display license plates/damaging property/breaking and entering]", they're absolutely not going to. They're likely jealous of the ICE signing bonuses.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 4d

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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Padraic @pheneghan.bsky.social · 3d

This sounds like the kind of thing a cult leader says before passing around cups of "Flavor-Aid".