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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street.
People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area — and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization.
As Figuero tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Friday, Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Tribune show.
Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away.
Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.

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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 17h

60 Minutes Removes Trump’s Threat to ‘Walk Away’ from Interview During Corruption Questioning

Trump threatened to leave his interview with 60 Minutes' Norah O'Donnell, which was not only omitted from broadcast, but also the extended version release. The post 60 Minutes Removes Trump’s Threat to ‘Walk Away’ from Interview During Corruption Questioning first appeared on Mediaite.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 20h

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Shady Backflash @popeshady.bsky.social · 13h

An exododus is an exodus of dodos.

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Alt: Smart

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Shady Backflash @popeshady.bsky.social · 13h

Don’t know the feasibility of a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit against the network on behalf of We The People, but if someone did the legal legwork I’d happily co-sign as one of the injured parties.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, did they edit an interview? Did they not air every second?

I heard that’s grounds for a multimillion lawsuit

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 15h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 14h

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 15h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 15h

Alright I'll give him some credit for this one

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Jeffries: "The Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program. That's the reason they refuse to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva."

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

Every $1 donation provides 4 or 5 meals from food banks. Even a donation of $5 right now can feed up to two dozen people. No, we shouldn’t have to do this. But we can.

Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that while food banks welcome donations of food, they prefer $$$$$$$. They have deals with grocery stores and suppliers. You can only buy one dollar's worth of food for one dollar, but they can buy several dollars' worth. So don't, like, buy food to donate it, just give 'em the dough.

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Shady Backflash @popeshady.bsky.social · 19h

Of the many great insult names for Trump, “tiny fingered, Cheeto-faced, ferret wearing shitgibbon,” which greeted him in Scotland, has to be my personal favorite. So thank you for keeping shitgibbon in the lexicon!

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21h

Trump did on 60 Minutes what he does every time. He spews a blizzard of lies, exaggerations and assorted other falsehoods, and if (as usual) the reporter isn’t equipped or doesn’t bother to push back, he keeps going.

Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

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• "We have no inflation." Inflation is at 3%.
• "It's at 2%. It's-- it's the perfect inflation." Inflation is at 3%.
• "Right now [grocery prices are] going down." Grocery prices are up 1.4% since
Trump came to office.
• "A year ago, we were a dead country." Not only did the US have the fastest-growing economy in the G7 in both 2023 and 2024, but the Economist magazine called it "the envy of the world."
• "11,888 murderers were let into our country." Not only is this number inaccurate, but many of the non-citizens convicted of homicide either here or abroad came in during Trump's first term.
• "Washington, DC, was... almost like a crime capital of the world." In 2023, per PolitiFact, "at least 49 other cities in the world had higher homicide rates.
• "[Biden] hardly went anywhere. Guy couldn't leave his bedroom." Not only did Joe Biden visit roughly as many countries in his term of office as Trump did in his first term, but Biden was the first US president to visit an active warzone - Ukraine - not under the control of US forces.
• "I made Middle East peace. For 3,000 years, they couldn't do it." There is no peace in Palestine, no peace deal in place, and it isn't a 3,000-year-old conflict.
• "Communist, not socialist. Communist. He's far worse than a socialist."
Zohran Mamdani is not a communist.
• "I can't give them $1.5 trillion so that they can give welfare to people that came into our country illegally." The Trump/GOP claim that Democrats want to give free healthcare to undocumented immigrants has been repeatedly debunked.
• "They emptied their mental institutions and their insane asylums-- into the United States of America." Asylum seekers don't come from "insane asylums."
Obviously.
• "One thing I can tell you, the 2020 election was rigged." It wasn't. The courts agreed.
• "And a lotta people say when it's rigged you're allowed to do it again." A lot of people don't say this. The US Constitution doesn't, for sure.

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 1d

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say

Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.

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Shady Backflash @popeshady.bsky.social · 20h

My comment pertained to my own voting history. I said I’ve never voted Republican. I didn’t say I’ve never been disgusted by Democrats. I do think Jimmy Carter had more integrity than anyone to ever sit in the Oval Office in my lifetime, though. He seemed like an outlier brought about by Watergate.

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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 1d

Epstein isn't going away..
Ask Andrew

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Shady Backflash @popeshady.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t follow your correlation of “never voted Republican” and “didn’t live south of the Mason-Dixon Line” though.

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Shady Backflash @popeshady.bsky.social · 1d

I also lived in New Orleans on and off for a bit and spent a few months in Georgia, but never voted in either of those states.

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Shady Backflash @popeshady.bsky.social · 1d

Also not true. I voted for Jesse Jackson in Missouri in the 1988 primary. So I guess by my own math I was there for 19 years.

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Shady Backflash @popeshady.bsky.social · 1d

I spent my first 18 years in Missouri.

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Shady Backflash @popeshady.bsky.social · 1d

One thing I do believe is true of the Never Trump crew I follow on here is that they’re all earnest and sincere in their efforts to topple Trump and end the current wave of MAGA authoritarianism… whether they’ll commit to calling it encroaching fascism or not.

So yay for country over party!

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Shady Backflash @popeshady.bsky.social · 1d

I spend a disproportionate amount of time reading and watching clips from Never Trump conservatives I’ve disagreed with for decades. I prefer it to an echo chamber. Sometimes I find common ground and just as often I’m reminded of why I never once voted Republican in my nearly forty years of voting.