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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.

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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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 2d

Every time Harrison Butker misses a kick, a feminist gets her wings

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

obviously john roberts and the trump majority aren't going a little thing like "history" or "the written text of the constitution" get in the way of their ideological drive to remake the (republican) presidency as an elected dictatorship.

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 1d

13. years. old.

Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 2d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

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.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The first week of the new SCOTUS term (& the likely hypocrisy on conversion therapy vs. gender-affirming care); lower court litigation against Natl Guard deployments; & more.

+ John Fabian Witt @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social joins to talk his new book THE RADICAL FUND crooked.com/podcast/will...

a rooster and a penguin are standing next to each other in the ocean .

Alt: a rooster and a penguin are standing next to each other in the ocean .

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 2d

It is hideous.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

She probably should have impressed this upon Kavanaugh before he issued an opinion endorsing what are now known as “Kavanaugh stops.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 2d

No?

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 2d

a woman is making a funny face and saying and here we goooo facetime !

ALT: a woman is making a funny face and saying and here we goooo facetime !

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 3d

Please join me @velshimsnbc.bsky.social 10a-1p w/
@milestaylor.bsky.social
Hanan Ashrawi
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
@mayorofchicago.bsky.social
@underwood.house.gov
@radleybalko.bsky.social
@profmmurray.bsky.social
Aaron David Miller
@ilattygeneral.bsky.social
#Velshi

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 5d

How has Tylenol not filed a lawsuit

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d

Breaking News: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, for her work promoting democracy.

María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Live Updates and Video

The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.”

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Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4d

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado

The prize was awarded to the opposition leader for her work promoting democracy and fighting dictatorship in the country.

www.wsj.com

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KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social · 5d

🎙️ ON AIR:

We're talking to Columbia Law's @olatij.bsky.social, @slate.com's @mjsdc.bsky.social and @NYULaw's @profmmurray.bsky.social about what role the Supreme Court will play in supporting or stopping Trump's efforts to shape the country.

❓What are your Qs about the new Court term?

📻 Listen:

Supreme Court Term Will Test the Scope of Presidential Power | KQED

We talk about how the conservative-leaning Roberts court might rule, and what role the Court will play in supporting or stopping Trump’s efforts to shape the country.

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Nicolette Pizzitola @nicpiz.bsky.social · 6d

No way to pull just a single quote from this article. It's worth a read from start to finish. Share it and keep it where you can reread it and reshare it. It's that good. #JustMercy

Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 6d

If you read one thing today, make it this piece by @nytimes.com's Kurt Streeter about the extraordinary Bryan Stevenson. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

www.nytimes.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 7d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 6d

If you read one thing today, make it this piece by @nytimes.com's Kurt Streeter about the extraordinary Bryan Stevenson. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

www.nytimes.com

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 8d

Judge Esther Salas, whose son was murdered in 2020, issues a dire warning today:

“Officials from top to bottom” are using rhetoric that puts judges at risk:

www.youtube.com/embed/nJO3QH...

YouTube

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 7d

KBJ’s blunt question today about the Supreme Court’s culture war hypocrisy kind of floored me, because it’s the kind of meta-criticism that we aren’t used to hearing from the justices.

It’s the second day of the term, and things are that dire already. slate.com/news-and-pol...

With One Damning Question, Ketanji Brown Jackson Defined the Supreme Court’s New Term

The justice stripped the veneer of constitutional principle from the court’s latest blatant culture war.

slate.com

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