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Robert Gumpert @ragumpert.bsky.social · 55m

People with guns completely out of any control, or law

The Independent @the-independent.com · 58m

Father wearing ‘Proud dad of a U.S. Marine’ shirt arrested by ICE agents while visiting pregnant daughter

Father wearing ‘Proud dad of a U.S. Marine’ shirt detained by ICE agents at base

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Robert Gumpert @ragumpert.bsky.social · 56m

Hey, hey,hey RFK how may kids you killed today? 150 Spartanburg County students quarantined as measles continues to spread in SC scdailygazette.com/2025/10/09/1...

150 Spartanburg County students quarantined as measles continues to spread in SC • SC Daily Gazette

The state has reported 11 cases of measles, all in people who are unvaccinated and had no prior immunity, according to the health department

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Robert Gumpert @ragumpert.bsky.social · 1h

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Gumpert @ragumpert.bsky.social · 4h

A multigenerational family of possible sociopaths

RandomWhiteGuy @thereelrandom.bsky.social · 5h

Anyway, about Hunter’s laptop…

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Robert Gumpert @ragumpert.bsky.social · 4h

Soccer Hooligans Kick a Photographer in the Head and Spit on Another petapixel.com/2025/10/13/s...

Soccer Hooligans Kick a Photographer in the Head and Spit on Another

Ugly scenes.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

True bravery!

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Robert Gumpert @ragumpert.bsky.social · 5h

Marc Benioff wants troops in S.F.? There’s a path back to sanity, and it’s close to home www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

Marc Benioff wants troops in S.F.? There’s a path back to sanity, and it’s close to home

Marc Benioff called for the National Guard in S.F. The city doesn’t need the military on its streets. It needs the Salesforce founder to follow his grandfather’s example, Peter Hartlaub...

www.sfchronicle.com

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 18h

I am going to re-up this a third time:

Please read this excellent piece by Lincoln Caplan about why John Roberts—more than Mitch McConnell, more than Stephen Miller or Russell Vought, more than anyone else—owns the destruction of Constitutional order.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2d

Re-upping:

Excellent assessment of John "Roger Taney" Roberts.

In @harvardmagazine.bsky.social , by Lincoln Caplan.

As careful, legally informed, judicious-minded writer as you're going to find. With an unsparing judgment.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

What Trump Means for John Roberts's Legacy | Harvard Magazine

Executive power is on the docket at the Supreme Court.

www.harvardmagazine.com

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Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk · 9h

Wonderful weekend at BOP in Bristol in the self publishers marquee discussing and selling photobooks. Lovely to be able to show and talk about my new book, fresh from the binders last Friday!At the airport now, flying to Europe for 6 days to start new work, funded by weekend book sales. Thank you!

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Robert Gumpert @ragumpert.bsky.social · 6h

Says it all about this administration. Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/c...

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Gumpert @ragumpert.bsky.social · 22h

‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system

In the year’s most shocking documentary The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help

www.theguardian.com

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Robert Gumpert @ragumpert.bsky.social · 1d

The rise of fascism
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The rise of fascism

A prescient book of photographs on Berlin in the 1930s

open.substack.com

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Robert Gumpert @ragumpert.bsky.social · 1d

OVERSHOOT #7 WITH AYDA GRAGOSSIAN
By Yogan MullerOctober 11, 2025 lenscratch.com/2025/10/over...

Overshoot #7 with Ayda Gragossian - LENSCRATCH

Ayda Gragossian and I naturally bonded over our photographic explorations of Los Angeles. In North North South, her new book with GOST, I was struck by the extraordinary coexistence of stillness and t...

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Robert Gumpert @ragumpert.bsky.social · 1d

Today on the Stansbury Forum, Kurt Stand says, "If past is prologue, then understanding history is key to understanding the present, charting a course for the future.”, and you need to read this book.

Checkout his review on the Stansbury Forum, today. stansburyforum.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2d

It looks as if they are trying to kill us

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2d

'Irresponsible both-sidesism' can become motto for US politics coverage.

'All the news that's fit to print' elsewhere.

(Reminder: Stories themselves are usually clear-eyed. But most people see only the headline and subhead—'hed and dek' in the parlance—and hed and dek are too often like this.)

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

The cruelty is the point

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 2d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Robert Gumpert @ragumpert.bsky.social · 1d

But does MAGA care?

Sparky MD/PhD @neurospark.bsky.social · 1d

Whe. People have had a stroke. They often recover much of the motor function when they are doing well. When there is a new stress on the system, line sleep deprivation or an infection. The old deficits come out again. Called, Recrudescence. Looks like this.

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Sparky MD/PhD @neurospark.bsky.social · 1d

Whe. People have had a stroke. They often recover much of the motor function when they are doing well. When there is a new stress on the system, line sleep deprivation or an infection. The old deficits come out again. Called, Recrudescence. Looks like this.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

No Kings Day is almost here.

The Trump regime believes that if it can overwhelm us with atrocities and threats, we'll surrender our rights without fighting for them.

But the people won’t bow down. We will rise. Join us at a peaceful protest on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Today I took questions from more than a dozen South Asian news outlets and spoke about our agenda to make this city affordable for each and every New Yorker.

Zohran sits at a long conference table, back to the camera, with more than a dozen journalists, some with cameras, facing him.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

we need to abolish this shit

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Minerva47874627.bsky.social @minerva47874627.bsky.social · 1d

Two thirds of the 1800 immigrants held at Alligator Alcatraz in July have disappeared from the ICE database, leaving no way for family members or their attorneys to contact them. Noone knows where they are or what happened to them. This should be a huge story in the media.

nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 1d

Hundreds of people who were once detained at "Alligator Alcatraz" have disappeared.

Lawyers and family members have been unable to reach them.

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀.

It’s as if they never existed.

What did the government do to them?

youtu.be/NwPbnsZ_XqU?...

Where Are The Detainees? Hundreds of "Alligator Alcatraz" Prisoners Disappear from ICE Database

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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