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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10h

It's really hard for me not to think that the appropriate punishment for these people is forcing them to endure the same conditions they're easily illegally cosigning other people too

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Searching for Jackie Merlos: What happened when the Trump administration disappeared an immigrant mother and her four U.S. citizen kids

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

www.rollingstone.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8h

Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, who went viral on the "Humans of New York" account by sharing stories about her life as a burlesque dancer in the 1970s, has died

A photo of Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, sitting down, holding a photo of herself

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5h

How do I make Justice Kavanaugh watch this?

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 20h

ENDLESS SUMMER IN KOREA

This absurd October heat continues with widespread tropical nights (Mins >20C) and maxes >30C.

Today up to 31.7C at Sogwipo
October hottest day in history (broken again)

Minimum 20.2C Chungju First tropical night in October

Even Hotter next week!

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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 4h

Always remember:

Fascists depend on us believing they are much more powerful than they really are.

They feed off our Fear. Without it, they are just foolish insecure bullies puffing their chests out.

Mockery is one of the most effective weapons against them.

Fear and Courage are both contagious

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 9h

1/ I try my hardest to be a responsible adult, but every once in a while, I giggle so hard like a little girl, I want to pass on the glee.

Pete Kegsbreath, he of the "manly men only" speech, is getting Botox injections.

🤣😂🤣😂🤣
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 7h

The search on Mar-a-Lago happened in August 2022. Jack Smith was appointed Special Counsel in November 2022.

Time, how does it work

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

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Natty🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🏐🏈🐕🐴📎 @grillnatty.bsky.social · 1d

When they tell you it’s the left show them this

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 6h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 6h

"The only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God,"

Texas State Rep. James Talarico

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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 13h

Murders per 100k residents:
* Houston 19.0
* Dallas 16.6
* San Antonio 15.9
* Ft. Worth 10.8
* NYC 4.6

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 8h

Also she’s not reliable on anything, it is clear that 1 reason she is acting the way she is, not just on Israel, these days is because she was not given the blessings or the job offers from the trump White House in the past year that she wanted

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 11h

saw someone arguing that MTG's anti Israel noises suggest that she's a more reliable moral voice longterm than most centrist Ds, and...like, people really need to acknowledge just how antisemitic she is and what role that plays in her approach to Israel policy. 1

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 5h

The only state subsidy right-wing Americans have been culturally programmed to accept is highways

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

"Uh... if the... you know, uh, if the Affordable Care Act is so affordable why, every time I turn around, are we spending $350 billion to keep it afloat?" -Lindsey Graham with absolutely flawless logic

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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 5h

Arrest them. They are criminals.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 9h

A federal judge ordered federal agents last week to issue two warnings before using tear gas.

Witnesses said they heard no warnings and none can be heard on videos, @chicago.suntimes.com reports

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 10h

Federal agents deployed tear gas after Albany Park residents protested to their attempts to detain a resident of the Northwest Side neighborhood, @vimiller.bsky.social reports for the @chicago.suntimes.com

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 9h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 16h

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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Marquis Lafayette @renegadesci.bsky.social · 5h

If you expect your workers to have to afford cars and driving to work, and to have an over 30 minute commute, your country will not be able to compete in manufacturing.

China, Germany, Japan, S. Korea, Spain, Italy, England, etc, etc will have an edge.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 6h

it makes me angry every day that they’ve arranged their lives so that the right has constant access to them and the left has none but they frame that as neutrality

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 6h

I do not want to see a Supreme Court justice’s face on cable news, period

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

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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Meg 🌺 @megnc.bsky.social · 6h

fucking love this city

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h

look I know it's mostly just a consequence of Congresspeak vs a value judgement but we have a legal term for 'deliberate unlawful killing'

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

Rep. Jim Himes on Trump blowing up boats in the Caribbean: "The White House has not shared what they believe their legal justification is. They did put out a memo. I will tell you based on what I know now and the reading of that memo, these are illegal killings."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 19h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 17h

Hard to believe the people who told me “have fun being poor” would make such bad risk management decisions.

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 17h

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