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seamiracles @seamiracles.bsky.social · 2h

Why are they all weird nerds?

Not nerdy in a good way

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

Just a feckless, feeble, snot flap of a man

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22h

can't deport them somewhere they want to go

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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seamiracles @seamiracles.bsky.social · 5h

Hmm, I didn't know she was Jewish. People can just SUCK all on their own, independent of their identity attributes.

I just mainly make fun of her super cool shopping mall "university"

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 5h

They tear gassed 13 Chicago police officers. Please watch this footage of federal officers throwing tear gas canisters into crowds of people who are simply observing and recording on their phones. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

www.nytimes.com

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seamiracles @seamiracles.bsky.social · 5h

I'd love to ask our Provost if these are the challenging ideas or different ideas he was encouraging us to invite in after Kirk's death. Was this what he had in mind? Invite some of these cool guys to come be guest speakers? Give a little keynote on campus? Huh?

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 1d

You have got to be kidding me.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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seamiracles @seamiracles.bsky.social · 5h

And (just know I'm screaming this next sentence)

Education is a research-informed professional field. It has theory. It has methods. It's not a hobby.

I can't with these dolts. There's one in my neighborhood who now doesn't wear shoes bc some wellness guru told her it was healthy 🙄🙄🙄

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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 8h

Here is Mike Johnson with one of them,

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seamiracles @seamiracles.bsky.social · 5h

LOOK at those turds. Wow.

seamiracles @seamiracles.bsky.social · 5h

Always remember that the US supported that coup of a democratically -elected president and trained his and other goon squads at the School of the Americas.

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Bad Horse @badhorse.bsky.social · 7h

Man labeled "ICE" looking at a butterfly labeled "playing clarinet" and asking "is this a terrorism?”

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 23h

"The Young Republicans are doing politics the right way" - Ezra Klein, probably

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

POLITICO: “Leaders of Young Republican groups worried if their Telegram chat got leaked, but kept typing… referred to Black people as monkeys, mused about putting political opponents in gas chambers... lauded Republicans they believed support slavery…” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 22h

"We have a rising new Dem star who really engages with people, and is sure to win their next election."

DEM LEADERSHIP: That's fantastic.

"What are the next steps?"

DEM LEADERSHIP: Simple. Force them to step aside and throw their support behind this 80-year-old lifetime politician.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

Hey, I wonder if CBS News has ever had a Jewish woman as president before?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Z...

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seamiracles @seamiracles.bsky.social · 8h

People w a narcissistic personality disorder cannot process beyond "how does X serve ME?"

So he is fundamentally incapable of understanding or even considering deeper structural issues by virtue of his severe, untreated disorder. It's pretty simple actually. No need for big thought pieces.

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Dragon Moll Z 🎃 @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 20h

I cant believe the president really said "lol should have turned his head like me"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 21h

ICE on Walgreens Property in Chicago grabbing another BLACK citizen! This isn’t about deporting criminals.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h

As I've noted, central to Stephen Miller's propaganda is the claim that the Chicago complex targeted by ICE was "filled" with Tren de Aragua "terrorists."

Now @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports that the number of TdA members netted in that raid is down to *one.*

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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