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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 8h

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 10h

Hey Brookline residents: a private realty company just did a deal with Flock—ICE’s favorite street surveillance vendor—to put license plate readers up in your town without any public input. Your chief of police called the deal a “no brainer.”

Chestnut Hill Realty plans to install AI-powered license plate reader cameras in South Brookline - Brookline.News

The real estate company will share information from the cameras with Brookline police and other local law enforcement.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 14h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 16h

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 18h

Can confirm!

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Shawn Musgrave @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social · 5d

Yesterday, The Intercept sent a letter to Judge Young, asking him to clarify that certain materials he cited in his ruling are no longer under seal. This includes Homeland Security Investigations reports and State Dept memos about Mahmoud Khalil and others. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 5d

The TRO in Chicago Headline Club v. Noem:
- (mostly) no targeting of journalists or ordering crowds to disperse
- restrictions on use of less-lethal munitions
- two warnings before use of riot control weapons
- must wear ID and uniform (or similar)

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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 5d

I've been following the Lattarulo case involving the seizure of an immigration attorney's cell phone at Logan Airport (complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...) pretty closely and I'm left with a big question that none of the coverage has answered.

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Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · 5d

June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology."

October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award."

Just shameless.

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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 5d

You'd think at least one national paper would have covered the truly unhinged display at the White House yesterday.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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404 Media @404media.co · 6d

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

We must all stand up and speak out.

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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 6d

Expanding § 1983 to cover actions of federal officials would be a great thing to do in this moment. Right now plaintiffs are spending millions to undo the First Amendment violations of the Trump administration. They will not be made whole, even though they're right.

My guess is this is not that.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 6d

"Cruz plans to introduce a bill in the coming weeks that would codify protections against government-driven censorship, and make it easier for consumers to win monetary damages in lawsuits, he said in an interview."

Exclusive | Ted Cruz Wants to Make It Easier to Sue the Government for Censorship

The senator said he hopes the reaction to Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension might help his new bill find bipartisan support.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Shit Ilan Wurman is busy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 8d

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Letter Regarding Compact

MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors October 6, 2025 Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” MIT has been invited by the federal governmen...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 8d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 8d

Only total contempt for viewers or an insanely cloistered reactionary world view could let someone look at lifelong propagandist and reactionary siren Bari Weiss and try to sell her as some great nonpartisan hope. We live in hell.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 8d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 9d

Inspiring victory against Live Nation in Portland ME - when we organize… by @joeyquits.bsky.social

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 11d

Live Nation–Ticketmaster controls nearly every corner of the US live music business, from ticketing to touring.

In Portland, Maine, a coalition of venues, musicians, and art workers rallied the city against the industry’s most powerful monopoly.

Musicians Against Live Nation–Ticketmaster

Live Nation–Ticketmaster controls nearly every corner of the US live music business, from ticketing to touring. In Portland, Maine, a coalition of venues, musicians, and art workers rallied the city against the industry’s most powerful monopoly.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11d

Google has determined that ICE agents are a vulnerable group and has used this designation as pretext to delete an app that helped communities determine where ICE raids were happening

www.404media.co/google-calls...

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 11d

I'm pretty sure I met her in one of my classes at Northeastern

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 12d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Alex Speier @alexspeier.bsky.social · 12d

It’s been two amazing days between the Red Sox and Yankees. Of the 145 plate appearances thus far, the lead hung in the balance in 136 of them. On a series that deserves - and is now getting - a winner-take-all conclusion: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/02/s...

A winner-take-all Game 3 is exactly what this Red Sox-Yankees series deserves - The Boston Globe

The compelling best-of-three Wild Card Series will be decided on Thursday night at Yankee Stadium, with the winner advancing to face the Blue Jays.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 12d

Don't have full confirmation on this yet, but hearing that Guevara was sent to El Salvador this morning, which is just fucking shameful. He was here with legal permission and this was 100% punishment for his journalism about protests.

Shawn Musgrave @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social · 12d

Like Mahmoud Khalil's case, Mario Guevara's shows how courts will let the Trump administration use facially legal, bureaucratic mechanisms in unconstitutional ways. In a concurrence, Judge Kidd stresses that the First Amendment protects Guevara. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 12d

@johnhawkinson.bsky.social's also spotted a few in Orellana v. Hyde (a habeas case—where I certainly hope courts are denying all of these requests!) and in US v. Google (antitrust)

John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social · 12d

And PBS denies the Government's funding appropriation stay motion without any exposition (left).

Contrast that to, say, Judge Mehta (D.D.C)'s denial of similar stay motion is US v. Google, with a bit more text n the minute order (right).

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