Sam Horrorwitt
@shurwitt.bsky.social
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Longtime Bay Area arts journalist and occasional playwright turned mailman. I could tell you stories.
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acyn.bsky.social
AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals 

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record:

This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.
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maggiek.bsky.social
Wait. Sorry. Am I meant to understand that that trope-y 80s movie poster look was just ONE DUDE doing his thing?
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby
shurwitt.bsky.social
I only saw it the once when it came out, but even then I remember finding the whole torture-your-wife thing super off-putting.

That’s not why I never watched any more of his movies, but maybe I should have stopped earlier.
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nickkristof.bsky.social
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver
Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.
www.wweek.com
shurwitt.bsky.social
I love a lot of things about Composite Superman, but one of my favorites is asking people who don’t have all this useless shit in their head to guess whose powers he has.
shurwitt.bsky.social
I haven’t seen a James Cameron movie since True Lies in 1994.

Unless I rewatched Aliens at some point since then, which is certainly possible.
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paulwaldman.bsky.social
Time magazine is owned by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who just came out as a Trump supporter and said it would be great if he sent the National Guard to invade San Francisco
paleofuture.bsky.social
Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie
Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle 

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS
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juliedicaro.bsky.social
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.
shurwitt.bsky.social
ICE is both a terrorist organization and a human trafficking operation.
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kaseygifford.bsky.social
We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.
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notalawyer.bsky.social
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
misoshnik.bsky.social
Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?
A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”
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joshuaeakle.com
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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joshmallow.bsky.social
She just… tweeted it out
reshetz.bsky.social
My fellow Americans
what are we even doing here bruh
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wajali.bsky.social
The only way we save our country is through our numbers.

Trump and MAGA don't have the majority, not even close.

Overwhelm them with numbers. Resist everywhere. They are too reckless, incompetent, and self-destructive.

Also, divide and conquer. Many fissures, especially around Epstein.
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gonebabygone.bsky.social
All these people write the exact same article over and over about the stuff that makes their social circle mad and then they get confused when normal people don’t think they’re geniuses