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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

Cracks are showing in the resistance

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

Here for the "emergency" naked bike ride in Portland

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1h

WSJ reports that Ghislaine Maxwell is treated like a VIP guest at a five-star resort in her new minimum-security Club Fed prison. She recently received a special visitor, and the entire facility was placed on lock-down while the guest was there so that no one could see who she or he was. Creepy.

Lockdowns and a Mysterious Meeting: A Quiet Texas Prison Adapts to Life With Ghislaine Maxwell

The unexpected arrival of the Epstein associate upset the camp’s routines. Some inmates say she got favorable treatment.

www.wsj.com

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 2h

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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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10h

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.

ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

www.propublica.org

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NPR @npr.org · 6h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

I really wouldn’t be shining lasers at helicopters if I were you. It’s illegal and could cause an aircraft to crash - and that could kill a LOT of people, in the air and on the ground.

And the ICE goons appear to be *salivating* at the chance to claim people that they arrest were doing this:

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

Translation: they gave him a plane and filled his family’s pockets

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

Trump’s ice goons pull guns on an unarmed guy on a bike in Rogers Park. Terrorizing neighborhoods

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 2h

“More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation”

Daniel Ducassi for Florida Bulldog

More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation

By Daniel Ducassi, FloridaBulldog.org - More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts missing legally required public documentation.

www.floridabulldog.org

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

Police union leaders defending jan 6 after watching what those cops went through should have been the clarifying moment if nothing else (and there had been plenty before) bsky.app/profile/nota...

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3h

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.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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CNN @cnn.com · 5h

Hamas is reasserting control of parts of Gaza not occupied by Israeli forces as the ceasefire takes hold – amid continuing uncertainty about security in the territory if the group is disarmed. https://cnn.it/3W2My0L

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🎃 Trick or Pete 🎃 Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 5h

After commenters deriding the appearance of TX NG troops made photos of their deployment to Chicago go viral, the Texas Military Department quietly recalled and replaced them

For their appearance.

They didn’t send the Guard to serve.
They sent them to be seen.

taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6h

genuinely trumps funniest bit ever for him to admit that he knows he’s a grifting piece of shit who’s going to hell lol

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 4h

Sounds like his second annual physical went well.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 9h

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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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4h

lol taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

= TASK & PURPOSE
NEWS / MILITARY BRANCHES / NATIONAL GUARD
Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards
"National Guard Soldiers and Airman are required to meet service-specific height, weight and physical fitness standards at all times," the National Guard Bureau said on Thursday.
NICHOLAS SLAYTON, JEFF SCHOGOL UPDATED OCT 12, 2025 2:54 PM EDT

The Texas Military Department has removed an unspecified number of National Guard troops deployed to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with its validation process.
A spokesperson for the Texas Military Department confirmed to Task & Purpose that "a small group" of the 200 National Guard members sent to Illinois this past week have been replaced after they were found to not meet certain standards. The move came amid criticism on social media over pictures that showed some of the Guard members appearing to be overweight, and as an appeals court temporarily blocked the deployment of the Texan troops into Illinois.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 4h

MAGA is upset at Marjorie Taylor Greene

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 4h

interesting that justice barrett thinks it's appropriate for a judge to appear on a transparently partisan propaganda network like FNC

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

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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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 7h

Nobody wants to work anymore

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

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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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 6h

This is purely about the visual, example 1 million www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 9h

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

taskandpurpose.com

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