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Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 5h

“If Congress lays down its arms on its most fundamental authority, I don’t know what leg they’re going to have to stand on,” said Brendan Buck, aide to former GOP House speakers Ryan and Boehner.

Agreed. It’s a baffling & frightening threat to the constitutional order.

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Congress is losing its grip on the power to spend Americans’ money

Congress is supposed to control spending, but increasingly, the White House is dictating how America’s money is used.

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Zehnra @zehnra.com · 4h

I'll 100% take this ranking.

Brian Fremeau @bcfremeau.bsky.social · 5h

If no preseason projection weight was applied...
1. Indiana
2. Miami
3. Notre Dame
4. Ohio State
5. Texas Tech
6. Alabama
7. Utah
8. Georgia
9. Oregon
10. Texas A&M

Brian Fremeau @bcfremeau.bsky.social · 5h

FEI ratings and supporting metrics are updated through Week 7 results: bcftoys.com/2025-fei
Preseason projections carry 43% weight for teams that have played four FBS opponents, 33% if they have played five, 25% if they have played six, 18% if they have played seven.

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Antifa CEO @antifa.bsky.social · 2d

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 2d

ANTIFA FOR LIFE

Black background with bold white text that says “ if you haven’t chosen a side yet then you actually HAVE.”

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 1d

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

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Elizabeth @lexnonquaeritquem.bsky.social · 17h

Make that *15 before the day’s end and the guy who was deported was tricked into it. (They told him if he signed a doc that they’d give him his phone to get phone numbers to call his family, but his English was poor and he ended up signing a self-deportation doc).

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Elizabeth @lexnonquaeritquem.bsky.social · 23h

14 of my husband’s employees didn’t show up today. One was detained over the weekend. He spends more time now discussing ICE than he does the business he’s running. Donald Trump has ruined American businesses.

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Fr. Sorin’s Ramblers @frsorinsramblers.bsky.social · 14h

#indigenouspeoplesday

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 14h

Privatization is the goal.

Profit over people.

#GOPShutdown

Beth Loves to Travel @skywalkerbeth.bsky.social · 15h

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

Right on cue

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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 3d

Imagine a work crew showed up and started breaking up the pavement in front of your house with one of these, and didn’t put it back together. That’s basically what Vought and 🍆🥔 are doing right now.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14h

ICE Serves Only to Terrorize and Occupy Americans

It's no longer just undocumented immigrants, Muslims, Black people, & pro-Palestinian activists who are targets. As ICE violently marches across American cities, the majority must stand up & resist.

thelefthook.substack.com/p/ice-serves...

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 21h

There’s been an active cover-up since the mid-2000s to conceal the Epstein Files.

The damning info from the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility’s investigation & report into allegations of professional misconduct by the federal prosecutors, including Alex Acosta.

youtu.be/7et6kS7r-T4?...

YIKES! DOJ BUSTED in Epstein COVER-UP as GOP STALLS RELEASE

YouTube video by Katie Phang

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 1d

Agree Ron,It's Chump First,
America Last, in This Regime......

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 19h

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.
archive.is/202510131316...

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

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.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14h

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 14h

No Kings protest - October 18th

Show up!👇

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15h

Nothing stops authoritarians in their tracks like organized people power — and we're organizing it in communities throughout the country. #NoKings

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 21h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 19h

President Trump was just caught on a hot mic talking with the president of Indonesia.

He may have been talking about his business interests in the country–which would be exactly the kind of conflict of interest we’ve been warning about for years. 🧵

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14h

Note that Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are doing _exactly_ what Trump falsely accuses George Soros of doing. They fund and finance the operations of terrorist groups in the UK and Germany among other countries. Soros is strictly involved in bona fide philanthropy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 13h

It feels insane to me to read headlines like this and still hear people say aboIishing the pοӏice goes too far. Absolutely losing my mind. Becoming the joker over here

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 14h

"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Rep. James Walkinshaw @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social · 3d

RIFs during a shutdown are 100% illegal.

@oversightdemocrats.house.gov Ranking Member Rep. Robert Garcia and I called on @USGAO to investigate Russ Vought’s illegal directive ordering agencies to fire federal workers in violation of the Antideficiency Act.

This scheme needs to be investigated.