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Alex Morash @alexmorash.bsky.social · 1d

They’ve been like this long before Trump.

Remember what they said about President Obama, or their statements about gay people, or their hostility toward civil rights legislation.

This isn’t new.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson — man of deep faith, we are told — wants pastors to be shot in the head with pepper balls.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

americans have been learning about "no kings" via alternative media. social media, tiktok etc. we dont need the msm anymore and progressives should be investing billions in building up our own alternative information beachheads instead of constantly begging the dying msm to "do better"

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

We're told at least one person was arrested—and later released with a citation for disorderly—by Broadview police for simply being on the Maywood side of 25th at Harvard St outside the ICE facility this morning.

They were documenting agents coming and going as electeds have told people to do.

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Alex Morash @alexmorash.bsky.social · 1d

A ceasefire seems to be here, but make no doubt that the horrors inflicted on Gaza by Israel with U.S. support where a testing ground.

Not only have they proven governments can commit atrocities without consequences, they have a blueprint to bring those horrors home.

Be sure of this: many of the horrors the west allowed in Gaza will come closer to home | Owen Jones

History shows the crimes of empire were later mirrored on European soil. Dehumanisation and militarised terror both seem normalised now, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Morash @alexmorash.bsky.social · 2d

And yes, I am for more paid time off holidays. So ending Columbus Day and making 3 new holidays on separate days is very much a good needed thing.

Alex Morash @alexmorash.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that the holiday was around anti immigrant violence and America’s brutal lynching history makes me feel like a first people/indigenous peoples day should be celebrated on a different day and something around immigrants or remembering the victims of lynching would be more appropriate.

Alex Morash @alexmorash.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve never been a fan of Christopher Columbus (the genocide, the poor math skills).

What I only heard last year and wasn’t sure if it was true until now was that apparently the holiday started to repair ties with Italy after a group of Italian Americans were lynched in New Orleans.

Mass lynching in New Orleans led to creation of Columbus Day

Some states now call it Indigenous Peoples Day.

www.axios.com

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Alex Morash @alexmorash.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve never been a fan of Christopher Columbus (the genocide, the poor math skills).

What I only heard last year and wasn’t sure if it was true until now was that apparently the holiday started to repair ties with Italy after a group of Italian Americans were lynched in New Orleans.

Mass lynching in New Orleans led to creation of Columbus Day

Some states now call it Indigenous Peoples Day.

www.axios.com

Alex Morash @alexmorash.bsky.social · 2d

People are fleeing South Florida because rents and mortgages are over priced.

Florida forgets that its charm has always been it is the cheap place to live if you want warm weather.

Florida doesn’t work if it’s not cheap to live here. DeSantis and the GOP have ruined a good thing.

Majority of Miami residents have considered leaving over costs

More than 50% of Miami-Dade residents have "actively considered" leaving because of the high cost of living—especially housing.

www.newsweek.com

Alex Morash @alexmorash.bsky.social · 2d

Police are not the good guys.

There is nothing that justifies abducting children.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
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, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

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. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

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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Alex Morash @alexmorash.bsky.social · 4d

Mandating staffing requirements at retailers is essential.

Businesses cannot be trusted to act responsibly on their own. Only government forcing them to act works.

The controversial solution Long Beach has picked to battle shoplifters

Long Beach regulates self-checkout amid growing shopper frustration.

www.latimes.com

Alex Morash @alexmorash.bsky.social · 4d

Trump rules out paying troops apart from ending the shutdown.

I wonder how long this regime will last without paying its military?

White House has, for now, ruled out legislative fix for military pay

Over 1 million military paychecks could go unfulfilled on Oct. 15.

www.politico.com

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Alex Morash @alexmorash.bsky.social · 4d

This happened before, in Germany.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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PANDA @panda-news.bsky.social · 4d

I want to remind the Department of Homeland Security the Department of Justice the head of the FBI, Etc... that when Donald Trump is gone and the accountability bell tolls — Donald Trump may be immune, but his accomplices are not. We'll be coming for you. You will serve time.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 4d

either one of these political parties figure out that all they have to do is make peoples lives better and theyll have a trifecta for the next 500 years

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Alex Morash @alexmorash.bsky.social · 5d

If wishing made it so

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

Alex Morash @alexmorash.bsky.social · 5d

Trump is firing the federal workforce because he hasn’t been allowed to take Americans health care away.

If Democrats fold now, these workers will have lost their jobs for nothing.

Hold the line.

Vought sounds layoff siren: 'The RIFs have begun'

At least nine agencies appear to be affected.

www.politico.com

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Alex Morash @alexmorash.bsky.social · 5d

Boston’s wealthy and elite come out strong in support of genocide.

I expect nothing less from them.

Cambridge Day @cambridgeday.com · 5d

Somerville kills well funded bid to remove Palestine boycott measure from ballot - Cambridge Day

A committee backed by the ADL and a resigned Somerville city councilor tried to invalidate signatures needed to get a boycott measure on the ballot.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 5d

i can just imagine joe scarborough's eye twitching as mamdani says things like this on morning joe

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 5d

Mamdani: Trump ran on three promises. He ran on the punishment of his political enemies, easing the cost of living crisis, and mass deportation. It's that second promise that brought so many to his campaign. Yet he's unwilling to deliver on that because he's beholden to billionaires

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 5d

the protesters dressing up as chickens and frogs while team trump is like "these are serious terrorists destroying freedom."

i fucking love these people. well played. no notes.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 5d

Letitia James and James Comey have the best lawyers on earth and will almost certainly be fine. The fact that there’s a zillion stories about them and virtually none about NSPM-7 - which affects countless ordinary people - really says something about who the media writes for

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Alex Morash @alexmorash.bsky.social · 5d

Vox notes how as the campaign against Gaza comes to an end, the international community has seen that obscene violence and documented genocide works.

We have set the stage for a horrific next chapter of the 21st century.

The bleak lesson Israel — and the world — might learn from the Gaza war’s end — Vox

At last, Israel and Hamas have reached a deal — of a sort. On Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump announced that the warring parties in Gaza agreed to implement the “first phase” of the peace pl...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 6d

the world of rupert murdoch media is just such an insane place. most democrats and liberals have *no idea*

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