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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times around Brexit

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018...

Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times

Founder Arron Banks was offered lucrative deals in talks with the ambassador

www.theguardian.com

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Andy Buss @ambuss.bsky.social · 3h

Until Roberts’ SCOTUS shadow dockets it

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 5h

Needs answering

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 5h

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 7h

Yes, Nazi kids.

An official-looking setting with a man in a suit and tie, speaking animatedly at a table with a microphone. U.S. flags are visible in the background. The text says: “JD Vance on Young Republicans' leaked group chat that joked about gas chambers, slavery and more: ‘That's what kids do’”.

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Andy Buss @ambuss.bsky.social · 7h

Dunning, meet Kruger…

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 8h

“If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.”

Meanwhile, the reality of #KavanaughStop

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 8h

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Andy Buss @ambuss.bsky.social · 17h

Sure thing, that will work

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Roads Policing - Surrey Police - UK on X: "This tweet from June last year has recently been picked up by our German followers. As a society we must identify the true reasons behind a collision - it’s not what type of clothing someone is wearing, but the action of the motorist that runs them down." / X

This tweet from June last year has recently been picked up by our German followers. As a society we must identify the true reasons behind a collision - it’s not what type of clothing someone is wearing, but the action of the motorist that runs them down.

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Jon @jontafkasi.bsky.social · 17h

Fairly sure no bulldozers are involved in pitching solar panels in fields but sure mate, lets have this instead.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name

She even had her U.S. passport on her.

newrepublic.com

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Andy Buss @ambuss.bsky.social · 18h

Hey, it worked for the UK and Brexit. Didn’t it?

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 1d

Murder. Hacking. Threats.
The hacking scandal takes some understanding.
But this is one of the most important issues of our time.

The press have a duty to report. The police - a duty to protect.

When those two forces align in corruption…. no one is safe. #TheHack

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

The plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was commissioned by Congress in 2022, remains in storage. Mike Johnson has refused to place it on the wall, as was intended. That "deed" speaks pretty loudly.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 1d

I experience a very special and intense kind of irritation whenever I see recently-built buildings with *decorative gas lamps* which are not only wasting natural gas but also aren't even producing useful light.

Just a fancy flame burning because fancy.

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John Wilks @johngwilks.bsky.social · 1d

Reform's Russian connections should concern all who value our democracy. They are traitors hiding behind our flag.
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...

Reform’s Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife

'Tice and Oakeshott stayed at the Chernukhins’ “turreted villa” with “a stunning view of the Mediterranean” and had supper with them at a Michelin-starred restaurant'

leftfootforward.org

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

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

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2d

This

Chris Luchini @drbooom.bsky.social · 2d

Let's talk about flashbangs.

FBs are extraordinarily dangerous devices. A Couple of decades ago I worked on a project to try to make them safer. The primary result of that research was to produce pyrotechnics that reduced flame temperature, and increased gas volume.

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Andy Buss @ambuss.bsky.social · 2d

It seems Reform have extensive Form for this...

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 2d

We should never have written stories down, stories are meant to be told to us by a very old man over a flagon of mead by a roaring fire

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 2d

Translation: British coach drivers routinely overstay unlawfully in Schengen.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2d

NATO Secretary General Rutte:
…Now there is hardly any Russian naval presence in the Mediterranean left

There is a lone&broken Russian submarine limping home from patrol.What a change from the 1984 Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October.Today, it seems more like The Hunt for the Nearest Mechanic

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 2d

This is what the arsonists like Farage and Trump want to hold us back on - Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

www.theguardian.com

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Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 2d

This is why regulations and standards, or "red tape" as some simple folk like to call it, is so important. And deregulation and a bon fire of red tape "to grow the sovereign economy" will always end like this, in tears and a big bill to foot.

Maybe not right away, but always in the end.

Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds

Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp

www.theguardian.com

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