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Jamie Baker Roskie @whenisayj.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, this. Because as someone who has been trying very hard recently to volunteer to do pro bono work for underserved communities, the existing legal infrastructure is absolutely failing. More lawyers don't help us unless we make it possible for them to do the work.

Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 11h

We do need more lawyers, somewhat hilariously. If each and every of those 32,000 LSAT takers actually got into a law school, the population of the country is still 300 million. What we need to do is subsidize lawyers in underserved areas (like rural communities) to go to law school.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 13h

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 19h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

Yesterday I wrote about the effort by center-left pundits to police what people are passionate about.
www.pbump.net/o/sincerity-...

Sincerity is not the problem

As is inevitably the case after an election — and is especially the case after an election with an unexpected result — allies of the losing presidential candidate in 2024 looked for people to blame. O...

www.pbump.net

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14h

For sure some of the legacy media outlets are downplaying the protests because they’re aligned with Trump, but I think an even bigger factor is how many elite journalists have a patrician disdain for the idea that politics can happen in the streets and not just the CNN green room.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 10h

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 1d

Variation on a meme:

God: In my book I invented the Golden Calf as a cautionary tale

Evangelicals: At long last, we have created the Golden Calf from classic novel, The Bible

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 10h

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10h

the crowd sizes are obviously the highlight here but the fact that *this* is the public statement of the NYPD does not bode well for the regime. or, put another way:

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h

ZERO arrests at No Kings in NYC. (And the NYPD isn’t notorious for being sympathetic with people anti-Trump.)

This proves what shameless liars Speaker Mike Johnson & Karoline Leavitt are to slander the participants as violent anarchists.

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Amy P. @amyephillips.bsky.social · 11h

JB Pritzker gave a speech today reminding protesters that tyranny fails when courageous people stand up for their fellow human beings who are facing persecution. A few hours later, the Illinois State Police he commands pushed peaceful protesters standing up for immigrants into oncoming traffic.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 12h

Chaos. ISP just made a charge, pushing people back east toward 25th Ave., right into cars pulling out of the parking lot. I hear people talking about arrests but it's too dark to see. People panic, run.

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Palmetto State Abortion Fund @psabortionfund.bsky.social · 1d

Sharing an email from our intake director:

As intake director, I don't typically write these emails, but I am writing today with urgency and clarity: PSAF must raise $50,000 immediately to stay open through the rest of the month into November.

www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund

Donate to Palmetto State Abortion Fund | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)

*While we assist abortion seekers from other Southern states as well, the information below pertains to South Carolina.* Since launching in late 2021, PSAF has supported over 1,500 people in accessing...

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 16h

For the crowd who STILL thinks activism cannot be absurd if it is to be effective, may I remind you that ACT UP—perhaps the most effective activist group in US history not just on AIDS but on medicine in general—once covered Sen. Jesse Helms’s house with with a giant condom

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 16h

but also...like, the best way to approach this in terms of building an anti trump coalition is to say, "I voted against this so this wouldn't happen to you; please join me in working to make sure it happens to no one else."

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 16h

It's hard not to feel pretty bitter reading things like this, though I try to remind myself that it isn't much use. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/the-limits...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18h

On the one hand, it makes sense, because the Trump admin has no legal basis for detaining them, not least because the blew up the supposed evidence.

But on the other hand it just underscores how illegal the entire operation is, it's nothing more than murder on the high seas to generate content.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18h

So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social · 1d

In her first interview since he was killed by federal agents, Silverio Villegas González's partner Blanca Mora talked about the impact his death has had on their family.

Be sure to read this moving piece by Alma Campos about Silverio's final journey back to Loma de Chupio, Michoacán.

A Tragic Homecoming

The casket of Silverio Villegas González rests inside his family’s modest home in Michoacán.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 17h

The DHS narrative about what happened the day they ICE agents killed Villegas González has continued to fall apart.

This was our initial report the day after they shot and killed him.

What happened to Silverio Villegas González

Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.

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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 18h

The U.S. Senate left for its customary long weekend Thursday afternoon, following a brief three days in session despite the ongoing government shutdown. The House remained on an extended break from Capitol Hill. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/17/r...

With funding for courts in question, Congress stuck in shutdown gridlock for day 16 • Ohio Capital Journal

The U.S. Senate left for its customary long weekend Thursday afternoon, following a brief three days in session despite the ongoing government shutdown. The House remained on an extended break from…

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 21h

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

“Your honor it is among the cherished traditions of the LAPD to beat up the media”

Arin Arcady @rnrkd.bsky.social · 23h

haha oh geez wow what a thing to ask for

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 20h

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

it is my pleasure to report they are indeed mad as fuck on the other site over being blocked and ignored. keep up the excellent work everyone

Free the World @PatriotVerity
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I joined Bluesky 6 hours ago, have not said anything rude or abrasive, and I'm already blocked by over 58,000 people.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump admin says "political rhetoric" is endangering the lives of DHS officers. So I wrote a piece arguing that the real danger to officers is the aggressive and hyper-militaristic mass deportation campaign — which generates its own opposition.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/trump-m...

Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda Makes Everyone Less Safe — Including Immigration Agents - American Immigration Council

The Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda puts everyone at risk, including those carrying out immigration enforcement.

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

It's official: Speaker Johnson just cancelled all votes in the House next week.

The next scheduled voting day is 10/27; the last time the House was in session was 9/19.

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