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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 2h

everyone on that stage went along with pardons for jan 6 participants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 23h

Every word of this is worth reading. These people are not outliers in young MAGA leadership. The person you are when you think you can get away with saying anything is the real you.

Politico @politico.com · 23h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Ben Wiers @benwiers.bsky.social · 1d

We’re going to need Pete to put together some kind of Pacific Rim Peace Prize if we’re ever going to get any actual work done. #30Rock

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "Together with my friend Speaker Ohana of the Israeli Knesset we're going to rally speakers and presidents of parliaments around the world so we will jointly nominate President Donald J Trump for next year's Nobel Prize. No one has ever deserved that prize more & that is an objective fact."

Ben Wiers @benwiers.bsky.social · 1d

🎶Queen save the God🎶

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

What did Tom Homan do with the $50K he took in a CAVA bag from undercover FBI agents?

Just keep asking this everyday. Its a big scandal they can't escape because Pam Bondi and her DOJ killed the investigation. They're cornered on this and the Epstein Files.

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Ben Wiers @benwiers.bsky.social · 1d

This time next week Mike Shildt will be a half an inch taller just due to the relief from no longer having to manage the shit show that is Padres baseball.

Ben Wiers @benwiers.bsky.social · 1d

This treatment would be outrageous even if these people weren’t citizens!

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Just rounding people up. A US citizen who says he had his birth certificate with him (!) was still thrown in the back of a truck and detained.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Someday this could be you or someone you love

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Remember we're already in a world of Kavanaugh stops based solely on ethnicity. If you are from a targeted group, this can happen to you no matter what your citizenship status is. What if you forget your wallet at home? You could end up in detention for days or worse.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Do you want to live in a "papers, please" country?

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Ben Wiers @benwiers.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like bochy is one of a few managers that might fill out the lineup card without consulting Manny or AJ first.

Ben Wiers @benwiers.bsky.social · 2d

I remember liking Dick Tracy as a kid, but the best Dick Tracy related piece of pop culture is the Simpsons episode where they flash back to an unruly child version of Ned Flanders on a rampage.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Jesus drank. @biancatempt.bsky.social · 3d

"This is the grain of sand at the center of the pearl of my ire, because "we are going to have to live here with each other" is the exact premise that Republicans do not agree with any of us about, and . . . Klein . . .
excises this reality entirely."

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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Ben Wiers @benwiers.bsky.social · 3d

I got two paragraphs in and I think this guy has lived the most quintessentially American life possible.

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Ben Wiers @benwiers.bsky.social · 3d

Football is a constant and never ending shit show.

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 4d

Heartbreaking reading, but this Reddit thread gives a sense of the relentlessness of the horror inflicted by ICE, and the damage being done to so many innocent people that doesn't make the news.

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

www.reddit.com

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Ben Wiers @benwiers.bsky.social · 3d

This is the best thing to ever happen as a result of America’s idiotic obsession with spooky shit. This also mostly sucks.

Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

Ben Wiers @benwiers.bsky.social · 3d

This is why it’s important for everyone who is practicing witchcraft to be extremely specific when they’re trying to end the life of a certain 79 year old.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Ben Wiers @benwiers.bsky.social · 3d

Then I don’t even get the bit. I feel even older.

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Ben Wiers @benwiers.bsky.social · 4d

Luckily so many people dressed accordingly

Ben Wiers @benwiers.bsky.social · 4d

Does that exorcise some demons from that 18 inning nightmare?

Ben Wiers @benwiers.bsky.social · 4d

I liked that game more than One Battle After Another. We’ll see how I feel after I rewatch both of them.

Ben Wiers @benwiers.bsky.social · 4d

Both fanbases are having their season extended, suck it up!