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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

This is yet another reminder that the "you can just walk around with your papers and be fine!" is a lie: the cops routinely claim whatever documentation you provide is invalid

It's racism all the way down

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"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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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 1d

Also I'm sure having a president who routinely questions the "IQ" of black politicians and has numerous white nationalists in his administration has nothing to do with it.

Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 1d

These chats read exactly like the discord leaks did in 2017.

Then, it was the neo-Nazi fringe of the alt-right. Now it's just what wee republicans talk about when they think no one is listening.

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

Truly abhorrent and a mockery of the rule of law that Emil Bove is a federal judge.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

JUST IN: The 3rd Circuit *denies* a push by national GOP to reconsider ruling on misdated mail ballots in Pa.

Judge Emil Bove may have cast his first vote here in dissent of the decision -- and plans to write about it later. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 1d

Evocative review! And as a fan of your pod/work, a persuasive one.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

How trans visibility became a trap

People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

www.theverge.com

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 2d

(derogatory)

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway one member of that class is in charge of "doing the fucking news" at CBS.

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 2d

It's basically become an anti-virtue signal among the piece-of-shit class to misspell or mispronounce Mamdani, as though it is a difficult, and therefore needlessly foreign, name to pronounce or spell.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 2d

::whispering to Weiss in quiet car:: "mandani"

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2d

Old CBS would’ve probably spelled the guy’s name right, too.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

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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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, America - the president is telling you you’ll be paid to take your meds.

FFS

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 5d

Also they fucking rammed a "suspect" before this alleged assault-on-motor-vehicle occurred? Was that suspect committing the crime of being brown near gestapo?

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 5d

Probably a pure fabrication but if it isn't, it sounds like she assaulted a car, not a person.

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 5d

If the pictures taken by bus lane cameras are available for public review, I'm fairly certain we can find the last time he and his Charger were near a bus, in the bus lane.

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 5d

These folks all deserve each other.

Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social · 5d

Some of the most fervent volunteers for Andrew Cuomo's mayoral campaign are Republicans who voted for and still embrace Trump.

Cuomo’s Last-Minute Push Takes Him Into MAGA Territory

The former governor courts Trump fans, finding common ground in dire warnings about a future under Mayor Mamdani.

www.thecity.nyc

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 5d

Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet.

Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile?

My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)

‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.

A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.

www.bloomberg.com

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 6d

So too the question "is he really that racist?" Surprise! Answer is still yes.

Kudos to all the republicans who knew he was this way but saw personal profit in supporting a racist, stupid, crook.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6d

Without comment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 6d

The answer to the questions "could he be that stupid?" and "could he be that corrupt?" is always, always, always "yes."

That any of this surprises us is a testament to our unwillingness to just look at the guy and listen to the words he says.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 6d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, about the suspension of his account after J6. Meritless case.

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 7d

I am reconsidering my relationship with Google and the Android ecosystem, but I am finding that Apple isn't much better? And those are the options, unless you go dumbphone or know significantly more about computers/programming than I do.

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