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Matt Gaetz’ 🐀 Tąppėd Laņdlînë @krisbouncedx.bsky.social · 7h

I’m fairly certain the Lord wouldn’t disappear his people.

Jim Jordan Insists ICE Officers Are 'Doing The Lord's Work' When Confronted by CNN

CNN's Dana Bash on Sunday confronted Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) with viral clips of ICE agents using strong-arm tactics to subdue protesters over the last week.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

this recipe calls for pistachios but i have found that it works with walnuts and hazelnuts as well zestfulkitchen.com/pistachio-ca...

Pistachio Bread — Zestful Kitchen

An easy and elegant Pistachio Bread recipe made in a food processor and baked in a loaf pan. No pudding mix here! Topped with a lemony glaze.

zestfulkitchen.com

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Adorable Spite @adorablespite.bsky.social · 6h

This??? Is what ya'll call an influencer???
Wow; boring...

dinoloverx2.bsky.social @dinoloverx2.bsky.social · 7h

As Erika Kirk takes over Turning Point USA, Republicans hope she can fix one of the party's biggest struggles: Attracting young women voters www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Republicans hope Erika Kirk can bring more young women into the party

As Erika Kirk takes over leadership of Turning Point USA, which was run by her late husband, Charlie Kirk, Republicans hope she can help close the gender gap among young voters.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8h

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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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6h

"Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy"

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV, writes Zeteo's @swin24.bsky.social:

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

zeteo.com

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Cwnidog @cwnidog.bsky.social · 4h

Don’t want to get too corrugated.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 6h

I am going to re-up this a third time:

Please read this excellent piece by Lincoln Caplan about why John Roberts—more than Mitch McConnell, more than Stephen Miller or Russell Vought, more than anyone else—owns the destruction of Constitutional order.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Re-upping:

Excellent assessment of John "Roger Taney" Roberts.

In @harvardmagazine.bsky.social , by Lincoln Caplan.

As careful, legally informed, judicious-minded writer as you're going to find. With an unsparing judgment.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

What Trump Means for John Roberts's Legacy | Harvard Magazine

Executive power is on the docket at the Supreme Court.

www.harvardmagazine.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13h

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Cwnidog @cwnidog.bsky.social · 4h

Yup. I just block them. Also ones that have Asian women with obscured faces, yet the account name is a guy.

I’m just not thinking they’re on the up & up.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5h

it is unfortunate that some people need to be told this, but here we are

Kozu @kozufox.bsky.social · 5h

Telling people not to try to down helicopters is more along the lines of "don't randomly fire a gun into the walls of an ICE detention facility", and it should be obvious why both actions are a bad idea.

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Cwnidog @cwnidog.bsky.social · 4h

As we used to say back in my yoot, if you wanna know who the cop is, look for the one pushing illegal action.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5h

As we all know, real activists who achieve real things talk about doing federal crimes on public social media all the time

(do not trust anyone who talks about how cool doing federal crimes is on public social media)

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Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 7h

Think about that for a minute

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Cwnidog @cwnidog.bsky.social · 7h

You need to look. They won’t be major brands.

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Cwnidog @cwnidog.bsky.social · 7h

They’re very picky Faine.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 9h

Government is like you aren’t sexy enough to do authoritarianism we need some dang DILFS up in here

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 11h

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

taskandpurpose.com

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 7h

He’s going to have Bondi indict the umbrella now, isn’t he?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump gets some help closing his umbrella while boarding Air Force One

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 7h

Why does he keep talking about going to heaven?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Cwnidog @cwnidog.bsky.social · 7h

Wet, he’s right on that.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 7h

Redford. Keaton. Goodall.

We owe it to them and to each other to keep going. To build what they imagined. To protect what they loved. To live as they lived, truthfully, fearlessly, fully.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

The Light They Left Behind

Three souls who reminded us what it means to live fully, and what we can’t afford to lose.

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Cwnidog @cwnidog.bsky.social · 7h

I will have to say that you can get a very good MIUSA shirt for under $50. Gotta look, though.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 9h

Because of Republicans’ massive health care cuts, millions of American families will see their premiums skyrocket. That could mean having to choose between paying for health care or electricity.

That's how dire our health care crisis is.

That's why Democrats are not giving up.

Democrats are not giving up.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

youtube.com

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Cwnidog @cwnidog.bsky.social · 7h

So then Mikey, you’ll be calling the House back into session to get this resolved, right? Didn’t think so.

His idea of resolution is that the Dems cave and support doubling regular people’s ACA bills to protect a tax cut for billionaires.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

BREAM: Open enrollments starts in November. People are already getting notices about what they may pay. I mean, that's gotta be resolved.

MIKE JOHNSON: Yes, and they're eating up the clock in the month of October

(Johnson canceled the House in August to avoid taking votes on Epstein)

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