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Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 17m

Such excellent common sense here! Worth a read!
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Don’t Blame the Democrats for Trump’s Revenge Tour

Defending Trump’s lawfare as just deserts misremembers what actually happened.

www.theatlantic.com

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Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 47m

One tiny thing this administration is doing to support the media: using tax dollars to buy ads praising the president.
Thank God for small blessings?

Axios @axios.com · 1h

The most expensive political ad campaign of the year is being run by the Department of Homeland Security, spending at least $51 million on ads thanking President Trump for securing the border.

U.S. government pays for 2025's most expensive political ad campaign

The next closest ad campaign is the $41 million effort to support California's redistricting measure.

www.axios.com

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En Buen Ora - "Hell Çid" 😈 @enbuenora.bsky.social · 1h

can the Supreme Court decide that the Civil War was decided incorrectly, because I feel like they might want to

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 1d

The Oct. 18th "No Kings Day of Peaceful Action" has now surpassed 2,500 community events across all 50 states, per No Kings organizers.

All of these events were "organized by average Americans across personal, political, and geographic demographics."

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't new, by the way. Trump and his minions wanted an "antifa" Black Bloc to show up and fight with cops on Jan. 6, 2021. If that had happened, he would have then called out the National Guard to a) arrest leftists and b) shut down the Capitol and prevent the election from being certified

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11d

People ask me all the time what they can do and broadly:

1) Organize and join protests
2) Support media that isn't backing down
3) Give to ACLU and others taking on the illegal actions in court
4) Give to food banks :(

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 1d

#ICYMI: Yesterday’s “One First” summarized just how weak the defenses of the Supreme Court’s behavior on Trump-related emergency applications have been—and explained what someone would have to do to *actually* defend all that the Court’s majority has been doing:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/183-the-mi...

After all, maybe one can defend the Court granting emergency relief more often than ever before and in cases with far greater real-world (and structural) impacts. And maybe one can defend the Court altering (if not completely scrapping) the traditional balance of the equities in these cases. But does that defense extend to the Court doing so especially in cases in which President Trump is a party-and no others? And does it extend to the Court doing all of this without usually providing written explanations of what it is doing-or why? And even if the answer is somehow "yes," does it also extend to the Court doing all of this, not usually explaining what it's doing or why, and nevertheless accusing lower courts who fail to read the justices' minds of "defying" the Court?

I have a very hard time believing that anyone can genuinely make it through even three of those sentences with a coherent defense of what the Supreme Court has done over the past seven months-let alone all five of them. I'd love to see such an argument, if it exists, but I haven't been-and won't be-holding my breath.

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Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, no.
By the time we hear about one or two idiotic borrowing binges in the unregulated, opaque private loan market, the horse most likely is far from the barn.
And the credit clampdown we'll see as a backlash to First Brands will produce its own casualties.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 1d

Jamie Dimon says auto company bankruptcies reveal 'early signs' of excess in corporate lending

The bankruptcies have sparked concern about the risks involved when banks like JPMorgan, Jefferies and Fifth Third provide financing for private companies.

cnb.cx

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Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 1d

It is hard to fathom what was in the minds of the ICE agents who, literally, stood in front of an ambulance trying to get an injured person to the hospital. Was there no supervisor with better sense? What possible excuse could you give?

memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 1d

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver (Andrew Schwartz/Willamette Week)

Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

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Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew Ross Sorkin and I agree: "The pattern is familiar, stretching back to 1929: Whenever access expands faster than safeguards, charlatans rush in and ordinary investors are often left holding the bag."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/m...

The Rules of Investing Are Being Loosened. Could It Lead to the Next 1929?

www.nytimes.com

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memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 1d

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver (Andrew Schwartz/Willamette Week)

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Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 1d

Memo to media: Take time to read this story. Reporter Andrew Schwartz does an outstanding job of documenting both his research and his extensive effort to get authoritative comment on this incident. Excellent local reporting is more important than ever!

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 1d

The spelling error has been corrected.
The fundamental error of treating the opinions of "several" police officers - out of 33,000 officers on the force - as BIG NEWS has not been corrected.

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 2d

welcome to the new era of CBS News, where brave truth-telling takes precedence over spelling Zohran Mamdani’s name correctly

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Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 2d

"The weekend editor called."

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3d

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

In the last week, Donald Trump has insisted that there are no more stores left in war-ravaged Portland, asserted that Joe Biden was president during the January 6th insurrection, hosted conspiracy theorists for an "Antifa" summit, and said he'd consider pardoning his good friend the sex trafficker.

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Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 2d

I picked "What We Can Know" by Ian McEwan as my next book, and with coffee early this morning, I peeked at the first few pages.
Still reading.
My plan for the day is to finish this book.
Utterly mesmerizing! #BooksToReadNow

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Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 2d

Given the precariousness of Johnson's hold on the speakership, we can't rule out the possibility that he's keeping the House in absentia to save his own job. It's very easy to remove him, and it would be very difficult for today's GOP to agree on a successor.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Who is Mike Johnson being threatened by? I mean, if he's not bringing the House back, releasing the Epstein files ... he seems scared

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think so ... Do I think he's really up to the task? No.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 3d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 3d

Someone, please, tee this up for the next press WH conference...

Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 3d

Trump claims the “Biden FBI” placed 274 agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Trump was president on Jan. 6.

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 3d

Trump claims the “Biden FBI” placed 274 agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Trump was president on Jan. 6.

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Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sorry this is happening to the many, many small businesses and hobbyists it is hurting.
But it WILL make a lot of previously oblivious voters aware of how fiercely and mindlessly Trump is torturing the economy.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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