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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 2h

Quite the endorsement of Justice Kavanaugh's opinion.

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2h

for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
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He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.

Thanks, SCOTUS.

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 2h

The nazi thugs ran into band members

"federal agents barreled into the band while pursuing another suspect, bystander video shows." www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

Looking forward to the congressional hearings in which Republicans demand that the president of an Ivy League school resign over this.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 13h

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow."

(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 16h

Digital Soldier😏

an elderly woman wearing glasses and a wig is holding a piece of string in her hand .

ALT: an elderly woman wearing glasses and a wig is holding a piece of string in her hand .

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 20h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 18h

The government pressured Facebook. Same thing SCOTUS dinged the Biden administration for...

Got it

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 20h

OMG 🤣🤣🤣

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21h

when you tie a tie, try to put in a dimple, like so

a black and white photo of a man in a pinstripe worsted suit, white shirt, and textured necktie. the tie has a nice dimple under the knot.

a photo of donald trump upside down. there is also a nice dimple on his red tie

Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 20h

Priorities

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

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
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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 20h

Just like a dictator would

Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 21h

I don't see the issue

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22h

“At least one person in the Telegram chat works in the Trump administration: Michael Bartels, who, according to his LinkedIn account, serves as a senior adviser in the office of general counsel within the U.S. Small Business Administration.”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

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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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

How does he know if it's not monitored... that seems ignorant

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

"Attention Seeker" is more like it

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

And then there was one.....

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes... he's a sick man

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Atta boy....

"Chinese shipments to the U.S. plunged 27% in September, but overall exports rose 8.3%. The World Bank now expects China’s economy to grow 4.8% in 2025, while it downgraded U.S. growth to 1.4%"

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Trump bet China would face ‘tremendous difficulties’ without U.S. consumers—Beijing just focused on the rest of the world instead | Fortune

China’s trade diversification has been so successful that its export market is growing significantly despite the trade war.

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

ICE are there to provoke violence