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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 19h

JD Vance’s unwillingness to condemn the Nazi GOP groupchat provides the press corps yet another opportunity to probe his personal associations, and take note of how the whole administration exists to please them and make sadistic content go viral. www.offmessage.net/p/governing-...

Governing For The Gram

Republicans are obsessed with finding non-existent connections between Democrats and "the violent left" Meanwhile...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

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George Gillis @gjsquared.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. It’s fucking impossible to start pre selling packages and then deciding nah, we are gonna go play in Memphis

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George Gillis @gjsquared.bsky.social · 1d

I’m now blowing up (for me) on the Bluesky with people telling me I don’t understand how corrupt fifa is as if I don’t have eyes. I never thought I’d be on the opposite end of a Bluesky I’m smarter than you pile.

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George Gillis @gjsquared.bsky.social · 1d

You ain’t pulling out of the two biggest cities. The money is too much.

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George Gillis @gjsquared.bsky.social · 1d

It's absolutely hilarious to me that he thinks he's going to move world cup matches, or Olympic events from LA and New York. No way in Hell fifa or the olympic people buy that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "If somebody is doing a bad job and if I feel there is unsafe conditions, I would call Gianni, the head of FIFA, and I would say, 'let's move it to another location.' And he would do that ... I could say the same things for the Olympics."

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Madison365 @madison365.bsky.social · 1d

The 365 Leadership Summit is less than three weeks away! Join Wisconsin State Senator and gubernatorial candidate Kelda Helen Roys and many more of Wisconsin's Most Influential leaders on Monday, November 3. Register now at 365leadershipsummit.org !

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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.

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George Gillis @gjsquared.bsky.social · 1d

The shot a pastor in the face with a pepper ball, not far enough for Mike Johnson.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

George Gillis @gjsquared.bsky.social · 2d

I don't love it however.

George Gillis @gjsquared.bsky.social · 2d

I get the Ashby start to get through the first 4 batters, and to keep the dodgers on their toes w/ Kiki Hernandez/Muncy situation murky. I'd imagine they are hoping Priester pitches 3-4 innings after ashby.

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George Gillis @gjsquared.bsky.social · 4d

Sleep paralysis demon

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George Gillis @gjsquared.bsky.social · 4d

Agree

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George Gillis @gjsquared.bsky.social · 5d

Ah so the tiktok sale is going great I see

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 5d

we are literally besieged in all aspects of american life by unrestrained plutocrats who themselves are surrounded by toadies and sycophants, not one person there to tell them that their hair looks idiotic, their plan to invade portland is insane, that their AI does not work. bring back hard truths

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 5d

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 5d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5d

Speaker Mike Johnson, standing next to Emmer here, urged Democrats less than a month ago to "turn down their rhetoric," saying, "Nazis and fascists is not helpful."

As such, striking to see him stand quietly as a fellow Republican insists there is a "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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George Gillis @gjsquared.bsky.social · 6d

I was listening to Zach Harper on a mailbag of one of his podcasts, emotional hoops, and his take was this is all bullshit and the bucks are hard underrated this year. They could fuck around and win the east man, it’s not out of the realm of reality

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 8d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 8d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 9d

ICYMI: One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since Charlie Kirk’s murder is a panel of abortion “abolitionists” — extremists who want women executed for ending their pregnancies.

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Turning Point USA Hosts Campus Event Pushing Death Penalty for Abortion Patients

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 9d

Here's a good blog: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13d

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

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Senator Kelda Roys @senkeldaroys.bsky.social · 13d

We announced the introduction of legislation to Stop Wildly Inflated Fees and Ticketing Industry Exploitation, the SWIFTIE Act. This legislation will stop unscrupulous scalpers, ban ticket bots, and ensure fair prices — because live events should be for fans, not profiteers.

Kelda Roys takes on ticketing scams with SWIFTIE Act

YouTube video by Sen. Kelda Roys

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