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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 11h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29m

“Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an ‘iron fist,’… Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump, Feeling Emboldened, Pushes Agenda Into Higher Gear

Recent moves by the president reflect a commander in chief who has seemingly faced little resistance to his agenda.

www.wsj.com

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 1h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

Trump’s ice goons pull guns on an unarmed guy on a bike in Rogers Park. Terrorizing neighborhoods

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

Translation: they gave him a plane and filled his family’s pockets

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Hoon @hoon.bsky.social · 2h

Vote YES on Prop 50.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

I believe that Trump, Mike Johnson and Greg Abbott should not have started this and continued with it in multiple states to rig the midterms. No Democrats want this, but we can’t unilaterally disarm in the face of multiple threats to fair representation nationwide.

Hoon @hoon.bsky.social · 2h

For the crypto degens who weren’t completely wiped out, they’re back to leveraging bets and being degens again.

Don’t feel sorry for them. They haven’t learned anything

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 2h

Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland

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Hoon @hoon.bsky.social · 2h

Trump messes with the markets. Instead of punishing him, markets reward his behavior. And then, market participants wonder why he keeps doing it.

At some point, market participants are the idiots.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me again and again, shame on me.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

Per WSJ, the Trump regime and Bannon are bragging they’re “ruling Congress with an iron fist” and that it is “largely ceremonial” like the Russian Duma.

Shameful. Not what the founders intended. 🇺🇸 @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles

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

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Hoon @hoon.bsky.social · 3h

Gold has hit all time high today.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 7h

Pleasant day out in my neighborhood in Chicago. There was a farmer’s market and people are out strolling, chatting, and sitting out on porches. Just like every weekend.

Except now most of us are wearing whistles to alert neighbors if unidentified guys in tactical gear show up to kidnap people.

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Hoon @hoon.bsky.social · 4h

It sucks that healthcare costs will go up for everyone.

But on the margin, I don’t feel bad it’s happening to those who voted for Trump—they’ve caused so much pain on everyone that they don’t really deserve sympathy.

Hoon @hoon.bsky.social · 4h

FAFO

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 5h

"I voted for Trump. I didn't expect [him to cut health care.]"

Longtime Florida insurance agent Alan Reynolds, 65, predicts many of his customers will allow their policies to lapse when the price hikes become clear. An independent who leans conservative, Reynolds, of Port St. Lucie, called Obamacare flawed but said he favors the continuation of the enhanced subsidies “and not pulling the rug out from under people.”

His family is also affected. The loss of his wife’s subsidy means she is likely to pay about $1,200 or more each month, up from about $500 in 2024, he said. “I voted for Trump,” Reynolds said. “I didn’t expect this.”

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Hoon @hoon.bsky.social · 4h

ICE is arresting people for simply recording them now.

SS Gestapo

www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 5h

Shooting with multiple victims at Wiregrass Commons Mall in Dothan, Alabama. (WDHN)

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 5h

ICE sent a Massachusetts 7th grader 500 miles away without his parents or even telling them

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

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.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Hoon @hoon.bsky.social · 5h

wtf

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 5h

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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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 5h

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...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

newrepublic.com

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 10h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

MILLER TABAK: “.. Something important did change last week ..

“.. With the market priced for perfection and some new concerns showing up about the ROI of the massive spending on AI, .. the odds that we’ll see something more than a tiny decline in the stock market have risen considerably.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

FORBES: “The cryptocurrency appears nowhere on the financial disclosure the president files with the government... But make no mistake, Trump is one of the largest bitcoin investors on the planet.”

#GoldenAgeOfCorruption

www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

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Hoon @hoon.bsky.social · 8h

If you can afford it, I recommend buying a home on real property (eg not a townhouse) over speculation in crypto.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 8h

Heard on the Street: The rent vs. buy debate has taken on new meaning for Gen Z thanks to soaring share prices and more investment options.

Where Have All the Young Home Buyers Gone? Check the Stock Market

The rent vs. buy debate has taken on new meaning for Gen Z thanks to soaring share prices and more investment options.

on.wsj.com

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