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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 20h

New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 1d

Every weekday on Broadway, undocumented immigrants line up to enter 26 Federal Plaza. They enter harshly lit hallways where ICE agents mill around — waiting to take people away. For our cover story, Stephanie Keith captures the anguished scenes of arrest in downtown Manhattan. buff.ly/N6JNPUP.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 14h

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan.

Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.

Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.

Halligan: Yes I do. Off record.

Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?

Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record.
There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.

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Jason Avant @jasonavant.bsky.social · 17h

The optics - a bunch of bored National Guard soldiers standing around like chumps in front of a few dozen people in funny costumes - will be fantastic.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

🚨2-1 panel of the 9th Circuit (2 Trump vs 1 Clinton appointee) permits Trump to deploy the National Guard in Portland.

The majority opinion finds that Trump properly considered the situation from June through September, and declares the ICE protests disruptive enough to call out the Guard.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 18h

Meanwhile, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the Trump administration's motion for a stay in Oregon v. Trump, regarding National Guard deployment in Portland.

Full opinion here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/d9/44/ff61b3...

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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 19h

We’re just innocent men

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Jason Avant @jasonavant.bsky.social · 23h

Too soon

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Jason Avant @jasonavant.bsky.social · 1d

This is my Long Elliptical Workout Soundtrack of choice

Jason Avant @jasonavant.bsky.social · 1d

If you know anything at all about artillery you know how bad this could have been. I lived in north San Diego county for twenty years; that stretch of freeway is always full of traffic.

John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 1d

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 2d

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

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Jason Avant @jasonavant.bsky.social · 1d

That sea otter is everyone who's ever been alone in the lineup, paddled into a perfect wave only to have a flailing kook come out of nowhere and drop in on them

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

This surfing sea otter shot is pretty epic..

Shmuel Thaler/The Santa Cruz Sentinel, via Associated Press.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 2d

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained.

These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

so here’s the thing, Bari, you’re running an organization full of weapons-grade gossips who hate you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Now in a position of power at the network, Ms. Weiss is the one concerned about leaks. She has complained that her comments at private CBS meetings keep turning up in media reports, asking if the company can identify the leakers, according to three people familiar with her remarks.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

“the president is less popular than the Vietnam war” should be a simply irresistible headline

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2d

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants

Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Jason Avant @jasonavant.bsky.social · 2d

"We're doing diarrhea planes and we're doing them very strongly," said the president. "It's incredible the things we're doing with diarrhea, and we love it, don't we folks?"

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Rick (Nog SZN) @crystalpepsi.bsky.social · 2d

Shooter McGavin telling happy Gilmore I’m going to drop a ton of human shit on you from my airplane

Happy Gilmore asking you fly a plane full of shit

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Dale Denwalt @denwalt.bsky.social · 2d

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.

He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 2d

It doesn’t make more aggressive forms of protest and resistance less effective. It makes them more effective. It can raise public tolerance for protest, introduces new people to acts of resistance, and lay the groundwork for larger networks of solidarity.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 2d

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Jason Avant @jasonavant.bsky.social · 2d

Also my wife's sign was good.

A very attractive woman (full disclosure: this is the author's wife, but it doesn't make that statement any less true) stands in front of the Hawthorne Bridge in Portland wearing a sign that says "No Kings (Except Maybe For Aragorn)"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

the crowd sizes are obviously the highlight here but the fact that *this* is the public statement of the NYPD does not bode well for the regime. or, put another way:

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

ZERO arrests at No Kings in NYC. (And the NYPD isn’t notorious for being sympathetic with people anti-Trump.)

This proves what shameless liars Speaker Mike Johnson & Karoline Leavitt are to slander the participants as violent anarchists.