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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 12h

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

🧑‍🌾 HAYES: “Trump is bailing out Argentina as they take sales directly away from 🇺🇸farmers… a set of circumstances almost beyond parody for the so-called ‘America first’ president.” @rustygrills @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn @RepChrisTodd @RepFaison @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 12h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 13h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 17h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Tim Walz: "The biggest myth is that this guy understands business. He's an absolute abject failure at business ... the irony is calling Democrats socialists when I am begging for free markets here to allow capitalism to work. Donald Trump is the one with government interference."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9h

One of the terrible things about the conservative elites’ attacks on higher education is that they are giving their constituents the impression that the universe isn’t big, complicated, and fascinating — that it really does take this many people to work out how even a small fraction of it works

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

Trump has a very simple worldview: the Presidency is not a public office, it is his property. He can use it to satisfy his personal or partisan whims, or to enrich himself.

So here, he threatens to reorganize an international competition, cohosted by Mexico and Canada, to settle a vendetta.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 9h

Had a fun discussion with @marisakabas.bsky.social on the podcast about the life of an independent journalist these days.

Techdirt @techdirt.com · 16h

Techdirt Podcast Episode 434: The New Generation Of Independent Journalists

Support us on Patreon » Techdirt recently passed its 28th anniversary as an independent online media outlet. Once, it looked like such outlets might take over, but then most were scooped up by traditional media or grew…

Techdirt Podcast Episode 434: The New Generation Of Independent Journalists

Support us on Patreon » Techdirt recently passed its 28th anniversary as an independent online media outlet. Once, it looked like such outlets might take over, but then most were scooped up by traditional media or grew into more traditional companies themselves. But now we're seeing a new generation emerge, especially via newsletters on platforms like Substack, and one such journalist is…

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

there are a couple of ways to think about this, one is that no one should be running for their first senate race at this age, and the other is that if platner can’t beat her, he definitely can’t beat collins. i think he can. everybody needs to stop crying and start fighting.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

Janet Mills going to the Senate at 79 would make her the oldest elected freshman senator in history — but just as old as or younger than 1 in 9 senators serving in this congress. www.pbump.net/o/a-79-year-...

A 79 year-old freshman senator would be … unusual

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has announced her intention to run for Senate against the state's well-known — ahem — incumbent, Susan Collins. When the next Senate term begins in January 2027, Collins wil...

www.pbump.net

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Jeffries: "I remind all of these corrupt individuals, these sycophants -- the statute of limitations is five years. The American people want accountability, deserve accountability, and will get accountability."

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 11h

Yep. Can verify.

Cop had already separated the carbon copies of ticket (for expired inspection) and handed client his copy.

Client stuffed ticket into his visor, and cop took issue.

Kept yelling at him to sign the ticket again using his "real signature" then arrested him.

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 16h

i had a client once who was arrested because the cop insisted his signature was a fake signature. he watched the guy sign the summons and insisted he was ... faking a signature?

we lost

T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 17h

This is yet another reminder that the "you can just walk around with your papers and be fine!" is a lie: the cops routinely claim whatever documentation you provide is invalid

It's racism all the way down

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Tomb Hellton @tvhilton.bsky.social · 10h

Just so I’m clear on this, it’s a bad thing to say “I love Hitler”, right?

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 12h

Lol, fired for being dumb enough to put it in print

Staten Island Republican fires chief of staff over alleged text comments, including ‘I love Hitler’

The alleged texts exchanged via Telegram chats among young Republican leaders was obtained by Politico over a seven month period.

www.silive.com

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Jerry Newmark @jerryn13.bsky.social · 10h

And that's a final, 2-1 #USMNT. Other than the early mistake, a pretty solid showing. Overall, the squad looks better than it has since Pochettino took over.

Jerry Newmark @jerryn13.bsky.social · 11h

A little trickeration with the quick free kick and Wright gets another. #USMNT 2-1.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

no surprise here, jd vance has a vested interest in being able to be an open nazi in american politics

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 13h

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wmj3.bsky.social @wmj3.bsky.social · 11h

Gotta wonder if Vance shared this passage with Usha and the kids.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 12h

Inflatable-frog wreckers and saboteurs to be held to account, vows Andrey Vyshinsky’s reincarnation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

AG Bondi: "We're gonna get to the funding of antifa, we're gonna get to the root of antifa, and we're gonna find and charge all of those people who are causing this chaos in Portland and all these other cities across our country."

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 11h

Let’s think about why this is obvious bullshit.

1. ICE is not going after cartels.

2. The confusion ICE, DHS, and CBP are causing is actually good for cartels; the administration has diverted FBI to rounding up random brown ppl rather than investigating complex crime.

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 13h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Jerry Newmark @jerryn13.bsky.social · 11h

Into the half 1-1 for #USMNT but the story is gonna be the referee - if he doesn't get the game under control, this will be a really ugly second half.

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Jerry Newmark @jerryn13.bsky.social · 11h

That's better. Nice finish from Wright on a sharp feed from Roldan. #USMNT ties it up at 1 all.

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Jerry Newmark @jerryn13.bsky.social · 11h

Oy. The defensive breakdown we've come to expect from the #USMNT. Aus up 1-0

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 13h

this is so flagrantly unconstitutional that i actually felt compelled to go back and re-read the first amendment to make sure it still prohibits "abridging the freedom of speech"

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

I’m a subscriber to The Onion print edition and trust me, the ads alone are worth it

Fake Apple ad

Remember when those
Chinese factory workers were all committing suicide?
Neither do we!

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