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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 37m

Feels like we’ve seen this one before

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of two microphones in front of a plane .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of two microphones in front of a plane .

media.tenor.com

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 9h

ICE agents interfered with—and even threatened to “shoot and arrest”—emergency personnel rescuing an injured protester last week in Portland.

The agent “pointed his finger at me in a threatening manner,” the driver recalled, “and began viciously yelling in my face.

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ICE Agent Threatens to Shoot Ambulance Driver Helping Protester

Federal agents swarmed an ambulance crew to prevent them from taking an injured protester to the hospital.

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Red @deanquinn.bsky.social · 10h

The first rule of coup is never let them see you sweat. Johnson is sweating.

JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 20h

Trump is in the Epstein Files.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

OOPSIE DAISY. The entire republican party is just a gaggle of sex pests.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11h

A judge has issued a restraining order against Republican Rep. Cory Mills after he was accused by a former girlfriend of threatening to circulate sexually explicit videos of her.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 11h

Anyway here's a picture of Mike Lawler hanging out with one of the Young Republicans who suggested putting their political opponents in gas chambers

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 11h

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 11h

a cartoon character with the words mission accomplished written below him

ALT: a cartoon character with the words mission accomplished written below him

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 12h

It’s a concept of a plan.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12h

This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a ceasefire. Why is the media calling it a peace plan?

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 16h

🖕It's always the fucking oligarchs 🤨

JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 16h

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🧊✈️🤨 SEATTLE 👀

👉 A creepy white Avelo 737 on ICE charter duty arrives to pick up human cargo at Seattle's Boeing Field.

It will be serviced by Signature Aviation, whose owners include Bill Gates.

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La Resistencia @laresistencianw.bsky.social · 14h

Here is today's report from La Resistencia team observing the deportation flights at King County Airport.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 14h

The kids aren’t alright 😬

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h

Leaked messages from leaders of Young Republican groups obtained by Politico:

They referred to Black people as monkeys and "the watermelon people" and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

www.politico.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

Instead of working to get the government open and pay our troops and air traffic controllers and helping his constituents keep their health plans, Mike Johnson has been tasked with helping Trump get the Nobel next year.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

Just now— @SpeakerJohnson announces he will lead a global pressure campaign to get the narcissist-in-chief a Nobel Prize next year

(Also revealing he doesn’t understand what “objective facts” are)

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 14h

Trump just bombed six more people in the Caribbean, for a total of 27 civilians who have been killed so far by the US military. It’s illegal for the military to target civilians who do not pose an immediate threat. This is murder.

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h

Conservative Justices: parents have total rights to know their children's gender identity and any school which interferes with their desire to police and control such identity violates the Constitution. Also, it's completely cool if States make it illegal for a parent to give gender-affirming care.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 21h

Alito, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch, suggest that public schools violate the Constitution when they help a student transition (by acknowledging them as trans) without their parents' knowledge or consent.

Would force schools to out trans kids to their parents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
JONATHAN LEE, ET AL. v. POUDRE
SCHOOL DISTRICT R–1
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED
STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT
No. 25–89. Decided October 14, 2025
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Statement of JUSTICE ALITO, with whom JUSTICE
THOMAS and JUSTICE GORSUCH join, respecting the denial
of certiorari.
I concur in the denial of certiorari because petitioners do
not challenge the ground for the ruling below. But I remain
concerned that some federal courts are “tempt[ed]” to avoid
confronting a “particularly contentious constitutional questio[n]”: whether a school district violates parents’ fundamental rights “when, without parental knowledge or consent, it encourages a student to transition to a new gender
or assists in that process.” Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School Dist., 604 U. S. ___,
___–___ (2024) (ALITO, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari) (slip op., at 1–2) (citing Troxel v. Granville, 530 U. S.
57, 70 (2000) (plurality opinion)). Petitioners tell us that
nearly 6,000 public schools have policies—as respondent allegedly does—that purposefully interfere with parents’ access to critical information about their children’s genderidentity choices and school personnel’s involvement in and
influence on those choices. Pet. for Cert. 24. The troubling—and tragic—allegations in this case underscore the
“great and growing national importance” of the question
that these parent petitioners present. Parents Protecting
Our Children, 604 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 1).

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14h

Cartoon by @edwexler.bsky.social.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 14h

They’ll do it in writing. They don’t want him up there speaking in person.

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Cheryl B. @cherylbrown30.bsky.social · 15h

This is important, it has to do with the Epstein Files, Russian mob recruitment in the 90’s in Silicon Valley, CA and now Project 2025 Human/child trafficking. It is all connected! @devincow.bsky.social @meiselasb.bsky.social @muellershewrote.com @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social

JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 15h

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📣 ICYMI: Yes, Bill Gates is an owner of Signature Aviation, which services ICE Air flights at airports across the country. www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-g...

Donald Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda Has A Surprising Stakeholder: Bill Gates

One of the billionaire's investments has become a linchpin in the day-to-day machinery of Trump’s immigration enforcement apparatus.

www.huffpost.com

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 15h

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🧊✈️⚠️ HEADS UP LAS VEGAS‼️

👉 ICE Air inbound to LAS

Avelo 737 – Tail: N801XT 👀

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 18h

“We need everyone to get involved in the fight, and we need everyone to have a vested interest in continuing to resist.”

🚨 new from me 🚨

ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.

How Local Organizing, Community Defense and Security Culture Protect Us in Ways Technology Never Could

ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.

“Despite the app’s goal of protecting people from ICE, its viral success, and the state repression against it, ICEBlock has serious issues: Most

www.counterpunch.org

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 16h

I have five words for Republican Senators. www.youtube.com/live/8oJvw7F...

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 15h

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📣 ICYMI: Yes, Bill Gates is an owner of Signature Aviation, which services ICE Air flights at airports across the country. www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-g...

Donald Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda Has A Surprising Stakeholder: Bill Gates

One of the billionaire's investments has become a linchpin in the day-to-day machinery of Trump’s immigration enforcement apparatus.

www.huffpost.com

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 16h

🖕It's always the fucking oligarchs 🤨

JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 16h

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🧊✈️🤨 SEATTLE 👀

👉 A creepy white Avelo 737 on ICE charter duty arrives to pick up human cargo at Seattle's Boeing Field.

It will be serviced by Signature Aviation, whose owners include Bill Gates.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 16h

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🧊✈️🤨 SEATTLE 👀

👉 A creepy white Avelo 737 on ICE charter duty arrives to pick up human cargo at Seattle's Boeing Field.

It will be serviced by Signature Aviation, whose owners include Bill Gates.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 17h

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🧊✈️🤨 ECUADOR⛓️🇪🇨

👉 A GlobalX Airbus 321 (tail: N277GX) has departed Honduras on an ICE mission to Ecuador 👀

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

> @governor.ca.gov

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