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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1h

This is shameful and un-American. The people have a right to ask what their military is doing, and we shouldn’t have to buy just the official line.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1h

Big news here: the White House has backed down from shutting down I-5 this weekend following our reporting last night.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 56m

I share Mr. Homan’s fear of violence. But he is wrong on the source. It’s not political rhetoric; it’s this admin’s radical shift away from basic law enforcement principles and towards an aggressive “mass deportation” agenda focused more on creating content than on public safety.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Homan: "If the hateful rhetoric continues, there will be bloodshed. People are going to die ... there is going to be more bloodshed unless this hateful rhetoric stops."

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 54m

People who self-register as fuckwads, tired of being treated like fuckwads

Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 3h

Treat yourself to this incredible photo essay/interview series with Cybertruck owners from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social. Will put my favorite part in a reply below because it is a SPOILER.

Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck

“We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they're proud to drive it.

www.wired.com

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 1h

I'm sure on Bluesky this will get a lot of "of COURSE" or "no duh" responses, but: at least out there in the real world, pointing out to people that ICE makes *every* man who loves tacti-cool and operator culture look like a Fucking Coward is...helpful.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 53m

Here's how ProPublica categorizes the 170 US citizens ICE has kidnapped. 50 Kavanaugh stops and 120 cases where ICE claimed they were assaulted, usually (IMO) after assaulting the person in question.

Remember that 2 of the electeds--Ras Baraka and Brad Lander--were arrested DURING their election.

We reviewed more than 170 cases overall, which we sorted into two categories.

The first is Americans who were held because agents questioned their citizenship. We found more than 50 such cases. The second category is Americans arrested by immigration agents after being accused of assaulting or impeding officers at protests or during immigration arrests of others. In that category, we tallied about 130 Americans, including more than a dozen elected officials. In many of these cases, the government never charged these individuals or the cases were dismissed.

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Michelle likes democracy. @democracymichelle.bsky.social · 5h

Meals on Wheels San Antonio to suspend meal delivery services for hundreds due to funding cut

Meals on Wheels San Antonio, a nonprofit that delivers meals to homebound residents in the San Antonio area, announced it will suspend meal delivery services for hundreds of clients starting the week ...

www.ksat.com

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 3h

So the feds have now directed states NOT to send out November SNAP benefits.

A whole bunch of people are going to go hungry this Thanksgiving.

FUCK THAT HEARTLESS DUDE!

All he does is hurt people.

If you haven’t donated to a food bank recently, now is a good time to start.

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Mark Wright @jmarkwrite.bsky.social · 1h

I am going to start saying ravelled! I love it.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 4h

Churches showing an AI Charlie Kirk telling congregants, through an artificial voice, not to let evil win is a new level of instrumentalizing the dead.

When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 4h

I wrote about how MAGA is being shaped by a politics of immortality, how Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom reflects this, and what it could mean for the future of Trumpism. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...

The Last Enemy Is Death: Prophetic Visions, AI Slop, and How the Politics of Immortality Could Shape Our Future

How mystics and transhumanists force the dead to speak on behalf of their politics.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 10h

oretta, m.n: one who strives, a combatant, warrior, champion. (OR-et-ta / ˈɔ-rɛt-ta)
Image: Vincent of Beauvais’s Speculum historiale; France, c. 1294-1297; Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 130II, f. 319v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD

Medieval manuscript image of a rabbit walking on its hind legs, holding a circular shield in one forepaw and a giant sword in the other.

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Mark Wright @jmarkwrite.bsky.social · 2h

How did so many people vote for this demented f*cking clown?

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 9h

“The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’s cuts.”

Lack of weather data due to Trump’s budget cuts impacted forecast for deadly Alaska storm | CNN

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...

edition.cnn.com

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 5h

You don't find out until the 12th paragraph of this story that what Trump is doing is illegal. Just from a newsworthiness standpoint, how do you not lead with that? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump is opting some of the government out of the shutdown

The administration is finding ways to pay troops and for government work Trump favors while targeting “Democrat programs” for layoffs or closures.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project

If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.

slate.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

What Trump is doing is very bad. But I want to push back against some of the numbers here.

ICE did not hire 10,000 agents. It WANTS to. That it keeps running ads suggests it is struggling. And when it does, it seems to cannibalize local police, who don't like that.

More significantly:

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 2d

"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 13h

Un-presidented brass band at city hall in Portland tonight celebrating the release of their clarinet player from federal custody

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 5h

If the United States refuses to bail out my government, I’m going to become an even bigger libertarian.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 5h

Somewhat paradoxically, the acute danger to the democratic order results from exactly this process of democratization and liberalization, as reactionary forces are feeling under siege, which fuels their anti-democratic radicalization and increasingly open embrace of authoritarianism.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 5h

It is in many ways the traditional norm of white Christian patriarchal dominance that is experiencing a crisis and is under threat to be finally upended by an actualized egalitarian, multiracial, pluralistic democracy.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 5h

This isn’t the whole story, of course – but if it’s not at the core of your story, you’re on the wrong track.

Add “Once democracy made it possible for women to threaten patriarchal domination and for queer people to publicly affirm their identity” – and we’re already very, very close.

Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 4d

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 5h

If the Supreme Court just calls balls and strikes yesterday’s oral arguments about the Voting Rights Act was as if Louisiana threw a wild pitch into the stands and the conservative Justices called it a strike and the liberal Justices said you’ve got to be kidding

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 21h

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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