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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 13h

Let Kamala have her fucking book tour

If y'all wanted to protest her, y'all should have elected her

Stop blaming Kamala, she didn't tank the economy and send stormtroopers into US cities

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John P @johnpalkovic.bsky.social · 11h

Yes

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 21h

I mean no disrespect to Italian-Americans, you know the people whose ancestors come from a country that didn’t exist as a unified entity until 1861, 355 years after Columbus, “the Italian,” died.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12h

Someday this could be you or someone you love

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John P @johnpalkovic.bsky.social · 13h

They blamed the lack of interest on Obama and Biden and their "war on coal." 🤦‍♂️

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13d

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

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John P @johnpalkovic.bsky.social · 15h

Charles Murphy being wrong in a prediction is the least surprising thing I have read today.

John P @johnpalkovic.bsky.social · 19h

Seems like payments to protestors would leave some sort of verifiable evidence of payment. But we never see any such evidence, do we?

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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John P @johnpalkovic.bsky.social · 1d

Enrico Fermi

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John P @johnpalkovic.bsky.social · 1d

JustWatch has the answer

JustWatch - The Streaming Guide

All your streaming services in one app.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

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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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 3d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 3d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 2d

Little man Johnson does not need ONE democratic vote to pass a standalone bill to pay our military.

These are disgusting, despicable, human beings.

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John P @johnpalkovic.bsky.social · 3d

False arrest is a crime in Illinois. Yeah, I know. I am fantasizing that ICE would face consequences for their lawbreaking.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3d

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 3d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4d

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 5d

The Democrats should start every interaction with journalists or Republicans with two questions:

1. Will Trump have a brain scan by a respected third-party to document his dementia (or lack thereof)?

2. Why is Trump so focused on preventing the release of the Epstein files?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "We call them the water drugs. The drugs that come in through water. They're not coming. There are no boats anymore. Frankly, there are no fishing boats. There are no boats out there period, if you want to know the truth. Does anybody go fishing anymore?"

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John P @johnpalkovic.bsky.social · 5d

Nine Inch Nails performing Closer (E), of course

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John P @johnpalkovic.bsky.social · 5d

He would have to grow a spine first

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 6d

Whats there to struggle over? Vote for the bill to save ppls healthcare. Its very easy.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

“.. I think they are absolutely struggling to figure out how they are going to get out of this.”

@politico.com #Shutdown
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 7d

The entire country is walking on eggshells because a madman is hallucinating about crime sprees and burning cities.

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