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No Sunk Costs @nosunkcosts.bsky.social · 5h

Disney+ in freefall

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

“law-breaking”

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 2h

By proceeding with the demolition of the White House East Wing before seeking approval from federal agencies for a new ballroom, President Donald Trump forced the issue. It's a strategy known as "stake-driving."

How Trump Demolished the White House East Wing

By putting the demolition of the East Wing before the necessary approvals for his ballroom, President Donald Trump borrowed a tactic known as “stake-driving” to force an outcome.

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 19h

it's important to remember the people doing this aren't "just following orders," they signed up to do this, they're excited to do it, it's what they want to be doing, and each one of them is personally culpable for the entirety of ICE's conduct

The Weekend: Primetime @theweekendprime.bsky.social · 19h

In video provided exclusively to MSNBC's The Weekend: Primetime, immigration agents are seen attempting to pull a man out a window of a Chicago home. Agents also jumped a fence into the locked backyard and manhandled people doing work. Hear from the homeowner tonight on The Weekend: Primetime.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h

How George Will describes the unlawful arrest of George Retes in the Bezos Post.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The ICEmen were presumably looking for undocumented immigrants. Retes’s driver’s license, which he says the ICEmen never asked to see, identifies him as “Veteran Army.” His license plate includes “DV”: disabled veteran. While ICE’s warriors were trying and ultimately succeeding in smashing his driver’s-side window (the better to pepper spray him), they apparently did not notice his rear window’s “Iraq Combat Veteran” sticker.

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Dr. Merri 🐸 @merri24.bsky.social · 1d

This won’t be popular, but if professional athletes would go on strike, it might help wake America up. They don’t listen to any group more than they listen to professional athletes.
I mentioned this in January and got a lot of hate for it.

I also support a national economic shutdown/strike

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Geoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · 14h

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15h

Rule of Law Alert: Trump’s authority for country-specific tariffs comes from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which doesn’t mention tariffs—but does require a national emergency.

An ad showing that Reagan opposed tariffs surely is not a national emergency. (It may be a personal one)

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15h

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk.

I had it exactly backward.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h

signs like these are up all over Chicago cafes and storefronts (here, cafes in Brighton Park and Back of the Yards) warning ICE not to enter without a judicial warrant

Glass storefront door in Brighton Park, with sign in English and Spanish, reading: ATTENTION ICE/CBP
AGENTS
STOP
YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED ENTRANCE INTO THIS BUSINESS WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT
ATENCION AGENTES DE
ICE/CBP
STOP
NO SE LE PERMITE LA ENTRADA A ESTE NEGOCIO SIN UNA ORDEN
JUDICIAL VALIDA

Glass storefront door with sign reading:

PRIVATE PROPERTY
NO ICE

YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ENTER NON-PUBLIC AREAS OF THIS SPACE
WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT SIGNED BY A FEDERAL JUDGE

and a second sign:
PLEASE USE DOOR
ON 47TH ST.
BACK OF THE YARDS

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

Arguments already getting re-written. 🤡

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h

Mike Johnson has dissolved Congress. Why?

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 1d

"The U.S. military should not be turned into a privately-funded militia."

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2h

The real danger is what happens when you get a competent dictator, like Hitler appeared to be in the 1930s.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2h

It’s very often the combination: economic pain crystallizes into moral outrage. This is pretty much what happened with Nixon.

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 3h

I have said this on multiple occasions, but it won’t be the Epstein list that removes him from power.

It will be the economic pain.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 7h

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2h

“Trump may be bad, but those people who always criticize him, they’re so annoying!”

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 16h

Anti-Anti-Trump still going strong.

AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 17h

Can't believe this is real

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2h

Given his obsession with the Nobel Prize, I’m surprised that Trump hasn’t revived his idea of signing a formal peace treaty with North Korea, to officially end the war. Maybe he has.

Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 2h

[Exclusive] "North Korea is repairing and beautifying the Pyongyang-Kaesong Expressway"...Is Kim Jong-un preparing to visit Panmunjom? - Maeil Business Newspaper www.mk.co.kr/news/politic...

[단독]“북한, 평양~개성고속도로 보수·미화작업”...김정은 판문점行 준비하나 - 매일경제

미북정상회담 대비 나선 듯 길이170㎞ 4차선 고속도로 평양서 판문점까지 연결 최선희 러시아 전격 방문 미북회담 양해구할 수도

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 1h

He’s worth half a billion. Levels of tone deaf beyond comprehension.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Bessent on American farmers being hurt by tariffs: "Martha, in case you don't know it, I'm actually a soybean farmer, so I have felt this pain too."

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

Quote from Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million to the U.S. military, so you know who we’re dealing with:

“Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the "Establishment" to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations”.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 23h

Is it too early to ask: What if Congress never meets again? What if the President just decides by himself, with the help of private donors, what he wants to spend money on or not?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 23h

More from the scene

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the Ronald Reagan ad from Canada that Trump calls "fake."

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 16h

Indigenous nations plan customs-free trade corridor across Canada-US border #Canada #USA

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paherald.sk.ca/indigenous-n...

Indigenous nations plan customs-free trade corridor across Canada-US border - Prince Albert Daily Herald

Sonal GuptaLocal Journalism Initiative ReporterCanada's National Observer Just west of Fort Qu’Appelle in Saskatchewan, the Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation is working across the US border to revive cen...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14h

This is several days old. But amidst so much else id missed it. That’s a stunning number. No wonder they about-faced. Reminder of the power of consumers in oligarch era, not subject to the same kind of targeting.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

Did Trump add a mirror to the West Colonnade to stare at himself?

Photo showing the West Colonnade at the White House with Trump walking and a large gold mirror in the background. There's tacky gold decorations on the wall as well.

From the Flickr description: President Donald Trump walks on the West Colonnade to the Oval Office after a roundtable event launching the Homeland Security Task Force, Thursday, October 23, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/54876117132/

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 13h

This ICE removal trip operated by Omni Air International just landed in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Migrant passengers onboard have now been shackled at their wrists, ankles and waists for 40 hours.

This is the second ICE removal to Cambodia in six weeks. The other one was also operated by Omni.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 21h

This ICE removal operated by Omni Air International is now making its second stop, in Sri Lanka. So far, migrants onboard have spent 34 hours in handcuffs, leg irons and a waist chain. There may be more stops.

Omni and its parent company were purchased in April by private equity firm Stonepeak.

An ADSBx map of South Asia showing the flight path of Omni aircraft N819AX. It flew east, landed in New Delhi, then flew south and is approacing Colombo, Sir Lanka.

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