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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 11h

Playing political favorites without oversight or scrutiny

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 12h

Important: this is exactly how propagandists operate.

Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 1d

NEW:

A dramatic voiceover video the White House and Donald Trump shared last week claiming to show "chaos" in Chicago is littered with outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska, California and Arizona, an AFP investigation found.

factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 18h

If a responsible journalist would just ask: “what’s the goal?”

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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 19h

Exactly right. Tell the individuals’ stories - good or bad.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

I know this is a very difficult story to report … but finding out whatever we can about these people being killed in extrajudicial executions at sea seems like a pretty high priority right now.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

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...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

The three major airports near New York City have joined Los Angeles, Phoenix, Seattle, Portland, Charlotte, Cleveland, and Buffalo.

Newark, JFK, LaGuardia will decline to play Kristi Noem’s politicized TSA video - New Jersey Globe

Three major airports in the New York City area – Newark Liberty International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport –

newjerseyglobe.com

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Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration has required the National Symphony Orchestra to play the national anthem before every concert. I like our anthem as much as the next guy (probably more). But -- is this patriotism? Or something else? The issue leads my column today. www.jaynordlinger.com/p/standing-f...

Standing for America, &c.

On the national anthem before every concert; the Riyadh Comedy Festival; the evil of Russia in Ukraine; a glimpse of Seamus Heaney; and more

www.jaynordlinger.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 1d

"States with unified Republican governments would likely try to eliminate most or all of their minority-opportunity districts, since doing so would no longer violate Section 2," said Stephanopoulos, who filed a brief defending the Voting Rights Act.

Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 1d

The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to hear a Republican-led challenge to the Voting Rights Act, giving its conservative majority a chance to deal another blow to the landmark federal law enacted 60 years ago to prevent racial discrimination in voting.

Voting Rights Act faces pivotal test at US Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to hear a Republican-led challenge to the Voting Rights Act, giving its conservative majority a chance to deal another blow to the landmark federal law enacted 60 years ago to prevent racial discrimination in voting.

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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 2d

If these were normal times, the ability to access private data unencrypted would be a huge story.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 2d

Researchers used an off-the-shelf system to compile a vast collection of private data, including T-Mobile users' calls and texts, sent by satellites unencrypted (Wired)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 2d

One of the greatest sequences in American film. youtu.be/_EMok49rTw8

My Cousin Vinny (1992) - The Defense Is Wrong

YouTube video by Gianna Gould

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

They’re not. This is what you get when you have an agency with effectively no accountability.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3d

“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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 3d

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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Tariff money is not a Trump Regime slush fund. It is tax money deposited into the US treasury and Congress has sole authority over the appropriation of tax dollars.

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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 3d

I’ll let you handle the arrest

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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 4d

100% 👇

Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 4d

Preview of Sunday’s ‘To the Contrary” Podcast w/ David French: Why Should ICE Agents Get Special Anonymity?

Subscribe to get the full video when it's released.

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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 5d

That’s a pretty cringy email

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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 5d

"To my friends, everything; to my enemies, the law."

Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 5d

Worth noting that the Trump Org did actually engage in fraudulent loan applications

"On February 16, 2024, Engoron found that: "In order to borrow more and at lower rates, defendants submitted blatantly false financial data to the accountants, resulting in fraudulent financial statements."

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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 6d

“This is exactly the moment for people to stand up. And do I see enough people doing it? No, I don’t. It shouldn’t be that there are Democrats that are afraid, because you know what? We’re the targets. We need to be strong, we need to fight back.”

Thank you, @govpritzker.illinois.gov!

JB Pritzker Has Had It With Democrats Who Won’t Stand Up to Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 5d

The Nobel Committee has awarded this year's peace prize to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2025/p

Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

www.nobelprize.org

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