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LauraInAlabama

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Mother, wife, sister, adventurous cook, into food preservation, avid reader - fiction and nonfiction, homemaker, former librarian, geeky woman, agnostic. Science, not “belief”.

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LauraInAlabama @laurainalabama.bsky.social · Oct 19

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18h

I sense a pardon on its way.

A tweet by Jacob Shamsian reads: “The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown. Inmates say she’s getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.”

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 19h

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes:
- inflatable frog suit
- cape
- pepper spray filter
- a thirst for the blood of the innocent
- air pump

batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

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LauraInAlabama @laurainalabama.bsky.social · 7h

Devastating! 😞

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 7h

House drifts away from land as typhoon hits Alaska

The US Coast Guard rescued two dozen people after their homes floated away from shore during the storm.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: Southeast Chicago, Tuesday October 14, 2025.

Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. If there isn’t a domestic warzone, manufacture one.

Fascism.

📸 Credit to local Chicago freelance photographer Matthew Kaplan for all these images.

A masked armed agent points a pepper gun at protestors. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

A fed Pokice officer wearing a gas masks is surrounded by smoke and it’ll about to throw a tear gas cannister. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

Around 20 masked armed agents are seen with guns drawn, surrounded by smoke, about to advance on local residents. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

A local resident is seen being knelt on and cuffed in the background as two armed Police with automatic weapons are seen standing in the foreground. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 13h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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LauraInAlabama @laurainalabama.bsky.social · 8h

You’re very welcome!

Keep up the good trouble!

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LauraInAlabama @laurainalabama.bsky.social · 9h

It’s hard to disagree with this, especially because Trump is so egomaniacal, and honestly is appearing to be sliding into a messiah complex.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16h

"I do think he needs help, and I don't think anybody around him on a day-to-day basis wants to get him any help, because they have more power based upon his diminished capacity."

@jbpritzker.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:

LauraInAlabama @laurainalabama.bsky.social · 9h

BORTAC is Border Patrol Tactical Unit. I’m going to guess that the BTC on the flag identifies them as BORTAC.

This is what Wikipedia explains:

Photo of a Wikipedia entry on BORTAC

The Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) is one of two police tactical units in the Special Operations Group, under the United States Border Patrol (USBP) that specialize in counterterrorism, high-risk tactical law enforcement situations, hostage rescue, operating in difficult to access terrain, reconnaissance, and tactical special operations.[1] In 2007, BORTAC was placed under the command of the newly formed Special Operations Group (SOG) together with the Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue (BORSTAR).[5]

LauraInAlabama @laurainalabama.bsky.social · 9h

They are terrifying because they have power, weapons, and a disdain for any and all citizens who call out their reprehensible actions.

And I agree - they’re rotten to the core if they’re willing AND eager to do this dirty work, which they are.

LauraInAlabama @laurainalabama.bsky.social · 9h

Did a quick edit - hope it’s helpful.

Journalists and photojournalists are the backbone of democracy.

Photo credits:
Anthony Vazquez/Chicago Sun-Times via AP

Photo from Chicago: masked DHS agent aiming a gun directly into a man’s face who has his hands up, pleading with him not to shoot.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12h

Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most important redistricting and voting rights case of the term. Democracy Docket isn't just covering it for the day. It has been covering this case for years.

Support its vital work to help keep you informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 12h

The funny thing is, several of these countries HAVE kings...but not ones that fuck them over.

Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 13h

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LauraInAlabama @laurainalabama.bsky.social · 11h

The operative words here are “suspected of smuggling drugs”. SUSPECTED.

Make no mistake, these are extrajudicial killings.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

LauraInAlabama @laurainalabama.bsky.social · 11h

ICE is totally out of control. They are also thoroughly unprofessional, and even if they knew what civil rights actually were, they spit on those rights.

Just remember, these monsters are getting up to $50,000 sign up bonuses and a raft of other benefits that WE pay for, including health care.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11h

As the intensity of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has risen, residents of Chicago are increasingly pushing back. Federal agents repeatedly have been observed releasing smoke bombs, tear gas and pepper balls to disperse residents who gather or capture videos.

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

Residents have begun forming volunteer groups to monitor their neighborhoods for federal immigration agents. Others honk their horns or blow whistles when they see agents nearby.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 16h

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LauraInAlabama @laurainalabama.bsky.social · 11h

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22h

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h

Cartoon by @edwexler.bsky.social.

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LauraInAlabama @laurainalabama.bsky.social · 12h

So, this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is zero self reflection on the part of Trump and his administration. It’s also a confession of what the Trump Tariffs actually are - Economically Hostile Acts against other countries AND the American people.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

First there was the Opium Wars. Now we have the Cooking Oil War.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

AG Bondi: "We're gonna get to the funding of antifa, we're gonna get to the root of antifa, and we're gonna find and charge all of those people who are causing this chaos in Portland and all these other cities across our country."

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LauraInAlabama @laurainalabama.bsky.social · 12h

Interesting that THEY are the root of the evil, eh?

LauraInAlabama @laurainalabama.bsky.social · 12h

Out-fucking-standing!!!

THIS is the outrage we need, and that I feel every single day. As an agnostic, I feel physically ill when people call themselves Christians while cheering on atrocities and then say THEY are persecuted.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

🔥 COUNTRY SINGER @bryanandrewsmusic.bsky.social : "You don't get to call yourself a Christian and laugh when families are torn apart — and think it's okay that the highest court in the land just gave a green light to ICE agents to target people because they’re brown or speaking Spanish.”

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17h

JUST GONNA ASSUME IM NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SHOCKED

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...

CNBC
There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 13h

It's not as if he had any to spare.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 14h

😭👌 she said just a little bit of brain got ate by worm so don’t worry

Vulture
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Cheryl Hines promised that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s brain worm 'ate just a little bit' of her husband's brain. 'So don't worry.
vulture.com
The Worm 'Ate Just a Little Bit' of RFK Jr.'s Brain

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LauraInAlabama @laurainalabama.bsky.social · 13h

As it should.