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Lee Drake @leedrake.bsky.social · 2h

Chinese hacker typing furiously:

“Excellent point! As the east side of Taiwan is closest to Mainland China, that will almost certainly be the disembarkation point for Chinese troops. You should definitely concentrate troops there!”

New York Post @nypost.com · 9h

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

Maj. Gen. William "Hank" Taylor told reporters that he's been using ChatGPT to refine how he makes choices affecting thousands of troops.

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Lee Drake @leedrake.bsky.social · 7h

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 10h

ICE admits up to 50% of those arrested in Chicago raids are “collateral.” That means parents torn from kids, neighbors ripped from homes. When does a “collateral” child’s trauma matter? This isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored terror.

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Lee Drake @leedrake.bsky.social · 9h

So what crime were the American children suffering from cancer charged with before being arrested?

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 9h

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...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

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...

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 9h

This is a huge scandal, one of the worst in modern law enforcement and something that is astoundingly unconstitutional and illegal.

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 9h

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...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

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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Lee Drake @leedrake.bsky.social · 13h

They voted for a criminal president to commit crimes. Our lives got significantly worse last November, and I don’t see an off-ramp.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

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Lee Drake @leedrake.bsky.social · 1d

Martin Luther King Jr: I have a dream.

John Roberts: I will take it away.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

John Roberts is a white supremacist who has made it his specific life’s work to make it harder for black people to vote, and when they do, to make their votes count less than white people’s. Just because he looks like a genteel northeasterner doesn’t mean he doesn’t have the soul of Bull Connor.

CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 1d

reading transcripts from today, and wow ... the VRA is absolutely fuckin toast. John Roberts is 100% gonna be the one to personally drive the dagger through its heart, too.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

unfortunately it would make a lot of sense for this to be the spur that causes the key institutions and players within the D party to accept that the only hope for the party - and the country - is a third reconstruction.

Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social · 1d

If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act falls, Democrats might need to win the national popular vote by 5 to 6 points to take control of the House, via Nate Cohn
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 1d

Ukrainian media report that two 16-year-old boys from Melitopol were tortured to death while in Russian captivity.

Danylo Dakhov and Pavlo Hrymak were detained in August 2023, accused of involvement in the sabotage movement "Black Sabotage."

suspilne.media/zaporizhzhia...

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Lee Drake @leedrake.bsky.social · 1d

I got to know Jeremy in college. He remains one of the most impressive people I have every met.

JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

New Jersey’s SG, Jeremy Feigenbaum, is a really impressive advocate

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

New Jersey’s SG, Jeremy Feigenbaum, is a really impressive advocate

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Lee Drake @leedrake.bsky.social · 1d

Does this imply that Kavanaugh’s “ICE can detain anyone based on the color of the skin” ruling has a time limit too? Or is that just for the remedies of discrimination, not the act of discrimination itself?

Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 1d

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.

Lee Drake @leedrake.bsky.social · 1d

Not really though. Who was flattering and sucking up to Biden? It’s just conservative leaning.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

it wasn't enough that our cities and states already paid far more than they receive from the federal government. the people who elected trump want to steal more from us, to give to Argentina, to give to ICE, to give to billionaires. Intolerable

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 2d

Trump admin has frozen or cancelled $28 b for projects, almost all in Dem districts. Small amount of frozen funds in GOP districts are in predominately Dem states (CA, OR, WA, CO, MN, IL, NY, MD), or in predominately Dem cities (St Louis, Atlanta, Greenville) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump admin is freezing or cancelling billions of dollars in funding for projects in Democratic areas.

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Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 2d

Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way🇺🇸

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Mia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social · 2d

Autistic kids being picked up and sent off to DHS without trying to reach out to parents. Now the parents are afraid to come get him because they could be arrested by ICE. Immigration is a disability issue. www.kptv.com/2025/10/13/t...

Teen with autism who was missing for days found in federal custody

A teenager with autism who was missing for days is in federal custody.

www.kptv.com

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Lee Drake @leedrake.bsky.social · 2d

Go fasc, loose cash

Headline: Washington Post opinion section is wholly “conservative” now

Washington post readership down to < 100k

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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

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Lee Drake @leedrake.bsky.social · 2d

Just came back from a conference at the Library of Alexandria. Somehow, we got away with this

Stuffy listening to talks attentively in Alexandria.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 2d

god no, no, this can’t be happening

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D’Angelo Reportedly Dead At 51

Further details on D’Angelo's death remain unclear after news of the iconic singer's passing became public on Tuesday.

www.hotnewhiphop.com

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Lee Drake @leedrake.bsky.social · 2d

No nutritional value? For those who drink 2+ cups a day, it contributes up to 10% of their daily intake of potassium.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2d

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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