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

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

"The liberty and security of our fellow citizens is our great object, and not the prompt execution of the laws. Indecision, delay, blunders, nay villainous actions in the administration of government, are trifles compared to legalizing the full exertion of a tyrannical disposition."

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 16h

Grimace is famously made of the same stuff as Sno Ball snack cakes, i.e. an unstable mix of marshmallow and anti-marshmallow. If you bite into him, you run the risk of either having a delightful taste of marshmallow/coconut or destroying the known universe.

A cutaway image of a Hostess Sno Ball snack cake, a pink half sphere cake with marshmallow coating encasing chocolate cake with cream filling.

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 1d

When my kids were born in NYC I swore I’d never make them root for a lost cause team like my then-Washington Redskins under scumbag owner Dan Snyder. So that ruled out the Jets. Deep personal hatred ruled out the Giants. TL;DR my son is a Packers fan and my daughter hates football. #HTTC

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

I am begging the NFL to never put my favorite team on national or international TV ever again. Only 1 p.m. games where we can be buried in the octobox. Please allow me to suffer in private
rodgersherman.substack.com/p/please-sto...

PLEASE stop putting my team on national TV

The Jets' passing offense went Actually Backwards. PLUS, Lions trick plays are breaking century-old rules, Rico Dowdle fulfilled his promise to pants the Cowboys, and more!

rodgersherman.substack.com

loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe there’s a battle of ideas within the household. Like a house in my neighborhood that flies a UMich and Ohio State flag from 2 different windows?

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 1d

I was just saying the same thing about sniffing glue.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently Trump is “. . . a president at the height of his popularity”? With whom, Politico? Not Americans. Not Europeans. Not Africans. Not Asians. Not Aussies. Not Antarctic penguins. Baffling statement.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 1d

Nah, she’s on a book tour. It has nothing to do with any pressure to justify the court’s actions and everything to do with boosting book sales.

loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 1d

His favorite cause.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

This Is Fascism

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 2d

Really grim

Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 2d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 2d

NYT implies GOP members of Congress will suffer politically when their constituents lose their health insurance, but the GOP districts identified as most impacted in this article are also in deeply gerrymandered states where members of Congress are mostly insulated from any threat to their seats.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 2d

You’ll want to start with a good exorcist . . .

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 4d

Let’s hope the administration listens.

Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 4d

Yesterday, Vanderbilt's faculty senate enacted a resolution condemning the Trump "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" as an illegal, unconstitutional infringement on civil rights and academic freedom, and an unacceptable infringement on institutional independence.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 5d

Love to see it.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure I’d call Nashville (or anywhere) “Upland South.” Growing up there it was always mid-South or Cumberland Valley.

loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 6d

This keeps getting worse.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 6d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 6d

We’re pretty cooked. No one I know seems to think there’s much to worry about and those who do are at a loss about how to convince everyone else otherwise without coming across as totally paranoid. We need leaders speaking plainly. We need organization. I hope #NoKings ramps things up.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

Everything they are doing & saying right now is very obviously meant to clear the way for mass repressive violence.

Fact checking is not going to do shit.

Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit.

We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 7d

In light of recent vague, but precedent-busting opinions, I’m skeptical they’ll actually explain what they’re doing. At least in any way that doesn’t require years of conflict among lower courts.

loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 8d

Important warning

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8d

Read this.

open.substack.com/pub/jasonint...

There is massive incentive to play down the problem and no incentive to tell the truth

How bad could it become in the United States?

open.substack.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8d

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 9d

Completely agree-I expect this will be promptly enjoined.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 9d

They’re ultimately Christian Nationalists. The outgroup will be anyone who disagrees with that worldview. The hierarchies of those systems will decide who does menial labor. But as with all budding autocracies, I’d expect them to designate and attack enemies serially rather than collectively.

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