LoriGB
@lorigb.bsky.social
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🇺🇸🇺🇦☮️😷🌳🏔️🔵 blue girl in a red state* kindness matters* big fan of public lands, clean air & water
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Congrats to new SOUTHCOM commander Lindsey Halligan
They fired a top-level commander, the top of the chain of command but for SecDef and POTUS, because the wanton murder spree on the high seas as it's been conducted so far wasn't enough for them.
And there you have it. These strikes are clearly not legal. Pete will push commanders aside until he finds one who won’t question these extrajudicial killings. #SOUTHCOM
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In this video, I talk about how important local independent media has been in surfacing ICE abuse.

I should have included public defenders in there, too, bc with their help, these cases are crumbling.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlv...
Stephen Miller's Fever Dreams
YouTube video by emptywheel
www.youtube.com
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A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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In this northern Idaho bar, three portraits sit above the mantle: KKK grand wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest, Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce, and Charlie Kirk. But this week, they’re adding a fourth: Qatari emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
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Soooo, DOJ is just like declining to argue its own position on the merits?

This is in the shutdown RIFs TRO order.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Follow along. I’m not optimistic. Hope I’m wrong.
HAPPENING SOON: SCOTUS will hear arguments in a case that could end one of the last safeguards against racial gerrymanders, and lock in GOP control of the U.S. House for generations to come. We’ll be providing real-time court updates at the blog below👇
LIVE BLOG: Supreme Court Hears Case That Could Gut the Voting Rights Act
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
p.s. Borowitz is satire
Anyone shocked?
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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This really is the complete embodiment of women fearing rape while men fear mockery.
NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.
The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else
Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.
zeteo.com
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ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert
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here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.
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Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)
Of all the things that didn’t happen
The “war on drugs” super fueled the cartels. Made everything worse/more dangerous.
Increasing "challenges harm-reduction workers face along the border."

"[H]ypermilitarized, as we've never seen."

One study "found the 2010s military deployment in Juárez [..] 'increased drug use and health harms, including HIV risk.'"
#Texas #USA #Mexico #Policing #Drugs #Healthcare
In Juárez, a Militarized Border Makes Drug Use More Deadly
Growing security deployments pose unique challenges for harm reduction groups.
www.texasobserver.org
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Can't wait until "C'mon, 'I love Hitler' was clearly taken out of context."
He knows more about anything/everything than anybody.
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I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?
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ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.
The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
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The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.
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Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.