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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4h

Remember, the Holocaust didn’t start with gas chambers in Auschwitz.

It started with politicians dividing the people with “us vs. them”.

It started with intolerance and hate speech.

It started when people stopped caring, became desensitized, and turned a blind eye.

Remember.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 2h

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 4h

Federal court (after six years!) rules on and dismisses Gavin McInnes' lawsuit against the @splcenter.org

The case sought to declare it defamatory to say McInnes and the Proud Boys are "extremists," "far-right," a "hate group", or "white supremacists."

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Aside from what is actually alleged in the complaint
(including materials adopted in it) , which is all the
court may look at, see Coral Ridge, 6 F.4th at 1253,
Mcinnes's briefing returns to the same losing refrain: the Proud Boys says it is not a hate group; SPLC
acknowledges that the Proud Boys says it is not a hate
group and that the group contends that it has engaged in
non-hateful activity; therefore, SPLC acted with actual
malice in describing it as a hate group. Under this
flawed formulation, any published statement denied by a
public figure is, by virtue of that denial, published
with actual malice.
squarely rejected.

The Eleventh Circuit has noted that "there is a
fair debate about whether the term hate group is
definable in such a way that it is provable as false" and
that the "debate is complicated [further] by the fact
that SPLC put its own definition of the term on its
website." Coral. Ridge, 6 F.4th at 1252 n.7. This court
need not resolve at this time the questions posed in that
debate. But if it had to, it has already found that
SPLC's hate group designation was not provable as false
because "there is no single, commonly understood meaning
of the term 'hate group'" from which to test the label's
veracity. Coral. Ridge, 406 F. Supp. 3d 1258, 1274 (M.D.
Ala. 2019) (Thompson, J.).
The underlying issue highlighted throughout
Mcinnes' s arguments is that SPLC has amassed too much
influence over social media companies. This is neither
here nor there. It has been said that the film critic
Roger Ebert could make or break a film's financial...

success in three words or less. Ebert could have declared
that "The Godfather" was a hateful, misogynistic, deeply
racist film and that could have ruined the film's boxoffice.
But that would not, by fiat of Ebert' s influence,
make his judgment-based opinion a fact. That is, Ebert
calling the movie hateful does not make the movie, in
fact, hateful.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

Full opinion here. Effectively a total loss for the admin, although the 7th Circuit does continue to permit the Trump admin to federalize the National Guard. They just can't be deployed to do anything in Illinois. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 5h

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 7d

James Comey, Letticia James,....

(from the archives)

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 3h

John Bolton indicted...

(and if this doesn't concern you, it should)

Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 7d

James Comey, Letticia James,....

(from the archives)

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2h

“We compiled and reviewed every case we could find of agents holding citizens against their will, whether during immigration raids or protests. While the tally is almost certainly incomplete, we found more than 170 such incidents during the first nine months of [the Trump administration].”

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2h

“Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.“

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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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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A Dandelion @onedandelion.bsky.social · 22h

10/15/25 She's back home✨
🎥 @oregonian
youtube.com/shorts/GV0KX...

Band’s clarinet player speaks out after her federal arrest

YouTube video by The Oregonian

youtube.com

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

An important additional detail: Most of the Unpresidented Band to which Korol belongs perform IN BANANA COSTUMES

This shit is indeed bananas

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Chris Neyland @chrisneyland.bsky.social · 19h

Thread on the fall of the Republic

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

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Chris Neyland @chrisneyland.bsky.social · 10h

The Republican cult has sanctioned Dear Leader breaking such laws as not spending Congressionally approved money, spending it on things it can’t be spent on, selling pardons, selling access to Medicare rules, renting the White House for private functions, stealing documents, firing the bureaucracy…

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 11h

Way too many people seem convinced that the day Trump dies all this somehow goes away.

People will snap out of it. No one will be able to harness his base.

I think this is simply wrong. But I also think Trump will still be “speaking” to MAGA after he’s gone.

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Torr 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · Aug 2

“Lesotho’s govt declared a state of disaster in July as Trump’s looming 50% tariffs devastated the country’s textile industry.”

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11h

The tiny African nation of Lesotho had victories in its HIV fight. Then, the US aid cuts came. Now Lesotho’s care system is crumbling. Clinics shut down, workers were let go, and patients stopped treatment. Experts are sounding alarms.

In Lesotho, US aid cuts leave people living with HIV in limbo

Lesotho, once with the world’s second-highest HIV rate, faces a health crisis as U.S. aid cuts dismantle vital HIV treatment programs, leaving patients without care.

bit.ly

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12h

The first Jim Crow was enacted under the auspices that racism is a necessity and a great and natural moral good.

The second one is being enacted under the auspices that racism doesn’t exist if you claim you don’t see it and anyone who questions your motives about that is oppressing you.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 13h

"Diorama of power dynamics." Beyond euphemism, that is glib glorification of dictatorship. The #BrokenTimes would rather show off its turn of phrase than call fascism what it is.
Oval Office Becomes a Diorama of Power Dynamics as Trump Goes After Rivals www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Oval Office Becomes a Diorama of Power Dynamics as Trump Goes After Rivals

www.nytimes.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11h

This is how The Boston Globe chooses to frame the kidnapping of a local teenager.

Remarkably swift passage of Everett teen into deportation system showcases ICE reach and efficiency

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Al Jazeera Arabic sources are disputing Israeli claims that the body handed over was not a soldier. The sources say the body is of a soldier for Israel that was taken captive by resistance fighters in Jabalia in May of last year.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Channel 12: The fourth body that Hamas transferred to Israel last night is not of an Israeli captive but of a Palestinian.

The fourth body that Hamas transferred to Israel last night - not of a hostage but of a Gazan @yaronavraham

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

🔴 In the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an additional 25 killed (16 of whom were recovered from the rubble) and 35 injured arriving at hospitals.

This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to 67,938 and 170,169 injuries (likely 3-5x higher)

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d