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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 57m

november - thanksgiving break time. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.

www.reuters.com

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 15h

"ICE officials temporarily barred immigration attorneys from the building, accused them of being fake attorneys — even after showing their State Bar Association cards — and from meeting with their clients."

St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Dozens of Northern California immigrants abruptly summoned to ICE office for weekend check-ins www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Dozens of Northern California immigrants abruptly summoned to ICE office for weekend check-ins

Several dozen people reported to the Stockton office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Saturday afternoon after receiving summons, immigrant advocates said.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 3h

Steve Bannon is a troll trying to normalize the next coup attempt.

Newsweek @newsweek.com · 4h

Bannon said during his interview that Trump will run for a third term because "we have to finish what we started."

Steve Bannon Says ‘There’s a Plan’ for Trump 2028

www.newsweek.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 9h

Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire.

Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*

Two federal judges say use of AI led to errors in US court rulings

Two federal judges admitted in response to an inquiry by U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley that members of their staff used artificial intelligence to help prepare recent court orders that Grassley called "error-ridden."

www.reuters.com

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 21h

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.

Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public

Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.

www.kuow.org

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 14h

A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2h

Again when you really boil it down, “anti wokeness” can very very often be summarized as “I’m mad a black person got a job” bsky.app/profile/hesg...

Francis Sedgemore @hesgen.com · 2h

Sorry, Sarah, but you are now, officially and on the record, a moral degenerate. And you know it.

#racism #SarahPochin #ReformUK

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

I mean sure he’s bankrupting me and people like me, but he’s also making immigrants suffer. So as you can see, it’s a hard choice.

T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 13h

Farmer Caleb Ragland: "I think we’re at a crossroads ... the reality will be the increases in bankruptcies, the loss of many thousands of family farms. It will even be worse with people committing suicide"

"Ragland is a supporter of President Donald Trump"

www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...

Trump Supporting Farmer Caleb Ragland Torches Tariffs

Farmer Caleb Ragland is a supporter of Trump, but he warned on NewsNation that thousands of farms will go under if the president's trade war continues.

www.mediaite.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11h

This is what the Democrats have been raising hell about.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

Well, Fam, just found out our health insurance is jumping from $1700 to over $3000 a month. And we still have to wait till Nov 1 to see more options—when the site will probably crash because everyone will be freaking out at the same time.

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Doug Pennington @morfaleji.bsky.social · 12h

Was gonna also ask if we could talk about “hemispheric reengineering” but then hit myself on the head with a mallet

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 13h

The "theory" is "I've got big guns and the Supreme Court said I'm immune from any criminal prosecution, and Congress lets me get away with everything, so I'm gonna murder brown people with big explosions and tell the public I'm saving them from drugs."

Saved you a click.

Politico Magazine: "The Theory Behind Trump's Gunboat Diplomacy"

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12h

(next to an image of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez) “You cannot love this country if you only fight for the wealthy and big business.

To love this country is to fight for its people, all people. Working people ….. who punch a clock and are on their feet all day in some of the toughest jobs out there."

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 17h

Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute

Photos: White House East Wing Demolished For Trump’s Ballroom

The privately funded ballroom will be approximately 90,000 square feet, much larger than the White House itself.

www.forbes.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14h

signs like these are up all over Chicago cafes and storefronts (here, cafes in Brighton Park and Back of the Yards) warning ICE not to enter without a judicial warrant

Glass storefront door in Brighton Park, with sign in English and Spanish, reading: ATTENTION ICE/CBP
AGENTS
STOP
YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED ENTRANCE INTO THIS BUSINESS WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT
ATENCION AGENTES DE
ICE/CBP
STOP
NO SE LE PERMITE LA ENTRADA A ESTE NEGOCIO SIN UNA ORDEN
JUDICIAL VALIDA

Glass storefront door with sign reading:

PRIVATE PROPERTY
NO ICE

YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ENTER NON-PUBLIC AREAS OF THIS SPACE
WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT SIGNED BY A FEDERAL JUDGE

and a second sign:
PLEASE USE DOOR
ON 47TH ST.
BACK OF THE YARDS

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

Seen in Wrigleyville

Private property don't enter without judicial warrant on restaurant window

Two stickers on street pole

One says Migrants welcome ice out and one says Nazi lives don't matter

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12h

The East Wing’s very plainness came to symbolize the functional modesty of democratic government: a space for staff, not spectacle; for the sustaining rituals of civic life, not the exhibition of personal glory. All of that is now gone, Adam Gopnik writes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing

The act of destruction is precisely the point: a kind of performance piece meant to display Trump’s arbitrary power over the Presidency, including its physical seat.

www.newyorker.com

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 14h

Rule of Law Alert: Trump’s authority for country-specific tariffs comes from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which doesn’t mention tariffs—but does require a national emergency.

An ad showing that Reagan opposed tariffs surely is not a national emergency. (It may be a personal one)

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13h

This is several days old. But amidst so much else id missed it. That’s a stunning number. No wonder they about-faced. Reminder of the power of consumers in oligarch era, not subject to the same kind of targeting.

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Doug Pennington @morfaleji.bsky.social · 21h

Absolutely— def want to separate myself from the “He can’t do the thing he’s in the middle of doing.” He’s clearly able to get away with a raft of crimes he’s committed/ committing out in the open. Just hope the country doesn’t drift into a miasma of, “Is it a crime if he’s getting away with it?”

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 22h

Yes - we should acknowledge the lawlessness of this without turning that into declaring it can't happen in the current environment

Doug Pennington @morfaleji.bsky.social · 22h

Does your view rest on assuming either the Constitution is “what the Supreme Court says it is” or “what powerful people abide by”?

Taking seriously Trump running for a 3d term doesn’t mean taking his _argument_ seriously. It isn’t serious. It’s lawless and it’s ok to just say that, per ⬇️

Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 23h

Need to be both clear about how objectively unconstitutional it is and also clear-eyed about the level of bad faith in the MAGA Justices

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Doug Pennington @morfaleji.bsky.social · 22h

Does your view rest on assuming either the Constitution is “what the Supreme Court says it is” or “what powerful people abide by”?

Taking seriously Trump running for a 3d term doesn’t mean taking his _argument_ seriously. It isn’t serious. It’s lawless and it’s ok to just say that, per ⬇️

Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 23h

Need to be both clear about how objectively unconstitutional it is and also clear-eyed about the level of bad faith in the MAGA Justices

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 23h

Need to be both clear about how objectively unconstitutional it is and also clear-eyed about the level of bad faith in the MAGA Justices

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Katrine Koenig @katrinekoenig.bsky.social · 22h

it's not "traditional law", it's the valid law of the land.

it's important to differentiate between what the law is and the fact that this government is breaking it on an hourly basis.

it's also important to remind people of what the law is 1/

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 1d

Well into the 1990s it was not uncommon to hear demands from Democrats (and even a few Republicans!) for outright *bans* on handguns. Democrats have moved so far right on guns that their mainstream positions would have been considered gun lobby propaganda in the party 50 years ago

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d

I wish Ezra had provided the evidence that the Democratic Party has moved “sharply left” on this laundry list of issues. To take one example, they pitched the IRA as a climate bill but also as a way of rebooting manufacturing, particularly in red states. And how have they moved left on “guns”?

But the working class feels unrepresented by Democrats in a broader way—left behind and looked down upon by a party that moves sharply left on culture, on climate, on guns, on immigration. A party that doesn’t talk like them—and doesn’t like the way they talk.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine believing the danger is the border and not the regime.

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