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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 3h

Looking forward to hitting the campaign trail next week with my friend & Virginia’s next governor, @abigailspanberger.com.

Pete Buttigieg to appear with Spanberger in Charlottesville

With the election for governor three weeks away, Democrat Abigail Spanberger is getting some outside help to get out the vote. Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg will appear with t...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4h

ICE is probably causing an increase in crime.

I’m not referring to the many crimes committed by ICE officers—though one certainly could—but to how they’ve enabled criminals by giving them opportunities to impersonate masked ICE officers and by pulling cops off of police work to do harassment.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4h

The many media outlets, politicians, and commentators who rushed to declare “a great peace, glory to the king!” should ask themselves why they did that, and figure out how to not make the same mistake again.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

(ABC) - The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

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Israel-Gaza live updates: 5 Palestinians killed in Gaza City for alleged ceasefire violation, IDF says

Israel on Tuesday identified two of the people whose remains were returned.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

The guileless Jesse Watters has no inkling of the fact that he's being mocked and ridiculed...

Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 4h

Jesse Watters tried to make a protester he dubbed "Antifa Kermit" look menacing. I added the words of Secretary of Homeland Security describing Antifa along with some footage of Antifa protesters from an ABC affiliate Local 10 News. The music is royalty free.🎶🪩💃🕺

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PoliticallyInteresting @politicallyint.bsky.social · 4h

The ACLU lawsuit noted that an intellectually disabled detainee “was asked to sign a form in exchange for a blanket, without the opportunity to speak with counsel... the form actually provided for his voluntary departure, and he was then deported without finishing his removal proceedings.”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13h

OAN taking the bold, go-it-alone, no-one-thought-we-were-journalism-so-does-it-really-matter approach.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13h

Solidarity is the only way

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 17h

Donald Trump is a wartime president.

War on women.
War on voting rights.
War on Latinos.
War on California.
War on institutions.
War on history.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 1d

I hate that zuckerberg has stolen the word "meta" from us but in the old sense of it I went a little meta this week

with bonus Felix cameo

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Cartoon: Closing time

This is, in fact, the final cartoon that will appear in OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE , and I decided to have a little fun with that. The campaign runs another two weeks, but we are getting things ...

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 17h

Congrats to University of California professors & alumni for being awarded 5 Nobel Prizes!

California’s scientists are leading the world in crucial breakthroughs.

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University of California sets world record with five Nobel Prizes in one week

The UC system made history this week, as its faculty and alumni won five Nobel Prizes across medicine, physics and chemistry — the most ever awarded to a single institution in one year.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..."

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Faith leaders blocked from sharing Communion with detainees at Broadview ICE center

A large group of Chicago area Catholics marched to the ICE detention center in Broadview Saturday, hoping to share Communion with detainees.

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Wait, what?! @whyisthat.bsky.social · 17h

Girl in Illinois was a passenger in a vehicle. Have no way to forward video. Hope she's okay.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

I asked ICE why they couldn’t comment on their own arrest. The agent said to direct questions to DHS. And it appears DHS is making accusations via X to justify the abduction of a child.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 17h

The GOP budget is going to be the single most unpopular and destructive budget in modern American history - tariffs/higher prices, exploding deficits, gutting health care, slashing clean energy/higher electricity costs, huge ICE expansion.

Going to be a parade of horrors and they are scared of it.

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 18h

Where is the Republican budget? By law it was required to be passed and in place by Sept 30th. Anyone seen it? Got any idea what might be in it? Why the f-ck is the House taking a month long vacation without getting their work done?

Dems ready to negotiate. Rs remain on vacation.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 19h

Time magazine is owned by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who just came out as a Trump supporter and said it would be great if he sent the National Guard to invade San Francisco

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h

When Mike Johnson or another national leader repeatedly claims they haven’t seen relevant things in the news, an appropriate reporter reaction would be “Holy cow, how do you not know?!? How can you do your job without knowing what’s happening? What are you doing to fix your ‘not knowing’ problem?”

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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PoliticallyInteresting @politicallyint.bsky.social · 22h

Here is what is in the policy they are asking for!

Key provisions of the new policy

Pre-publication approval: The most contentious rule requires that any Department of Defense (DoD) information, including unclassified material, must be approved for release by an "appropriate authorizing official" before it is published.

Movement restrictions: Journalists' movements within the Pentagon are heavily restricted. They can no longer move freely through much of the building and must be escorted by authorized personnel to most areas outside of the press bullpens, briefing room, and food court.

Workplace displacement: The Pentagon moved many news organizations, including NPR, The New York Times, and CNN, out of their dedicated office spaces within the building. Press associations fear this will further isolate reporters from their sources.

Credential revocation: The policy outlines that reporters who violate the rules, including soliciting unapproved information, can have their credentials revoked. This effectively gives the Pentagon broad power to remove journalists it deems a "security or safety risk".

"Department of War" rebranding: The Trump administration renamed the DoD the "Department of War" and used this new acronym in the policy memo, a move criticized as a form of political messaging.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22h

Well done

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 22h

WaPo joins NYT, CNN, The Atlantic, Guardian and others, according to @ScottNover, in announcing it won't sign the Pentagon's controversial new press policy.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h

In the case of Mr. Cruz, we have a very literal "show me your papers" arrest.

He was chilling with a friend when ICE officers demanded to see his papers. He didn't have them on him, so they detained him and interrogated him. He was eventually released — but with the ticket.

Rueben Antonio Cruz was sitting with a friend in Rogers Park when ICE agents pulled up onto the street.
The immigration officers stopped their truck and went straight after them on Oct. 9, Cruz told the Tribune.
“They asked us if we have papers. I said I do but I don’t have them on me,” Cruz, a 60-year old man with heart problems originally from El Salvador, recalled in Spanish.
The agents stood Cruz up, put him in their truck, drove around in circles, and asked questions, he said.
Where was he born? What is his name? Who is his mother? Who is his father?
“I told them, they are dead,” Cruz said. The agents said they needed the information anyway so they could look him up in their databases. Eventually, the agents verified that he is, in fact, legally in the country. And they let him go.
But not before writing him a $130 ticket for not having his papers. Cruz’s friend, who is homeless, did not have legal status and was taken away by the feds.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 23h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 22h

Today, we commemorate Indigenous Peoples' Day by celebrating the rich heritage of Minnesota’s eleven Tribal Nations and Native communities nationwide. Now more than ever, we must continue to support and uplift tribal voices, cultures, and rights.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22h

I tried to write a PSA that people can send to their elderly relatives.

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 23h

If You Can Read This, You're About to Get Scammed

Scammers are pretending to be Elon Musk. They're stealing millions from hard-working people.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 22h

📣 SENATE DEMOCRATS ARE STANDING UP FOR DEMOCRACY & HEALTHCARE.

Help them flip the Senate blue by donating TODAY!

Reminder: Donations to "TBD" races go to the eventual Democratic nominee. #Blue26

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Show your support with a contribution.

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 23h

The brutality, in other words, is the point. It’s not an accident, a side effect, or the result of poor training. It’s intentional. It’s a signal of their broader intentions. Following the classic dictator’s playbook, says @hartmannreport.com.

Trump's Anti-Immigrant Violence Is a Message for the Rest of Us

This is how it always starts, this process of getting citizens used to the government using violence that will one day be turned against them.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

Checking out my war-ravaged neighborhood here in SE Portland this morning. Everyone stay safe out there.

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