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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 2d

Los Angeles, CA -

The game hasn’t ended yet, but LAPD is calling an unlawful assembly on Douglas and Sunset. A large contingent of police in riot helmets blocking the street.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 29d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Sep 30

"The Trump regime’s desire for cruelty, corruption, and criminality appears bottomless, but just because they want to doesn’t mean they can. Lacking capacity, they’re trying to bluster and meme their way into consolidated authoritarianism"

It's serious, but don't help them by falling for the trick.

Kimmel and Comey Highlight the Trump Regime's Limitations

Their desire for authoritarian abuse is bottomless, their ability to carry it out is not

www.arcdigital.media

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · Sep 29

Here's a list from @bbkogan.bsky.social on what shuts down immediately this week, if the govt does shut down.

Note some of this was already targeted by DOGE.

www.americanprogress.org/article/what...

Some preschool and school readiness centers would close, leading to some children losing their Head Start benefits. (The effect is only immediate during an October 1 shutdown.*)
Most inspections of drinking water facilities and hazardous waste sites that are led by the EPA would cease, with 93 percent of its staff furloughed.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration would continue with its high-risk food safety inspections, but its routine inspections of low-risk foods, such as packaged cookies and crackers, would cease.
Workplace safety inspections made by the Occupational Safety and Hazard Administration (OSHA) would be limited, leading to some workers laboring in unsafe conditions.
The Small Business Administration would stop processing new loan applications.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s loans to farmers would pause.
The Department of Justice would postpone or curtail some of its civil litigation.
Much research from NASA and the National Science Foundation would cease, with new grants and unfunded new projects halted and 93 percent and 80 percent of their staff, respectively, furloughed.

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Darin Self @darinself.com · Sep 29

Its Monday morning and the President of the United States has committed another impeachable offense by threating to withhold funds from a major city in order to persuade voters not to vote for a certain candidate.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 29

Trump on Mamdani: "He is going to have problems with Washington like no Mayor in the history of our once great City. Remember, he needs the money from me, as President, in order to fulfill all of his FAKE Communist promises. He won’t be getting any of it, so what’s the point of voting for him?"

Self proclaimed New York City Communist, Zohran Mamdani, who is running for Mayor, will prove to be one of the best things to ever happen to our great Republican Party. He is going to have problems with Washington like no Mayor in the history of our once great City. Remember, he needs the money from me, as President, in order to fulfill all of his FAKE Communist promises. He won’t be getting any of it, so what’s the point of voting for him? This ideology has failed, always, for thousands of years. It will fail again, and that’s guaranteed! President DJT

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Sep 25

This would be a good time to buy Laetrile stock.

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declare it to be at least useless against cancer.
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California that a group of Birchers organized the Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy and that the organization claimed 15,000 members around the country.
A top Birch doctor endorses Laetrile
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Georgia, on the virtues of B-17 and Lae-
trile in arresting cancer in two of his patients. It did not men-
Council of the Society. He is now a member of Congress.
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victed. He, too, is a Birch member; and it was for his defense that the Freedom of Choice movement was organized.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Sep 25

There are good reasons not to do this. There are however bad reasons to do this, which brings us to Hegseth. He says the greatest danger to the US is not China or Russia but internal factors. He could be right, if what he has in mind is himself.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals

The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Real Wings Have Bones @realwingshavebones.bsky.social · Sep 25

Remember, like at Malmedy, there’s always at least one survivor.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Sep 25

One fascinating wrinkle in this story is that the guy who taught Orban to go after Soros was Arthur Finkelstein, a gay Jewish political advisor who also worked for Netanyahu. He was a key GOP strategist from Goldwater through Reagan. truestoryaward.org/story/230

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 25

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

PARTIES3. Plaintiff José Escobar Molina is a 47-year-old man who has lived in D.C. for 25 years. He has maintained valid Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for El Salvador since 2001. On August 21, 2025, Mr. Escobar Molina was walking from his apartment building in Northwest D.C.to his work truck, about to start his workday, when two cars pulled up next to him. As he was about to get into his truck, plain-clothed and unidentified federal agents exited the cars and—without conducting any inquiry—seized Mr. Escobar Molina, grabbing him by the arms and legs and immediately handcuffing him. The agents arrested him without a warrant and without asking for his name, his identification, or anything about his immigration status. The agents also did not ask him where he lives, whom he lives with, how long he has lived here, or anything else about his ties to the community prior to arresting him. After ICE detained Mr. Escobar Molina overnight at its processing center in Chantilly, Virginia, the next day an ICE supervisor finally realized that he had valid TPS, which statutorily prohibits ICE from detaining him, and released him. Due tohis Latino ethnicity, Mr. Escobar Molina fears being arrested and detained again while going about his daily life in D.C.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · Sep 19

⚡️NATO confirms Russian incursion into Estonian airspace, calls it "reckless."

"NATO responded immediately and intercepted the Russian aircraft. This is yet another example of reckless Russian behaviour and NATO’s ability to respond," NATO Spokesperson Allison Hart said.

BREAKING: 3 Russian MiG-31 jets violate Estonian airspace, Tallinn says

Estonia summoned Russia's charge d'affaires on Sept. 19 after three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets entered the Baltic nation's airspace for 12 minutes, the Foreign Ministry said.

kyivindependent.com

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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg @factforce.bsky.social · Sep 17

Correct.

As @phillipspobrien.bsky.social has said many times, Trump is only pretending to be tough with his words. But he’s actions are explicitly clear: he has done nothing for Ukraine, and made enormous efforts to help Russia.

Those still believing he will change, are crazy.

The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · Sep 17

🇺🇸🇪🇺 Trump deliberately put forward unrealistic conditions to Europe to avoid putting pressure on Putin, — WSJ

Trump unexpectedly changed his position and called for a halt to purchases of Russian oil and at the same time impose tariffs against India and China.

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · Sep 17

Important point. Charlie Kirk now receives a lot of praise for engaging in debates, but the reality is he did so in bad faith. He was a demagogue chasing the next viral clip. That is not "debate", and it is telling about the state of democracy that so many people can't see the difference.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Sep 17

I had some thoughts about people saying that "debate me bro" trolling is somehow the height of democratic discourse.

Techdirt @techdirt.com · Sep 17

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas

Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Sep 17

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’

The decision follows conservative backlash to a comment the late-night host made about Charlie Kirk.

www.vulture.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Sep 17

The world according to Todd Blanche:

Conspiring to overturn the results of a presidential election = not RICO

Yelling in the vicinity of the president while he dines at Joe’s Stone Crab = RICO

Ok, got it! 👌

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 17

Deputy AG Blanche: RICO is available to all kinds of organizations committing crimes and committing wrongful acts… So is it sheer happenstance that individuals show up at a restaurant where the president is trying to enjoy dinner and accost him with vile words?

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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · Sep 17

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

A ‘Broken’ Trust: F.B.I. Agents Fired by Patel Speak Out

www.nytimes.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Sep 17

The amazing thing about Trump is that he says right into the camera on the White House lawn while stone cold sober the sort of stuff Nixon would only scream in solitude at the White House fireplace after a bottle and a half of whiskey.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 16

JON KARL: What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's gonna go after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech

TRUMP: We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your hate. Maybe they'll have to go after you.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · Sep 16

I do feel like part of the hatred extended toward Bluesky is a function of preferring to think that the alarm about the state of the country that’s common here is misguided or exaggerated. Dismissing the site as liberal doomers allows you to dismiss those concerns, too.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · Sep 16

Declaring that a private business refusing to print a vigil poster for the President's friend is a civil rights violation is an interesting legal argument. Brings to mind Colorado cases Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission and 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis.

Mediaite @mediaite.com · Sep 16

Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’

Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Department of Justice is considering bringing charges after a now-fired Office Depot employee refused to print flyers advertising a vigil for Charlie Kirk. The post Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’ first appeared on Mediaite.

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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 15

The Right is going increasingly masks-off and it's going to get uglier yet.

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · Sep 15

absolutely repugnant, gutfeld completely dismisses the assassination of melissa hortman, calls it a "bull shit" example of political violence

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · Sep 15

Shame on NFL owners for participating in Saudi Arabia’s Bonesaw Bowl.

Football Is Coming to Saudi Arabia, Where Soccer Is King

www.nytimes.com

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Real Wings Have Bones @realwingshavebones.bsky.social · Sep 15

Somebody should alert John Roberts that our rights… oh hell, never mind.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 15

Top Trump officials used Charlie Kirk’s death to threaten liberal groups, making unsubstantiated claims about a “domestic terror” movement.

White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups

Some of the highest-ranking officials in the federal government used Charlie Kirk’s podcast, guest-hosted by Vice President JD Vance, to lay out their plans.

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Real Wings Have Bones @realwingshavebones.bsky.social · Sep 15

“People don’t understand that if we don’t get more labor, our cows don’t get milked and our crops don’t get picked,” said Tim Wood, a dairy farmer and a member of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau board of directors.

Actually, Tim, most people DO understand, but that’s not the cohort you voted for.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Sep 15

Just so everyone can follow along: The MAGA beef against @karenattiah.bsky.social is that she said Kirk said this:

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · Sep 15

Karen was the last full-time Black opinion writer at the Washington Post.

She was also one of the last courageous voices on an opinion page that has now been gutted of them.

Supposed defenders of free speech are actively silencing anyone who disagrees with them.

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Sep 15

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

substack.com

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