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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 20h

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?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Jay @rogueaiconstruct.bsky.social · 13h

Charlie Kirk was a piece of shit, and it's my right to say that as an American. Fuck Marco Rubio, fuck Trump, and fuck MAGA.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Department of State v
@StateDept
g..
The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 15h

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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Monica Torres @monicatorrr.bsky.social · 1d

Wrote about what the National Guard can ask or do to civilians and how the Insurrection Act could dramatically change that: www.huffpost.com/entry/nation...

Can The National Guard Detain And Arrest You? Here Are Some Surprising Facts.

Trump's push to federalize troops "has no precedent," one expert said.

www.huffpost.com

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

What an offensive statement from so-called historians. There have been others who have been chased out of the country. Mohamed Abdou was deported for his teaching about Gaza…and he was a prof AT COLUMBIA! But he was queer, Muslim, brown & untenured. Do only white straight tenured profs get sympathy?

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Jay @rogueaiconstruct.bsky.social · 23h

Americans should exercise their First Amendment rights to protest and speech this weekend, two things the President and Supreme Court cannot get rid of by sheer will.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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lizzieeddy.bsky.social @lizzieeddy.bsky.social · 23h

“It’s now becoming just a casual and routine thing for Republicans to say, okay, well if you’re going to oppose Donald Trump, well we’re gonna send in the military. That seems like an ominous development that really shows what’s happening with this party and the Trump era.”

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Jay @rogueaiconstruct.bsky.social · 1d

@governorwalz.mn.gov , when will it be acceptable to redraw our congressional districts to get rid of Stauber, Emmer, Fischbach, and Finstad?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina announced plans on Monday to redraw the state’s already gerrymandered congressional maps to further favor their party. The most likely target is the First Congressional District, which has the state’s only competitive House seat.

North Carolina Republicans Plan to Redraw Congressional Map to Add a Seat

The Trump administration has pushed Republican leaders to redraw House district maps before the midterm elections next year. His party already holds 10 of North Carolina’s 14 congressional seats.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

We should have ended it all when he started openly monetizing the presidency at his DC hotel & sending his kids to represent the 🇺🇸 government at official international events. But he is One Special Boy and we appear to no longer be a serious country interested in the rule of law or the Constitution.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 1d

It's important to note that the Dept. of Education is explicitly prohibited legally from setting curriculum. However, the same day the new coalition launched, the department announced it would be prioritizing “patriotic education” when it comes to discretionary grants.

Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 1d

The U.S. Dept. of Education announced that a new coalition of conservative groups, including Turning Point USA and the Heritage Foundation, will push for more "patriotic" civics education. minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/13/r...

Trump undertakes a MAGA-centric makeover of US civics education • Minnesota Reformer

The vast majority of the groups in the coalition promote a vision of U.S. identity that downplays historical wrongs associated with race and gender and projects the country as an exceptional force for...

minnesotareformer.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

"we're happy to be feckless simps for state and consolidated corporate power, but putting it in writing is a bridge too far!

(do we get a cookie?)"

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

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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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

What did Tom Homan do with the $50K he took in a CAVA bag from undercover FBI agents?

Just keep asking this everyday. Its a big scandal they can't escape because Pam Bondi and her DOJ killed the investigation. They're cornered on this and the Epstein Files.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 1d

All jokes aside, this is an incredible piece of analysis & the way it concludes by motioning to the growing phenomenon of RW billionaires buying & destroying anything that challenges their regime of unchecked profit & power should serve as a wake-up call to those of us still missing the thread.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

This pitiful monarchist loser knows Americans hate kings, and that is good.

Find a #NoKings protest near you and GO on 10/18, friends. It'll be inspiring and fun and it will help.

(And no, you don't have to RSVP if you don't want to - just show up!)

www.nokings.org

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Jay @rogueaiconstruct.bsky.social · 1d

I’m going to No Kings. I’m going to protest the corrupt, illegal, and unconstitutional acts of this administration. Nobody is getting paid. These guys know there’s going to be millions of us out on the streets and they’re worried.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Elon

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/h...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Kamala Harris: "Here in Chicago I'm told the helicopters that were descending on an American city were Black Hawks. Do you know what Black Hawks were designed to do? War. So I think everyone can draw their conclusions just based on the facts."

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