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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes.”

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 6h

Ya that's NASTY. this is like 35 stacked shots with all the fun tricks. def need darker skies lol

a comet over a hill, tons of light pollution

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 7h

“They understand that flooding the zone is what works. I still communicate with my friends with memes, and funny YouTube videos, and so the fact that the White House is doing that as well just shows that they understand how conversations happen.”

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...

Can the White House's flood-the-zone social strategy win the shutdown?

President Trump’s team is trolling Democrats harder than ever during the shutdown. It's a page stolen from his campaign and his own online habits.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 8h

Earlier today, I looked quickly at a poll result showing that 1 in 8 Republicans think the No Kings protests were "mostly violent" — and half aren't sure if they were violent or peaceful. www.pbump.net/o/half-of-re...

Half of Republicans aren’t sure how violent the No Kings protests were

I've been traveling this week, so the amount of attention I've been able to pay to the world around me is diminished, no doubt to my benefit. That said, the poll result below did come to my attention,...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

The U.S. government has often lied about things but I think it’s genuinely remarkable that we’re in an era where almost every public statement contains at least one lie.

Kyle Pfannenstiel @pfannyyy.bsky.social · 12h

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were.

The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.

FBI backtracks on denying children were zip tied in Idaho raid, saying instead no ‘young’ kids were • Idaho Capital Sun

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in raid in Wilder, Idaho, FBI says no "young" children were.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9h

I should probably have just published this in the morning, but I had some thoughts about the East Wing — particularly given something Trump said during his 2020 speech accepting the GOP nomination. www.pbump.net/o/the-presid...

The president has never understood that the White House (and government) aren’t his

Even if only intuitively, Donald Trump knows that the White House is a storehouse of power. He understands that, like the government itself, it is an institution that our impartial democratic system h...

www.pbump.net

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.

She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.

So I confronted him.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10h

Holy buckets. This is exactly what the Oregon Silver Shirt fascist I’m writing about thought children should be taught about Communism ca. 1965 (minus the more recent references).

Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 15h

Florida’s Social Studies standards are getting another update next month.

No, those terrible African American History standards will stay, but there’s a huge update to our Anti-Communism education.

This is just one page.

FLORIDA'S STATE ACADEMIC STANDARDS FOR SOCIAL STUDIES

SS.912.HC.9.3 Describe the emergence of modern Marxist thought in education and media.
Benchmark Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction includes the influence of the Frankfurt School on the modern education system (c.g. Critical Theory).
Clarification 2: Instruction includes Antonio Gramsci, Paulo Freire and Howard Zinn and their work (e.g., the oppressor vs. oppressed dichotomy, historical revisionism).
Clarification 3: Instruction includes the repackaging of Marxist ideology using modern terminology and concepts to disguise the underlying Marxism (e.g., Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States as a recasting of William Z. Foster's history books, Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, James W.
Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me).
Clarification 4: Instruction includes the dangers of pro-communist propaganda in entertainment and media industries.

SS.912,HC.9,4 Identify propaganda and defamation utilized to delegitimize anti-communists
and anti-communist movements.
Benchmark Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Instruction includes campaigns to shut down the House Committee on Un-American Activities by communists and communist sympathizers, including protests in San Francisco in 1960 to. disrupt the meeting.
Clarification 2: Instruction includes a change in policy by President John F. Kennedy's administration, forbidding explicitly anti-communist speeches in the military.
Clarification 3: Instruction includes using "McCarthyism" as an insult and shorthand for all anti-communism.
Clarification 4: Instruction includes slander against anti-communists, such as red-baiter and Red Scare.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 8h

www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/p...

Gettysburg suffers damage as advocates ask public to be vigilant during shutdown | CNN Politics

The site of one of the most iconic battlefields in American history suffered recent damage, prompting a law enforcement investigation.

www.cnn.com

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 8h

They just bought Dominion. Pretty sure any states that use them will be GOP forever.

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N.V. Binder 𓀨 @nvbinder.io · 7h

Fresh off demolishing the East Wing www.space.com/space-explor...

The Smithsonian might have to cut space shuttle Discovery into pieces

"You'd be doing irreparable damage."

www.space.com

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 7h

So the reason they’re calling it the Epstein Ballroom is to celebrate the President’s best friend Jeffrey Epstein. They had one special thing in common and the Epstein Ballroom will remind everyone of that one thing. In the Epstein Ballroom.

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 7h

Donald Trump is exhibiting a “massive increase” in “clinical signs of dementia,” exacerbating the president’s “malignant narcissism,” a psychologist has warned.

Trump’s Cognitive Collapse is Clear: Psychologist

The 79-year-old president’s nonsensical speeches and mental lapses are flashing signs of his “immense cognitive decline,” according to Dr. John Gartner.

trib.al

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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 7h

Scott Perry was a big player i. the run up to 1/6, where so many police officers were hurt by goons he goosed on. Who hates America?

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 11h

If given the chance, I'd lose my legs all over again to serve in our great military.

The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history.

Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.

New York Times: Scott Perry Says Democrats ‘Hate the Military,’ Echoing Trump’s attacks.

The remarks by the Republican House member from Pennsylvania align with efforts by the president and G.O.P. leaders to portray the political left as un-American.

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Nevada Current @nevadacurrent.com · 10h

Democrats have repeatedly called on Republicans to meet with them to negotiate over the insurance issue, but Republican congressional leaders, taking their cue from Trump, have refused unless Democrats pass the Republican funding bill first.

Rosen tells Lombardo instead of sending her a letter about shutdown, he should talk to Trump • Nevada Current

“It’s well past time for Democratic leadership in Congress to work with Republicans and the President to reopen the government,” Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo said in a press statement issued by...

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 10h

Gilded, ugly, squalid and illegal. It's the whole administration boiled down. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

Trump Said He Wouldn’t Touch the East Wing. Then He Tore It All Down.

www.nytimes.com

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 10h

NEW

I spent the last few days hanging out with infectious disease scientists, including some CDC veterans

They're still in shock over how much damage RFK Jr. has done, and how quickly

But they're starting to fight back

Read about it at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/cdc-diaspo...

The CDC Diaspora Fights Back

How America’s scientific army is trying to stand up for public health—and stand up for itself.

www.thebulwark.com

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NBC10 Boston @nbcboston.com · 10h

ICE has placed new recruits into its training program before they have completed the agency’s vetting process, an unusual sequence of events as the agency rushes to hire federal immigration officers to carry out President Trump’s mass deportation policy. on.nbcboston.com/hGpde9A

Some new ICE recruits have showed up to training without full vetting

The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, sources told NBC News.

on.nbcboston.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

one of the key aspects of fascism is the normalization of cruelty

Think about how numb everyone has to be for this type of thing to be remotely normal. Is this not a war crime?

Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 10h

The Trump administration doesn’t know if the people in this boat committed a crime

Didn’t arrest them

Never indicted them, conducted a trial, proved their guilt or-if they were actually convicted-argued over their sentence

No-they simply killed them

Then broadcast the murder on social media

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 10h

JUST IN: 11 9th Circuit judges dissent* as appeals court declines en banc rehearing of ruling letting Trump use National Guard in L.A. Some judges may keep powder dry for Oregon case w/weaker facts for Trump admin. Doc: cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 10h

I cannot fucking believe it’s 2025, 15 years after the ACA and Republicans are STILL going on tv and lying that they have a healthcare plan. Still! Come the fuck on.

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 12h

Hey GOP, this you? Y'all so full of...

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 13h

Exclusive: Leaked documents detail Trump's plans to open East and West coasts to offshore oil drilling.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Exclusive: Leaked documents detail Trump's plans to open East and West coasts to offshore oil drilling

The Trump administration plans to open whole swaths of the East and West Coasts to offshore drilling, including areas previously protected for environmental reasons, documents show.

www.yahoo.com

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 13h

The Trump administration plans to open whole swaths of the East and West Coasts to offshore oil and gas drilling, including areas previously protected for environmental reasons, according to federal documents reviewed by the Houston Chronicle.

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