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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 5h

Had a checkup at an oncology clinic (I’m fine!), and made sure to wear my Chicago tee with my People Are People bag.

Small, quiet acts of resistance when going out.

One lady, clearly fighting cancer, told me, “it’s shameful what they’re doing. They’re making us sicker.”

#TrumpsShutdownDragsOn

Woman with long dark curly hair, is wearing an olive green Chicago T-shirt with her People Are People bag on the counter.

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Kirk @sankalots.bsky.social · 3h

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

I don't buy this. In fact, I would be deeply surprised—indeed, shocked, 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙—were president Donald J. Trump, the most law-abiding public servant ever to grace this land, to fail to uphold the presidential tradition of promoting the rule of law and democracy overseas.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7h

President Trump’s request to Israel's parliament to dismiss corruption charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upended American presidents’ tradition of promoting the rule of law and democracy overseas.

Trump’s pardon request for Netanyahu marks shift from promoting U.S. values abroad

Trump has upended American presidents’ tradition of promoting the rule of law and democracy overseas.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Brooke Rollins: "Charlie Kirk is in a way the modern day Thomas Jefferson."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

still live here. Bluesky was down for a spell this afternoon so might've been something wonky happening when you tried to load it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Eric Trump: "Now every single time a boat goes out of Venezuela it's getting blown up into a million pieces. That's exactly what's happening every single day. I personally have 4 friends who have lost children to fentanyl."

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 6h

Listen to how casually Justice Gorsuch presents as fact the idea that remedying racial gerrymandering requires racial discrimination.

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Kirk @sankalots.bsky.social · 6h

newrepublic.com/article/2018... This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening

There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.

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Kirk @sankalots.bsky.social · 6h

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Sep 9

Disordered doubt isn’t about healthy scepticism. It’s a systematic effort to break trust in evidence, institutions, and truth itself. It thrives by creating confusion rather than clarity.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Sep 9

The four pillars of disordered doubt:
Doubt the Evidence
Doubt the Source
Doubt the Process
Doubt the Claim
Each pillar corrodes truth validation in a different way, but together they build epistemic collapse.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Sep 9

Doubt the Evidence – Every fact can be framed as incomplete, faked, or manipulated. Or worse, reinterpreted to mean the opposite of what it shows. A bombing becomes “staged,” a victim “an actor.”

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Sep 9

Doubt the Source – Attack the messenger instead of the message. Journalists are corrupt, experts are biased, witnesses are actors. Once the source is discredited, the content is dismissed without review.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Sep 9

Doubt the Process – Undermine the mechanisms of validation. Courts are rigged, investigations are politicised, science is captured. If the process itself is illegitimate, no conclusion can ever be trusted.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Sep 9

Doubt the Claim – Even when evidence, sources, and processes hold, the claim itself is reframed as impossible. “That could never happen.” This is denial dressed up as common sense.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10h

When I talk about disordered counterpublics I make the point loyalty trumps accountability for the in-group, and this is a perfect example of that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

We constantly talk about Dems' struggles to reach deeper into the culture and access people who ignore politics.

You know what issue is penetrating deep into the culture? ICE's masked raids and kidnappings! It's on Rogan and in country music. In the Manosphere!

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 7h

Everything is retribution

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

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Mimi @gracemoves.bsky.social · 8h

Do they even know who they’re murdering?

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ponies3.bsky.social @ponies3.bsky.social · 8h

No. Nor do they care - it’s all theater

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Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 9h

Breaking: At least one US military strike in the Caribbean targeted Colombians on a boat leaving from Colombia, sources tell us.

The deliberate targeting of Colombians suggests the US military’s campaign is wider than previously believed www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

At least one US military strike on alleged drug trafficking boat in Caribbean targeted Colombians | CNN Politics

At least one US military strike in the Caribbean over the last two months targeted Colombian nationals on a boat that had left from Colombia, according to two people briefed by the Pentagon about the ...

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Patsy Baloney @patsybaloney.bsky.social · 6h

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Kirk @sankalots.bsky.social · 6h

newrepublic.com/article/2018... This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening

There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.

newrepublic.com

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