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Satanley (the first 'a' is silent)

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Canadian born Floriduh boy living in the PNW. Interested in science, politics, music, nature, books...plus some gaming and bad movies too. Reader of Balloon Juice, TPM, dKos, Eschaton etc Original posts under #MusicalOffering and #BackyardBirding He/him

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Satanley (the first 'a' is silent) @satanley.bsky.social · Jan 20

Been a minute since I've done a #MusicalOffering
and this seems pretty damn appropriate. Had just discovered these guys when the Tipper Gore led PMRC Senate hearings were going on. Talk about a political awakening!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZFf...
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Stars and Stripes of Corruption

YouTube video by Dead Kennedys - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 8h

No other U.S. president has used the military as their own personal police force against the American people.

We implore the courts to reject Donald Trump's ongoing, illegal actions and definitively affirm states' sovereign right to handle public safety matters.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13h

The longer the govt is shut down the more people get their renewals, and the more people who aren't already convinced will realize that the Republicans are lying that it's about Healthcare for undocumented immigrants.

Also this bill is impossible

Bubba's Dad @bubsdad.bsky.social · 14h

Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.

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Maudi63 @maudi63.bsky.social · 9h

President Biden rings the bell after completing his chemotherapy treatments. 🙌

#PresidentBiden 💪🏻
#RingTheBell 🔔 🙌

From Ashley Biden’s IG story..

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

Donald Trump is renovating the White House the right way.

--Ezra Klein

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David Huerta @davidhuerta-seiu.bsky.social · 3d

I joined @bsky.app today because it’s more important than ever for us to raise our voices. Today, the Trump Administration continued its campaign of retaliation and weaponization of the judicial system against working people by filing charges against me.

I won’t be silenced.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

Oak Park resident Scott Sakiyama reports feds pointed weapons at him across from an elementary school today. They then arrested him and took him to Broadview. While in custody, he saw agents texting in a group chat called "Chiraq Team 2."

Full testimony: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GqB...

This morning masked ICE agents pulled me out of my car at gun-point, threw me in the back of a van and took me to their facility in Broadview. I had been following the van down Harvard honking my horn and blowing a whistle to alert the community that ICE was in the neighborhood.

Just across from Lincoln elementary school, where my daughter is in second grade, they jumped out of their van with guns drawn and threatened to smash my windows.

They removed me from my car and drove me to Broadview.

They tried to determine if I was an American citizen (I am). After sitting handcuffed in the van for about 30 minutes, they issued me a citation for "impeding" them, claiming I cut them off (which is not true). They then drove me back to my car. While in their van, I could see they were receiving text messages that were part of a group chat called "Chiraq Team 2." They also stated they also spoke to someone on their phone saying they were going to meet someone else near where they were dropping me off, and that they were going to proceed to conduct enforcement activities with that person.

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 7h

LIVE NOW: @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and @annabower.bsky.social are discussing her article about how interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan reached out to her on Signal—and the conversation that followed. youtube.com/live/SZZyccE...

Lawfare Live, The Now: Anna Bower's Signal Exchange with Lindsey Halligan

YouTube video by Lawfare

youtube.com

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 9h

No one other than Ukraine ever had the combined factors of willpower, population, and strategic depth to defeat Russia’s contemporary empire.

Ukraine is the shield of the world, by default.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 7h

Dissenting Judge Graber, on 9th Cir, calls on public to "retain faith in judicial system" while she begs full court to overturn the panel ruling permitting federalization of National Guard in Portland. Full court asks for briefs on whether to rehear case en banc by Wed midnight

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 9h

“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.”

Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 9h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Mendur @mendur.bsky.social · 14h

About George Soros -
Republicans are so stupid, they think a billionaire would spend all his money on millions of protestors when, for a fraction of the cost, he could buy U.S. Senators and Supreme Court Justices.
You know, like Peter Thiel bought JD Vance and Harlan Crow bought Clarence Thomas.

a bald man is sitting at a desk and giving a peace sign .

Alt: Dr. Evil saying "allegedly" with air quotes

media.tenor.com

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 9h

Noem's incel army of racist couch potatoes not ready for prime time.

Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 9h

SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A Third of ICE-Academy Recruits Are Failing Out

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.

www.theatlantic.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9h

OK, I’ve finished marking up the per curiam opinion, and this is one of the worst opinions I’ve read this year.

It gets some things just flat out wrong, it works overtime to only provide Trump-friendly facts, and it stretches Newsom (the CA NG 9th Cir opinion) to the breaking point.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Ninth Circuit panel, on a 2-1 vote, allows Trump to deploy National Guard troops in Portland during litigation. Both judges siding with Trump were appointed by Trump in his first term.

Background at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/the-trials...

Before: Susan P. Graber, Ryan D. Nelson, and Bridget S. Bade, Circuit Judges.
Concurrence by Judge R. Nelson; Dissent by Judge Graber.
PER CURIAM:
Defendants-Appellants, President Donald J. Trump, Secretary of Defense
Peter Hegseth, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, in their official
capacities, the Department of Defense (DoD), and the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) (collectively, Defendants), seek an emergency stay of the district
court’s October 4, 2025 temporary restraining order (TRO) enjoining the President’s
Case: 25-6268, 10/20/2025, DktEntry: 61.1, Page 2 of 93
order to federalize 200 members of the Oregon National Guard for 60 days to protect
federal personnel and property at the Lindquist Building, an Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Oregon. After considering the
record at this preliminary stage, we conclude that it is likely that the President
lawfully exercised his statutory authority under 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3), which
authorizes the federalization of the National Guard when “the President is unable
with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.” The evidence the
President relied on reflects a “colorable assessment of the facts and law within a
‘range of honest judgment.’” Newsom v. Trump, 141 F.4th 1032, 1051 (9th Cir.
2025) (per curiam) (quoting Sterling v. Constantin, 287 U.S. 378, 399 (1932)). We
thus conclude that Defendants are likely to succeed on the merits of their appeal, and
that the other stay factors weigh in their favor. We grant Defendants’ motion for a
stay pending appeal.

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Terry D @terrydresbach.bsky.social · 17h

David Brooks was on Morning Joe today.
He was talking about the No Kings protests, and saying that as a conservative, most left protests do not inspire him to join.
But the recent No Kings did. It was all those ”normie” grandmas carrying American flags

Politics is a game of addition not subtraction

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Bubba's Dad @bubsdad.bsky.social · 14h

Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.

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infinite void screamer @stvnlunsford.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, there’s a lot of conflation of “Dems are deeply unpopular right now” with “left-leaning ideas are unpopular”, but survey after survey shows those ideas are actually a good position to stake out. No one likes the Dems because they won’t support the very popular left-leaning ideas!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 12h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h

Guys, I don’t mean to sound like this but there is a felon down the street making AI videos of himself as a king shitting on Americans and the American flag and he is literally tearing down the White House as we speak

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 14h

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨
This week’s episode features @adapalmer.bsky.social , diving deep into the myths of the Renaissance. Are we misled by the concepts of Golden Ages and Dark Ages? Listen now! #HistoryRage

Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/3401b1
#History #Podcast #Renaissance

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

you'd think nine months in reality would have set in but i still can't believe people fucking voted for this

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Satanley (the first 'a' is silent) @satanley.bsky.social · 12h

And how long did it take for Sen Franken to be seated?

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

Multiple people have criticized me for not accepting that both "the ACA is better than what came before" and "we could have something a lot better" can be true.

There's really no need to import the worst Twitter behaviors here.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

Hating the ACA is similar to hating on vaccines.

It's a luxury borne of not really appreciating what existed before.

The fix wasn't perfect, and there is a lot more that we could do to make it better.

But the "ACA Was Bad" Discourse is just untethered from reality.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 12h

President Trump promises that the new White House ballroom will be completed by the start of his third term.

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

www.washingtonpost.com

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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 12h

We've hit level 12 of Fascist Jumanji.

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