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Sean Andrews

@seannotandrew.bsky.social

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Lawyer; ex-civil servant, FF and paramedic. Seattle native. DC, now LA based. Hoya Saxa. Go Blue.

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Sean Andrews @seannotandrew.bsky.social · 4d

Through 14 innings of fearless, near-perfect playoff baseball, this was the gutsiest call of the night.

This will be honored 30 years from tonight.

Seattle Sports @seattlesports710.bsky.social · 4d

Midway through the 15th inning, the beloved "Humpy" mascot picked up his first career victory in the Salmon Run race.

Moments later, Jorge Polanco sent the #Mariners to the ALCS for the first time in nearly a quarter-century.
sports.mynorthwest.com/mlb/seattle-...

Humpy gets 1st win, then Seattle Mariners walk off into ALCS

Midway through the 15th inning, the beloved Humpy mascot won his first Salmon Run race. Moments later, the Seattle Mariners advanced to the ALCS on a walkoff.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 16h

The US President is bragging about murdering people in international waters, with zero due process, zero legal authoriy.

You cannot be okay with this.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 17h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Politico @politico.com · 19h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22h

You shouldn't see one more dumb ad with with somebody walking Main Street in their old fighter jacket. That's over. You have to tell a better story than that.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

The bleakest thing about this video is that all the things this guy loves about the UK are relatively cheap and easy to build. Alabama could have a better train system than England inside of 10 years if we decided that was a priority. We are a rich country that chooses to live like a poor one.

Kelly C @kacphl.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. This guy nailed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Qv...

How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe

YouTube video by Evan Edinger

www.youtube.com

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.

They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 1d

Yeah another layer here is that TFP doesn’t actually have beat reporters, just free-range takemongers. She also wrote this story about food security in Gaza. You can’t actually be knowledgeable about such a wide range of topics. www.thefp.com/p/they-becam...

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 2d

MARINERS WIN!! MARINERS WIN / Victoire Des Marins! Victoire Des Marins!

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, baby, yeah! / Ouais, bébé, ouais!

a man wearing glasses and a pink striped shirt is making a funny face

ALT: a man wearing glasses and a pink striped shirt is making a funny face

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 2d

BIG DUMPER! / CUL GÉANT!

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Sean Andrews @seannotandrew.bsky.social · 2d

It's not (HIPAA doesn't apply to police agencies generally), but it's probably inaccurate! I don't doubt that's what they saw, but probably just means the breathalyzer wasn't well calibrated. Someone with this BAC would likely be in a coma.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 2d

for active military or if you know someone in the military:

“The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.”
www.nimj.org/top.html#/

Orders Project

The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may....

www.nimj.org

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 2d

We are so back.

MLB Daily News @fantasymlbnews.bsky.social · 2d

Bryan Woo (pec) officially on Mariners roster for ALCS.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 3d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 3d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 3d

Hadn’t thought about this but yeah, if he’d been a jinx he’s getting grilled at Pike Place on Saturday

Sean Andrews @seannotandrew.bsky.social · 4d

Whoever made the call was putting all the cards on the table. Just an unparalleled call. That could have gone SOUTH. If that had gone the other way, it would have been the end of Humpy.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 3d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

The best and the brightest

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 4d

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 3d

This arrest is fully insane.

Larry Bushart, a 61-year-old former police officer, posted the offending meme last month. In response to a Facebook post about an upcoming vigil for Kirk, Bushart shared an image of President Donald Trump with the quote, "We have to get over it," which Trump said in January 2024 after a shooting at Iowa's Perry High School. Text added to the image said, "This seems relevant today."

"Received a visit from Lexington PD regarding my posted memes," Bushart wrote in a September 21 Facebook status. According to Sheriff Nick Weems of nearby Perry County, "numerous…teachers, parents and students" somehow interpreted Bushart's meme—with its citation in fine print about a previous school shooting at Perry High School in Perry, Iowa—as a threat to carry out a similar shooting at nearby Perry County High School.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3d

Why isn’t every Democrat holding a press conference with this video, talking about the criminal army of thugs invading Chicago and the rest of the country, and the need to bring these criminals to justice? React as you would if this really was MS13 or something

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 4d

usually takes more than one game to learn that. your wife is a prodigy.

Lumpy MD @lumpawaroomd.bsky.social · 4d

This is the first baseball game my wife has ever seen and she now believes this is a sport about eternal punishment

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