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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 1h

Fascists are afraid of people seeing their statements are lies.

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2d

This shit is crazy because they're just straight up on video hitting a car that was blocked in the street. The extent as to which DHS now just brazenly puts out lies is utterly obscene.

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

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dc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 1h

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In Seattle Mayoral Race, Tensions Between Crackdown and Compassion on Homelessness - Bolts

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has ramped up sweeps of homeless encampments in his first term. In his reelection bid, he faces a progressive challenger who wants to curb them.

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 1h

Ms Shiner; Does your shirt literally say “Anti-Ice” like the alleged bullet casing message attributed on Twitter by Patel to Jahn, or does it say “Abolish ICE” or something else?

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 6h

Mar 2025: “Video … went viral after popular internet sleuths like @thatdaneshguy shared it and identified the men as Spencer Wooster and Brent Jones.”

“Be vigilant … when you’re in situations like this, especially if you’re Black,” @livysotoxicccc said. “Always record, always pull out your phone.”

'Fat Black ...': Alabama Man Loses Job After Racist Tirade in Shopping Center Goes Viral

An Alabama man was fired from his job after he was caught on a viral video hurling racially charged insults at a group of Black people after allegedly

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 6h

Rome persisted for centuries after the death of its republic. No reason the US couldn't persist too, unless we make ourselves the reason.

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 8h

Amy Coney Barrett is a lying POS. If she wasn’t, there’d be no point in going on TV in a desperate attempt to catapult corrupt SCOTUS propaganda.

Of course there’s no pushback from a Fox News host.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 9h

This is infuriating. She excuses the orders as "preliminary," but that's an argument for applying settled law or preserving the status quo. Allowing POTUS to disregard Congressional appropriations and fire independent agency heads are neither, they're a radical restructuring of Constitutional order.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13h

Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 8h

"The Pentagon has stepped back from the policy that requires all troops to get the flu shot every year by introducing exemptions for reservists and proclaiming that the shot is only necessary in some circumstances for all service members" apnews.com/article/flu-...

Pentagon adds exemptions to requirement for all troops to get the flu shot

The Pentagon has stepped back from the policy that requires all troops get the flu shot every year by introducing exemptions for reservists and proclaiming that the shot is only necessary in some circ...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 8h

JD Vance is a lying loathsome turd for Trump. bsky.app/profile/atru...

You probably hope Trump dies soon so you can be in charge, but you can’t ctrl the Maga cult, which will turn on you.

Release the Epstein files.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 9h

And per child rapist Ghislaine Maxwell, who Trump is considering pardoning, some of Epstein’s clients/associates work for Trump, who is still covering up the Epstein files

ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h

We are an independent, nonprofit newsroom with more than 150 dedicated journalists.

For those who want to read the facts of our reporting — and the documents on which it is based — here’s the full story:

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.

The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 9h

Stephen Colbert: 'Reality has a well-known liberal bias.'

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 11h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 9h

Trump: “If this is so, which it is …”

25th or impeach, but this con Scotus and every Trump-supporting Republican is forever discredited as a human being

Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 9h

“THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!!" the president posted.
“Trump was the president on January 6, 2021, not Joe Biden, who took the oath of office two weeks later

Trump falsely claims "Biden FBI" placed agents in Jan. 6 crowd

“THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6,” the president wrote in a late-night post to Truth Social.

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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 11h

Not that Trump/Vought/Hegseth gaf, but among other ways in which the law says this may NOT be done:
A) The part of 8005 I've underlined in green says money transferred to another account is "available… for the same time period" as that other account; that other acc't expired on Sept 30.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9h

Gazan children are walking the long walk to homes that have mostly been destroyed, some of them barefoot

This video of a 5 year old is one example. He was 3 when the genocide began:
www.instagram.com/reel/DPtxJ6y...

aljazeeraenglish on Instagram

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 9h

Gross; Fangirling Flanagan and Weiss.

Stoopidly insecure; pretending to yourself on the internet in front of everyone that because you express antisocial shit opinions that you know will be criticized, it means you’re a hero.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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