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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 14m

Effing goons

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 4h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1h

This ratio record will never be broken! Sally Jenkins has just given us the Joe DiMaggio 56-game hitting streak of ratios

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 58m

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 1h

In my township in the past six months, multiple non-chain restaurants have shuttered, as well as a grocery store and a specialty food store - businesses that had been here decades. Construction projects are going well past delivery date too. And it’s generally a prosperous area.

Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 1h

The end game here is just "no restaurants." There aren't, like, restaurant fairies who will keep the whole thing afloat. Just people doing jobs that we are worse off without.

Devin @fishdick.bsky.social · 1h

I am working in a restaurant and everyone is scared. We've lost 4 or 5 to ICE. People are afraid to come to work during daylight hours, so they get to work 5 or 6 hours early and sleep in the dry storage until their shift starts. People are sleeping here at night.

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 54m

There’s not a tradition of masked police in America,

Ds saying “this is not right; we will hold those responsible & those participating accountable” is the message.

It is a kitchen table issue.

It is inflation.

It is schools.

It is the price of gas.

It is Support The Troops.

It’s the shot.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 4h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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General Liederkranz @generalliederkranz.bsky.social · 22h

Thune and Johnson are still selling themselves extraordinarily cheap by historical standards. It's not like they're getting the Venezuelan oil fields, or the port of Halifax, or half of Greenland, for their abasement. Just a few million from Fox contributor gigs, podcasts and board of director pay.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 2h

This is a must-read piece.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 2h

Sad to see the Atlantic laid off all its fact checkers.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2h

Describe the opposite of The Free Press in a sentence

Screenshot of text:

It’s a business story. [Highlighting begins] Everyone in journalism has known for years that there’s been a huge opportunity for a publication that employs the traditional methods of U.S. journalism—reporting, deep sourcing, fact-checking, fearlessness—to subjects that either don’t get covered enough or get covered only from a certain perspective. [Highlighting ends] If creating such an enterprise seems simple

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

Anyone who sees videos like this and tries to explain it away is someone who feels sure that they will never be meaningfully abused by state actors.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2h

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1h

So she's saying they're just lazy and incompetent instead.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

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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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

Span + 20

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

BREAM: Federal workers in Virginia lost jobs bc of DOGE. Your opponent points out unemployment is up under Youngkin/Sears

EARLE-SEARS: Actually unemployment is down

B: She points to numbers from BLS showing unemployment is up. Do you quibble w/data?

S: I don't know where she's getting stats from

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4h

Eric Andre asking Mel B if Margaret Thatcher had girl power

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Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 3h

Leeeroy Jenkins!

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 4h

Certain type of person just shows up here every month to post bait (and 50% of them write for the Atlantic)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 4h

maybe this one. i should fight the urge to get it in black though, maybe. (it comes in other colors)

black tshirt with a skull with a crown on it. says No Kings Since 1776 and then smaller "resist tyranny" and "long live democracy".

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 3h

She has never written, covered, or sold news. She sells opinions.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 4h

Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

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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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 4h

My “don’t worry about China, it will all be fine” shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my shirt

A tweet from Donald Trump that reads “Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!! President DJT”

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 5h

In a deposition, the next question would be "what circumstances do you think would justify this conduct?"

(The only correct answer is "None")

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 6h

It's amazing how public officials who willingly go on TV to talk about these issues can claim ignorance about the very things they've come on to talk about, and it's treated like a legitimate answer.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."

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Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 5h

Lessons were learned

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 5h

Hard to believe the people who told me “have fun being poor” would make such bad risk management decisions.

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 6h

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