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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 1h

Core to playing this down is pretending that "Young Republicans" aren't 40 years old with top positions in both the party and government. One's a state senator.

Nathan Bernard @nathantbernard.bsky.social · 2h

the "kids" were mostly 30+ years old and said they love hitler

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Greg Proops @gregproops.bsky.social · 1h

Hate America Rally?
Your team already had one.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 4h

Precisely. Fostering low-trust societies/movements results in a doom spiral of anti-democratic thinking.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5h

As most people who study (dis)trust will tell you, once you've entered a downward spiral into distrust, it's very hard to pull out of it. All our ideas and expectations are now aligned, across social and political divides, toward being mad at & disillusioned with the system.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 16h

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 16h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 19h

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NOTUS @notus.com · 22h

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes sent a demand letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson Tuesday, calling for the immediate swearing in of Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva following her special election win last month.

Arizona AG Threatens Legal Action If Adelita Grijalva Isn’t Sworn In Immediately

“You and your staff have provided ever-shifting, unsatisfactory, and sometimes absurd stories as to why Ms. Grijalva has not been sworn in,” Kris Mayes wrote to House Speaker Mike Johnson.

www.notus.org

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Blue rainbow turtles @smolsquirtle.bsky.social · 22h

Rest easy Chop

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 22h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 1d

this is the “break glass in case of not enough potentially monetizing users”

Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 1d

October 2025
AI gooning is the master of the Internet
Only Claude stands against it
Waifus are now battlefields

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Blue rainbow turtles @smolsquirtle.bsky.social · 22h

Totally not Nazis tho

‘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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Blue rainbow turtles @smolsquirtle.bsky.social · 23h

During the election someone pointed out that he paints himself more orange when he feels he’s losing…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump is extremely orange today (Getty)

Blue rainbow turtles @smolsquirtle.bsky.social · 1d

“The phrase [Peace Through Strength] probably originates with Neville Chamberlain who ran a 'Peace Through Strength' public relations campaign from 1936-1939 to avoid World War II.”

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

I see that this small-minded puritanical pixie is laser-focused on getting the government reopened and the troops paid.

Blue rainbow turtles @smolsquirtle.bsky.social · 1d

Running as a Democrat, while bashing democrats.

Doing fundraising emails, while bashing fundraising emails.

5/7 perfect score

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 1d

OH COME ON!!

Graham Platner: “Nothing pisses me off more than getting a fundraising text from Democrats talking about how they’re fighting fascism…”

Graham Platner: “But I’m not a wealthy guy, and we’re still short of our $50,000 goal and what we need to win. If I’m going to be able to defeat Susan Collins and flip this Senate seat blue, I need folks like you to chip in now to my campaign.

Please, will you split a donation right now between my campaign and No Dem Left Behind to help me defeat Susan Collins…”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Not only that, just days ago, he was claiming there were no drug boats in the entire Caribbean left. That is, of course, not true. So we’re going to go through a cycle where they just keep killing more and more people, and keep claiming success as the body count rises.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

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Blue rainbow turtles @smolsquirtle.bsky.social · 1d

It’s America first in that a lot of his friends are gonna make money through shell games and bogus contracts, and Argentina won’t really see a lot of that money.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How is this rescue package America first?

TRUMP: It's really meant to help a good financial philosophy where Argentina can be successful again

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Blue rainbow turtles @smolsquirtle.bsky.social · 1d

GG to the suckers that tried to pay him off

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We'll take a couple questions from the news. I'm sure they'll be extremely non-hostile and friendly, like JD went through a very friendly interview with George Slopodopolous, who is nice enough to pay me $16 million ... he had to pay $16 million to me."

Blue rainbow turtles @smolsquirtle.bsky.social · 1d

Things looking good for the “fell for it again award” factory.

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Blue rainbow turtles @smolsquirtle.bsky.social · 1d

“In a more true way” sent my eyebrows to the stratosphere.

No, you don’t get to say wrong things and then act like some knower of truth.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 1d

From 2011 to 2022, per the @kansasreflector.com, Kansas' DMV issued 9,316,937 driver's licenses.

During that same timeframe, 380 residents sought to change their gender marker—just 0.004% of all licenses.

The GOP is warning of a "flood" of such changes if they don't re-ban the practice.

The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 1d

Holdouts are making it hard for the Kansas GOP to pass a new gerrymander, so party leaders are offering a new incentive: agree to convene a special session and we'll hold a vote on banning trans people from changing their gender on their driver's licenses.

We explain it all in today's Digest →

Morning Digest, sponsored by Campaign Legal Center: What's more important to the GOP than gerrymandering? Anti-trans laws

Kansas Republicans fear a "flood" of trans people wanting to change their driver's licenses

www.the-downballot.com

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Avery Farman @averyfarman.bsky.social · 1d

COVID. The delay was due to the COVID pandemic.

Remember - when Mike's smirkin', he's lyin'. He thinks he's getting away with it, and the thrill of it shows on his smarmy little face.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "With regard to Grijalva, our dear friend Julia Letlow won a special election in 2021. Speaker Pelosi took 25 days to administer the oath of office to her. No Democrats jumped up and down and screamed about that ... you do it as soon as you're able to do it."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

Read my words. Ty.

Arrests and Protests at the Broadview ICE Facility

The Department of Homeland Security says that eleven people were arrested Saturday at a protest outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

www.turtlediaries.net

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Blue rainbow turtles @smolsquirtle.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like an awfully racist law, as immigration officers will undoubtedly target non-white people at astronomically higher rates than white people. Even under a “normal” admin.

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 3d

The Supreme Court is so illegitimate that cases are often about fictional matters with plaintiffs who have been harmed in no way, now to the point where they are not aware that they are plaintiffs in a Supreme Court case.

Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 3d

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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Kerr Avon ♨️ @kerravon.bsky.social · 2d

Briahna Joy Gray was repeatedly dismissive of the stakes re: the Supreme Court during the 2016 campaign and afterward, insisting that it wasn't a good enough reason to vote for Hillary.

And when people mocked her tweets to this effect after the Dobbs ruling, she quietly deleted them.

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Blue rainbow turtles @smolsquirtle.bsky.social · 2d

More than that, Hamas just gave away their leverage so there’s very little incentive for Netanyahu to not “finish the job”, as peace-loving trump put it.

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