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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 37m

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Stephanie Allen @socalstephanie.bsky.social · 1h

The disrespect.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 5h

Aside from losing many Democratic seats, Black representation in Congress will probably drop from around 14% of seats (nationally representative) to maybe 7 or 8% (not representative)?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 22h

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 7h

This is the guy Trump is relying on to pick federal judges

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 7h

“Banter”

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Stephanie Allen @socalstephanie.bsky.social · 7h

“The grid is a giant machine”

Cooked, folks.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

VARNEY: Do you want to cancel that huge solar project in Nevada? I think it's largest one in the US

BURGUM: We're taking a look- there's been no cancelization of Esmeralda yet

V: Is it your intention to get rid of wind and solar power completely?

B: It's about making sure we have a secure grid

Stephanie Allen @socalstephanie.bsky.social · 7h

The War Department is hiring!

Stenographers needed, inquire within.

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* Update: All but one of these mainstream media reporters at the Pentagon will turn in their credentials tomorrow because they refuse to sign the new War Department access agreement. Too bad. We need more independent journalists reporting from the War Department.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 10h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 8h

Remember, according to the Republican Justices, it's okay to gerrymander for party advantage, not racial advantage. It's an unknowable distinction, but one that allows the Republicans to okay racist gerrymandering under the guise of political gerrymandering.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h

We shouldn't kid ourselves into thinking that we will frown our way out of fascism. But we shouldn't think we should appease our way out either (on that point, Eric and I agree). But how will we "invent new forms of shared meaning" or enforce "reciprocal responsibility to care for one another"?

screenshot of Eric Reinhart's article, the bit that says: "Neither a return to paternal authority nor a stubborn defense of liberal civility can save us. Both are ethically compromised and historically obsolete. The task ahead is not to resurrect old affective and political tools but to invent new forms of shared meaning, reciprocal responsibility to care for one another, and collective commitments to protecting a universal right to individual difference—and freedom from economic and material oppression—powerful enough to inspire and sustain democratic life under contemporary conditions. This means building institutions capable of mediating difference without suppressing it, of sustaining a shared sense of reality without reimposing homogenizing violences of the past."

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 8h

"Opsec, how does it work??"

Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 1d

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Stephanie Allen @socalstephanie.bsky.social · 8h

I think we know which flag Martha will raise when the decision is handed down.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 9h

for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...

He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.

Thanks, SCOTUS.

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Stephanie Allen @socalstephanie.bsky.social · 9h

Reprehensible treatment of public servants. History will (hopefully) remember how many innocent, hardworking good people had their lives ruined by their own government and that elected republicans stood by and not only allowed it to happen, but cheered it on.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 9h

"The rest of us are in a panic. I think I may have been fired and I don’t have a way to find out. They sent the RIF notices to our official government emails which we don’t have access to.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Panic as US federal workers scramble to find out if they’ve been fired: ‘I don’t have email access’

Education department staff say they can’t access work emails amid the shutdown to check for layoff notices

www.theguardian.com

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Stephanie Allen @socalstephanie.bsky.social · 9h

Terrorizing children is necessary to gain access to all the domestic terrorists hiding in our schools is a real thing our government is saying.

Stephanie Allen @socalstephanie.bsky.social · 9h

Young Republican poasters are *really mad* in the replies of the apologies every state’s YR is postings, and you’d be unsurprised to learn they’re mad about the apology and not the story.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 10h

A defining feature of this admin is attacking as antisemitic everything they don’t like while constantly engaging in rank antisemitism.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Stephanie Allen @socalstephanie.bsky.social · 10h

And they’re giddy with excitement to be this close to fulfilling a lifelong project for 6 of them.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 20h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 1d

People are asking about the TRO being clearly violated, ABC tries to find the answer.

In a deflating segment we see it’s like asking the arson to arrest himself. Who holds the violators of federal orders accountable when it’s the feds themselves doing the violating?

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Stephanie Allen @socalstephanie.bsky.social · 1d

The state department should revoke his visa immediately

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Stephanie Allen @socalstephanie.bsky.social · 1d

Absolute madness.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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An Argentine national said that Kirk "devoted his entire life spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric" and deserves to burn in hell.
Visa revoked.
just came on here to say charlie kirk can rest in piss and yet again if you have any
empathy at all for people like this you can ahead and remove yourself as my friend. i do not give a f about the death of a person who devoted his entire life spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric. it's hot as f where this man currently is and it's deserved

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A South African national mocked Americans grieving the loss of Kirk, saying "they're hurt that the racist rally ended in attempted martyrdom" and alleging "he was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash."
Visa revoked.
Neanderthals can't have their cake & eat it... This weekend they went openly anti-black racist & now they're hurt that the racist rally ended in attempted martyrdom? Charlie Kirk won't be remembered as a hero. He was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash!
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A Brazilian national charged that "Charlie Kirk was the reason for a Nazi rally where they marched in homage to him" and that Kirk "DIED TOO LATE."
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A German national celebrated Kirk's death and attempted to justify his murder, writing "when fascists die, democrats don't complain."
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@POTUS and @SecRubio will defend our borders, our culture, and our citizens by enforcing our immigration laws.
Aliens who take advantage of America's hospitality while celebrating the assassination of our citizens will be removed.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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