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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12h

So this time the boat *wasn't even moving*.

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Call Me Maybe @sousleradar.bsky.social · 11h

Hope this story is followed and they tell us how much he actually pays, if any.

Josh Campbell @joshscampbell.bsky.social · 16h

The Supreme Court just declined an appeal from right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. He was seeking to overturn a $1.4 billion libel judgment over his lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/p...

Supreme Court rebuffs Alex Jones’ effort to overturn $1.4 billion Sandy Hook judgment | CNN Politics

The Supreme Court declined an appeal from Alex Jones on Tuesday, brushing aside the right-wing conspiracy theorist’s effort to overturn a $1.4 billion libel judgment a lower court ordered against him ...

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 12h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

trib.al

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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social · 11h

Latest: ICE has sent more migrants down to Guantanamo Bay, repopulating the holding site for detainees designated for deportation for the first time in nearly two weeks.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

ICE Sends More Migrants to Guantánamo Bay, Resumes Operations

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Truth Social(ist) @twitterrefugeeog.bsky.social · 13h

This idiot keeps bragging about the 20 hostages being released in another country while he's kidnapping thousands of people a day here in America.

Fuck him and the fascism he rode in on.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12h

israel has already broken the ceasefire

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

incredible to see one of my posts on fox news

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13h

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 1d

“The water situation in South Texas is about as dire as I’ve ever seen it,” said Mike Howard, chief executive of Howard Energy Partners, a private energy company that owns several facilities in Corpus Christi. “It has all the energy in the world, and it doesn’t have water.”

Exxon and Tesla.

This Texas Town Is an Energy Powerhouse. It’s Running Out of Water.

A severe drought has Corpus Christi scrambling to meet growing demand from companies like Exxon and Tesla that have invested billions of dollars in the region.

www.wsj.com

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

Swift announced both projects on “Good Morning America” Monday morning, more than a week after she released her record-breaking “The Life of a Showgirl” album.

Taylor Swift ‘Eras Tour’ Documentary, New Concert Film Head To Disney+ In December: What We Know

Swift announced both projects on “Good Morning America” Monday morning, more than a week after she released her record-breaking “The Life of a Showgirl” album.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think you can “abuse” your right to protest

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Call Me Maybe @sousleradar.bsky.social · 1d

How sad.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Call Me Maybe @sousleradar.bsky.social · 1d

It was said that they did not the think the explosion caused the fire, rather that the fire caused the explosion and they found no evidence of arson. However that was about 48 hours afterwards and I don’t know if there was an update.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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Call Me Maybe @sousleradar.bsky.social · 1d

Even a vote on the files doesn’t mean they will be released. If the DOJ refuses, no one will hold them accountable.

Call Me Maybe @sousleradar.bsky.social · 1d

We’ll see if the war is over. We’ll see.

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Call Me Maybe @sousleradar.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed. I’m so sick of them posting stupid memes and saying he’s so brilliant.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Some CDC layoffs from last week have been reversed. But not for the analysts responsible for monitoring and protecting the United States from biological, chemical and nuclear threats www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Hundreds of CDC layoffs reversed, but biodefense preparedness staff hit

More than half of the roughly 1,300 CDC layoff notices have been rescinded, but workers at health agencies who work on biodefense and mental health still lost their jobs.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Call Me Maybe @sousleradar.bsky.social · 1d

I bet the blue eyeshadow looked great on you! But seriously, feel better soon! I got mine early this year because a coworker had flu b back in mid-Sept.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

FLORIDA now requires public schools to share space with charter schools, and “one charter operator intends to occupy space in more than 100 public schools (!)” 🤔

Privatizing public schools at breakneck speed, filling their pockets with taxpayer funds. www.fox13news.com/news/charter...

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Call Me Maybe @sousleradar.bsky.social · 1d

Right? I’m still kind of shocked that it hasn’t happened already.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo says that American bishops need to be more vocal and support migrant communities from being abducted by ICE in US cities

"Important that we as church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what's going on in some cities in the US"

"The church cannot be silent"

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David Earl Williams III @dewforpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

The Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, The Atlantic, and even Newsmax refused to sign the Pentagon’s new press policy, citing First Amendment concerns. The rules would bar reporters from seeking or publishing any information not explicitly approved by the Defense Department.

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information

Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas

www.theguardian.com

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