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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4h

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20h

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19h

What did Tom Homan do with the $50K he took in a CAVA bag from undercover FBI agents?

Just keep asking this everyday. Its a big scandal they can't escape because Pam Bondi and her DOJ killed the investigation. They're cornered on this and the Epstein Files.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 5h

14 October 1943 | At 15.30 prisoners of the German extermination center at #Sobibor began a revolt. Most of the SS guards were killed. Around 300 prisoners managed to escape, some 50 of them survived the war.

Learn more: https://t.co/YxFnsWN4lI

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 21h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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WIRED @wired.com · 13h

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted. www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.

www.wired.com

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Tina- Descendant Of Antifa Soldiers @trcfwtt.bsky.social · 12h

Bravo to HBO for exposing our corrupt, broken prison system. youtu.be/xRNND_uve8I?...

The Alabama Solution | Official Trailer | HBO

YouTube video by HBO

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The Economist @economist.com · 5h

Gaza is awash with guns and desperate people, and Hamas has no interest in relinquishing its weapons. More repression and chaos may await the devastated strip

Fighting flares in Gaza as Donald Trump says “The war is over”

Clashes between Hamas and armed gangs threaten his peace plan

econ.st

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Stuart Davidson @stutheeditor.bsky.social · 9h

Happy Battle of Hastings Day. 959 years ago today.

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DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 9h

NY AG Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social

NY AG Letitia James speaks after DOJ indictment

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 11h

You're going to be a villain in your abuser’s story regardless so you might as well be the villain for exposing them and healing loudly.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 13h

Things to do in the future:

1. Putting them all on trial for crimes against humanity at the Hague

2. Totally reforming entire government to root out corruption and abuse of power so this bullshit never happens again

3. At some point you’d imagine, brunch

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 11h

War torn Portland.
I am

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

It is a disgrace that Fox continues to put them on constantly day after day to spew their propaganda to their friends when Hegseth & Wilson are afraid to face real press and are obviously in the process of covering a lot up that they don’t want the American people to know.

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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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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

( ht: @tizzywoman.bsky.social )

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 6h

The aftermath of the Russian attack on #Kharkiv last night:

"First, there was an explosion somewhere nearby, and then… I don't remember anything. The glass cut my legs. It was terrible, just terrible," says one of the victims of the Russian strike on the hospital grounds in Kharkiv.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11h

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SiriusXM Urban View @urbanviewradio.bsky.social · 1d

Right now: @trymainelee.bsky.social joins @shawnarenee.bsky.social to talk about his new book, A Thousand Ways to Die on #UrbanViewMornings.

Listen now on channel 126 and the SiriusXM app, search Urban View Morning.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 14h

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

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steelblue13.bsky.social @steelblue13.bsky.social · 5h

Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW): (734) 247-7678

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We Are Saners @wearesaners.bsky.social · 16h

Hey, Mayor of Chicago! Can you have your police arrest the guy who murdered Silverio Villegas González? And put the killer’s ass in jail? And have the DA file charges against the killer?

DO IT NOW! We The People are FURIOUS.

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 1d

Fox News Catches Sears in an Outright Lie About Virginia’s Unemployment Rising Under Her Watch - @vademocrats.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2025/10/vide...

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