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Matt Separa @mattsepara.bsky.social · 16h

He's literally doing the @internethippo.bsky.social meme

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 6h

WTF

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 6h

Ugh. Using the word “thought police” because someone is mad about something you said on social media is quite a red flag.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 14h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 6h

This is a really well done—I hope it catches on: A silent roadside protest staged over the weekend in Westerville, Ohio, and posted to the Facebook page of the Westerville Progressive Alliance.
www.youtube.com/shorts/TpZFS...

Signs of Fascism!

YouTube video by COOLHAND

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Max Bernhard @mxbernhard.bsky.social · 23h

Seems like the worst time to start sharing your citizens' biometric data with the US government

Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · Aug 29

The EU-Commission wants to negotiate a very sensitive agreement that would allow US authorities direct (!) access to police-stored fingerprints & facial images in Europe.
Potentially, all travelers could be affected by this #EBSP – and people in need for protection.
digit.site36.net/2025/08/29/e...

"Border Security" with USA: Brussels ready to give deep access to biometric data in EU states | Matthias Monroy

The European Commission wants to negotiate an agreement that would allow US authorities direct access to police-stored fingerprints and facial images in Europe. Potentially, all travelers could be…

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NPR @npr.org · 10h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 11h

Effing goons

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 15h

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

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 16h

Every day that passes I am more convinced of two things:

1) This regime’s attempt to consolidate and hold power is going to collapse in truly spectacular fashion

2) That collapse is going to be astoundingly dangerous and destructive

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

okay one time talking about heaven is just a random thought word vomited into the world. This is what? the third or fourth time?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 9h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Joe Haydu @joehaydu.bsky.social · 6h

The address and number of the detention center are at this link, it’s a city run facility if anyone wants to call and give them an earful for helping traffic kidnapped youth: www.winchesterva.gov/Government/D...

Juvenile Detention Center

The Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center to provide a safe and secure setting that offers opportunities for success and personal growth. The NRJDC provides the temporary secure care and cus...

www.winchesterva.gov

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 13h

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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Tom Theuns @tomtheuns.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased frogs are being rehabilitated after years in Pepe meme hell

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9h

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 12h

Of all the things to protest in CHICAGO right now these fools picked...Kamala Harris

Screenshot of NBC news alert stating "Protesters repeatedly interrupted former Vice President Kamala Harris' book tour stop in Chicago. Attendees chanted for their removal as some protesters voiced concerns about mass deportation and genocide in Gaza."

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 8h

Can’t prove a counterfactual but I do sometimes wonder where we’d be if they had just stuck with “these fuckers are weird as hell” for like a few more weeks

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 8h

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 15h

I am simply begging everyone to at least *try* not to be an easy mark

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

If a pharmaceutical company could mass produce whatever compassion pills Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to have been taking lately, we could save the world

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 12h

It’s actually incredible that as a society we never managed to find the political will to force elected officials to tell the truth on TV.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 16h

Do we normally see Justices appear on programs to sell books?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

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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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

Sometimes nowadays Watergate can feel almost quaint, but this is a good refresher on Nixon's corruption and poor character, and how Nixon wrote the playbook in many ways for Trump. ICYMI @jilldlawrence.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-nixo...

Trump’s Abuses of Power Show We Didn’t Learn Much From the Nixon Era

That failure is implicit in nearly every frame of a new documentary about Katharine Graham.

www.thebulwark.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 16h

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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