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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 3h

These are not just "young republicans", these are party leaders and staffers for members of congress.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 3h

Cruelty is the point

ACLU @aclu.org · 14h

Ticketing a lawful permanent resident for not carrying their papers is unnecessary and doesn't make our cities safer.

We will continue to push back against the Trump administration's cruel attempts to stoke fear in immigrant communities.

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

Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a second Trump administration, it was rarely enforced.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 4h

This couple was inevitable, hopefully it quickly transitions into free and open elections. The military is doing the right thing turning control over to a civilian government.
apnews.com/article/mada... Madagascar’s president is ousted in a military coup after weeks of youth-led protests

Madagascar's president is ousted in a military coup after weeks of youth-led protests

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has been toppled in a military coup that capped weeks of youth-led protests over poverty, power outages and a lack of opportunity in the Indian Ocean island countr...

apnews.com

Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 4h

I wish we had a Pentagon that was focused on protecting our country

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 5h

The corruption flowing through all aspects of the DOJ is mind-boggling. They are trying to prosecute people for doing their jobs, which in this case is removing excess paper because you do not want copies of classified docs flying around.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 6h

This is ridiculous

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h

The State Department said that it has revoked the visas of foreign nationals who had spoken out against Charlie Kirk. Senior officials within the department said they would move to deny or rescind visas for individuals who had criticized Kirk, this is a direct violations of the First Amendment.

US revokes visas for six foreigners over comments made about Charlie Kirk's death

The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it had revoked the visas of six foreigners over social media comments made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

www.reuters.com

Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 8h

This is literally made up to justify their using the military to kill random people in boats.

Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 9h

Really waiting for a brave soul in DHS to blow the whistle on *exactly* who is working up these too-convenient, obviously fake intel assessments.

Seriously, the one remaining constant in the US-narcocartel strategic balance is "don't kill US cops, remember how bad they fucked us up for Kiki"

Cartels issuing bounties up to $50,000 for hits on ICE, CBP agents: DHS

Drug cartels have "disseminated a structured bounty program to incentivize violence against federal personnel," according to a press release from DHS.

abcnews.go.com

Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 9h

10 out of 1,000, and that does not count the many citizens detained and held for days before being released.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 9h

Despicable

Politico @politico.com · 13h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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

Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 10h

Cut off our nose to spite our face. Climate change is a big national security and readiness issue for the military and this change hinders our troops. floodlightnews.org/pentagon-rol... Pentagon retreats from climate fight even as heat and storms slam troops

Pentagon retreats from climate fight even as heat and storms slam troops

For decades, the military treated climate change as a threat. Now it’s backing away from plans to protect people and bases from extreme weather.

floodlightnews.org

Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 12h

Accountability is gone and these dangerous people are allowed to flourish within ICE and other federal law enforcement

Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social · 1d

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor.

“He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said.

Read more at @windycitytimes.com

Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times

Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...

windycitytimes.com

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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 12h

This conversation never happened, he literally made it up.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 12h

This is someone whose blind racism has driven his false view on who immigrants are, even though the data shows that they are actually driven people who help drive our country forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump on immigrants: "They send up their worst people. They send up people that are criminals. They send up people from jails. And the best ones they send are people that don't work very hard and that are on a social form of welfare."

Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 12h

He literally has no idea what dollarization is

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: Would you support dollarization?

TRUMP: I would say that I'll leave that up to my economic people, but I like the dollar

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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 12h

This is the biggest threat to France since 1968 www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2... France contemplates the end of the Fifth Republic
Macronism is imploding and the entire French political system could die with it

Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 12h

Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 15h

This is just astonishing. Bezos has destroyed the Washington Post as an institution.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 16h

This is just dumb. Nice to see this is what he sees as a priority instead of reopening the government.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Just now— @SpeakerJohnson announces he will lead a global pressure campaign to get the narcissist-in-chief a Nobel Prize next year

(Also revealing he doesn’t understand what “objective facts” are)

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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 1d

I want the Brewers to win, but I really want to be able to use this gif tonight.

a group of men are sitting in a stadium watching a game and one of them says so what they 'll blow it

ALT: a group of men are sitting in a stadium watching a game and one of them says so what they 'll blow it

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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 1d

People are just unhappy that they did not pay attention in history classes.

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 1d

How did this not end his presidency? It would have ended any other one.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

oh. right.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 1d

Check out our gallery for just some of the ways people are celebrating #IndigenousPeoplesDay across Minnesota today.

Minnesota celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day

The second Monday of October is recognized as Indigenous Peoples Day in Minnesota. The day celebrates Indigenous culture, traditions and communities.

www.mprnews.org

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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 1d

Corruption www.wsj.com/politics/pol... Trump Allies Sold Sponsorships to What Appeared to Be a Treasury Event. It Wasn’t.

Exclusive | Trump Allies Sold Sponsorships to What Appeared to Be a Treasury Event. It Wasn’t.

The Treasury said it didn’t approve a marketing pitch for a private Oct. 21 event about AI that is headlined by Scott Bessent.

www.wsj.com

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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 1d

Beyond cruel

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 1d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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