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Chuck Schumer — one of the most powerful Democrats in the country — has not issued statements to the press or through his social media channels about the administration’s attack on Ilhan Omar, which critics have described as a five alarm fire for the state of democracy in the U.S.

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Chuck Schumer Hasn’t Said a Word About Trump’s Attempt to Deport Ilhan Omar

Ethics lawyers say the raid violated the Hatch Act. Schumer has been silent.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 4h

I know America. I know that, in America, we believe in a country big enough for all of us. So, JD Vance, don't you dare come from Ohio to lecture me. You don't know a damn thing about America.

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Barbara Banfield @barbbanfieldrn.bsky.social · 56m

If you throw trans people under the bus there is no we, just us and them.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3h

If you would try to win by abandoning trans people (or any targeted group) you can save this “we need to win” talk; there is no “we.” I am about solidarity, and you have chosen anti-solidarity. You are not any “we” I recognize. You are the enemy I’m trying to defeat. Beating you is how my “we” wins.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

guess who is all smiles with Katie out of the picture! #TravelWithNatalie (Eric Lee/Getty)

pic of Susie Wiles and Ms Harp walking to Bribe Force One, with Harp beaming

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Barbara Banfield @barbbanfieldrn.bsky.social · 59m

You are correct. I grew up before the vaccines and we had chickenpox parties but NO measles, mumps, or rubella parties because they were known to cause serious problems. I had all 4 diseases and mumps was the absolute worst for me. Do not recommend.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 3h

Based on their public comments, NYT leaders view the kind of insider details discovered by Haberman and others as essential to understanding Trump. I don't think that's correct. Public documents (Project 2025) and events (Jan 6, DOGE) to me describe this presidency better than insider accounts.

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Barbara Banfield @barbbanfieldrn.bsky.social · 1h

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s sister went BLIND from the measles back in the ‘good old days’ of pioneer living. Her father got Gullaine-Barré lower body paralysis after having diphtheria. Fun times!

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 3h

"When I was a kid, nobody died of measles." Yes, because WE GAVE EVERYONE A VACCINE TO PREVENT DEATHS FROM MEASLES.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

i got a notification that i am tagged on this and burst out laughing when i looked at it

Dr. Nate Lichtman
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BREAKING: Based on information obtained from multiple independent sources, I can confirm that the White House has narrowed its search for President Trump’s next Press Secretary to four finalists:

Sydney Sweeney, Alix Earle, Kate Upton, and Scott Jennings.

No other candidates are currently believed to be under serious consideration.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

however richly some of them deserve it, it’s notably only the women of the administration being fired over its poor performance to date

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Barbara Banfield @barbbanfieldrn.bsky.social · 1h

The only thing I would consider wearing the facial internet recording device for is monitoring ICE. They really come after you if they see you recording them with a phone.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

really funny how the "YOU'RE FIRED!" guy has such a hard time firing people. they way he pushed out Katie today was as passive aggressive as it gets

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 15/10/2026

They took Ilhan’s PASSPORT?! Um

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 15/10/2026

So this is an illegal fishing expedition to find a pretext to deport a sitting member of Congress. Everyone should be up in fucking arms about this.

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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 21h

alt text in the attached image (From quoted post)

A typed-up letter:
Dear beautiful women,
I've started this letter like ten times and deleted it every time because very time I start I cry. So I'm just going to write it.
Your flag matters to me. It matters so much that it's flying at a lesbian household where anyone walking by can see it.
I'm a trans girl so I'm not sure you can relate but I'll try. Most days I'm doing math in my head like which hallway is safer, who I can sit near at lunch whether it's worth saying something or just letting it go. I'm so tired. I don't think people who don't have to do it know how tired it makes you.
I walk past your house almost daily. The first time I saw the flag I slowed down without meaning to. It was just hanging there like it was no big deal but to me it was everything. It felt like the people inside would see me as who I actually am and I wouldn't have to explain or prove anything. My shoulders dropped for the first time all day and I almost cried right there in front of your home.
I know that living here isn't easy for gay people like you where not everyone is kind about it so putting that flag up means risking stares, comments or worse. You did it anyway, and that is the bravest thing I've seen anyone do. Every day it stays up it tells people like me that someone is willing to be brave so we don't have to be alone. Now I look for it. Some days it's the one thing that makes me feel like I'm not imagining that I deserve to be here. When so much of the world feels like it's deciding whether there's room for me your flag says there is. Please keep it up. You might not know it but it's helping me get through the day.
Thank you for your courage, and for leaving the porch light on for the rest of us.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 7h

“that no one is aware of” is so incredible

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 7h

Somebody else called it “deadbeat dad governing”, and that’s just perfect. “It’s not my fault. It’s your Mom’s fault. In two weeks, I promise. You heard that wrong. I never said that. The judge was unfair.”

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 5h

the fact that everyone always frames Texas as Lucy & the Football instead of a mountain we've been working to climb is a perfect example. Instead of "man we got closer to the summit this time, let's regroup" the narrative is, "god we got fooled into thinking it would happen AGAIN, we're idiots"

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 5h

no matter what happens on election night, these bozos had their hands on every single lever of power. they had all of our most powerful institutions tripping over themselves to comply. they had the media swearing that we were in a new golden age of conservatism. now they're worrying about NEBRASKA

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 5h

we're only idiots if we think we should be able to be victorious in every race the first time we try. we're only idiots if we think it's only worth it to try when we're sure we're going to win. they're spending millions of dollars to try to stave us off in TEXAS AND KANSAS. that's winning already.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 5h

Excellent reporting by @cerisecastle.bsky.social here. Reminded of how in 2011 Egyptian police explicitly targeted protesters' eyes during the revolution, blinding or partially blinding dozens.

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Tim Murphy @tmurp1953.bsky.social · 5h

The only U.S. ally in this story is Russia! Every media outlet and every citizen needs to acknowledge and shout from the rooftops: Trump & Putin are allies! Trump is committing treason right under our noses, and not for the first time! Meanwhile, congress does nothing except aid & abet Trump!!!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "I told Katie that in my opinion she was treated very very unfairly by the news. Let's call it the fake news. I said, 'Katie, do you need this? I don't think you need this.' We're talking about doing something. I want her to have a good life. She's being brutalized by the media."

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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 4h

I can see since Columbine that our unique issue of painful and devastating School Shootings Starts and could hopefully end in American Classrooms We should teach our children to have good mental health just like we do other subjects We must try something, anything is better than nothing

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4h

What’s astounding to me is how “the president builds himself a palace with money given directly to him in secret by the richest people in America,” literally the most straightforward and worst executive-branch corruption story in US history, just gets shrugged at because Trump is unapologetic

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 4h

that was fast.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4h

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump signals his embattled press secretary Katie Zacharia is on the way out, only a week after he named her to the job.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 15/10/2026

ICE this fall has used a warehouse in Roxbury, New Jersey, for processing immigrants its agents have arrested, federal officials recently acknowledged.

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ICE admits to using Roxbury, NJ warehouse site to process immigrants

The agency is under a court order not to use the site for detaining arrestees, but acknowledged it processed immigrants there on at least two occasions.

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Old Man Yood, BLM, Slava Ukraini @dooy4america.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Absodamnedlutely true 😡 Wish we could take away his US citizenship and then deport him! 😡

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

As the Trump regime imposes tariffs on Canada, backs separatists and threatens Europe over closer ties with Ottawa, Prime Minister Mark Carney is pursuing a major economic and security partnership with the EU to reduce Canada's dependence on the rogue US. #cdnpoli

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Canada turns to EU as Trump threat grows and Musk pushes foreign destabilisation operation

US officials met Alberta separatists three times in 2025, Russian-linked networks targeted the province's referendum debate and Elon Musk called for three provinces to leave Canada. Albertans vote on ...

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Barbara Banfield @barbbanfieldrn.bsky.social · 23h

It is Halloween season after all.

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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I'm not quite sure what we're looking at, here. And I'm a little bit frightened.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I don't think most Americans understand yet what a global laggard the USA is turning into here. Media instead told us that electric vehicles were a fad that didn't work.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I know you all think Vance is a chump. But ask the Haitian migrants in Springfield whether what he does has any effect. He wants attention on his words, not the regime's actions.

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MS NOW @ms.now · 15/10/2026

BREAKING: Police are responding to a report of an active shooter at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon. Multiple people have been injured, including children, and the suspected shooter has been shot and killed, according to authorities. This is a developing story. www.ms.now/news/shootin...

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DBeach @beachnic.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I know every generation has their whiny "kids these days" gripes but I do think this will become a problem for humanity long term. www.wsj.com/opinion/amer...

Daniel Akst’s book review—“Is Reading a Dead Letter?” (Bookshelf, Oct. 8) of James Marriott’s “The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society”—paints a disturbing picture of what is rapidly becoming an illiterate society.

As a professor in my 57th year at Johns Hopkins, I can report that neither Mr. Akst’s review nor Mr. Marriott’s book exaggerate. When I arrived, a green rookie, I asked a Hopkins legend and great pedagogue, Prof. G. Wilson Shaffer, for advice. He counseled that, for the best results, one should throw students into the deep end of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library and see if they can swim. Shaffer’s method worked like a charm.

But, about 10 years ago, I detected that troubles were brewing. I would ask students, juniors and seniors, to return library books for me, and they would ask where the library was. The first few times this happened, I thought they were pulling my leg. But they weren’t. They informed me that they had never been in the library. When I asked whether they had ever read a book that wasn’t a textbook, the shocking answer was often “no.”

Unfortunately, with each passing year, the descent into a “culture of illiteracy” has only accelerated.

Prof. Steve H. Hanke

The Johns Hopkins University

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Kaja Kallas: “A large part of the financing of Russia’s war comes from oil revenues. [...] We must put pressure on the aggressor to stop the war, not force the victim to surrender. Putting pressure on Ukraine is the wrong approach,” she said at an EU summit in Brussels.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

More than 1.5 million people have watched our video on how the Roberts court has ushered in a new era of Jim Crow. See why youtube.com/shorts/QVBHg...

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Jim Crow 2.0 is here

YouTube video by Mother Jones

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liz hoOolmes 👻 stan account @theranos.top · 15/10/2026

they hate to see a baddie winning 😔

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Would be very cool if the democrats acted as if they believed this is a bad thing and a serious problem

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

all of us just watched these university admins wield enormous power against palestinian student orgs, including unaffiliated ones, so these excuses land flatter than ever

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