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Scholars debate exactly how good conditions were for religious minorities in Islamic Al-Andalus, but everyone agrees it was better for Jews than Christian rule. It takes some chutzpah for a Catholic priest to go to Jerusalem and say this, given what happened to the Jews when Catholics took Spain.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

For the love of God, stop saying this regime's ruthless authoritarianism "raises questions" and start telling us what answers you have for us. If you can't do that, get the fuck out of the way.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 8h

This is NOT an ad for @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social’s new documentary “MUSK” (in theaters now). We are promoting it for free. Join us right here on October 20, 2026 at 9am Pacific/noon Eastern for a livestream hosted by @niedermeyer.online.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5h

its very convenient when people admit their crimes like this, if only there were actually going to be consequences, its a shame crime is legal

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

"What Metro Surge showed the world is that people do not want to watch their neighbors be brutalized, shot, and torn from their homes, and no amount of Trump posting on Truth Social is ever going to change that"

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Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait.

We love our Somali neighbors.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

An important bit of immigration law which is relevant here; there is already a waiver process — Section 212(k) of the INA — by which immigrants who obtain status through fraud that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card. So this is *even weaker* than it already seems.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 8h

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7h

I would love, absolutely love, at least one prominent contender for the Dem POTUS nomination in 2028 to start threatening this now. "Trump is right that lying on immigration forms is a serious offense. Here are the people my DOJ will investigate on Day 1: Musk, Melania, etc." Put fear in them NOW.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Looking forward to the same scrutiny being impartially applied to Elon Musk and Melania Trump, whose immigration documents are much much worse than anything alleged about Omar's father

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Zelensky on bombing the Russian data centers: “It’s pretty clear where the bots were coming from.”

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11h

This is a significant worsening of our current state of constitutional collapse. I know it feels like there are so many, and there are, but in terms of crossing the Rubicon moments this one's up there.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11h

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

Judge Reyes says that if her current order is violated by "even two seconds" that there WILL be contempt proceedings.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

She keeps shouting at the DOJ attorney for not immediately calling plaintiffs and notifying the court the MOMENT they found out what the NPS was going to do late on Oct 8. DOJ's attorney responds and says "we did our best" and Reyes responds: "You did not do your best. You did your absolute worst."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

"Do you know why I am furious right now? [Plaintiffs said that this would happen]... I said repeatedly no, I trust the government. I trusted you all not to do precisely what you have done."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

"You cannot think, given the history of this litigation, and everything I have said, and the number of times I have said it, and the amount of benefit of the doubt I have given the government, no one should have overlooked the fact that the plaintiffs should have been given notice immediately."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

I think we've gone past "pretty close to outright shouting" to outright shouting. She's currently excoriating DOJ for delay. "Do you have email accounts? Do you have cell phones? Do you have regular phones? Do you have the ability to get into a car and go to where plaintiffs are and tell them?"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

Judge Reyes is pretty close to outright shouting at the DOJ right now. She is clearly *furious.*

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

Judge Reyes' opening statement to the DOJ as the hearing begins: "I am thoroughly unamused right now."

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 11h

Judge Reyes has ordered cessation of all tree removal at the golf course until at least tomorrow. Also provides remote call-in number for hearing on temporary restraining order. She wants to know, inter alia, who ordered tree removal & how long govt attys have known of this plan.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21h

Whitehouse: If some MAGA official communicated to Judge Rao or her chambers, and that kept the facts from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation and stalled the investigation into misconduct… Popok: People are going to jail.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

before this is over i will not be surprised if trump cuts down every cherry tree he can find just to spite DC

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 21h

Here are the details: literally any time, any place, any network.

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

D+15 Midterm indicator

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22h

Brian Kilmeade is not putting up with Rachel Campos-Duffy’s propaganda. “It would be the biggest mistake of his administration to work with Russia. That is the modern Hitler of our generation.”

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Military-base housing is “reserved for military who have earned those quarters from fighting in wars and defending our country... They should not be used for people in the White House. It’s an abuse.” www.vanityfair.com/story/stephe...

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MAGA’s Petit Trianon? Katie and Stephen Miller’s House on a Military Base

From her house on a military base, Katie Miller treats Washington’s most powerful to cakes, farm animals, and sake-squirting hibachi chefs. "I can’t fucking stand her,” says one ally. But "Stephen Mil...

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is what happens when you elevate “civil discourse” to be the greatest good. All of the sudden, it’s worse to call someone a Nazi than it is to be a Nazi.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026

The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Not only should brooks and others shut up. But Ossoff is the best example in the country of a Democrat playing dominance politics and using it to control the whole terms of his race.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Fox is garbage.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/10/2026

🚨 WTF! Trump's new White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia has been EXPOSED promoting Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories—including claims that Democrats are child-eating cannibals. And her posts about Trump's secret signals are even more bizarre.

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Trump's New Press Secretary Exposed as Pizzagate and QAnon Conspiracy Peddler

Katie Zacharia pushed claims about child-eating Democrats, secret Trump signals and stolen elections before landing the White House podium.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Well, it’s a quick take, and no doubt data will come in, but it sure looks like based on today’s evidence that a lot of pro-Trump and pro-AfD bot work depends directly on Russian data centers.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...

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ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO

Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Greedy bastard.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Talarico: I've heard credible reports that Ken Paxton has a serious medical condition that causes clinical levels of cowardice. People are concerned. He has asked for proof of life from me. I'm asking for proof of spine from him.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/10/2026

Elon Musk and MAGA influencers tried to push a “BOMBSHELL” to destroy James Talarico. Then their smear fell apart under the most basic scrutiny. Now THEIR tactics are raising serious legal questions—and one admitted “public humiliation” was the goal. This backfired spectacularly.

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MAGA Sleuths' Talarico 'Bombshell' Blows Up in Their Faces

Elon Musk and his MAGA pals pounced on a supposed bombshell. Then came the inconvenient facts.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

just a heads up, the alt-right is descending into florid insanity over increasingly absurd conspiracy theories about James Talarico having the flu I think it was @jamellebouie.net who said Texas is a critical part of the conservative mythos and losing the state will break the party in absurd ways

gotta say, seeing the alt-right descend into florid insanity over increasingly absurd conspiracy theories about James Talarico catching the flu is one of the more bizarre discourse cycles I’ve seen in a while

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

The usual suspects create the lie, the usual suspects push the lie, the usual sheep believe the lie. The MAGA cult is a cesspool of lies.

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Nick (derogatory) 🎃 @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In my mind the defining feature of Trump II is that is ✨actually✨ a kakistocracy. RFK Jr and Russ Vought have very little in common politically, but they do share one essential quality: they are absolutely the worst person alive for the jobs they have.

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Nick (derogatory) 🎃 @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Do I think Trump is a Nazi? No. His animal brain doesn’t permit him to claim anything so specific. But his governing instincts are clearly fascist and his electoral success has culled actual Nazis out from society’s wretched little crevices and into the open.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Still out there peddling his vile "Both Sides" snake oil decades after the sell-by date on that lie expired. Still revered by the ossified media and treated as a sage by clueless, wealthy political shut-ins and cowards.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

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