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McKenzie Funk @mckenziefunk.com · 16/10/2025

The reality of Kavanaugh stops: American citizens dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, and shot by immigration agents. Citizens held in the rain while in their underwear. A pregnant citizen's door blown off while Kristi Noem watched. Important story by @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org

Screenshot of the article by Nicole Foy of ProPublica:
"When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned.

“If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.”

But that is far from the reality many citizens have experienced. Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. One of those women had already had the door of her home blown off while Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem watched.

About two dozen Americans have said they were held for more than a day without being able to phone lawyers or loved ones."

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 07/10/2025

every time you read a story about how no-strings-attached direct payments to vulnerable, marginalized or otherwise needy people are a big net profit to the society disbursing them, and you ask "why doesn't america do that?", please know that this is the answer why

mac from always sunny saying "but who versus? who are we doing it versus?" because he cannot understand a plan that does not have a victim

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

This is really a stark example of abject political cowardice and how the administration brings it out of people January 2025: introduces legislation making reparations for the Wounded Knee Massacre Yesterday: I don’t have an opinion on calling it a battle

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that bsky.app/profile/qjur...

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Gutted to hear that Kaleb Horton has died. He was a generationally talented writer and a great guy. This fucking sucks.

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wezeldog @wezeldog.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

RIP Kaleb Horton. A singular talent

Screenshot of tweet from Kaleb Horton:

Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton
2 hours ago
Life Update: I just had a really complicated nightmare that I had to take Danny Bonaduce to the airport, and I woke up in a full body sweat.

Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton
2 hours ago
He kept making me stop in all these alleyways and saying "I'm Danny Bonaduce and you do what I say and keep the engine running."

Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton
43 minutes ago
And the worst part is that it's just a nightmare for me, but it's real life for dozens of cab drivers all over America.

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Rick Paulas @rickpaulas.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Kaleb Horton was an incredible writer with each new piece appointment reading, but I personally was so inspired by his photography. I had an album of his photos saved on my phone that I’d use as inspiration when writing myself. I needed him to put out that book.

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DVS @dvsblast.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

if the democrats want to build lasting power they gotta put out a big thing of spaghetti while they do speeches and anyone can have. Later, in the booth, voters are like "oh yea...the spaghetti guys..."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 24/09/2025

Friday: a prosecutor is forced to resign bc he concludes there's not enough evidence to go after Trump's perceived enemies Saturday: Trump makes public post asking Attorney General why she hasn't gone after his enemies Wednesday: DOJ says enemy indictment coming right up sir do I have that right?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 24/09/2025

NJ PBS shutting down next summer. “15yrs ago Gov. Christie ended 4 decades of state funding for public TV, forcing them to find a new funder. The state cut $750k in funding this yr, but that was hardly the fatal blow; that came from the end of federal funds.” newjerseyglobe.com/media/new-je...

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New Jersey PBS shutting down in July - New Jersey Globe

New Jersey PBS is expected to cease operations in July 2026 following WNET's decision not to renew its agreement, the New Jersey Globe has learned. The

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

“Did Jesus not fuck?” post locked after 647 pages of heated debate

aquaflv Follow
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really recommend getting a partner with a different religion than you and very little knowledge of your religion because the opportunities for explaining things to each other are just exquisite
aquaflv
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yesterday she told me some story about the Buddha's wife and child and I was like. Wait. He fucked? And she was like yeah of course he fucked, why wouldn't he, he was the most attractive and loveable and and wise and etc. person who ever lived. why would he not fuck.
aquaflv
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© 2 Apr
this morning she looked perplexed in the kitchen at me and said "did Jesus not fuck?"

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

It was only last month that a guy mad about covid vaccines fired 500 rounds into the CDC building in Atlanta, btw

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JacketDan’s Stunt Spooktacular @jacketdan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Violence is unacceptable unless you’re living in an encampment and then it should be acceptable for the Governor to drive an MRAP over you as a publicity stunt

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

hey im putting something together for my boss for his birthday. yeah can you write a letter or better yet an insane poem or horrifying drawing about the unspeakable crimes you all have committed together

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

"school shooting industry"

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Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

ASSHOLES!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/09/2025

i am watching clips from the kennedy hearing and one thing that comes across is his petulance at being challenged. he is like an overgrown baby (if that baby were a hot dog you grilled too long)

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Every person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that: a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2025

jesus christ

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The Supreme Court keeps yelling at the district courts for not understanding that the new rule is to decide in favor of the Trump administration and their allies in every case regardless of the facts or the substance of the law.

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The Project 2025 crew was banking on large numbers of Black people being out in the streets ala Ferguson/George Floyd and that was going to be the pretext to declare martial law. We’re not playing ball and they’re getting impatient so now they’re sending troops to where we are.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/08/2025

The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

mocking people’s concern for their own lives just doesn’t hit like it used to

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

If he was going around saying 25 year old women are too young to make decisions about abortion, I wonder if he’d have such diehard lib support. Bodily autonomy is bodily autonomy.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Took about nine of them all bunched up to do it, too. Like kindergartners playing soccer

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Just think, if we privatized Social Security, the average retiree could pay over $100k to Wall Street over their lifetime cepr.net/publications... That's pretty damn MAGA!

cepr.net

Donald Trump Wants to Take Your Social Security to Give Even More Money to Wall Street

Trump’s “Trump Accounts” plan would privatize Social Security, driving up costs and boosting Wall Street profits.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The next James Bond should be a short, elderly, extremely nearsighted man who survives adventures he is unaware of through sheer luck

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All
12 Suffer from Other Health Problems.
A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments.
By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova
08.17.25 -Israel and Antisemitism

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/08/2025

continue to think that a major issue is the extent to which too many elected democrats are mentally captive to the politics of the 1980s and 1990s in ways that leave them unable to try new things

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

"Liberals already ruined it" shows the plot here. These aren't impartial law enforcement officers protecting all citizens. They are partisan paramilitary militia, terrorizing domestic opponents.

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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Once you understand that a driving principle of American politics is there is no such thing as a compassionate solution that's cheap enough or a cruel solution that's too expensive, a lot of things click into place.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

"Tom, the crime is so bad in Washington D.C. that I am pissing my bed every single night. When I wake up in the morning, I am fully soaked from my chest to my toes. I spent $850 on sheets last month and nearly $1000 the month before that. And the Democrats won't do anything about it."

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

A Germany led by Adolf Hitler would never be competent. His entire conceit was that invading Russia would be a great idea that would obviously work and obviously his enemies were too weak and Jewish to stop him.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Conservative affirmative action is wild. They just let anyone do any job no matter their qualifications, so long as they’re loyal.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/08/2025

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

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