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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 8h
so many of us saw this coming (Radley included), from January 2025:
newrepublic.com
The Laken Riley Act Spells Chaos for the Immigration System
The U.S. immigration system isn’t ready for the havoc and expense this bill could unleash. But the real pain will be felt by the immigrants the bill targets.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 11h
But giving water to voters waiting in long lines to vote is illegal
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h
This is exactly right. Think of what happened these last few years with gerrymandering. Republicans have been pushing the envelope in red states for more than a decade now, but as soon as Democrats pushed back they began to hesitate.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 7h
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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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 7h
Slavery was and is a real thing that has brutalized hundreds of millions of people over the course of human history, if someone tells me a fucking chatbot is enslaved I'm immediately throwing hands. It's not cute, it's not intriguing, it's an insult to real people who suffered and suffer now.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h
appears that hegseth impulsively blurted this out to look tough, but had not discussed it with others prior, causing admin to scramble. he did not think through the consequences of livestreaming. these do not seem like good qualities for someone making war-related decisions.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h
Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.
baltimorebrew.com
A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew
BREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20h
yeah it’s improper for someone not actually admitted to the bar to call themselves a lawyer but Trump’s attorneys are spitting directly in the faces of federal judges every day without consequence so I can see why she’d think she can get away with it
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a birb @rhiolit.bsky.social · 23h
worth also noting that both the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti happened in her district, and on top of the obviously racist targeting of her personally this is also an attempt to deny the people of Minneapolis their democratically elected representative
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/10/2026
I'll just point out once more: the Republican case to voters, today and for the last 50 years or so, relies on lies & falsehoods. If you could snap your fingers and force everyone to speak only the truth, Republicans would never win a national majority again. The lies are central & load-bearing.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
We're planning a public execution. We only admit white "refugees" from a former apartheid state. Our domestic security service uses white nationalist messaging. And the president routinely appears to encourage or endorse violence against his opponents & the media. Nothing subtle or complicated here.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
exactly the type of headline their "investigation" sought to generate. the same media that cast Bill Clinton having a chat with Loretta Lynch in 2016 as an egregious scandal of DOJ independence instead plays along with one of the most serious abuses of power in Presidential history. Why?
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Look: I lament to say that I am only three years younger than Trump. Zero times (0) in my experience has a doctor asked me to take a basic-cognition or dementia-screening test. We've mainly talked about what I was writing. Trump apparently gets these all the time. But not frequently enough.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Musk says he didn’t cut services to thwart Ukrainian self-defense, the US govt did. A senior US official says the Trump White House had nothing to do with that, implying Musk did it. A problem is they’re both serial liars, Putin sympathizers, and anti-democracy, so who knows.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
LMAOOOO namedrops Google telling everyone they're bitchmade and can't be trusted
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is straight up, plain and simple authoritarianism. This is the canonical impeachable offense
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Five hundred people on hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE concentration camp in Georgia.
thecurrentga.org
Approximately 500 participate in hunger strike at Folkston immigration detention center - The Current
Approximately 500 detainees at a private ICE facility in Folkston, Georgia, launched a hunger strike to protest poor living conditions and alleged asylum protocol violations while awaiting judicial he...
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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads
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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
ignoring all matters of morality and how much she's actually committed to even this little (not at all), it sticks out to me how nervous and hesitant she is to take any hard swings on other members of the biden admin, even when doing so would benefit her + also they didn't respect her like at all
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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The Atlantic is part of the elite media trend of redirecting the anti-AI backlash toward Black, Caribbean, and African targets. I will also note here that much of the human intelligence that is training the AI models is Black laborers working in digital sweatshops in Africa and Latin America.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Uhh
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Did everyone notice yesterday that the president admitted the entire "Russian diesel deal" thing is complete bullshit, none of the fuel is actually coming to the U.S. and obviously never was, and with a minimum of 40% of Russian refining capacity offline it probably does not exist at all.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
If reports of an end to intelligence sharing and Starlink access limits are confirmed, then the Trump admin has started helping Russia’s war effort. This a more harmful act against Ukraine than all the silly Witkoff/Kushner plans/trips put together. The US is trying to force Ukraine to surrender.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In dollar value, the Venezuela oil scheme ($13 billion) is TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE worse than Iran Contra ($140 million, inflation-adjusted). It's impossible to overstate how much MORE corrupt Trump is than every single American who has ever come before him. We're completely without precedent.
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egg16z 🥚 @notlikewe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I think people assume it’s hyperbole when I say it is critical for national security that we nationalize spacex but it very much is not hyperbole, it is an imperative
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
President Deals. the Economy Understander. finally someone in charge who understands Business and Money
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trump had people arrested to cover up his incompetence. An impeachable offense for any other president. For Trump, probably just about the 17th worst thing he did that week.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Democratic Failure to Prevent Conservatives From Lying Raises Ethical Questions About Talarico bsky.app/profile/shoe...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The US knows Ukrainian air defense relies on US early detection of Russian launches. Without telling Ukraine, the Trump White House (and Elon Musk's SpaceX) withheld that info and hindered countermeasures. The US just facilitated a Russian attack on Ukraine, making it more effective and deadlier.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
ESPN producer Nicole Noren quits over sports broadcasting's increasingly predatory promotion of gambling: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.”
cjr.org
Nicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”
Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/10/2026
my take on this remains consistent: far more americans are bigoted on this front than I'd like, but transphobia is a luxury belief it's the kind of thing you can get people mad about if and only if they don't have real problems to worry about, and there is no shortage of real problems right now
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Davor Mondom @dmondom.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Gotta post The Tweet™️
Chinese international student in my class was telling me about how his evangelical dad in Beijing believes that Trump was chosen by god to win the election, but that this victory is part of a larger divine plan to destroy the united states
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The only way to prevent geoengineering turning into a giant shitshow is to have a robust and credible planetary governance structure, but if we had one of those we would have already stopped climate change
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Steve Saidemonster 🧌🧛🦇⚰️👻👹 @smsaideman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Increasingly likely that if Texas does not go blue, it is because of stuff like this. This is the fundamental problem of American democracy at this moment--one party does not think that losing is normal and should be accepted. Democracy requires all parties accept electoral defeats.
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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC
BBC screengrab from within their Russell Brand trial coverage.  Image of Brand in 70s-style aviator glasses, with earpods in, blank expression. Long dark wavy hair, black and grey beard, dark unbuttoned shirt. All on a fire red/orange and black background
BBC logo top and centre, underneath a subdeck reading: Fame Under Fire. Then the headline 'Russell Brand On Trial'. 
The words 'fire'and 'trial' are coloured to look like they are glowing orange at the bottom
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 14/10/2026
Musk unilaterally shut off a defensive capability just as Russia attacked power plants with winter approaching I don't know why anyone trusted him before, but certainly nobody can afford an Elon Musk dependency after this
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars No individual should be able to disrupt military ops like Musk did with Ukraine’s. I wrote that when he did it in 2023. Was told the problem was contract rules. Nope. Happened again. The problem is too much power, esp for an enemy of democracy.
thedailybeast.com
The U.S. Government Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars
The billionaire’s interference in Ukrainian military operations shows he’s a national security risk. No private citizen should have that much power.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
girl please be so serious, how do you “vet” someone for the masked secret police murder and kidnapping squad designed to terrorize people of color that they want the job at all is disqualifying
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/10/2026
the biggest reason republicans are eating shit in every single debate is that their president is terrible and his policies are terrible and there’s no way to defend any of it that comes across in a credible manner and it couldn’t be happening to a more deserving group of candidates
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
European politicians won't even get off X (neither will ours), but this should prompt an EU-wide attempt to expel Elon from the continent. And we need one here, too. You have to be Walter Isaacson to miss what's going on.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Probably a bad thing that the right can come up with a totally nonsense conspiracy theory about James Talarico and journalists have to spend valuable time 3 weeks before the election debunking it instead of covering Paxton actually going to Dubai with his mistress on a trip paid for by a criminal
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
One metal magazine of the 90s actually coined the phrase "Hetfield Effect" to describe the tendency of rockers to switch from "anti-war / anti-establishment" to "patriotic / conservative" pretty much the second they passed draft age
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It's almost a joke at this point, but the entire story of Mamdani's mayorship really has been "it turns out we can just turn off the orphan grinding machine, the switch was right there the whole time."
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.
"I can confirm that tonight SpaceX has implemented a speed limit on Starlink terminals while in motion.

The limit currently applies to the StarShield “military package” and is set at 100 mph.

Our defense forces were not given notice of this limit, and this has resulted in the disruption of a number of missions.

It is clear that this action cannot be a coincidence and is related to the current political situation."
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
i simply want democrats to be the version of themselves that steven miller conjures in his nightmares
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
this is so obviously correct it is deeply bizarre and corrosive how many people who should know better are unwilling to simply say it
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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