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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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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 3h

I have called my representatives and demanded that they stand up for Ilhan Omar. It's not just the proximity to an election. If Trump is able to weaponize DHS/DOJ to take out sitting members of Congress without backlash, that's it, that's the whole game.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

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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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 2h

everything reported in this story indicates that the raid was the entire point and they do not expect this to hold up to any kind of scrutiny at all

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 4h

When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong. Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 3h

It's still shocking, and we should continue to be shocked. Doing otherwise means we're accepting this as normal. Is it surprising? Hardly, but outrage is warranted and necessary. Scream and fight against every red line that they cross.

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 3h

If even a hint of real evidence of criminal wrongdoing existed they'd be all over Fox News and X with it. We've seen nothing because they have nothing.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 4h

I’m outraged by this attack on Representative Omar. Trump and his DOJ have a bizarre obsession with tearing down Minnesota, our leaders and our communities. This latest action, even as voting has already started in Minnesota, is a transparent attempt to interfere in our elections.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h

the muslim hate in this country has become policy, but you don’t get 7,000 think pieces about how that makes american muslims feel.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15h

Whatever one thinks about this place, all of the larger ones, controlled by Zuckerberg & Musk, are nothing but giant propaganda/misinformation/porn/surveillance machines owned by oligarchs actively collaborating with fascists.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9h

NYT is explicitly using 2FA as a punishment to try to upsell existing subscribers.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

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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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 6h

This is outrageous, despotic shit and everyone who played a role in it should lose their place in polite society. Show us the warrant. Who asked for it? What did they claim? Have there been grand jury proceedings? Who was in charge? And what judge, if any, signed off on the search warrant?

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 6h

This is racist harassment, weaponization of the Justice Department, and election tampering, to be doing this just weeks before the midterms.

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 17h

Still can't get over that we let her moderate a presidential debate.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21h

Zelenskyy: “Don’t attack us. Don’t kill our children. We will stop attacking your diesel. I think it’s a fair deal.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026

Mamdani: "What you could see in the videos is bystanders outside unsure as to what they were even seeing. Because in that imagery, it feels as if you’re almost looking at a mass shooter as opposed to seeing someone who’s purportedly representing a federal agency."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I wonder where the Harper's signatories are now. Are they still alive or no?

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The misogyny in this letter is appalling and if Bessent had ever sent something like this to a woman colleague in the private sector he’d have been sued for gender discrimination and fired. What an asshole

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There was a time when, because he had financial issues, people would kind of grumble that Cage would do anything for a check, including make a lot of garbage movies. It is good to see him in better projects these days, and to see that in fact, there’s lots he can, at least now, say no to.

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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Russia is also supporting Iran against us. This guy is the biggest asshat on the planet.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

When -- not if, when -- Republicans respond to their losses this fall by crying about "voter fraud" and demanding Congress or the courts review the results, we have good lawyers and elected officials ready to push back. But the rest of us need to take a page from 2000 and mock them as sore losers.

Protesters with "Sore Loserman" crying towels

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10/10/2026

at this point people getting carjacked are gonna assume it’s ICE

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The administration keeps telling us that ICE is in our cities to make us all feel safe, but if they're goons in plainclothes bum rushing vehicles with guns and pounding on the windows, how exactly does that make anyone feel safe?

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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Waffle House locations in the panhandle are closed, I repeat, Waffle House locations in the panhandle are closed, this is not a drill. #Isaias

Screenshot of a FB post by meteorologist Greg Dee showing Waffle House locations closed in the panhandle

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tim McVeigh killed 167 people in Oklahoma City but his name was "Tim," not "Nidal" so ...

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How "merit-based" systems actually work:

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How "merit-based" systems actually work:

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It would really be great if folks not affiliated with the Trump Administration could stop using "Department of War." The Department of Defense is a statutory creation, and the name is statutorily given--the administration cannot unilaterally change it.

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So what company is going to agree to host this state-sponsored snuff film? Seems like it would violate just about every terms of service in the world.

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've been thinking and talking and writing about the death penalty for my whole adult life and the past week+ has been truly surreal and exhausting, not only because of the onslaught of horrors but because there seems to be so little historical memory of what this system is and always has been.

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So what company is going to agree to host this state-sponsored snuff film? Seems like it would violate just about every terms of service in the world.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And this strategy is working so well that Republicans have all but given up on Georgia.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

This is the proper response & the energy Democrats need to matching. ICE is kidnapping, maiming, & killing people over administrative civil infractions. Like… Imagine getting gestapoed for expired tags on your car. This shit is unconscionable & ICE must be destroyed. Good on Mamdani for saying so.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

I am not gonna engage that poster but I would absolutely vote for a motherfucker who talked about the fact that the Global War on Terror destabilized the entire Middle East, and killed many many innocent civilians, on 9/11.

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sickening. And they definitely wouldn't be doing this for a white shooter named something like Kevin.

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is about the shooting between a couple teens outside a suburban homecoming game? The one that only resulted in non-life-threatening injuries and happened to involve Somali Americans, as opposed to the zillion school shootings involving non-immigrants? Sigh.

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The thing is, democratic socialists do tend to be against various types of bigotry. They're against injustice, whether that's economic injustice or other forms. JD Vance doesn't get that because he's a bad person.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We're maybe a week away from a Trump official shouting "White Power!" at one of these conferences.

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