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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11h

Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.

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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)

The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4h

If you're a Yale alum and want to get involved with @standupforyale.bsky.social's efforts to fight for freedom of speech at Yale and against McInnis's capitulation to Trump, please do sign the petition and join the mailing list! linktr.ee/standupforyale

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standupforyale Official: Instagram | Linktree

Yale alums defending academic freedom in higher education.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5h

Right now the Yale administration is trying to cut a deal with the white supremacist Trump administration over admissions policies. An institution that cuts deals with white supremacists is a white supremacist institution, and you're heroes for coming out here to protest that.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 7h

A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 4h

Remember that Collins voted repeatedly to fund ICE with no guardrails and in June voted against an amendment that would have required body cams. Then after the outrage over Maine dad Johan Sebastián’s death, she tried taking credit for a new body cam commitment from ICE (which it’s not honoring!)👇🏽

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 5h

Susan Collins had five chances to vote to stop Donald Trump's war in Iran, but she refused. Maybe because she’s profiting off it? 🤔

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 5h

Americans are getting swept up in Trump’s immigration dragnet. Over 500 U.S. citizens that we know of. Even more that we don’t. ICE’s lawlessness spares no one.

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 5h

Power means nothing if you won't use it when the people of Maine need it. Maine deserves better. Maine deserves change. We have the chance to build a government that serves the people, not the ultra-wealthy. Let’s go win this thing.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7h

Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 5h

Another officer facing official misconduct charges has caused a man to become paranoid about being followed, per the alleged victim's attorney. “He has been stalking us for two years, I fear daily he is following myself and [my child],” another alleged victim wrote in a protective order petition.

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cinematic genius @itsmrfungible.bsky.social · 14h

carrying a rapist's baby for nine months then feeding and housing it for 20 years is merely an abstraction. a thought exercise, if you will

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 14h

I confess that not much shocks me these days. But Matt Walsh arguing that the victim of a gang rape was *actually the rapist* if you think about it managed to

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 14h

I'm not much of a video guy, but you should definitely watch this one. The choice is *always* between democracy and some form of authoritarianism. It's never between democracy and something you find nicer. It is never, as some libertarians have put it, a choice between democracy and free markets.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16h

We can’t just move past what SCOTUS has permitted this Administration to do to people who have lived and worked in the U.S. for years and even decades.

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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 17h

“[Hegseth] believes that wars are won by whichever side’s soldiers can do the most pushups, and whose obsession with creating an all-white, all-male military leadership is dragging the Department of Defense down by the day.” @paulwaldman.bsky.social says what National Media is reluctant to.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“This election is likely our last chance to stop the march of fascism led by Trump and his enablers seeking to hold onto power by any means necessary…We should take seriously Trump’s repeated assertions that he intends to stay in power after 2028.” www.americaamerica.news/p/we-are-und...

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We Are Under Attack From an Enemy Within

By listening to our founders and refusing to go along with this, we can name and defeat the ongoing danger to our constitutional republic

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chitowndane.bsky.social @chitowndane.bsky.social · 17h

👇This has always been a key component of his allure: he makes it "ok" for racist/sexist haters to hate openly again. And they've longed to do so for years. But those people are still wrong, and we should still stand up to them and call them out on it. And don't forget who they are. ✊

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17h

If you vote for Republicans, you're voting to cover up the truth about sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his friends, including Donald Trump.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18h

1) Trump is campaigning in Texas a month before the midterms. 2) He is so unpopular even there that the state’s governor, facing an unexpectedly close race, won’t show up.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 17h

An “interview” denotes responsive answers — not a stream of non sequiturs, insults, and outbursts. A few commentators ventured that the session was “grievance”-filled or “emotional,” but even that falsely suggests some orderly presentation of reality-based complaints in response to questions

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Words & Phrases: A Crazy Rant Isn’t a ‘Speech’ or an ‘Interview’

🚨 28 Days to the Midterms 🚨

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 17h

By lopping off his full replies and interweaving explanatory narrative, reporters often wind up sanitizing Trump’s babbling

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026

Gov. Josh Shapiro: "Measles was eliminated back in the year 2000. And now, 26 years later, we’re dealing with it coming roaring back. Pennsylvania has now eclipsed 1,000 cases across 39 counties, with five deaths." Shapiro says amid the outbreak, vaccinations have now doubled.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 17h

America desperately needs a national left wing tabloid. Between the mainstream media’s coziness with the right and the Democratic Party’s complicity/unwillingness to fight — we are in such a bad place.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 18h

Stuff like this makes me think the mega blue wave is real. Campaigns need a convergence of evidence — polling, volunteer enthusiasm, conversations at the door — to make decisions like this.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18h

Like we should take his work for it.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18h

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.

The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.

The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?

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dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 05/10/2026

if you're on #blacksky or a @blackskyweb.xyz product on ACORN (which @medsky.network is!): you have the special opportunity to deprive racist moneygrubbers from oxygen by reporting them! @moderation.blacksky.app will label their post and stop it from showing up on others' feeds too 🥰 REPORT!

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It shows a close-up of a label selection for "White Supremacy or Antiblack Rhetoric". The description reads: "Content that expresses statements that are rooted in white supremacy and anti-black rhetoric that does not fall under targeted anti-black harassment.This may include interalized anti-blackness that is harmful in nature."

The filter is set to HIDE any posts of this nature.

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It shows a close-up of a label selection for "Misogynoir" and "Antiblack Harassment".

The descriptions read: "Content that expresses hatred, bias, or prejudice against Black womem, specifically where racism, sexism, and/or transphobia intersect. This includes sexual hassmemt, objectofication, and targeted attacks on Black women's identity or appearance" and "Content that targets individuals or groups based on their Black identity with derogatory, hateful, or dehumanizing language or imagery. This label is applied to perpetuates harmful stereotypes, slurs, or direct harassment aimed at Black individuals or communities."

Both filters are set to HIDE any posts of this nature.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pope Leo XIV’s top ally in Washington Cardinal Robert McElroy has told Catholics to convert the politicians who tolerate Trump’s war on immigrants “or replace them.” He was met with a standing ovation.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19h

“Right now, you have an economy where people are getting choked out because they don’t have the basic means for a dignified life because we are more focused on allowing a billionaire to make another billion” - Abdul El-Sayed ~~ No lies detected.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 18h

“A person whose name is redacted in the complaint told Fields that an investigation would be opened because “the President wants this investigation,” Fields’ whistleblower complaint says.”

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Establish that violations of the Emoluments Clauses and the Establishment Clause are impeachable. Establish that war crimes are impeachable. None of these require the mens rea questions that so sidetracked the first two Trump impeachments. The facts are the facts.

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 18h

a short but extremely important thread by Jacob T. Levy #ImpeachConvictRemove

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think one reason it’s good to have a liberal arts education in the classic sense is that you don’t then spend time trying to invent the concept of “intellectual pursuits” from first principles

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CK DexterHaven 🍂🍁🍂 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 19h

Y’all, Catholics don’t applaud in church. Ever. This is a thing. You don’t have to like the church or organized religion. You do need to understand that up until the 90s and the US church pivot to abortion as a primary issue, the Catholic Church has long been a powerhouse in immigrant communities

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks to Polis

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 22h

Shout out to all the people reading this, that think this is somehow praise for China, rather than pointing out our own failure to act. No one in China stopped us from investing in solar. We could do it right now! But we still won't. If you knew better, you'd do better. But we don't know better.🤷🏿‍♂️

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes. Start with prosecuting the crimes first and work your way backward if that makes you more comfortable. But we cannot live in a country with this level of elite impunity.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

These are the layups. All these actions are crimes. All the perjuries are crimes. Find one vicious bastard prosecutor and have them chew through these ICE/DHS cases starting Day One. Just enforce the law! The lowest bar possible!

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, the Republican Party

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So what if she did want to have sex with several guys, but not the entire frat house? If she was incapacitated, those other guys raped her, and her previously consensual partners let them do it.

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