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John Stokes @jstokes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ngl cashews kind of taste like they were already chewed and then put back together

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John Stokes @jstokes.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Happy cinco de mayo. Chinga la MIGRA.

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John Stokes @jstokes.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Exceptional job, Mr. President.

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John Stokes @jstokes.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Amen 🥺 and 😡✊✊✊ ICE Out! “Thursday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at yesterday's ICE Out of Lindenwold, NJ protest is a must watch”

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 14/02/2026

I'm pretty sure the redactions were legally supposed to protect victims, not the head of Medicare.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

👀👀👀👀 When you’ve got THIS administration admitting that ICE lied under oath, the video evidence has to be catastrophic.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

This is a very, very bad decision from one of the two Reagan judges left on the Fifth Circuit, joined by one of the two most extreme Trump appointees on the court. And, it is about the issue I walked through at Law Dork earlier this week, in the context of Minnesota: www.lawdork.com/i/186796727/...

Law Dork

DHS’s unilateral change on mandatory detention

Like senior DHS officials unilaterally decided in May 2025 that ICE was going to change its interpretation of the Fourth Amendment when it comes to entering private residences when trying to arrest people for deportation, DHS and the Justice Department announced internally on July 8, 2025, that the executive branch unilaterally decided — “revisited its legal position“ — about how a key aspect of immigration enforcement works.

In short, the administration decided that anyone in the country who was never legally admitted to the country is subject to a section of law that requires mandatory detention, as opposed to a different section of law that allows release and requires bond hearings.

Here’s the problem with that: Virtually everyone thinks they’re wrong, for many reasons.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

it's really, really nuts that our scrappy lil' non-profit media website employs more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post. Also follow @lapatina.bsky.social she is awesome and smart and so brave

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John Stokes @jstokes.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

These Gen Z high school student ICE Out protests are very widespread in Texas and across the country.The majority of Gen Z will be voting in both the midterms and the next presidential election. Politicians failing to listen to them are doing so at their own peril.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

#WITAOD IS SO BACK, BABY!!!

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.

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John Stokes @jstokes.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Fascism has fully arrived in America.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Jack Smith: I believe we had proof beyond a reasonable doubt in both cases.

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John Stokes @jstokes.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

All I want for Christmas is justice for the victims. #TrumpEpsteinFiles #CoverUp

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John Stokes @jstokes.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Let’s goooo!!!!! 🇺🇦👀🙌

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John Stokes @jstokes.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Get a load of this bullshit right here 😂😂😂 Donald Trump appears ZERO times in the Epstein Files! BULLSHIT!

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John Stokes @jstokes.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Replied to Donald Trump from my TrumpPresidentialPenitentiary “Truth” Social account

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

washingtonpost.com

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression

The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

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John Stokes @jstokes.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

As part of my civic trolling duties, I made a new account on Truth Social 🇺🇸

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

A veto-proof House requires 290 votes. If we get this, or more in the House (and the momentum is certainly building) – the Republican Senators will feel dramatic pressure to do the same (67 votes). Release the Epstein files!

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Defining picture of this president.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 06/11/2025

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

substack.com

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

“Bove stated that D.O.J. would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’ and ignore any such order,” according to the account. “Mr. Reuveni perceived that others in the room looked stunned, and he observed awkward, nervous glances among people in the room. Silence overtook the room.”

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Cannot express enough how much what happened at that meeting three weeks ago has changed things on the ground. Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The White House is demanding that ICE get deportations up, and ordering any career law enforcement who objects to get the hell out of the way. The head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal operations apparently resigned rather than obey an order to fire ICE officers who weren’t hitting arrest quotas!

One problem for the administration was that ICE had only about 5,000 officers ready and trained to make arrests, according to an agency official.
As ICE officers face more threats, they form ever-larger teams to conduct arrests, officials said. Larger teams means ICE can be in fewer places.
Officials from the White House and the Department of Homeland Security have made clear there will be consequences for not hitting arrest targets.
Top officials at DHS have pushed out one acting ICE director and are threatening a second.
Late last month, the top ICE official overseeing arrests and deportations, Kenneth Genalo, resigned rather than fire deputies for poor performance, said people familiar with the matter.
One reason deportations haven't picked up might be that ICE operations have received so much attention, prompting migrants to be more cautious, according to agents and leaders.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

How extreme is the June 7 Memorandum on federalizing the National Guard? One of several issues: It has NO geographic limit. None. No mention of California or any other state. It's open-ended. Now this from President Trump: "Well, we're going to have troops everywhere."⬇️

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Mass arrests are beginning. People are getting kettled.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/06/2025

Here’s what we know about Russell Vought: He’s stepping in for Elon Musk to run DOGE, the faux-agency slashing the federal gov. A self-described Christian nationalist, Vought was one of the key architects behind Project 2025. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.com

Meet Russell Vought, the New Face of the DOGE Agenda

Read more here.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The deployment of federalized National Guard troops to California, without consent from local or state officials, is deeply troubling. These are tactics seen in authoritarian regimes, not in America. We want to be clear, the military should not be used to police civilians.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

And then I said… ”The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts!”

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two men are standing next to each other in a room .

ALT: two men are standing next to each other in a room .

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

How long until Trump issues a retaliatory executive order targeting Musk and/or his companies?

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John Stokes @jstokes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

This harvest is for you, John Redcorn.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

People keep saying Senator Booker's filibuster was meaningless and people who were moved by it are naive and gullible but I lived and organized in a south where this record stood and slavery and Jim Crow cast a long shadow and I tell you Booker taking that record means something.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Way to go Wisconsin! ✊🇺🇸💚

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

UPDATE: The Trump DOJ has filed a “woefully insufficient” Declaration and the judge is not having it: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

According to a leaked internal memo, Trump and Musk are now set to introduce a destructive, DOGE-driven plan for Social Security. The Social Security Administration is preparing to add what Trump and Musk are framing as an “anti-fraud” step to claims for earned benefits. Elon Musk calls Social…

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

More of: I can do whatever I want because I’m President. He is daring someone to challenge him. How far off can, “and I’m sticking around for a third term”, be?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

DOJ goes to the D.C. Circuit, essentially saying Chief Judge Boasberg acted improperly by … asking questions about whether they followed a court order. This is wildly uncalled for and should be immediately rejected. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The district court's hasty public inquiry into these sensitive national security matters-with no contemplated protections against disclosure of operational details—underscores the urgency of immediate relief from this Court, including an immediate administrative stay that would allow
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further briefing to unfold in an orderly and appropriate manner and prevents the district court from further efforts to interfere with President Trump's core Article II authorities, including the conduct of foreign policy. This Court should also immediately reassign this case to another district court judge given the highly unusual and improper procedures—e.g. certification of a class action involving members of a designated foreign terrorist organization in less than 18 hours with no discovery and no briefing from the Government-that have been employed in the district court proceedings to date.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/ Drew C. Ensign
DREW C. ENSIGN
Deputy Assistant Attorney General

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Update: I’M STILL SCREAMING BC THESE MEMBERS OF THE BAR ARE ACTUALLY GOING WITH THE “A VERBAL ORDER FROM THE BENCH IS NOT ENFORCEABLE” DEFENSE

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John Stokes @jstokes.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Here is an anole that fell on my arm when I was closing the greenhouse door at the farm. It was very chill. 🦎😎✌️ @thelazyanole.bsky.social

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