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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 35m

ICE appears to be using the parking lot of the Roxbury warehouse for processing and brief detention, and at least once appears to have taken people inside. But also, read this inside look from a federal contractor about how everyone knew the warehouse plan was insane but Miller demanded inhumanity.

NPR spoke to an official at a government contractor whose company was approached to convert several of the warehouses into ICE facilities. He spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the government.

"No one that we spoke to at DHS was for this idea whatsoever. The deputy director told us point-blank that they had pushed back very hard on it. Everybody knew warehouses are horrible places to put people," he says.

At a meeting with a deputy director at DHS, he says, his company proposed an alternative: FEMA-style camps in Texas that would be more humane.

He says that idea was swiftly shot down. While White House adviser Stephen Miller was not at the meeting, they were told that this was not what Miller wanted.

The contractor says his understanding from that meeting was that "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted."

"Steve Miller certainly seemed to make that point to everyone that he wanted it to be cruel. This was what Miller had stated to the DHS at that time, to the DHS director and deputy director. What surprised me was just how adamant the people were that it was going to happen. Damn the consequences. I would say in 25 years of working with the U.S. government, I've never been in that position before."

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 14h

It's important to remember that as degenerate and deranged the online anonymous commentariat can be, the actual professional American intelligentsia is about a thousand times worse.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 8h

Brad's a real one and I know he'll come around on BDS one of these days.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks to Israelis for Peace NYC for organzing. And Gili Getz for the photo.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 11h

Tonight we read the heartrending words of those who lost Israeli loved ones on Oct 7th — and Palestinian loved ones in the three years since. We said kaddish for all of them. We refused to compromise on anyone’s humanity. No amount of shouting stopped us. May their memory be for a blessing.

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 12h

Pretty awesome how much ball knowledge ActBlue donors have. Ossoff is out of their top 5, being replaced by Hinojosa (who really needs money!)

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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 19h

Wow shocking that Jake Tapper chimes in when there’s an opportunity to defend Israel and attack a Muslim

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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 20h

Very, very glad this guy lost to Angie Nixon. Need to primary his awful brother too in Virginia.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 8h

white western maoists are so funny like my dude you are LARPing you can't even find Chinese communists like this anymore

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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 17h

There’s no place in the Democratic Party for these people

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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

imagine a Lego 9/11 remembrance from the U.S. government

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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

what the fuck is wrong with this country

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6h

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.com

EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure

The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.

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1st Minnesota Volunteers Stan Account @himdogson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Polls could be undersampling rural republicans, but I do think it’s interesting that the other possibility- that less rural responses is indicative of a genuine lack of rural enthusiasm that could translate into electoral results- isn’t even really being acknowledged

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 16h

I do think one of the key distinctions you see regarding the response and reaction to 10/7 is from people who see it as a sharp discontinuity from a peaceful status quo and people who see it as simply another step in the continuation of the ongoing cycle of atrocities dating back decades.

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 21h

But “throw them out” + midterm backlash is also why long dominated GOP states are really in danger of going blue and not mediocre performance

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 21h

An interesting theory going around is this a “throw them out” election with serious anger people are feeling really everywhere and why we’re seeing meh results in pretty blue states since they have long been dominated by a single party. Time will tell but it’s a good one to keep in mind

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Jacob 🇺🇦🇵🇸🪳 @fuckaasbitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*whispers, fingers crossed* Indomaidan Indomaidan Indomaidan

Priyanka Gandhi opens the gate behind which protesters were imprisoned

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 8h

lmao OF course this guy hollered with the rest of the hit dogs

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 7h

(Ultra)liberal Communism 🤝 Liberal Neo-McCarthyism An Infantile Disorder

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h

NYC YDSA steering member:

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h

EVEN TALIA JANE IS CALLING THEM DELUSIONAL

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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 10h

Like if people don’t want to come to Bluesky that’s fine but Twitter is gone. It’s the difference between being a cringe beige millennial at 38 and hanging out at frat parties at 38. 2018 is not coming back. Grow up.

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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 10h

It’s disgusting at this point that the majority of my “comrades” would rather hang out with pedophiles and Nazis than liberals

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 16h

The key to victory in war is to not fuck it up. If you don't fuck it up you'll be fine.

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Tim @timzhu.io · 17h

between these two sides, I guess I'd probably put my money on the most locked in charismatic solid dude that ever existed

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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 19h

the hell they can, three straight yamamoto splitters and khamenei's back in the dugout before he knows what happened

Trending

1. Trump says Iran could hit Los Angeles

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

happy Yankees Elimination Day to all who celebrate!

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Alan the Baltimoron @bmorons.bsky.social · 11h

🎶It’s the mooooost wonderful skeeeeeet of the year 🎶

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Janette Moser @mjmoser.bsky.social · 11h

START SPREADIN THE NEWS

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 11h

She looks like someone gave her an LD99 dose of Joker Venom.

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 11h

Now these are *good* reasons to say polls are underestimating Dems vs the “I just want it to be true”

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

He's becoming moonier. His hue is getting more... plutonial.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 11h

Pedophiles stick together

Trump to give controversial baseball icon Roger Clemens the Medal of Freedom
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Bart Jansen, USA TODAY
Wed, Oct 7, 2026 at 9:23 PM EDT

President Donald Trump announced he would give controversial baseball pitching legend Roger Clemens, whom he called "one of the greatest athletes and maybe the greatest pitcher of all time," the presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 12h

SFJ was a huge figure in music criticism when I was first getting into it in college and ‘Mamdani mentioning the Talmud is a dog whistle signalling that he’s been ideologically captured by Zionists’ is wild conspiratorial nonsense and just…intellectually lazy.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 12h

people who I used to follow back when I was on Twitter have drifted just like everyone else who stuck around there, but former New Yorker pop music critic Sasha Frere-Jones saying that Mamdani’s mention of “the Talmud is not even a dog whistle it’s straight up yelling” is bonkers

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 11h

We should destroy it the moment we have power again. Besides the obvious symbolism, it will just turn into a .su style defunct cybercrime cesspit otherwise.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

Right, thank you. He had been imprisoned in the hotel, but is now imprisoned elsewhere, status totally unknown, after he spoke to media and then government officials accused him of breaking a mirror in an elevator and then took him away.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

Correction on my initial post, which says he came here on a green card. That was incorrect. He came here as a dependent on a religious worker visa, and then later obtained a green card after he grew up here.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 19h

New York City car owners who refuse to pay for off street parking are a mystery to me. If you want a car oriented lifestyle with easy parking and close proximity to urban density, Westchester, Long Island and New Jersey are available to you.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 12h

If you have enough historical awareness to understand what was & wasn't said in polite discourse in 1958, the man stands out like Lenny Bruce with tenure

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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 12h

man tom lehrer really was incredible

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11h

I'm sure the NY Times tomorrow will have another story about Hasan Piker, and not a mention of the VP's "intellectual guru" saying this...

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Hyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 13h

Your Guide to Ken Paxton Ad (TX-SEN) Safety Minnesota was very close to being totally Paxton-free for now but there appears to have been some contamination in the Driftless Area A few pockets of other states are still safe, for now... Who can say how long it will be before there is no escape?

Risk factors for encountering Ken Paxton ads

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