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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h

Reup: 4 HSI Agents--like the people who raided Ilhan Omar today--have lied to judges at least 36 times to target Dems and other Trump opponents, one to excuse following a Todd Blanche order, another to do Harmeet Dhillon's dirty work. emptywheel.net/2026/10/12/h...

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HSI Agents Ricky Patel, Ryan Ribner, Richard Berger, and Timothy Gerber All Made False Claims to Frame Democrats - emptywheel

There are at least 36 affidavits signed by HSI Agents -- like the goons who just searched Ilhan Omar's house -- who have made false claims to frame Democrats or other Trump opponents.

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Abolish ICE @milpool.bsky.social · 12h

Crazy that the weekend nighttime variety show that let Donald Trump host while running for President also had Shane Gillis on to tell some endlessly recycled misogynist jokes

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 15h

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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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 14h

For years, the Trump admin has launched slanderous attacks against Rep. Omar. This morning, the administration sent federal officials to raid her home. We cannot and will not accept this unprecedented abuse of power. I stand with @repilhan.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/ilha...

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Agents search Rep. Omar's Washington home in criminal probe as she vows she won't 'be silenced'

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar says she will “not be silenced” and calls a search of her Washington home the “latest escalation” in President Donald Trump’s “intimidation” campaign.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 16h

I realize it often feels like nothing matters anymore, but a comedian going on SNL and calling women whores— calling the ordinary women he sees at the gym *whores* — because of their clothes matters to me. It’s really gross, and I’m glad Levy said something.

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 15h

The Regime started with a target they assume Democrats and mainstream elites wouldn't defend. That's always the strategy. But if they can come for Ilhan Omar, they can come for you too. Count on it.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16h

When a progressive or DSA member launches a primary campaign against a sitting House Democrat, Hakeem Jeffries and other leaders go nuclear to defend that sitting member. But what if Republicans threaten a sitting Democrat with arrest after raiding her home? Same vigor and intensity, I'm sure, no?

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 16h

For almost a decade, Trump and Republicans have lied about Congresswoman Omar to silence her dissent. My sister @repilhan.bsky.social has not backed down, so now they are using DHS and the federal government to target and persecute her. 1/2

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Nichole Hiltz 🧡 @nicholehiltz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Please insert any justifiable killing of any woman, any human, by the US Supreme Court, and feel your rage, please… now realize this is what is happening to trans people, your kids… yeah.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I don’t think people outside of the Bay Area are aware of how strongly the tech sector’s love of eugenics is inflicted with a navel-gazing autistic supremacy.

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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fascists can’t stand being ridiculed. The same is also true of antivax leaders like Andrew Wakefield, because it punctures their pretensions of being real scientists.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

To Elon Musk it's important that you're only cruel to your children.

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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 09/10/2026

Right-wing Christian nationalist podcasters are using the tragic Massachusetts case of Lindsay Clancy to make a radical argument: women should lose the right to vote, end no-fault divorce, and live under strict male supervision. Here is a breakdown of what they are saying on video 🧵👇

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"[Israel's] Central Elections Committee is ... pushing for the barring of all of the Palestinian-majority parties from the Israeli elections[.]"

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this isn't who we used to pretend to be

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hegseth’s been trying to compensate his entire life for the fact he went to a Princeton

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026

This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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hotnstrict @radiantche.net · 06/10/2026

It’s interesting that bullying gets labeled as something kids do but the kids are usually repeating behaviors they experience from adults and projecting it onto their peers. Kids are bullies because it’s the norm in adult culture. Wake up!

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Our war with Iran was *never* about them having a nuclear weapon. That has always been a lie. And how do we know this? North Korea has *lots* of nuclear weapons. And instead of bombing them, Trump is always singing the praises of its leader and how much he likes Trump. We are being conned.

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Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com · 05/10/2026

This is what I mean when I say Israelis and the IDF itself constantly brag about the genocide online and all the institutions of the West deliberately ignore it and pretend it’s not happening.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

The press will do stories on Republican sex creeps, but it will never, ever point out -- much less make an ongoing narrative out of -- the fact that the GOP has been *ridden* with sex creeps for decades. You have to be blind not to see the pattern.

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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)

The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.

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David L. Pumpkins @leboism.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For those not following NJ politics, please know that the Lt Gov resigned a few days ago because a report came out saying he did serial harassment, and yesterday he went on TV to say "i put that report through multiple AIs and they told me it wasn't sexual harassment." Former university president

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Russia Feb 2022: We need to invade Ukraine as they have biolabs producing Russophobic weaponised bats that make people gay. Russia Oct 2026: Someone died at one of our biolabs that makes the bubonic plague.

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Dyke Spiegel @cowgirlshebop.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You’re an adult grow up and read better books. Stop giving money to the lady who uses her fortune to fund a global pogrom against trans people.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"[I]f you wanted to look at cybersecurity laws, OpenAI could have been held liable for unleashing malware around the world ... This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence and negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for[.]"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.

The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

LOL. Rufo is a fascist whose entire career strategy is racism. The fact that these folks believe anything about the current GOP is colorblind is an indictment of their ability to think, their honesty, their grasp of reality. It‘s also revealing of their political sympathies.

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beloved Mothra @audleyzdarke.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

Simple answer: they're fascists and at the core of fascism is eugenics.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 03/10/2026

This is a central nazi belief on a level that most Americans cannot comprehend. Because Adolf Hitler genuinely expected England to stay out of WW2. Because he saw kinship with England. Because members of the British royal family were full-blown nazis. Hitler was just copying England, bar 4 bar.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Despite widespread outrage among the American public, the Department of Justice refused to open a civil rights inquiry into [Renee] Good's killing. Instead, Attorney General Todd Blanche ... launched an investigation into [Renee's wife] Becca Good's connections to progressive organizations."

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

White conservatives will literally entertain ethnic cleansing before making their kid do their homework to be academically competitive.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Someone told me about a week ago that I shouldn’t judge all libertarians on NH’s Libertarian party and that not all were bad. Here’s the Maryland Libertarian Party attacking rape victims.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Then there’s mobile sports betting, which I think is an absolute scourge on society. www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...

The old Vegas adage that "the house always wins" is a warning to gamblers whatever their luck to cut their losses or take their winnings and leave the betting floor before this statistical fact of nature asserts itself. In other words, get out while you can. And that physical space used to mean something. Once upon a time, sports betting was confined to Vegas, and gambling in general was the province of geographically defined locations like reservation casinos and hotel resorts. But Pearson's experience is what happens when the house comes to you.

There's a grim circularity to betting apps aping the push notification tools of the social media giants considering how social media platforms perfected their own dopamine distribution systems by turning feeds, likes, and comments into a slot machine interaction. The stories of how these platforms and apps have affected true addicts and problem gamblers are harrowing. Take Adam, a 33-year-old Massachusetts man whose story was reported by Patrick Madden and WBUR last year:

With the DraftKings and FanDuel apps on his phone, Adam could bet on multiple games at once. Over time, his wagers got more frequent and riskier as he tried to win the money back.
When he was out with his girlfriend, hed repeatedly excuse himself - sometimes to a restroom - to go use his phone.
"What I was doing was checking scores and putting in more bets, things of that sort," said Adam. "I would be up at all hours of the night
- betting on this sport, that sport, sports in other countries that I knew nothing about."
One night in February 2024, as the gambling losses piled up, he decided to put everything he had left on a single Bruins game.
"I walked into our bedroom where she was sleeping and I woke her up," he said. Boston had lost.

What happens to our country as this cohort of men age into what should be their peak earning years and then into retirement? What will our society and economy look like then? The financial risks are self-evident to the outside observer, but gambling addiction and the toll taken by losing also contribute to depression and suicide.

But instead of fighting what is clearly an emerging crisis, we have some of the biggest names in professional sports acting as spokespeople for DraftKings and Kalshi.
LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neal promote DraftKings. Omnipresent ESPN personality Pat McAfee promotes FanDuel. Giannis Antetokounmpo isn't just a spokesperson for Kalshi, he's a shareholder. The only winners in America's burgeoning gambling crisis are the companies and the already super-rich athletes willing to leverage their status as heroes to millions of fans to hook a generation of young men on a devastating habit.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.

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full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you are “fighting antisemitism” by funding explicitly Zionist institutions dedicated to stopping the pro-Palestine movement, you are actually enabling antisemitism because you’re allowing Zionists to conflate Zionism with Judaism which foments misdirected hostility toward Jews

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today I wrote about the botched execution of Christina Pike and how the death penalty must end, in all situations, with absolutely no exceptions. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Tennessee attempted to kill Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday night but they botched it. They gave her a dose of phenobarbital, it did not kill her, so they gave her a second dose of phenobarbital which also did not kill her. Witnesses said that Pike was kicking her feet, knocking off sheets, and showing signs of obvious pain. Eventually she fell into a state of semi-consciousness and at various points was heard snoring by witnesses. The botched execution spanned more than two hours from the beginning of the lethal injection protocol to the time it was halted and Pike was transported to the hospital.

Pike is said to be in critical condition in the hospital. There is a good chance that she sustained severe brain injuries by virtue of her respiratory and cardiovascular systems being subjected to massive doses phenobarbital for over two hours which likely led to prolonged oxygen deprivation to her brain.

How did this happen? There are any number of theories. One possibility is that the people conducting the attempted execution failed to properly tap a vein, which may have been more likely due to a condition Pike has called thrombocytosis. If so, they probably just pumped the phenobarbital into her muscles and surrounding tissue. It's also possible that the phenobarbital used by Tennessee was degraded or substandard due to pharmaceutical companies' refusal to sell such drugs and drug administration equipment to death penalty state prison authorities, which leads them to pursue questionable substitutes from compounding pharmacies and suppliers. Those are just theories, of course. There will be an investigation into all of this and we'll find out more eventually.

But the specifics of this don't matter much to me. All of it just underscores how wrong and evil and depraved capital punishment is and how it should be abolished everywhere immediately. With absolutely no exceptions.

I’ve long opposed capital punishment in any and all cases. There is nothing — no fact, no argument, no sufficiently depraved or horrifying a criminal or crime, hypothetical or otherwise — that will ever change my mind about that. I’d oppose the death penalty even if it was not discriminatory and arbitrary, which it absolutely is. I'd oppose it even if our system was incapable of legal or factual error, which it obviously is not. Indeed, it makes errors all the time, and there have been several cases in recent years in which states have killed innocent people. While legal errors can cause extreme hardship in cases that don’t involve the death penalty, once you’ve killed someone there are no take-backs. Utah just released a man who spent 37 years on death row after they discovered that he was innocent.

But like I said: I oppose it in all cases. Even when guilt is not in question, as is the case with Christa Pike, who admitted what she did long ago. I simply think that it is illegitimate to give humans the legal right to end the lives of other human beings. That's especially true given the manner of political power, how it is obtained, and how it is employed in this country.

I do not think that the purpose of our criminal justice system should be retribution or the satisfaction of blood lust. We can and should incapacitate criminals by locking them up. We can and should rehabilitate criminals who are capable of being rehabilitated while they are locked up. We should do what we can to deter future crime, but in so doing we must acknowledge that the death penalty does nothing to deter crime. We should not, as a society, be in the revenge business, which is what the death penalty is really about.

The State of Tennessee tortured a human being for two hours on Wednesday night and quite possibly inflicted traumatic brain injuries upon her. There is nothing that justifies that. There is nothing that justifies the state from taking the life of a human being.

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Last Of The Elder Gods @4meshewill.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

Only white men think they should still be able to be friends when one of their beliefs is Blacc people including my blacc child should be treated as second class citizens.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Of course, we all know why they were left out

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"[T]he United States is acting as an agent of interference and destabilization — using diplomatic, economic, and political pressure in ways that risk weakening the country's democratic institutions ... and inflicting further damage on our relationship with a strategic U.S. ally and trading partner."

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

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