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AW Stiles
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South Philly transplant to Chicago now Raleigh. All junk drawer & other posts solely my own. Nonprofits, Bikes, Rowhomes. Workers Rights. Mutual Aid. Visit our Little Free Library just Southeast of Downtown Raleigh https://quarrylittlelibrary.blogspot.com
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AW Stiles @awstiles.bsky.social · Aug 21
Starting a thread of ideas to protest this weekend in DC (or anywhere) starting with this
Toolbox from Beautiful Trouble
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Beautiful Trouble
Creative tools for a more just world.
beautifultrouble.org
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genderhorizon.com
Part of any effective anti-fascist united front is identifying collaborators
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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jconley.bsky.social
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
unavaleable.bsky.social Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 10h
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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jayapal.house.gov
There — I fixed the analysis so it is actually accurate to what happened when 8 Senate Dems caved instead of keeping up the righteous fight to deliver lower health care costs for Americans.
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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premthakker.bsky.social
Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.

Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.

In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h
NEW: British journalist Sami Hamdi is being released from US detention.

Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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pbump.com
This is really telling! It doesn't work like that anymore, bud. None of it works like that — even if it did on Jan. 19.
mattheweadie.bsky.social Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 1d
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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imleor.bsky.social
Very sun-times to hold off on writing about Adamn Killa till he got arrested for doing arrest me daddy lol chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/11...
Chicago rapper Adamn Killa tells cops to 'arrest me, daddy.' Getting arrested won't stop him.
Adam Kelly, who goes by the stage name Adamn Killa, was handcuffed and briefly held in a squad car after interrupting a traffic stop for one of his social media videos. After he was released, he went ...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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hels.bsky.social
It feels inelegant to say you should read my latest review because it’s very negative. You should read my latest review because it’s insane. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
La Boca Is All Smoke, No Fire
The Argentinean chef Francis Mallmann is notorious for his love of cooking over open flames. With his New York début, he fizzles out.
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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brenthor.bsky.social
If gen z thought i was cool i would end my life. I am 40 years old im not supposed to be cool. Ive moved on to other pursuits such as mental and physical exhaustion, and 18th century ship building
May 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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katelynburns.com
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.

I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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jonseidel.bsky.social
'Superstar' prosecutor who helped bring down Madigan, Burke parting ways with Chicago's U.S. attorney's office

From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-corr...
'Superstar' prosecutor who helped bring down Madigan, Burke parting ways with U.S. attorney's office
Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Streicker is the latest in an unusual flurry of departures — including five section chiefs — who have either left the U.S. attorney’s office this year, or plan to by the ...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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charlottegarden.bsky.social
Texas A&M reinventing "prior restraints"

www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
The Texas A&M University System will vote on Thursday on whether to prohibit faculty at its 11 universities from teaching “race or gender ideology” unless those lessons are pre-approved by each campus president or a delegate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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alaw202.bsky.social
It’s time to #DumpChuck

actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-d...
SENATOR SCHUMER IS NO LONGER EFFECTIVE AND SHOULD BE REPLACED. IF YOU CAN'T LEAD THE FIGHT TO STOP HEALTHCARE PREMIUMS FROM SKYROCKETING FOR AMERICANS, WHAT WILL YOU FIGHT FOR? REP. RO KHANNA
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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mikesacks.bsky.social
These ghouls refuse to give ordinary people a cause of action against fed officials for legit constitutional violations, but go to bat with a *retroactive* cause of action for their insurrectionist colleagues crying for being caught conspiring to overturn an election. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
By Devlin Barrett Devlin Barrett covers the Justice Department. Nov. 10, 2025 Updated 5:01 p.m. ET A spending package expected to be approved as part of a deal to reopen the government would create a wide legal avenue for senators to sue for as much as half a million dollars each when federal investigators search their phone records without notifying them. The provision, tucked into a measure to fund the legislative branch, appears to immediately allow for eight G.O.P. senators to sue the government over their phone records being seized in the course of the investigation by Jack Smith, the former special counsel, into the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The provision would make it a violation of the law to not notify a senator if their phone records or other metadata was taken from a service provider like a phone company. There are some exceptions, such as 60-day delays in notification if the senator is considered the target of an investigation. The language of the bill states that "any senator whose Senate data, or the Senate data of whose Senate office, has been acquired, subpoenaed, searched, accessed, or disclosed in violation of this section may bring a civil action against the United States if the violation was committed by an officer, employee, or agent of the United States or of any federal department or agency."
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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sahilkapur.bsky.social
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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raleighreporter.bsky.social
The State Board of Elections has hired new top staff members who have previously worked for Republican elected officials: www.wunc.org/politics/202... #ncpol
NC State Board of Elections hires new staff with ties to Republicans
The State Board of Elections has hired new top staff members who have previously worked for Republican elected officials. The hiring moves come after the legislature moved the agency into the state au...
www.wunc.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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benjaminpenn.bsky.social
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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burness.bsky.social
A Republican sheriff in a swing county that Trump won by 0.1% signed a contract to help ICE, then lost last week by 11.

New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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ryanjreilly.com
Dem caving on the government shutdown deal would end the hemp loophole on THC:

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
The government shutdown may last longer because of a fight over hemp
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he will not support speedy passage of a deal to reopen the government because of a provision that would make some THC products illegal.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 10 Nov 1984 1000 people protested in Rugby, England, against the local council removing LGBT+ people from their equal opportunities policy. The Sun tabloid supported the "brave" Tory council for confronting the "sick nonsense" of LGBT+ rights stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8236...
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
You shouldn't have to be rich to have dedicated healthcare teams who actually pay attention to, communicate with, and all around give a genuine fuck about you
November 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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thetriibe.com
NEW — Starting next week, the Cook County Public Defender’s Freedom Defense Center of Roseland, in partnership with the Village Legal and Community Project, will offer free attorney office hours for community members.

thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
Cook County Public Defender’s new community legal hub to expand legal resources for South Siders • The TRiiBE
Free legal services will roll out on Nov. 19 at the Cook County Public Defender’s Freedom Defense Center in Roseland through a partnership with The Village Legal and Community Project.
thetriibe.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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evansutton.bsky.social
Imagine being Gavin Newsom and thinking the way you win the Democratic nomination in 2028 is to get on stage and yuk it up with all these straight up fascists.
Tweet from Andrew Ross Sorkin listing the Dealbook Summit attendees which includes Gavin alongside a whole who's who of the fascist favorites, including Erikkka "I'm getting stuffed like a sofa" Kirk, Scott Bessent, David "I'm gonna buy all the media" Ellison, Larry "Everything Elon Does Is The Best" Fink, and Alex "I've Got a Program To Help Round Up Your Enemies" Karp.
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
awstiles.bsky.social
After a hearing that clearly showed, through evidence, that federal LEOs (Ha!) flagrantly violated protestors rights again & again, using unnecessary force, & even their director outright lied, the Trump admin seeks violence. These folks aren't compromisers or anyone to negotiate with (yet).
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 15h
JUST IN: The Trump administration asks the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to stay Judge Sara Ellis' preliminary injunction restricting the use of force against protesters and journalists in Chicago.

Full motion here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/bc/ac/04906a...
INTRODUCTION The role of the Judiciary is to resolve concrete cases and controversies, not to act as general overseer of the Executive. But in response to the government’s efforts to enforce the Nation’s immigration laws after years of non-enforcement during an unprecedented wave of illegal immigration, courts have issued sweeping, programmatic injunctions that usurp executive authority and empower judges to superintend law-enforcement activities under threat of contempt. The predictable result is to broadly obstruct the enforcement of the Nation’s laws, chill the exercise of executive power, and subvert the constitutional structure. This case is a perfect example. This Court previously issued a writ of mandamus to quash an order of this district court that “infringe[d] on the separation of powers” by “set[ting] the court up as a supervisor” of the agency’s law- enforcement activities. Order, In re Noem, No. 25-2936 (7th Cir. Oct. 31, 2025). The district court has now issued an extraordinary preliminary injunction that no less reflects an improper aggrandizement of the judicial role and a violation of the separation of powers. What began as a complaint by journalists and protestors alleging that DHS officers targeted them with crowd-control devices at a handful of protests in September and early October has transformed into an instrument for judicial micromanagement of federal law-enforcement operations in the Chicago area. Indeed, this injunction is so granular it consumes eight pages, governing everything from body-worn cameras, to agent identification, to the content of warnings before rioters may be dispersed, to when agents may use chokeholds, tackle suspects, or deploy tear gas. This Court should grant an immediate administrative stay and a stay pending appeal. This overbroad and unworkable injunction has no basis in law, threatens the safety of federal officers, and violates the separation of powers. Plaintiffs lack standing to seek this sweeping prospective relief based solely on past incidents of alleged misconduct that they only speculate may recur. Nor can plaintiffs’ claims support the relief ordered, which is untethered from the constitutional and statutory provisions that plaintiffs invoked and which reaches well beyond plaintiffs to restrain all DHS operations within the Northern District of Illinois. The injunction is also unworkable in practice, transforming a single district court into a supervisory tribunal for adjudicating the lawfulness of federal officers’ day-to-day operations. Indeed, plaintiffs have already alleged more than a half dozen violations of the court’s orders—tellingly, based on incidents that involved no named plaintiff at all. This Court’s prompt intervention is once more required to stay this untenable injunction, protect the safety of the public and law-enforcement officers, and restore the balance of power between the Executive and Judicial Branches.
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM