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Grifter Squad! @chewtoy90.bsky.social · Sep 22
It’s the corruption. Everyone can agree on that.
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🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.

Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
Trump just claimed his tariffs have pulled in $2 trillion. Then literally hours later, he inflated that to $3 trillion. With this absurdity, he undermined his case for tariffs, revealing that he's just pulling numbers out of his ass.

On the pod we dig deep into this:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
Trump Wrecks His Own Case for Tariffs as Bizarre SCOTUS Rant Backfires
As Trump unleashes confused statements about the Supreme Court case on his tariffs, a trade expert explains how he accidentally undermined his argument for them—and why all this is trending toward a m...
newrepublic.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
Joyce Carol Oates has inspired legions

via @maiamindel.bsky.social
donald boat ... @laserboat999 I think the most egregious part is that he thinks listening to george guidall or whichever hoary yakubian beast penguin hired to read the translation while he plays diablo with cheetodusty fingers is 1:1 equivalent with hearing a rhapsode sing-chant the poem from memory, that a sped up audiobook boneconducted into his skull will recreate the exact condition of Classical Antiquity and achieve whatever he thinks is "authentic." To the extent that he has any historical sense (he probably doesn't) it is without a doubt autopopulated by sub-Ridley-Scott tier period slop, D-graded wikipedia summaries, pop history podcasts, Grok, of course. I do think that it is a near biblical punishment to inflict on the richest man in human history with a near boundless capacity to build whatever he wants a near total lack of imagination, the inability to navigate his ignorance of any field, literally any field outside of insectile mechanical reproduction. You will see him bleat about the "West," about "Beauty." I would like to see him, or any other of these robber-baron-hopefuls to just try and build one nice-looking building, a library, a train station, maybe just one fucking cabinet and have it not look like the ugliest piece of shit on the planet. He really is the Final Boor, zero taste, trapped in the most brutal contradiction of dull-garish backwards-forwards looking (And may Allah forgive me for uttering this word) "cyberpunk" futurism. He's too far gone for me to pity him in any real way. I hope he gets to live in the world he wants, his grand fantasy, which, like his cars, is probably just a big refrigerator with an iPad in it Traducir post 8:28 p.m. • 10 nov. 2025 • 379,7 mil Visualizaciones
November 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States.

Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011:

"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
Epstein wrote in emails, at least one back in 2011 when there would have been little incentive to lie, that Trump knew about what he was doing with girls www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
A little bit of history worth knowing. If it’s history, they are trying to wipe it out, to make room for the absurd tales of eternal innocence that bring fascism and bloodshed closer.
chriso-wiki.bsky.social ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 3d
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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nuphoto.com
The Northern Lights over #Chicago with an iPhone. What a world. #aurora
Green aurora borealis over the chicago skyline
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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adownie.bsky.social
This is my favorite airport signage from my travels throughout the world:

Milwaukee, WI.
Photo shows the area after security in the Milwaukee, WI airport. There is a sign hanging from the ceiling which reads, “Recombobulation Area”
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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heathercherone.bsky.social
How it started/How it is going
Post from Greg Bovino accusing Gov. JB Pritzker of lying and ending with “feel free to join us in Little Village tomorrow.” Governor Pritzker will give remarks at the American Legion Veterans Day Ceremony in Little Village.
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
chewtoy90.bsky.social
Lets see. It’s been a scary & dangerous past few months in Chicago. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
chewtoy90.bsky.social
The fictional newspaper is called the Dunning-Kruger Times. www.rawstory.com/jake-tapper-...
'Everything is fake!' CNN's Jake Tapper stunned as Trump fooled by parody site
CNN anchor Jake Tapper was visibly stunned on Monday by a report that President Donald Trump shared a fake story from an obvious parody news website. On Sunday, Trump posted on Truth Social that forme...
www.rawstory.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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sande0724.bsky.social
Be prepared.

Ghislaine Maxwell is next.

And the grand finale will be Donald Trump pardoning himself.
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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heathercherone.bsky.social
A Chicago legend, too.
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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heathercherone.bsky.social
This story now includes video, released by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, of the baby being exposed to chemical irritants fired by federal agents from their convoy into the car she was riding in with members of her family near 26th Street and Ogden Avenue in Cicero.
heathercherone.bsky.social Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3d
Federal officials accused someone of firing shots at agents conducting an aggressive immigration raid led by Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino through Little Village Saturday. No one was injured.
Agents used chemical agents to disperse the crowd, @sigchofor25.bsky.social said.
@wttw.bsky.social
Federal Agents Say They Were Shot at in Little Village; Chemical Agents Used to Disperse Crowd
No one was injured in the shooting reported by federal agents, according to a spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department.
news.wttw.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
chewtoy90.bsky.social
Mavis Staples’ new version hit me hard for so many reasons music.apple.com/us/album/bea...
Beautiful Strangers by Mavis Staples on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 5:58
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November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
I like when you know they saw the post on twitter
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
The Clash’s Paul Simonon, running into some young street musicians, will make your day. 💕 🎸

@theclash.com @faroutmagazine.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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royalpratt.bsky.social
On X, Bovino has a comment
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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heathercherone.bsky.social
The @chicagotribune.com has updated its story to clarify that the baby was exposed to pepper spray, not tear gas
Shots fired at immigration agents in Little Village as residents confront Bovino, Border Patrol, authorities say
Community members once again confronted a convoy of Border Patrol agents led by Cmdr. Gregory Bovino as it moved through Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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prchovanec.bsky.social
We print dollars. We are plenty liquid whenever we need to be. This is where his background as a private businessman completely fails him.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Trump on SNAP: "Our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars -- it could be anything. We have to remain liquid. We can't give everything away."
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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unraveledpress.com
On second review, this looks to be just smoke grenades / flashbang. Bovino has been carrying around a CS gas canister in his hand though, so not ruling out that gas was deployed elsewhere this morning—it's been incredibly chaotic, with agents attacking people in multiple locations.
djbyrnes1.bsky.social Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 3d
Federal immigration agents have deployed gas in Little Village, on 26th between Komensky and Pulaski, per videos shared online after 11 am this morning.
Snippet of a video shared online on 11/8/2025 a little after 11 am, showing gas being deployed on 26th Street, between Komensky and Pulaski, in Chicago.
November 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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djbyrnes1.bsky.social
District Judge Sara Ellis' injunction order limits how and when feds can use gas in the Chicago area.

It restricts the use of gas in "residential or commercial areas" that could risk injury to a plaintiff class member "who is not causing an immediate threat of physical harm to another person"
Image text: Preliminary Injunction Order Plaintiffs filed a Motion for a Preliminary Injunction Order against Defendants. Having held a hearing on November 5 and 6, 2025, the Court finds that Plaintiffs have met their burden to support the issuance of a Preliminary Injunction. The Court orally issued its ruling, containing findings of facts, conclusions of law, and stated reasons why the Court issued the injunction pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 52(a)(2) and 65(d), on November 6, 2025, and indicated that a written opinion will follow further explaining the Court’s ruling and providing supporting evidentiary and case citations within 14 days of the issuance of this Order. Accordingly, the Court grants the motion and orders as follows: 1. It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants, their officers, agents, assigns, and all persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as “Federal Agents”), are ENJOINED in this judicial district from: Image text: Dispersal of Others: Issuing a crowd dispersal order, meaning a lawful command given by an authorized Federal Agent for all persons to leave a designated area, that requires any Class member to leave a public place that they lawfully have a right to be, unless dispersal is justified by exigent circumstances such that immediate action is objectively necessary in order to preserve life or prevent catastrophic outcomes as defined by Department of Homeland Security Use of Force Policy (updated Feb. 6, 2023), Section XII.E; c. Using riot control weapons––including kinetic impact projectiles (KIPs), Compressed Air Launchers (e.g., PLS and FN303), Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) Spray, CS gas, CN gas, or other chemical irritants, 40 mm Munitions Launchers, less-lethal shotguns, Less-Lethal Specialty Impact-Chemical Munitions (LLSI-CM), Controlled Noise and Light Distraction Devices (CNLDDs), Electronic Control Weapons (ECWs)––on any Class member, unless such force is objectively necessary to stop the person from causing an immediate threat of physical harm to another person; d. Using riot control weapons (including those described above) at identified targets if it is reasonably foreseeable that doing so could result in injury to any Class member, unless such force is objectively necessary to stop the person from causing an immediate threat of physical harm to another person Image text: e. Deploying CS or CN gas canisters, OC spray, or other chemical irritants into a group of people or in residential or commercial areas in a manner that poses a reasonably foreseeable risk of injuring any Class member who is not causing an immediate threat of physical harm to another person; f. Deploying CS or CN gas canisters, Controlled Noise and Light Distraction Devices (CNLDD), or Less-Lethal Specialty Impact and Chemical Munitions (LLSI-CM) so as to strike any Class member, unless such force is objectively necessary to stop an immediate threat of the person causing serious bodily injury or death to another person; g. Deploying CS or CN gas canisters, Controlled Noise and Light Distraction Devices (CNLDD), or Less-Lethal Specialty Impact and Chemical Munitions (LLSI-CM) above the head of any Class member, unless such force is objectively necessary to stop an immediate threat of the person causing serious bodily injury or death to another person; h. Firing Compressed Air Launchers (e.g., PLS and FN303), or Munitions Launchers (e.g., 40mm), or KIPs so as to strike the head, neck, groin, spine, or female breast of any Class member, unless such force is objectively necessary to stop an immediate threat of the person causing serious bodily injury or death to another person
November 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
chewtoy90.bsky.social
Peter Dinklage sweet talking the Recorder of Deeds in The Lowdown is a fucking work of art
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
chewtoy90.bsky.social
Interesting: How Radio Traffic Let Us Track U.S. Drones in the Caribbean www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Video: How Radio Traffic Let Us Track U.S. Drones in the Caribbean
The U.S. military’s buildup near Venezuela has been rapidly growing and changing. Riley Mellen, from Visual Investigations, describes what’s visible, and audible, about the deployment.
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM