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Chaosaurus Bex
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I was a knitter, I am a writer, and I will pet all the cats.
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atrupar.com
Oh, so he totally stole the money
The U.S. Supreme Court was given the wrong numbers. The “unwind” in the event of a negative decision on Tariffs, would be, including investments made, to be made, and return of funds, in excess of 3 Trillion Dollars. It would not be possible to ever make up for that kind of a “drubbing.” That would truly become an insurmountable National Security Event, and devastating to the future of our Country - Possibly non-sustainable!
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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jenee.bsky.social
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.

RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
We murdered six more people in boats
The latest US strikes on alleged drug boats kill 6 in the eastern Pacific
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday announced the latest in a series of strikes on boats accused of ferrying drugs, killing six people in attacks on two vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
www.nbcmiami.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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wired.com
Alex Karp runs Palantir—a $450B tech giant powering AI systems for the CIA, ICE, and the Israeli military during its campaign in Gaza. He’s a law grad with a PhD in philosophy and a CEO who’s as polarizing as he is powerful. www.wired.com/story/alex-k...
Alex Karp Goes to War
Palantir’s CEO is good with ICE and says he defends human rights. But will Israel and Trump ever go too far for him?
www.wired.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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leahlitman.bsky.social
I don't have a high opinion of SCOTUS.

But this outcome was clear-as Mark & I explained on MSNBC: www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-...

People SHOULD worry about SCOTUS & educate people about what SCOTUS is doing & might do.

They shouldn't whip ppl into frenzies on cases that aren't going anywhere.
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social
The United States killed six more men in Sunday strikes on suspected drug boats. Our news article and tracker on this offensive, which has killed at least 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
bexfish.bsky.social
God, I fucking hate Trump.
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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leahlitman.bsky.social
See this? This is a case to potentially be concerned about!
joshgerstein.bsky.social Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 21h
BREAKING: #SCOTUS will decide an issue near and dear to President Trump: whether federal law allows states to tally ballots in federal elections after Election Day. 5th Circuit ruled it does.
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit

this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
bexfish.bsky.social
Releasing anyone and everyone that helped him try to steal the election and stay in office illegally. First the traitors from J6 and now these criminals.
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including:

-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
bexfish.bsky.social
I’m really fucking tired of our Democrat leaders being afraid. And they’re not afraid of the direction the country is going but just optics. Fucking pathetic. @schumer.senate.gov needs to resign if he isn’t going to lead.
juliedicaro.bsky.social Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d
MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.

My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
bexfish.bsky.social
Like I said before, he needs his criminal crew to help him steal future elections. This is his answer to the 2025 elections.
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d
Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.”

Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
GRANTING PARDONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES RELATED TO THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION .....• - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 Presidential Election and continues the process of national reconciliation. Acting pursuant to the grant of authority in Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution of the United States, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, do hereby grant a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all United States citizens for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential electors, whether or not recognized by any State or State official, in connection with the 2020 Presidential Election, as well for any conduct relating to their efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 Presidential Blection. This includes, but is not limited to: • Mark Amick • Kathy Berden • Christina Bobb • Tyler Bowyer • Joseph Bxannan • Carol Brunner • Mary Buestrin • Darryl Carlson • James "Ken" Carroll • Brad Carver Robert Cheeley • Kenneth Chesebro • Hank Choate • Jeffrey Clark • Vikki Consiglio • Nancy Cottle • James DeGraffenreid • John Downey • John Eastman • Jenna Ellis • Boris Epshteyn • Amy Facchinello • B111 Feehan • Carolyn Fisher • Harrison Ployd • Clifford Frost • Kay Godwin • Edward Scott Grabins • Stanley Grot • Rudolph Giuliani • John Haggard • Scott Hall • Misty Hampton • David G. Hanna • Mark Hennessy • Mari-Ann Henry • Durward James Hindle III • Burt Jones • Anthony T. Kern • Kathy Kiernen • Timothy King •Trevian Kutts • James Lamon • Cathleen Latham • Jesse Law • Stephen Lee • Michele Lundgren • Meshawn Maddock • Michael McDonald • Mark Meadows • Shawn Mechan • Robert Montgomery • Daryl Moody • Samuel I. Moorhead • Loraine Pellegrino • Sidney Powe11 • James Renner • Bileen Rice • Mayra Rodriguez • Mike Roman • Rose Rook • Kelly Ruh • Greg Safsten • David Shafer • Marian Sheridan • Ray Stallings Smith III 4 • Robert F. Spindell Jx. • Shawn Still • Ken Thompson • Pam Travis • James Troupis • Kent Vanderwood • Kelli Ward • Michael Ward • C.B. Yadav This pardon does not apply to the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. The Attorney General, acting through the Pardon Attorney, shall administer and effectuate the issuance of certificates of pardon to eligible applicants. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of November, in the year of our lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
bexfish.bsky.social
Guess he needs help overthrowing the next election.
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
bexfish.bsky.social
@fetterman.senate.gov disgusts me. He’s a fraud.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d
The Senate on Sunday took the first step toward ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, after a group of Democrats broke from their party and voted with Republicans to advance legislation to reopen the government. Here's what to know: nyti.ms/4oxaeHb
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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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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johntomlinson.bsky.social
I had several great uncles that fought against fascism in Europe in WWII.

This is appalling.
chriso-wiki.bsky.social ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 2d
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 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including:

-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Heritage is just cartoonishly evil. Just the worst scum on the face of the planet.
chriso-wiki.bsky.social ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 2d
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 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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wyden.senate.gov
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Seriously, this was a smart deal for the coward caucus in @democrats.senate.gov to make because they're about to make more lifelong enemies than they've ever had before.
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
Or maybe Senate Democrats are aware of how pissed off voters will be?

This alleged deal guarantees a BILLION dollars in spending for security and police at the Capitol, and then a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that will surely lose.

Not sure a billion will even be enough but OK.
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.

"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
The president is desperate to make sure Americans go hungry.

Seems like a pretty big news story? Especially as he's throwing massive parties for himself and building a giant golden ballroom?

If the media or Democrats are looking for a "kitchen table" issue, this seems like a *pretty* good fit
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
Donald Trump has asked his employees on the Supreme Court to overrule lower court orders demanding that he fulfill his duties to feed Americans who are due SNAP benefits

AND

He's demanding that states which just rushed to fill the vacuum created by his cruelty "undo" that work.
tonyromm.bsky.social tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
November 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Only the incompetent tools in this administration would look to Spirit Airlines and think, yeah, yeah, we need some of that greatness over here.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d
The WSJ on how unbelievably stupid Noem and Lewandowski are.

I don’t care that I’m late to this; it’s to good to pass up.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
More broadly, officials across ICE say Noem and Lewandowski have directed them to use a $170 billion infusion of cash from Congress to launch splashy ideas that have proven ineffective or impractical. Among the examples some ICE officials have cited: A few weeks ago, the pair ordered ICE officials to buy 10 737 jets from Spirit Airlines that they said would be used to boost deportation flights— and for their own travel, according to people familiar with the matter. Some officials warned the pair that the effort would be prohibitively expensive compared with hiring more flight contractors, the people said. Once the officials looked into the proposal, they learned that Spirit, which filed for bankruptcy for a second time in August, didn't own the planes. The planes also don't have engines, which would need to be purchased separately. The project has since been put on pause, though DHS recently purchased two Gulfstream jets for $200 million, according to Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee, who were notified by the department. A spokesperson for Spirit didn't respond to a request for comment.
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM