@lafayettebay.bsky.social
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The collusion seems to include providing the Russian authorities with materials (from their confidential asylum applications!) used to send forcibly repatriated dissidents to prison. The depth of betrayal here is beyond words.
BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’
Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities
www.thetimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The collusion seems to include providing the Russian authorities with materials (from their confidential asylum applications!) used to send forcibly repatriated dissidents to prison. The depth of betrayal here is beyond words.
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Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...
There Is an Information Blackout at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Detention Camp
Public records related to Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp have...
talkingpointsmemo.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...
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Another example of the right wing media machine selectively presenting and then twisting “evidence” into their strategic frames. This is how they work ALL THE TIME. As soon as an event happens, it’s all hands on deck to assemble evidence to fit their frames.
Elon Musk blames Melissa Hortman’s murder on “the far left”
June 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Another example of the right wing media machine selectively presenting and then twisting “evidence” into their strategic frames. This is how they work ALL THE TIME. As soon as an event happens, it’s all hands on deck to assemble evidence to fit their frames.
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In this case they’re going to seize on any tiny piece of “evidence” to try to align these events with their frames — e.g. “the left did it.” Looks like the NY Post has already found some traction attempting to tie the suspect to Tim Walz.
June 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
In this case they’re going to seize on any tiny piece of “evidence” to try to align these events with their frames — e.g. “the left did it.” Looks like the NY Post has already found some traction attempting to tie the suspect to Tim Walz.
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It really says something that Minnesota still showed out like this even with their lives under threat, with a politically motivated killer who reportedly had materials relates to this event in his vehicle.
Incredible state and incredible people.
Incredible state and incredible people.
Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.
June 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
It really says something that Minnesota still showed out like this even with their lives under threat, with a politically motivated killer who reportedly had materials relates to this event in his vehicle.
Incredible state and incredible people.
Incredible state and incredible people.
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NEW: In the last few hours, Minnesota authorities warned people against attending protests, with a killer on the loose.
This is the current view of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.
DEFIANCE. 👏
#NoKings #50501Movement
(📸 Daviss)
This is the current view of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.
DEFIANCE. 👏
#NoKings #50501Movement
(📸 Daviss)
June 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
NEW: In the last few hours, Minnesota authorities warned people against attending protests, with a killer on the loose.
This is the current view of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.
DEFIANCE. 👏
#NoKings #50501Movement
(📸 Daviss)
This is the current view of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.
DEFIANCE. 👏
#NoKings #50501Movement
(📸 Daviss)
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This is heartbreaking.
(via someone at the St. Paul rally)
(via someone at the St. Paul rally)
June 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This is heartbreaking.
(via someone at the St. Paul rally)
(via someone at the St. Paul rally)
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When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman.
-Free school breakfast and lunch
-Restoring voting rights for felons
-Paid leave
Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social
19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...
-Free school breakfast and lunch
-Restoring voting rights for felons
-Paid leave
Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social
19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...
Rep. Melissa Hortman, killed in targeted attack, was a champion for Minnesotan families
Hortman worked closely with Gov. Tim Walz to enact policies that prioritized children and expanded protections for abortion and gender-affirming care
19thnews.org
June 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman.
-Free school breakfast and lunch
-Restoring voting rights for felons
-Paid leave
Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social
19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...
-Free school breakfast and lunch
-Restoring voting rights for felons
-Paid leave
Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social
19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...
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from 'this week in stupid,' my every-Saturday round-up of the dumbest fucking shit that happened.
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/45SUaJh
(and, as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/45SUaJh
(and, as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
June 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
from 'this week in stupid,' my every-Saturday round-up of the dumbest fucking shit that happened.
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/45SUaJh
(and, as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/45SUaJh
(and, as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
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Just going to keep reposting ALL of this democratic protest happening ALL over the US today.
June 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Just going to keep reposting ALL of this democratic protest happening ALL over the US today.
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A hit list was found in shooting suspect's car with nearly 70 different targets, including abortion providers and lawmakers, official tells CNN.
Manhunt underway after Minnesota lawmaker killed and another injured in ‘politically motivated’ shootings | CNN
A Minnesota lawmaker and her husband were shot and killed early Saturday morning in “what appears to be a politically-motivated assassination,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said at a news conference Saturd...
www.cnn.com
June 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
A hit list was found in shooting suspect's car with nearly 70 different targets, including abortion providers and lawmakers, official tells CNN.
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Protesters chant “shame” at cars with Trump flags.
Love it!
🔥
Love it!
🔥
June 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Protesters chant “shame” at cars with Trump flags.
Love it!
🔥
Love it!
🔥
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This is the most dangerous thing Trump has done since taking office and the silence from Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker and House Chair Mike Rogers is deafening, and a betrayal of their duty to the military and the Republic.
June 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This is the most dangerous thing Trump has done since taking office and the silence from Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker and House Chair Mike Rogers is deafening, and a betrayal of their duty to the military and the Republic.
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The only reason people think LA is a postapocalyptic nightmare is because of the X algorithm. An unreality machine.
June 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The only reason people think LA is a postapocalyptic nightmare is because of the X algorithm. An unreality machine.
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Trump stood at Fort Bragg and hijacked a moment meant to honor the Army’s legacy—turning it into a spectacle for his own ego.
He mocked political opponents, spread lies, and vowed to restore Confederate base names.
Our Troops deserve respect. What they got was a dictator’s stunt.
He mocked political opponents, spread lies, and vowed to restore Confederate base names.
Our Troops deserve respect. What they got was a dictator’s stunt.
June 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Trump stood at Fort Bragg and hijacked a moment meant to honor the Army’s legacy—turning it into a spectacle for his own ego.
He mocked political opponents, spread lies, and vowed to restore Confederate base names.
Our Troops deserve respect. What they got was a dictator’s stunt.
He mocked political opponents, spread lies, and vowed to restore Confederate base names.
Our Troops deserve respect. What they got was a dictator’s stunt.
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Pro-vaccine groups? Really? What’s next? Defining people who accept the laws of gravity as pro-science groups? Pro-gravity groups. This is journalistic malpractice creating a false equivalency between dangerous nut jobs and people who understand medicine.
June 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Pro-vaccine groups? Really? What’s next? Defining people who accept the laws of gravity as pro-science groups? Pro-gravity groups. This is journalistic malpractice creating a false equivalency between dangerous nut jobs and people who understand medicine.
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Do you remember What’s the Matter with Kansas?
It argued that white working class people vote for culture war stuff against their economic interests.
That work was based on the flawed assumption that voters know they do that.
They don’t know and won’t unless we tell them.
It argued that white working class people vote for culture war stuff against their economic interests.
That work was based on the flawed assumption that voters know they do that.
They don’t know and won’t unless we tell them.
June 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Do you remember What’s the Matter with Kansas?
It argued that white working class people vote for culture war stuff against their economic interests.
That work was based on the flawed assumption that voters know they do that.
They don’t know and won’t unless we tell them.
It argued that white working class people vote for culture war stuff against their economic interests.
That work was based on the flawed assumption that voters know they do that.
They don’t know and won’t unless we tell them.
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Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.”
This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more
This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more
June 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.”
This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more
This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more
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Thread.
This is a real thing being posted and circulated by the Department of Homeland Security, referring to undocumented immigrants as “foreign invaders” and urging good Americans to turn them in.
(I’ll leave it to BlueSky historians to find comparisons to WWII era materials.)
(I’ll leave it to BlueSky historians to find comparisons to WWII era materials.)
June 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Thread.
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Hegseth’s showing today was very weak. He’s not smart, He does not know the material. He’s prone to blathering. He’s disrespectful of the Senate. F.
Hegseth clashed with several lawmakers at a Senate budget hearing as he insisted the Pentagon’s deployment of troops to LA was lawful.
He just couldn’t cite the law he was following.
He just couldn’t cite the law he was following.
Hegseth says troops in LA are lawful. He just can’t explain why.
The Pentagon chief stumbled when pressed on the legal underpinning for the deployment of 700 Marines to California.
www.politico.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Hegseth’s showing today was very weak. He’s not smart, He does not know the material. He’s prone to blathering. He’s disrespectful of the Senate. F.
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Trump at Fort Bragg wasn’t a speech—it was a live-action threat to democracy.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Trump’s gross abuse of the military takes an ugly turn—even for him
Donald Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg on Tuesday was a disgrace—full stop.� It’s not just that the sitting president spoke to the soldiers at the Army base as if he was holding a campaign rally,
www.dailykos.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Trump at Fort Bragg wasn’t a speech—it was a live-action threat to democracy.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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The entire board tasked with overseeing the State Department's Fulbright Program has resigned — claiming political interference from the Trump admin.
The Board voted "overwhelmingly" to resign "rather than endorse unprecedented actions … impermissible under the law." substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Board voted "overwhelmingly" to resign "rather than endorse unprecedented actions … impermissible under the law." substack.com/home/post/p-...
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Resignation Statement
Effective immediately, members of the Congressionally mandated Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board voted overwhelmingly to resign from the board, rather than endorse unprecedented actions that we beli...
substack.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The entire board tasked with overseeing the State Department's Fulbright Program has resigned — claiming political interference from the Trump admin.
The Board voted "overwhelmingly" to resign "rather than endorse unprecedented actions … impermissible under the law." substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Board voted "overwhelmingly" to resign "rather than endorse unprecedented actions … impermissible under the law." substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Learned some more about a few of these dangerous new ACIP people
June 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Learned some more about a few of these dangerous new ACIP people
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Every major Dem politician needs to realize that, in this environment, they can schedule a "speech to the nation," like Newsom did, and get tons of media coverage.
Just do it.
Just do it.
June 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Every major Dem politician needs to realize that, in this environment, they can schedule a "speech to the nation," like Newsom did, and get tons of media coverage.
Just do it.
Just do it.