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allinwithchris.bsky.social
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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bgodar.bsky.social
Wrote a piece for @slate.com explaining that states have a long history of prosecuting federal officers when they allegedly use excessive force. Federal officers are only immune from such prosecutions when they act reasonably in carrying out lawful duties.
Minnesota Could Prosecute the ICE Shooter. Trump Can’t Pardon Him.
Shortly after an ICE officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, city leaders began looking into whether the officer had violated state criminal law.
slate.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.
January 7, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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mcsweeneys.net
"Seriously, I don’t care how much it costs. Take every dime I have. But know this: I would level my house to the ground before I paid slightly higher property taxes to fund infrastructure that would prevent a landslide from leveling my house to the ground." #McSweeneysTop25of2025
I Will Pay Any Amount to Not Pay My Taxes
Our 6th most-read article of 2025. - - -I’ve gotten myself into a bit of a jam. A series of natural disasters is barreling towards my home, and th...
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January 1, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
staffer: you talked to the little girls?
trump: sure did, real fuckin creepy just like you asked
staffer: what
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16d
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?

Caller: I am eight
December 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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sundaedivine.lol
One of these brains can understand abstract concepts, solve problems, and show altruism while the other thinks Trump’s mugshot makes him look strong.
December 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
otherbert.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award

Also Boomers:
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Dec 5
this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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evanhurst.substack.com
Does your family do Stove Top Surroundings or homemade?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 16
Trump shamelessly lies: "Go to Walmart and other companies, and in every case it's about 25% that a Thanksgiving meal and surroundings are 25% lower. That's big fact."
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
The guys who are protecting pedophiles love recess.
sahilkapur.bsky.social Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · Oct 31
Speaker Johnson has decided to keep the House in recess all through next week. This will be the seventh consecutive week of recess for the chamber. It has not been in session since Sept. 19.
October 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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nicolefoy.bsky.social
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.
White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)
For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary. Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from). The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe. Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky. Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat? This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight: * Waste of public resources on military theatrics. * Fraud in the name of “public safety.” * Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect. Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation. Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here. When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness. Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy. A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control. Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard. Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa
October 11, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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sundaedivine.lol
Kash Patel has the look of a guy who just Googled “how to FBI” five minutes before the press conference.
September 12, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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atrupar.com
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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elienyc.bsky.social
The expectation, from the complicit mainstream media, that every single person on social media hold themselves to a HIGHER standard of respect than the freaking PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES will never cease to amaze me.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 11
Trump: "For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism we're seeing in our country & it must stop right now. My admin will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity"
September 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
otherbert.bsky.social
One of my favorite authors!
December 23, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
I'm a sucker for a great mash-up and this is one of my favorites:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYNS...
Buffalo MC - "Stop and Bust a Move"
YouTube video by Bill McClintock
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2024 at 2:57 AM
otherbert.bsky.social
Dear Retail, I get it. Black Friday. Please stop
November 27, 2024 at 5:07 PM
otherbert.bsky.social
An incredible piece of work here. Highly recommend.
swordsjew.bsky.social Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Oct 10
I wrote about the compulsion to speak about things we can't change, the confusion between posting and doing, the emptiness of meaning that pushes us to silence, and children facing death in Israel and Gaza: https://theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/speech-and-speechlessness
Speech and Speechlessness
On the world of words, and the world beyond them
theswordandthesandwich.substack.com
October 10, 2023 at 7:53 PM
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thehell.zone
knock this website all you want but I just realized I haven’t heard what Glenn Greenwald thinks about anything for months
October 8, 2023 at 9:16 AM
otherbert.bsky.social
What an evil person.
October 5, 2023 at 9:40 PM
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petridishes.bsky.social
gift link!
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This cannot be correct. Florida voters did not pick Matt Gaetz for Congress expecting him to just idly sit by while people passed legislation to keep the country operational. That’s not why you send Matt Gaetz to Washington. Everyone knows the terms of the contract with a bog witch that allow me to exist in human form rather than reverting to my original shape (haunted doll) dictate that if Congress ever appears functional, even briefly, I start to revert. Also, every time someone says something bad about me, my hair gets taller. Also, I need people to be aware of me at all times or my light starts flickering and I begin to go out. Like Jeb Bush, or Tinkerbell. Remember Jeb Bush? Well, exactly. “That’s a lot of curses to keep track of,” you are probably saying. Yes.
October 4, 2023 at 2:42 AM
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leedrutman.bsky.social
GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker
October 3, 2023 at 10:07 PM
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iamdad.bsky.social
September 21, 2023 at 4:15 AM