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I’m not new, I’m just new *here*. You know me, I know you. The sun’ll come out tomorrow.

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She looks like maybe she’s in a hurry to get somewhere www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

pbs.org'Public hanging' remark by Mississippi's Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith draws rebuke ahead of runoffHyde-Smith, who faces a black Democratic challenger in a Nov. 27 runoff, was recorded on video praising someone by saying: "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row." Mississippi ...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump calls Cindy Hyde-Smith on stage. She speaks for literally two seconds.

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Let’s change some laws. I’ve had it with this shit.

AltStateGov@altstategov.altgov.info

MD PG County PD is piloting license plate reader technology that also collects data from devices in passing vehicles to create "a digital fingerprint for devices that routinely travel together.” Harford County is in the research phase and plans to start using the tech as well.

foxbaltimore.comBeyond license plates: Maryland police eye tech that picks up Bluetooth, Wi-FiA company that supplies license-plate readers to police across central Maryland is now selling a tool that also detects Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and other wireless sign

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

interesting

Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree.bsky.social

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

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AltUSCustoms
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No, don’t abolish ICE. Or rather, don’t ONLY abolish ICE. Repeal every last fucking letter of IIRIRA. And a bunch of other laws as well. 🧵🧵🧵 www.propublica.org/article/depo...

propublica.orgThe Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His NeighborsIngram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of t...
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This is great but it’s still living in a world where Trump doesn’t crime if you say no and doesn’t get others to crime for him and won’t pardon them when they do. That is very clearly not the world WE live in. The answer is to remove the fascist, not chase him around telling him he’s naughty.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

Senior House Democrats tell TNR’s Greg Sargent they’re discussing a dramatic step, should they win the majority. trib.al/3zG6UZz

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Have this fight, but don’t neglect the other one. If we were going to go down this road all along, of showing America how awful he really is, we should have started in Feb ‘25 by blocking the whole gd budget and forcing him to fasc-out all at once.

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This is great but it’s still living in a world where Trump doesn’t crime if you say no and doesn’t get others to crime for him and won’t pardon them when they do. That is very clearly not the world WE live in. The answer is to remove the fascist, not chase him around telling him he’s naughty.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

Senior House Democrats tell TNR’s Greg Sargent they’re discussing a dramatic step, should they win the majority. trib.al/3zG6UZz

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At best, this gives agents standing when he fires them for not persecuting her. And then they’re fired, and their life is upside down, and they have to sue, like Andy McCabe, to get what they’re owed, and they have to explain their termination at every job interview ever.

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IOW, people about whom it is literally IMPOSSIBLE to develop reasonable suspicion and/or probable cause. Bc, say it with me: It’s not law enforcement It’s ethnic cleansing

Austin Kocher, PhD@austinkocher.com

Immigration Agents Have Detained Hundreds of U.S. Citizens. Meet the ProPublica Team with the Data to Prove It I'm talking with the team on Tuesday, October 27 at 1 pm ET. austinkocher.substack.com/p/immigratio... @nicolefoy.bsky.social

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Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Sen. Adam Schiff tells NBC that Pete Hegseth and "anyone who has knowledge of what happened" should testify before the Senate on Ukraine's Starlink disruptions. "Somebody is lying here. Maybe they're all lying in different ways, but we need to find out."

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Huddle up, team. They swept into office with Project 2025 and immediately began wreaking havoc. See example 5,736,385,373 below. Where’s our plan to rebuild? We need one. I would have heard about it by now. Never let the assholes be more prepared than you. Good talk. Hands in: Team on 3. 1-2-3 …

Molly Jong-Fast@mollyjongfast.bsky.social

Donald Trump literally making us sicker www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

nytimes.comHow Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass (Gift Article)The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.
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The mother is, at a minimum, an accomplice to child rape and interstate flight … if we’re debating credibility and character … and of course Washington Post gave up counting HIS lies after 30,573 in just 4 years (21 lies per day). The record is clear about the conduct the aid disputes. He is wrong.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "This is a disgrace. The mother said that Amy Acton is a liar and she's no good. And you know what? I don't think you can get a better reference than that."

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The mother is, at a minimum, an accomplice to child rape and interstate flight … if we’re debating credibility and character … and of course Washington Post gave up counting HIS lies after 30,573 in just 4 years (21 lies per day). The record is clear about the conduct the aid disputes. He is wrong.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "This is a disgrace. The mother said that Amy Acton is a liar and she's no good. And you know what? I don't think you can get a better reference than that."

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Yeah, exactly. Might be why we’ve been screaming about it so long and so loud.

Nathan Newman@nathansnewman.bsky.social

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

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Chris Geidner
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A reminder also that this office has no U.S. Attorney, and the guy running the office — as first assistant — was ruled to have improperly served too long as the appointed U.S. Attorney.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

NEW, NYT: More action from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of California that is not based in law and runs counter to DOJ policy. DOJ is threatening local elections officials in CA after DOJ did not get what they wanted from their BS lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

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Also, these are NOT police. They aren’t protecting a community, they’re serially terrorizing many communities, like marauders. They are voluntarily working for an ethnic cleansing agency, and they deny all shame for doing so while they hide/threaten They are not reformable. They are not redeemable.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

Know your rights: You have the legal right under the First Amendment to observe and record ICE operations from a safe distance in public spaces.

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It’s not law enforcement It’s ethnic cleansing

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

prospect.orgThe Trump Administration May Have Just Lied to Judge About an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea - The American ProspectAn ICE agent told a judge a charter flight to Equatorial Guinea had been canceled. It just landed there.

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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Telling a woman to shut up when she’s asking about the attack ad you’ve backed calling a pedophilia victim a loser is like a turducken pf misogyny

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?

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Yes, this is pathetic, and so are all their other stunts, but the point is to create an atmosphere, not to win any of these specific battles. They’re kicking up dust to create enough chaos to motivate and cover for their insurrectionist core. They’re a danger until they’re all gone and prosecuted.

Micah@rincewind.run

I understand the freakout here but honestly this one reads as a sign of weakness to me a) peltola is going to win by more than the second dan sullivan's margin b) this argument is pathetic, and if their strategy is 'throw pathetic shit at the wall and hope something sticks' I'm less worried

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I like speculating/daydreaming about better times after he’s gone. That takes work now, not later, now. Setting our democracy on track cannot begin until obstacles are removed. Our Constitution gives us two ways to do it, both requiring abundant pressure from all of us beginning 11/4/26.

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I surely hope so. I think he’ll be a messy bitch on the way out but he may just resign. And then there’s the issue of his replacement. I can’t imagine Trump will nominate somebody we can trust so, we’re going to have to reject his nominee(s) and be without a confirmed SECDEF for a while.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

i really do think that a successful impeachment and removal of hegseth is a live possibility if dems win the senate. he is a genuine disaster.

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Election interference

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: Attorney General Todd Blanche on Thursday said the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) might launch more California-style lawsuits to block states from counting ballots for the midterm election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comBlanche threatens ‘a number of states’ with California-style voting lawsuitsBlanche’s comments come amid the DOJ’s unprecedented assault on the Golden State’s election system.

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲
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A Leon County grand jury found that high-ranking state GOP officials diverted $10M meant for children to the GOP's own PACs in the Hope Florida scandal. But if you talk about it, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who is on the ballot, wants to have you arrested. So, def don't talk about it.

wgcu.orgBreaking: Republicans want Hope Florida story silenced and jail for anyone who talks about itThe Republican Party of Florida is threatening criminal prosecution of television stations, the Democratic Party and, by the terms of its own legal theory, anyone who repeats a Leon County grand jury’...

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Bobby Kogan
@bbkogan.bsky.social

We are seeing a hunger disaster unrolling before our eyes. Since Republicans passed the Big Beautiful Bill, 2 million kids have lost food assistance. These are by far the deepest SNAP cuts in history, and each month, we find out it’s even worse than we thought. The worst is yet to come.

Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social

In the wake of unprecedented cuts in last year's Republican reconciliation law, SNAP participation & spending have been falling — and the decline is much deeper than the Congressional Budget Office initially projected. www.cbpp.org/blog/congres...

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Pokin
@pokinpotentialppl.bsky.social

😈

Bradley P. Moss@bradmossesq.bsky.social

Say what now? Why thank you, Jared. Thank you for providing admissible evidence that is no longer excluded from consideration under the Trump immunity ruling.

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I’ll be glad to be rid of him but we’ll lose our ability forever to see justice even attempted, let alone done. He needs to be removed, urgently, so we can put him on trial and have a chance at partial redemption.

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It wasn’t for splitting brunch

Raw Story@rawstory.com

Jared Kushner allegedly moved money from a secret Gulf-funded bank account to a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man while Dutch spies watched his phone, according to an explosive new book.

bit.lyExplosive report claims Kushner’s hacked phone showed transfers to warlord and hitmanJared Kushner allegedly moved money from a secret Gulf-funded bank account to a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man while Dutch spies watched his phone, according to an explosive new book.In an excerpt published Thursday by Vanity Fair, investigative journalist Matthew Cole wrote that Dutch ...
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They’re opening the aperture for criminal fascism as wide as they can, to leave as many avenues to dictatorship as possible. They’re not subtle. This is happening. We must activate their cowardice.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, in new comments Thursday, did not rule out that the Department of Justice (DOJ) could try to prevent a state from certifying its election results — a process over which the federal government has no authority. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comTodd Blanche won’t rule out trying to block states from certifying election resultsThough Blanche said the department doesn’t intend to improperly interfere in elections, his remarks will add to existing concerns that the administration could try to intervene if results don’t go its...
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Percussion does not complement the spoke word, especially when there is no rhyme or rhythm. Don’t bang on the thing the mics are attached to, you dumfuq. And stop being a goddam racist.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Roger Marshall pathetically drops a "Barack HUSSEIN Obama"

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You win the divorce by living your best democracy

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com

What happens after the midterms? In the new season of “Autocracy in America,” @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu talks with the political, cultural, and economic leaders working to reverse the slide toward autocracy. Sign up now—the first episode airs November 10:

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Shawn Burgess
@burgesslab.bsky.social

I'm an NIH scientist, I'm not anonymous, and RFK Jr is destroying NIH.

Mark Histed@markhisted.org

This week, NIH advisors rebuked RFK for harming #NIH and US science. Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported it. Then RFK posted calling her sources anonymous or corrupt. I'll say this hoping it does good: I'm an NIH scientist, I'm not anonymous, and RFK Jr is destroying NIH. More in attachment:

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Allison Gill
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I hope I’m wrong, but I feel like Blanche opened this investigation to prevent discovery in any state probes like NM, or to prevent having to release any files due to an “open and ongoing investigation.” www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

wsj.comExclusive | Federal Prosecutors Open Probe Into Jeffrey Epstein’s ExecutorsProsecutors have questioned potential witnesses about his longtime accountant and lawyer. Both of them have denied wrongdoing.