Phil in the Blanks

Phil in the Blanks

@sketches.foo

I'm just some guy. Illinois dad. I write (rarely) on my blog: https://sketches.foo A song for you to enjoy: https://music.alcocerfamily.com/share/4frBIyjLts

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Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

thenation.comOne Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE DetentionMy husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Iran's 10-point plan, which President Trump agreed to, includes the complete removal of all sanctions imposed on Iran, but does not include a commitment to give up its nuclear stockpile or to completely halt uranium enrichment.

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For every American rube who ever argued that instead of statesmen, we should allow a businessman from outside the political sphere to helm our government, here is the internet posting that should make you shut the fuck up and bathe alone in your submoronic ignorance until you wrinkle and die.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "With a little more time, we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, & MAKE A FORTUNE. IT WOULD BE A 'GUSHER' FOR THE WORLD??? President DONALD J. TRUMP"

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Guys, the President was literally threatening to invade the territory of a NATO country earlier this year, to the point where they had to deploy troops to deter it. That has consequences.

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It’s such a laughably bad argument for the war on Iran to say “The people there want regime change.” I want regime change in the US, and I 100% do not want the US to be bombed. F off with garbage arguments.

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i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

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being honest about what Republicans actually are upsets Republican sources, readers, event sponsors, and ownership, costing corporate media money so you get this bizarre kayfabe where Republicans are given bottomless credibility they never had to earn

Jamison Foser@jamisonfoser.bsky.social

c'mon now

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Replying to @spillanetp.bsky.social

down by the bay, where the watermelons grow, a rough beast slouches toward Bethlehem to be born

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Not beating the Nazi allegations over there

Bill@bill-of-lefts.bsky.social

The degree to which these people should be locked in an asylum cannot be overstated

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It’s important to realize that the subtext of Trump freaking out at Kaitlan Collins when she asks him what he’d say to the Epstein survivors is that she may in practice be asking what he’d say to the *Trump* survivors, and they both know that. A well worded question

Rep. Jim McGovern@repmcgovern.bsky.social

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

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this is some fox's book of martyrs shit. jesus christ.

Jay Kirell@jasonkirell.bsky.social

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

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The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.

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every time someone talks about how good obama was i think about when he drone strike executed an american citizen child and when the admin was asked to explain themselves they said the kid "should have had a more responsible father

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GOP: We will come to your home and kidnap you. We will kill you if you object. We will cleanse the streets of you. You are like rodents. We laugh as we squish you beneath our feet. You are not even human. Ours is the Fourth Reich. Democrats: Ignore that, we are only talking about the economy.

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During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social

The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.

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Per NYPost's scoop, some of the ways Mamdani's wife has "quietly steered" his campaign are weighing in on his logo design, being "a major source of support for him in private" and once posting on Instagram, "Couldn't possibly be prouder."

A. Marmot 🌱@aminus.bsky.social

[the NY Post scrambling to make a last-ditch scandal:] "umm, uhhh, his aloof wife Rama Duwaji secretly ran the campaign"

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WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released. DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

Heartland Signal@heartlandsignal.com

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated. or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

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HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com

NEW: Judge Immergut schedules a hearing TONIGHT, in 45 min, to hear arguments on SECOND TRO to block federalized California National Guard from deploying in Portland, Oregon. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...

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Okay. Well, if Trump is going to attempt legal end-arounds like federalizing the NG of GOP states to send them to Dem states over the objections of governors and courts, I think the Democrats should just keep the federal government shut down indefinitely.

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Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A. ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why. A judge has ordered his immediate release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Replying to @tylerfromtheinternet.com

We're seeing the Uber rich start to low key refer to themselves like a separate species. They are delusional and haven't thought the end game of this through. Billionaires are the greatest existential threat to the world and humanity that history has ever seen.