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It’s not just who’s on the ballot, but what’s on the ballot.
The broken politics of the past or a future we can afford.
It’s debate time. Let’s go.
They use a strict criteria to include cases, so this likely vastly undercounts the number of US citizens who ICE/DHS agents have assaulted. For example, this case from OKC (from April) wouldn't be included in the database.
www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
Fantastic reporting by @propublica.org. must read article.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
Man, this freaking guy.
"I have no staff ... The phones don't work. There's no computer," Grijalva says from her sparsely furnished office on Capitol Hill. "We don't have a government email." www.npr.org/2025/10/16/g...
In a WaPo article by @danlamothe.bsky.social & @taracopp.bsky.social, there's this:
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Susan Stamberg joined NPR at its start, originally to cut tape — literal tape, with a single-sided blade — at a time when commercial networks almost never hired women. n.pr/493MG7W
16.10.2025 22:58 — 👍 474 🔁 85 💬 17 📌 15Because it is illegal
16.10.2025 23:07 — 👍 4014 🔁 945 💬 193 📌 33Newsom: This president appears unhinged… seems listless… he seems, dare I say, in decline—cognitively, and… physically. These are just the rantings of someone who needs an intervention, needs some help, needs to be stabilized.
16.10.2025 19:44 — 👍 15630 🔁 4660 💬 576 📌 240The NYC mayoral debate starts with Mamdani promising to raise taxes "on Andrew Cuomo's donors."
16.10.2025 23:08 — 👍 1497 🔁 212 💬 20 📌 44Between it being a Fox poll and coming just after Mamdani maximized the value of his Fox appearance, this might result in ketchup thrown.
16.10.2025 23:10 — 👍 361 🔁 82 💬 16 📌 1
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
16.10.2025 16:04 — 👍 1907 🔁 1263 💬 56 📌 170this is truly invaluable reporting
16.10.2025 22:56 — 👍 1884 🔁 626 💬 59 📌 14
Amazing photograph (by Anthony Vazquez). Horrible story.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
The most corrupt administration, the most corrupt party, the most corrupt people
They’re all crooks
FYI “Young Republicans” are adult men
16.10.2025 15:14 — 👍 2979 🔁 792 💬 194 📌 31"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”
-Article 1, Section 8, US Constitution
Not a "norm" violation. A legal and constitutional violation.
DOE's public statements about this say that all the ad hoc committees, including HEPAP, will be replaced by a single committee. As an STS researcher, I am compelled to point out that this overlaps with the Nazi playbook for taking over German physics. My slides about how they did that:🧪⚛️🔭
15.10.2025 17:11 — 👍 131 🔁 50 💬 3 📌 2I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond.
Pay attention and act!
judging from what I’m seeing right now, a large-scale Twitter Exodus Event is 100% what’s happening
good!
Collins: Speaker Johnson that Republicans are actually the party that wants to fix health care by addressing issues with it, as he says they did in the one big beautiful bill.
Sanders: Did he really say that? They're trying to fix health care by throwing 15 million people off of it?
"a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority"
The phrasing you're looking for is that he's suspending parts of the Constitution by decree.
share.newsbreak.com/fh1ddjqf?s=i16
Nonstop grifting 🍊🤔👇🏼
This is authoritarianism.
16.10.2025 02:10 — 👍 63 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 0I work in local government in a decent-sized city and can tell you all with full confidence that a pilot of police officers are really angry about ICE and are making that very clear/talking about it very publicly.
16.10.2025 00:58 — 👍 137 🔁 32 💬 4 📌 1MacCALLUM: Margaret Thatcher said socialism is great until you run out of other people's money
MAMDANI: Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if you have $957m you give it to Elon Musk in tax credits
sorry did we disband the constitution and make this maladjusted hack king?
16.10.2025 02:13 — 👍 43 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0“The 3.5% rule is a concept in political science that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.”
If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.
Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record:
This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.
