More sand dune flowers. Almost a wall paper print #stunday #bloomscrolling #photography #eck #beach #flowers #sanddune
There's a causality story that could be told here that the NYTimes elected to dance around rather than directly engage.
Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 32m agoThis is an appalling and chilling state of affairs and though this article never states explicitly how Trump is the catalyst of the escalation of incessant domestic terror in public life it leaves zero doubt about it. America’s Elected Officials Are Living in Fear www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
Politico: Sen. Rafael Warnock: “No amount of spin can erase the pain of being unable to afford health care. And I think people are going to hold those who are responsible for this accountable, they're going to hold Republicans accountable." #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
So, today alone: 12 killed and more than 300 wounded by the Houthis; Iran warned ships away from the UAE; a ship was hit by a projectile off the UAE coast; and multiple drones and missiles targeted airports in Saudi Arabia. Sure we will get a Truth Social later about how they are dying to negotiate.
Argues that Trump has almost uniformly failed in his attempts to interfere with the 2026 election, and that chances are good that states and localities can withstand whatever further interference he comes up with.
NYU Law Democracy Project@democracyproject.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨Elections 2026: A new piece by @justinlevitt.bsky.social — "The Voters Are in the Driver’s Seat for the 2026 Elections" We're publishing daily essays on potential threats to the 2026 election process & mechanisms to manage them Read the full essay here: democracyproject.org/posts/the-vo...
Why I urge a NO vote on Maryland Question 1 (binding arbitration for state employees)
NO on Question 1 – state employee binding arbitration
Vote NO on Maryland Question 1 (arbitration for state employees). Stripped of its complications, Question 1’s main effect would be to impose so-called binding arbitration on Maryland’s …
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It is not normal for a state attorney general to even have a security detail, unless there's some particular threat or an event of high concern.
Jeffrey Winfield 💙 🌈 🫂 🫘 🏳️🌈@maverickhammed.bsky.social · 22h ago🚨 Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips with a taxpayer-funded state police security detail since becoming Texas attorney general in 2015. 🔹The bill so far: $3.3 million. 🔹 An investigation could tie only 138 of those trips, and $553,000 of that cost, to state business. @micaherfan.com
"Prominent Founders, including George Washington, hosted successful distilleries on their homesteads. Yet today, the federal gov't bans home distilling outright." Cato cert amicus brief in Ream v. Treasury urges Court to overturn Raich and restore household liberty [Thomas Berry & Matthew Cavedon]
The Federal Government Can't Ban Home Distilling for Home Consumption
The federal government bans distilling spirits in your own home, even if only for your own family’s consumption. But federal power does not extend to activities that occur within a single state, let a...
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One to read this weekend. www.propublica.org/article/toho...
As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones
For decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide their...
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Two most important facts: 1) since Trump became President, attacks on Ukraine have grown substantially in volume and scale. 2) Since Trump became President the US has committed zero (yes, zero) new dollars to support Ukraine.
Trump ordered the Justice Department to have an antitrust investigation of the networks because they hurt his feelings www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b...
Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage
Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was examining whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.
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This is just an attempt to intimidate them into never banding together again. Given the way their principled boycott collapsed within hours, I'd say it will almost certainly work.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h agoBREAKING NYT: The Trump Justice Department is investigating whether the major television networks — ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox — violated federal antitrust laws when the group briefly suspended their pooled coverage of Trump, according to six people with knowledge of the department's action.
Another HBCU student athlete has been snatched up by ICE. hbcugameday.com/2026/10/08/h...
HBCU basketball player with Chinese nationality detained by ICE
An HBCU basketball player faces detention by ICE as concerns grow for international student-athletes navigating immigration issues.
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Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2d agoAminata Seck has been freed. "I'm just ready to go back to school, get my master's and get this surgery done,” she said. ICE kept her in pain in detention for two months for no reason. www.espn.com/womens-colle...
An outrageous story on its own. Even more outrageous when you find out the same county has charged three children with falsely reporting sexual abuse since her case. www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Do my eyes deceive me, or does this article that mentions the assassination of Charlie Kirk, who was not an elected official, not mention that Rep. Ilhan Omar was physically attacked less than 10 months ago?!?!?!
Jamal Greene@jamalgreene.bsky.social · 3h agoA massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
Cuban Americans in power don’t yet realize that Cubans are the primary victims of third-country removal. Hell, a certain Cuban American former senator is rubber-stamping it! They might think their proximity to whiteness will protect them from this white supremacist government. It will not.
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 19h agoJust Ted Cruz recirculating racist far right propaganda from a French white nationalist and disseminator of the great replacement bullshit theory.
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Wow. Everyone should WATCH this
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American an European friends,
I'm so ashamed, but you need to see what France has become....
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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My "I will not block the seating of duly elected House members" pledge has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my pledge
VoteHub@votehub.com · 9h agoA bipartisan effort is underway in Congress to prevent a potential constitutional crisis following the midterm elections. Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Don Bacon (R-NE) are urging lawmakers to pledge not to block the seating of duly elected House members, per @washingtonpost.com.
The Tohono O’odham Nation sued to stop a wall from being built on their land. In federal court, DHS gave assurances that the government would engage with the tribe in good faith. It didn’t feel that way on the ground. www.propublica.org/article/toho... @ryandevereaux.bsky.social
“Despite the collaborations, and assurances from the Trump administration, ProPublica found that DHS has turned its vast apparatus on tribal members, with 24-hour surveillance directed at an ongoing border prayer ceremony.” @ryandevereaux.bsky.social
As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones
For decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide their...
propublica.org
The only thing better than being featured as the $2,000 question on @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social is having the contestant get the question right!
We are sanctioning the ICC because we are a country that commits war crimes. We are buying diesel from Russia to fund Putin’s war machine because we are a country that likes *other* countries that commit war crimes.
The administration that continues to cover up for pedophiles simply cannot be trusted with the care of hundreds of unaccompanied children with no oversight and no transparency
Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · last wk.🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
Also, one of the crooks who’s not on the ballot, Ron DeSantis, called the ruling — made by a judge he appointed! — “the judicial equivalent of a death-by-firing squad to the Hope Florida Hoax.” Ron’s as classy as Boss Trump.
Two corrupt politicians who stole $10M from sick kids are on the ballot: Ashley Moody and James Uthmeier. www.tampabay.com/news/florida...
Ruling makes Hope Florida an even bigger political issue a month before election
DeSantis’ inner circle and state Democrats are both seizing on the Hope Florida saga.
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For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #Green, here’s a Ruby-Throated Hummingbird perched on a bamboo stem.
This cargo, provided the reporting is accurate, left Russia for the US 17 days after Jared & Witkoff's last visit to Moscow where they met w/Putin & his catspaw Dmitriev the latter of whom dangled the Dmitriev package of business deals for Trump, Jared, and Witkoff.
Zelenskyy: Ukraine's intelligence obtained data on $12 trillion Russia-US cooperation proposal - Euromaidan Press
The package, presented by Kremlin negotiator Kirill Dmitriev during recent contacts with Washington, may include provisions affecting Ukraine's sovereignty, according to Zelenskyy.
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Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 23h agoThe first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.
