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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 8h

🚨ICE posing as sheriff in Hollywood, CA. Governor Newsom is going to see this and he is going to be lit with rage, as he should be. The guy asking questions on video pointing out all the illegal acts they are committing. Let’s make sure he sees what happened tonight. 1/2

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Monster-Theory Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social · 16h

The US Right treats Reagan the same way they treat MLKjr: an infinitely malleable fictional character they can use to support any claim, quoting out of context or straight-up misquoting as needed.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20h

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 11h

www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...

I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 14h

Johnson though. Backbencher becoming a speaker because he's a compromise that has no actual support and all the groups would be happy to remove.

He basically only exists at Trump's whim - he's not actually a person who's risen in the house leadership to the position. A figurehead at most.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17h

SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high.

SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.

Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.

People need & deserve assistance

Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich

Be mad about that

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

The president announces an arbitrary price hike on Americans because his feelings are hurt by an ad accurately quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs

Canada was caught, red handed, putting up a fraudulent advertisement on Ronald Reagan’s Speech on Tariffs. The Reagan Foundation said that they, “created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan. The ad misrepresents the Presidential Radio Address,” and “did not seek nor receive permission to use and edit the remarks. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter.” The sole purpose of this FRAUD was Canada’s hope that the United States Supreme Court will come to their “rescue” on Tariffs that they have used for years to hurt the United States. Now the United States is able to defend itself against high and overbearing Canadian Tariffs (and those from the rest of the World as well!). Ronald Reagan LOVED Tariffs for purposes of National Security and the Economy, but Canada said he didn’t! Their Advertisement was to be taken down, IMMEDIATELY, but they let it run last night during the World Series, knowing that it was a FRAUD. Because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 4d

The fact that Republicans get upset about tearing down confederate monuments, but not demolishing the White House, says a lot.

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Two-meter Matt @2metermatt.bsky.social · 15h

I like my TACOs NIH style

Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 15h

My reax to the big planned NIH shutdown firing news from @politico.com:

The Project 2025 ppl didn’t do big (illegal) NIH firings because they know there would be public outcry.

Keep speaking up!

Democrat-led government shutdown.” She added: “Due to a recent court order, HHS is not currently taking actions to implement or administer the reduction-in-force notices.”
According to the document reviewed by POLITICO, the National Institutes of Health was to take the hardest hit among HHS agencies, 4,545 layoffs, or roughly a quarter of its workforce. It ended up firing no one.
A federal judge in San Francisco blocked the firing of 362 of the 954 HHS employees who did receive the October layoff

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

No, Bernie, sending squads of goosestepping fascists to conduct mass raids and terrify entire communities is not "better." This is a godawful take and you should feel bad.

If you don’t have any borders, you don’t have a nation," Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with the Democratic Party, said on The Tim Dillon Show on Wednesday. "Trump did a better job. I don’t like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain’t that hard to do. Biden didn't do it."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

Democrats should just start rolling out ad after ad of Reagan voiceovers.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 16h

"We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people -- our strength -- from every country and every corner of the world."

youtu.be/2R8QxCD6ir8?...

The last speech of Ronald Reagan as president was on immigration

YouTube video by Montclair Immigration Network

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 15h

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not going to sugar-coat it: it's a maximalist document in terms of how far it redefines "civil rights."

E.g. The document takes aim at things like Rooney-Rule style hiring (where an employer makes an attempt to make sure there are some diverse candidates among the finalists).

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 1d

The UC Regents finally released the “settlement agreement” the Trump administration proposed in August. It’s a doozy.

UC alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents, donors—and all citizens of California:

Now is the time to let the UC Regents know you do not want them to sign this bad deal.

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Vanessa Williamson @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social · 16h

Latest tariff news is of a pattern with private donations for the WH ballroom, seizing a stake in Intel and the politicization at IRS.

Trump is trying to replace the legislated system of taxation for revenue with an arbitrary, personal system of state exactions.

Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad | CNN Business

President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-...

www.cnn.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 16h

An embarrassingly obvious point, but...

This. Is. Illegal.

If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.

In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad | CNN Business

President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-...

www.cnn.com

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 17h

Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute

Photos: White House East Wing Demolished For Trump’s Ballroom

The privately funded ballroom will be approximately 90,000 square feet, much larger than the White House itself.

www.forbes.com

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m-gibbs.bsky.social @m-gibbs.bsky.social · 3d

I served. I have three tattoos which heavily feature skulls: a sugar skull, a death moth, and a memento morí tattoo.

It's not the presence of a skull that's a problem, it's the specific fucking skull. And it's insulting anyone would pretend not to understand.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 17h

Key thing people today actually should know:
In the 1930s everyone was freaked out by low birth rates, and the fascists were the most proactive in actually enacting pronatalist policies, and they may have had some minor success, dwarfed by the worst possible politics, then they blew up the world
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17h

Pretty amazing finding.

mRNA covid vaccines may “turbo charge” cancer immunotherapy, research suggests

Patients with cancer who received a covid mRNA vaccine within 100 days of beginning immunotherapy treatment gained significant benefit in terms of survival and disease progression, new research sugges...

www.bmj.com

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 18h

If this didn’t happen domestically, it would be a war crime.

It should be a crime to fire at civilians within the United States within certain distances.

We have never seen civil disobedience *or even outright riots* in which short-range is anything but punitive and cruel—it doesn’t aid control.

Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

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Two-meter Matt @2metermatt.bsky.social · 17h

Interesting similarity to F-86, albeit by different pathways to access German aviation expertise

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17h

I have no choice but to believe you if you tell me you can't tell the difference between the totenkopf and the Jolly Roger but if that's the case you should absolutely not be allowed to drive a car

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 19h

I haven't seen people here mention this letter from the mayor of Illinois' 2nd-largest city (Aurora, 40+% Latino)

to the Aurora Police

following egregious attacks by immigration in Aurora and related protests

So here it is!

Hello Chief and APD Leadership,

I just wanted to jot a quick thank you note for those who participated in this meeting with the Latino community about ICE in our neighborhoods.

Sadly, this problem is not going away anytime soon. Historically, the police have been on the wrong side of history during the civil rights movement and the labor movement - defending capital. The pivotal points in American history are when police realized that their solidarity should be with labor; not capital.

Labor vs. police: Learning from working-class history Workers World

In this current struggle, I believe that we are 2-3 years away from a moment where we see the shift in solidarity.

I would like to see Aurora lead, and show something different. It will create discomfort during the transformation. I noticed during the march towards Blue Kangaroo, when the police escort disappeared, that activists I didn't know used their vehicles to block the intersections and protect the marchers.

All living things have the capacity to evolve and grow. Government is about to go through a huge evolutionary period and shed that which is not necessary, and re-focus on what is important.

As government continues to disintegrate from the top down, we have an opportunity to re-invent the ways we find food, water, shelter and protection.

We would like the Aurora Police Department to play a historic role in defending the United States of America, and our city against fascism. We have a unique opportunity to do something different, leave our mark in the history books, and make a difference. I'm excited about the opportunity and look forward to discussing it further.

Respectfully, John Laesch Mayor, City of Aurora laesch@aurora.il.us

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Two-meter Matt @2metermatt.bsky.social · 17h

Fuck, forgot about this guy for a few weeks while other Trump issues came to the fore

David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 17h

Leo Spaceman
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

RFK Jr to urge Americans to eat more saturated fats, alarming health experts

Guidance from health and human services secretary contradicts decades of dietary recommendations

www.theguardian.com