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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 5h

He forgot to add that the enslaved were not charged for the cost of transporting them.

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'Stop Whining': MAGA Pastor Claims Slavery Was 'Blessing' For Black People (Black Information Network)

Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon is facing backlash after claiming that slavery was a "blessing" for Black people. In a clip...

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 5h

Republicans just don't carefor abidingby the law.

"Trump’s cronies are gaslighting America with a new bald-faced lie" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6p0Jepos/T...

Trump's cronies are gaslighting America with a new bald-faced lie (AlterNet)

Airport managers need to wake up fast. With only a handful of exceptions, people running airports across America are risking serious fines and being barred f...

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 6h

Read "Ex-police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper ordered to stand trial" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6p96YgAU/F...

Ex-police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper ordered to stand trial (Raw Story)

MARION — Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody probably committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, durin...

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 6h

Read "Panel Erupts After MAGA Host’s ‘Hitler’ Comments on CNN" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6oAvdGWQ/h...

Panel Erupts After MAGA Host's ‘Hitler' Comments on CNN (The Daily Beast)

A panel on CNN's NewsNightexploded in anger over the political reaction to highly offensive texts leaked from a Young Republicans group chat that involved re...

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 6h

Read "Only White Refugees In The Country" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6p9LYlhK/u...

Only White Refugees In The Country (Wonkette)

On June 6, 1939, the United States turned away the MS St. Louis,a ship full of 937 Jewish refugees hoping to escape the horrors of the Third Reich. The ship ...

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 6h

Read "‘How Embarrassing’: Trump’s Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Accidentally Invents Fantasy Math While Explaining Health Care Plan That Doesn’t Exist" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6p3HKJtm/3...

‘How Embarrassing’: Trump’s Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Accidentally Invents Fantasy Math While Explaining Health Care Plan That Doesn’t Exist (Atlanta Black Star)

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is at it again, making a bonkers claim that President Donald Trump is going to lower drug prices by “200, 300, 1...

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 6h

Read "Mike Johnson’s Anti-Nazi Attack Didn’t Go As Well As He Probably Hoped" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6p7QGLok/l...

Mike Johnson’s Anti-Nazi Attack Didn’t Go As Well As He Probably Hoped (HuffPost)

House SpeakerMike Johnson started a furor he did not see coming ― and it’s all because of a single, itty-bitty word. The Louisiana Republican was talking wit...

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 6h

The Republican administration are a gang of criminals who will threaten us to keep quiet. They must be voted out.

Read "Ted Cruz Says His Bill Will Allow DOJ to ‘Prosecute’ Those Who Fund No Kings Protests, Which Have Been Overwhelmingly Peaceful" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6p5HorZe/0...

Ted Cruz Says His Bill Will Allow DOJ to 'Prosecute' Those Who Fund No Kings Protests, Which Have Been Overwhelmingly Peaceful (Common Dreams)

Doubling down on effortsby Republicans to smear the peaceful "No Kings" protest movement as "terrorism," Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday called for the passage of...

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 6h

Read "Karoline Leavitt Just Gave The Most Absurd Explanation Of Who The Democratic Base Is" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6p8gXA88/G...

Karoline Leavitt's Absurd Description Of Democratic Voters Is Going Viral (BuzzFeed)

OK let's start with an exercise: What do you think of when you think of the Democratic base, like who is it?How about a Starbucks barista?

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 6h

Read "The Trump Economy Is Here, and It’s So Much Worse Than Biden’s" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6p70kLTy/9...

The Trump Economy Is Here, and It’s So Much Worse Than Biden’s (The New Republic)

While President Donald Trump continues to gamble with the U.S. economy—threatening tariffs, chickening out on tariffs, attempting to bully the Federal Reserv...

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 6h

Read "Trump’s War on Chicago" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6p9dEqIg/C...

Trump's War on Chicago (The Atlantic)

Updated at 2:10 p.m. ET on October 16, 2025 When National Guard troops from Texas started to arrive in Illinois last week, I drove out to the Immigration...

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 6h

Read "ICE branded as ‘losers’ after allegedly shooting beloved family dog Chop as family issues heartbreaking statement" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6p4jy4ko/C...

ICE branded as 'losers' after allegedly shooting beloved family dog Chop as family issues heartbreaking statement (Tyla)

The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been branded as 'losers' for allegedly shooting a dog in a 'use of force incident' with the ...

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 6h

More lies from the dictator wanna-be.

Read "‘That’s a Whole Lie!’: Trump’s Bizarre Claim About What ‘Beautiful Black Women’ Begged Him to Do Leaves the Internet Questioning His Grip on Reality" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6p7H4Wti/a...

‘That’s a Whole Lie!’: Trump’s Bizarre Claim About What ‘Beautiful Black Women’ Begged Him to Do Leaves the Internet Questioning His Grip on Reality (Atlanta Black Star)

President Donald Trump’slatest remarks about Black women have set off a wave of outrage — even among some of his own supporters — after he described a myster...

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 6h

More from the dictator wanna-be.

Read "Trump Wants to Fire Missiles Over California on Same Day as No Kings" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6p2nzKw0/9...

Trump Wants to Fire Missiles Over California on Same Day as No Kings (The New Republic)

Donald Trump is planning to throw himself another “vanity parade”—and this time, it might include Navy warships hurtling missiles toward the state of Califor...

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 6h

Read "Pete Hegseth ‘first to be fired’ in Trump’s admin as departure date revealed" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6p38I3bW/h...

Pete Hegseth 'first to be fired' in Trump's admin as departure date revealed (Irish Star Online)

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is reportedly going to be the first casualty of the second Donald Trumpadministration, according to The Daily Beast's Washi...

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 9h

Read "The Profound Shame of JD Vance" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6p3Trp04/2...

The Profound Shame of JD Vance (The Nation)

Trump’s lapdog defends racist Young Republicans as “boys,” while some are almost his age—as they slur Indian women, like his wife, Usha, as “dirty.” How much...

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 9h

What else is new?

Read "The Right Is Lying About Left-Wing Violence" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6p52Kgus/7...

The Right Is Lying About Left-Wing Violence (The Nation)

The Trump administration is using an imagined enemy—“antifa”—to justify turning ICE into an ultra-violent, unaccountable army invading US cities. Portlanders...

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 10h

Wormtounge spreading more lies.

Read "Stephen Miller Yells in Unhinged Rant Against ‘Moron’ Trump Enemy" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6p0g5PwY/E...

Stephen Miller Yells in Unhinged Rant Against ‘Moron' Trump Enemy (The Daily Beast)

Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump's most loyal lieutenant, lost his cool on Wednesday during a Fox News rant about one of Trump's main enemies. White Ho...

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 10h

Read "‘My Face … Is Still Numb’: Cops Brutally Beat and Arrest Black Man for Recording Them — A Jury Let Them Off the Hook, But a Judge Just Flipped the Script" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6p0Mn7pK/o...

‘My Face … Is Still Numb’: Cops Brutally Beat and Arrest Black Man for Recording Them — A Jury Let Them Off the Hook, But a Judge Just Flipped the Script (Atlanta Black Star)

Buffalo police did not appreciate a Black man recording them from across the street as they were investigating a drive-by shooting of a house in 2019 so they...

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Patrick @antellopy.bsky.social · 10h

Read "ICE Agent Who Took Upskirt Photos of Flight Attendant Says It Wasn’t a Crime Because He Was Sneaky" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6p1YKsko/8...