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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.bsky.social · 3h

Trumpers are deeply frustrated that their violence is being met with nonviolence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

New in PN: Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection

"I’ve been taking images that are nowhere near this one conflict driveway — ones of puppies & kids playing, & families having picnics — b/c the idea that Portland is burned down & a war zone is just preposterous" — @timdickinson.bsky.social

Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection

"It would be funny if it wasn’t so f**king serious," Tim Dickinson says.

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Kunai’s Mom @beccagsdipo.bsky.social · 17h

This should be required listening for every American. It doesn’t have to be like this. Our healthcare situation could be so much better! #OptimistEconomy

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How Health Insurance Got Shackled to Jobs

Podcast Episode · Optimist Economy · 10/14/2025 · 51m

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Kunai’s Mom @beccagsdipo.bsky.social · 1d

“Russian heritage” 🤣🤣🤣 “cultural events” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 “celebrate her identity” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It’s on her f’ing license plate! She may as well have a bumper sticker that says “I ❤️ genocide”.

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Kunai’s Mom @beccagsdipo.bsky.social · 1d

The people in this video are the ones who hate America. They especially hate the Constitution. The people going to exercise their Constitutional rights at the #NoKings rally love America and are fighting to keep us all free from these authoritarian psychos.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Lisa McClain refers to No Kings as "the I Hate America rally"

Kunai’s Mom @beccagsdipo.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, what ICE is doing makes shutdown drama feel quaint. The shutdown is just another day in MAGA Land.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 1d

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Kunai’s Mom @beccagsdipo.bsky.social · 1d

💙💛🐝💥

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Official Toonie Tuesday @toonietuesday.bsky.social · 2d

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#ToonieTuesday this week we are teaming up with @wildhornets.bsky.social to support the 210th Assault Regiment and HUR’s military intelligence “Arey” Special Forces for drones.

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Kunai’s Mom @beccagsdipo.bsky.social · 1d

This should surprise a grand total of zero people. All this does is confirm what we’ve known for decades: that is the party is rife with racism, they get off on it, and and they think it’s hilarious.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

The CDC RIFs are terrible in more ways than just immediate impact to people’s health.

It’s bad enough that we will lose access to our own health data. It’s worse that these data can and will be weaponized against us.

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A Health Data Surveillance State that Dominates

It's a short trip from "data modernization" to national eugenics registries

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · Jun 13

Requesting NAFO Article5, Paragraph 24:
#DarkNight🫡

Together with Fellas, we've successfully closed 4 drone fundraisers to fight off russian invaders.

This time, let's fundraise an air defense turret to protect Ukrainians from terrorist UAVs and name it, too:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...

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Kunai’s Mom @beccagsdipo.bsky.social · 4d

If you like Jake Hanrahan’s Popular Front podcast, you might enjoy this fun podcast about un-alived russian oligarchs.
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SAD OLIGARCH

True Crime Podcast · Series · RICH RUSSIANS KEEP DYING IN MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES Since January 2022, dozens of Russia's wealthiest oligarchs and power brokers have died suddenly. One was poisoned wi...

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Kunai’s Mom @beccagsdipo.bsky.social · 4d

I ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ @kedseconomist.com ! I really enjoyed this interview even though I’m not a huge fan of Prof G (I just skip the first 10 min) but great questions were asked and Kathryn explains it all so perfectly!
P.s. Optimist Economy podcast is 🤌!

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How Policy is Failing the American Workforce — ft. Kathryn Anne Edwards | Prof G Markets

YouTube video by The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

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Kunai’s Mom @beccagsdipo.bsky.social · 5d

Dude is gone. Living in his imaginary world fed by a 24/7 intravenous supply of bs washing over his feeble brain cells.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

Kunai’s Mom @beccagsdipo.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes I would give anything to be one of those people who exists happily not knowing anything about the insanity running/ruining our government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump announces he's putting a bajillion percent tariff on China

It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive position on Trade in sending an extremely hostile letter to the World, stating that they were going to, effective November 1st, 2025, impose large scale Export Controls on virtually every product they make, and some not even made by them. This affects ALL Countries, without exception, and was obviously a plan devised by them years ago. It is absolutely unheard of in International Trade, and a moral disgrace in dealing with other Nations.

Based on the fact that China has taken this unprecedented position, and speaking only for the U.S.A., and not other Nations who were similarly threatened, starting November 1st, 2025 (or sooner, depending on any further actions or changes taken by China), the United States of America will impose a Tariff of 100% on China, over and above any Tariff that they are currently paying. Also on November 1st, we will impose Export Controls on any and all critical software.

It is impossible to believe that China would have taken such an action, but they have, and the rest is History. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Kunai’s Mom @beccagsdipo.bsky.social · 6d

These people are psycho. This White House is all in on the propaganda.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AUVQrs/

The White House shared this video titled "Antifa Roundtable." We did not add any music or make any edits. #whitehouse #antifa #trump #politics #uspolitics

TikTok video by Brut.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 7d

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Kunai’s Mom @beccagsdipo.bsky.social · 7d

The level of insanity here is stunning. This country is so fucked.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Q: Are you going to work with your administration to designate antifa a foreign terror organization?

TRUMP: You mean anti-terror?

Q: Antifa

TRUMP: Antifa?

Q: A foreign terror organization

TRUMP: Would you like to see it done? I'd be glad to do it. Does everybody agree? It sounds good to me

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7d

"Either what Trump is doing is legal, or it is illegal. If it is legal, then Trumpism must be defeated and there then must be a concerted effort to reform the law....If it is illegal, then eventually, someone has to go to jail." www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

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Sonia_S @sonia2024.bsky.social · 8d

Fellas, today is Orthodox Toonie Tuesday. It's never too late to toonie. We have a goal for today. Lets push this forward for Omega. We will never give up on our heroes.💙💛 #ToonieTuesday #SupportUkraine #NAFO

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7d

Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
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Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action

Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 26d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Kunai’s Mom @beccagsdipo.bsky.social · 8d

Next year? Just wait, alright. It’s going to be so much worse next year. All the bombs they dropped this year are going to land and explode in 2026: tariffs, deportations, mass firings, medicaid cuts… 💣💥

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11d

“.. Their new mantra: Just wait until next year.”

@wsj.com
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Kunai’s Mom @beccagsdipo.bsky.social · 8d

Who, exactly, is making Chicago unsafe? It’s not the pastor. It’s the goons in cammo. They are the ones bringing the chemical weapons and the guns and the zip ties, not the people from the community who never asked for them to be there.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 8d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.