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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · Nov 29
Trump does NOT have a mandate to shred our institutions. His margin of victory (pop vote + electoral college) is the third smallest since 1888. (Only JFK in '60 and Nixon in '68 were smaller.) If 238k votes in the blue wall states had been different, he would have lost. 49.8% vs 48.3% NOT a mandate.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2h
"The video is part of a paid Israeli government campaign of posts on Google-owned YouTube that 'focus on whether or not a famine is taking place in Gaza,' according to an internal Google email reviewed by The Washington Post." wapo.st/47dlXDu
As famine struck Gaza, Google let Israel run YouTube ads claiming, ‘There is food’
An internal Google email said it received many complaints about Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled they could remain online.
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 1h
Trump continues his quest to spread lawlessness, criminality and anti-democratic fascism around the world.

GIFT ARTICLE

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump’s pardon request for Netanyahu marks shift from promoting U.S. values abroad
Trump has upended American presidents’ tradition of promoting the rule of law and democracy overseas.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 1h
Grocery prices keep rising. Gift Article

www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
Grocery Prices Keep Rising. Frustrated Consumers Are Trying to Adapt.
Shoppers say they are cutting back on purchases, stockpiling certain foods or exploring more-affordable stores.
www.wsj.com
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Miles Roman @packetleaf.com · 2h
The president’s personal business and his government role intersected this week when he was heard on a hot mic arranging a meeting between his son Eric, who runs the family company, and Indonesia’s leader.

www.wsj.com/us-news/ill-...
‘I’ll Have Eric Call’: Trump Sets Up Son’s Meeting With Indonesian President
A hot-mic moment suggested a blurry line between the U.S. president’s roles as political leader and businessman.
www.wsj.com
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 2h
An ICE agent violently kidnapped a young black man in Chicago. Video shows his sister explaining he is a U.S. citizen.

ICE cannot use immigration enforcement authority to arrest & detain U.S. citizens - except for obstruction or assault, neither of which happened

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1xx...
"He's a Citizen!" - ICE Tackles & Detains American Teen in Chicago
YouTube video by Save America Movement
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · Aug 26
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts gave DOGE permission to access the Social Security database. DOGE then proceeded to commit multiple felonies by illegally copying the entire database and illegally uploading it to a vulnerable cloud server. Catastrophic. Gift Article
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says
www.nytimes.com
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 9h
I have been in animal rescue for years and was first exposed to the rescue world because of a report of a family pet murdered by police at the wrong house. One of the issues that UNITES Red & Blue is stopping the abuse of companion animals & rescuing them.
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 16h
Sickening. Revolting. Vile. This makes you want to throw up.

This is the kind of garbage that the worst kind of people say when they think nobody is watching.

And where are Republican leaders from Trump on down condemning these comments swiftly and unequivocally!?

I’m waiting to hear it.
A headline from POLITICO reads: "‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat"
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 10h
Hostile foreign nations definitely involved in sabotaging the U.S. Via many many attack vectors. The most effective has been influencing far right-wing and far left-wing propagandists. AND especially in the last decade, manipulating right-wing elected officials & evangelicals and orgs like the NRA.
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Politico @politico.com · 20h
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h
I feel like we're going to have to do this with all of Tricia's lies.

www.thedailybeast.com/senior-ice-b...
Senior ICE Barbie Official Posts Totally False Information About Violent Arrest of Teen Girl
DHS communications lead Tricia McLaughlin made the false claim over a video that went viral.
www.thedailybeast.com
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 11h
The scum employed by DHS (ICE, CBP) are the bottom feeders of society who cannot get any other jobs. I want them OUT OF OUR CITY.

Notably, CBP are supposed to be policing our border. CHICAGO IS OVER 500 MILES FROM THE CANADIAN BORDER. What are they even doing here?
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 11h
Agree. We cannot trust ANY information coming from DHS, Pentagon or DOJ. @chicago.suntimes.com do not trust any DHS statement until it is verified by independent sources outside of government.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 13h
Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)
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MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 14h
Of all the things that didn’t happen
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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 13h
Incredible photo from @chicago.suntimes.com ‘s Anthony Vazquez. Pointing what looks to be a teargas launcher at someone’s head at nearly point blank range is incredibly dangerous. This is why I prefer a ballistic helmet in the field.
Feds ram SUV in chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd
The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N on Chicago's East Side, resulting in dozens of residents showing up to protest the federal immigration agents.
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 12h
My family has been here since 1685. Fuck Kirk.
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 12h
Excellent question.
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 12h
Remember in 2016 when Marco Rubio thought he was just the person to be the president of the United States of America? Since then, every day in every way, he has demonstrated that he is a danger to America, our democracy and our national security. Once Trump 2.0 is over Rubio should be banished.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15h
BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.
Department of State v @StateDept g.. The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans. The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.: 5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 13h
One of the most important pieces of reporting this year imho www.wsj.com/world/americ...
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 12h
And then there's THIS: Trump secretly arranged for 17 family members of Sinaloa Cartel leaders to enter & live in the U.S. Video showed family members of drug trafficker "El Chapo" walking across the border from Tijuana with suitcases to waiting U.S. agents. WTF??

www.cbsnews.com/news/sinaloa...
17 family members of notorious cartel leader enter U.S. in deal with Trump administration, Mexico says
Ovidio Guzman Lopez is one of the brothers left running a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel after notorious capo "El Chapo" was imprisoned in the U.S.
www.cbsnews.com
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 13h
"Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government."

Agree 💯. Trump appointees are known lying liars.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 13h
Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)
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MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 14h
Of all the things that didn’t happen
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 13h
Antifa's Canadian girlfriend.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 13h
Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)
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MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 14h
Of all the things that didn’t happen
Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22h
Time owner Marc Benioff (and Salesforce CEO) just announced a few days ago that he's eager to start sucking Trump's dick full time. He even wants troops deployed to San Francisco. But as we see here, it's never enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19h
Top on the list of "Democrat programs" Trump/Vought just ended is the office which runs special education programs in the United States. www.k12dive.com/news/special...
RIFs rip through federal Office of Special Education Programs
With OSEP reportedly decimated, one special education expert asks: How can IDEA "possibly function"?
www.k12dive.com
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