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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 48m

The Trump Economy Is Here, and It’s So Much Worse Than Biden’s

Jobs are stagnating, prices are skyrocketing, and many states are already in recession. But the president and his investor-class cronies don’t care. buff.ly/Q4wgH79

The Trump Economy Is Here, and It’s So Much Worse Than Biden’s

Jobs are stagnating, prices are skyrocketing, and many states are already in recession. But the president and his investor-class cronies don’t care.

newrepublic.com

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 52m

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And…

www.propublica.org

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 54m

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 8h

Candlelight, big checks and a corporate-backed ballroom: Ethics experts warn of Trump project www.axios.com/2025/10/16/t...

Candlelight, big checks and a corporate-backed ballroom: Ethics experts warn of Trump project

Watchdogs called for increased transparency surrounding the project's backers.

www.axios.com

CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 10h

Banning abortion is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes theconversation.com/banning-abor...

Banning abortion is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

Banning abortion instantly oppresses a huge swath of society. And enforcing abortion bans begets a police state − an upside for dictators from Mussolini to Ortega.

theconversation.com

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 11h

The GOP’s Young ‘Leaders’ Aren’t Kids — They’re Adults Praising Hitler

There’s a world of difference between gallows humor and glorifying genocide — one saves your sanity, the other kills your soul. buff.ly/44YR67W

The GOP’s Young ‘Leaders’ Aren’t Kids — They’re Adults Praising Hitler

There’s a world of difference between gallows humor and glorifying genocide — one saves your sanity, the other kills your soul.

adamkinzinger.substack.com

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 11h

let’s talk about who really hates America

the fascists and oligarchs are terrified of No Kings Day buff.ly/DFCRBvP

let’s talk about who really hates America

the fascists and oligarchs are terrified of No Kings Day

www.jefftiedrich.com

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 11h

The "Peace President" Waging War on America johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-peace-...

The "Peace President" Waging War on America

In the wake of the initial cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, the Trump Administration has continued to feed the false narrative of Trump as the “Peace President,” with Republican politicians,…

johnpavlovitz.substack.com

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 11h

Americans, by and large, are looking away.

Is This What the Next Generation of GOP Leaders Sounds Like? Don’t Look Away...

The leaked messages show what happens when cruelty becomes political culture… buff.ly/nXo0R4q

Is This What the Next Generation of GOP Leaders Sounds Like? Don’t Look Away...

The leaked messages show what happens when cruelty becomes political culture…

hartmannreport.com

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

The Right Jumps to Defend Young Republicans' Racist Texts

It isn’t shocking given the tone the Trump administration takes toward migrants and other minority groups buff.ly/ZY4tJZe

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump Regime is Wildly Violating the Hatch Act robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

The Trump Regime is Wildly Violating the Hatch Act

The propaganda spewing from Trump’s departments and agencies is illegal

robertreich.substack.com

CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s big new overhaul leaves critics aghast

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People buff.ly/wROkBCc

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

double shocker! Donny’s brain is pudding and young Republicans are racist www.jefftiedrich.com/p/double-sho...

double shocker! Donny’s brain is pudding and young Republicans are racist

scenes from a batshit Tuesday

www.jefftiedrich.com

CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is a Test of America's Humanity, and Many of Us are Failing.

The last decade in America has been an unrelenting funeral. buff.ly/Z9gn3El

ICE is a Test of America's Humanity, and Many of Us are Failing.

The last decade in America has been an unrelenting funeral.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com

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CafeOlait 🇺🇦 ☮ 🟦 @cafeolait.bsky.social · 1d

Are the Streets of Chicago Showing Us the Future of American Democracy?

When federal agents turn weapons on citizens, it’s not just a local scandal — it’s a national reckoning. buff.ly/B9axC4l