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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2h

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1h

Big news here: the White House has backed down from shutting down I-5 this weekend following our reporting last night.

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uppaalaska.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇦🇺🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @uppaalaska.bsky.social · 4h

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Howdy @icandie.bsky.social · 9h

WE need the Orange Turd impeached!

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 5h

ONLY ONE INSURRECTIONIST CALLED FOR THIS!!!

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 1d

This year, the federal government took a note from Texas’ playbook and barred Planned Parenthood affiliates nationwide from accessing Medicaid reimbursements. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America said it might have to shutter almost two-thirds of its clinics as a result.

How Texas Planned Parenthood is surviving without public funds

Texas’ Planned Parenthood has lost half its clinics, but they continue to see thousands of patients a year.

www.texastribune.org

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Jan @countrygal.bsky.social · 2h

Not a single row for me!!!
Great going, Bob.

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 23h

Starmer and Reeves are expected to argue that if it hadn’t been for Brexit, the economy would be about £120bn bigger by 2035 than current forecasts suggest it will be.

So, hopefully, we are about to see some honesty about the damage Brexit has inflicted.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Jan @countrygal.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you Thelma. You stand up for me and millions of other seniors who can no long stand up.

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 13h

My name is Thelma and I'm old as hell. My story is as American as you get and I can't believe what is happening to my country. I am going to the No Kings march Saturday for the same reason those fellas in Boston dumped tea in the harbor. This one is important, love you all.

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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 2h

The fact that we need a bill like this shows how far we've fallen...

Newsom signs controversial bill letting relatives care for kids if parents are deported

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed a bill allowing a broad range of relatives to step in as children's caregivers if their parents are deported.

abc7.com

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 3h

Well, Senator Thune, if you don’t trust the judgment of the HHS Secretary, why should the rest of us have to put up with him?

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garci32 @garci32.bsky.social · 4h

DHS Quietly Edits Number of Gang Members Captured in Chicago Raid
Here’s how many Tren de Aragua members were really arrested in that horrific raid on a Chicago apartment building.

ICE/DHS claimed they arrested 37 members but “just one ‘verified’ Tren de Aragua member,” MSNBC reported this week.

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thewakan.bsky.social @thewakan.bsky.social · 14h

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 4h

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pete52.bsky.social @pete52.bsky.social · 20h

😂🤣😂

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 21h

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy and powerful men, and how everyone knew what was going on

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

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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PoliticusUSA @politicususa.com · 20h

“Cleveland supports you, Portland! Stay strong!” a poster wrote on Wednesday, beneath photos from a bridge party they threw in support of the Portland protesters.