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innes @innes.bsky.social · 9h

"Sir we're concerned that the chaotic damage you're doing to the economy, country and populace may be too abstract for the average American to fully grasp, do you have any ideas for a compelling visual metaphor?"

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💙🦋 @humanity101.bsky.social · 17h

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 12h

The Affordable Care Act became law in 2010

Since then, Republicans tried to repeal, replace, defund and overturn it

NEVER did they offer a viable alternative to it

Now-as health insurance costs are exploding-they’re terrified

Because it threatens their hegemony over the American body politic

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

COLLINS: If you have a healthcare plan, why not have that out there to talk about in the public so people can hear it?

MIKE JOHNSON: We need to get back to regular session so we can. We will not negotiate with legislative terrorists

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 13h

i hope people are noting the dates in this.

isaac @sevier.io · 3d

This article is a reminder that "abolish ICE" isn't just about the agents now in our streets, but is about a sprawling carceral system that must be dismantled completely. There must be consequences for politicians who try to spend a single dollar more on this.

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

Queer and trans immigrants allege forced labor and sexual assault in Ice facility: ‘I was treated worse than an animal’

At the South Louisiana Ice Processing Center in Basile, detainees say they were forced into hard labor – and sexually assaulted and stalked by an assistant warden

www.theguardian.com

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meliss-AAAAAHHH! @mel.bzky.team · 17h

cover for the west wing altered to say the remaining wing

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Kyle Pfannenstiel @pfannyyy.bsky.social · 15h

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were.

The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.

FBI backtracks on denying children were zip tied in Idaho raid, saying instead no ‘young’ kids were • Idaho Capital Sun

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in raid in Wilder, Idaho, FBI says no "young" children were.

idahocapitalsun.com

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 13h

Can’t emphasize the “one day’s notice” part enough. Don’t fuck with New York, because New Yorkers show up.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13h

On one day's notice, thousands of New Yorkers marched in NYC today for immigrants and against ICE.

More photos soon!

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18h

A new poll shows Americans blame Trump and Republicans over Democrats for the shutdown 53%-37%. (Independents blame Trump by a nearly 3-to-1 margin, 58%-21%.).

People aren’t dumb.

Trump's approval rating on the economy takes hit because of shutdown, inflation, CNBC survey finds

Americans' views on the economy turned more negative in the third quarter with deepening concerns about jobs, inflation and the outlook.

www.cnbc.com

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Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social · 13h

Aristotle lived 2000 years before the Magna Carta and the article thinks the corruption of US institutions started last year instead of decades ago. The very justices that are brazenly enabling Trump's steamrolling of rule of law were appoint by Trump, not this year, but starting in 2017.

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Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social · 14h

(The reason, of course, is racism—if that support is going to the ”wrong” people, the usual suspects start hollering about it and don’t shut up.)

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Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social · 14h

The way I see it, parenting requires societal support, and we’ve chosen as a society to turn that support down to near zero and then complain about the results. It’s not hard to give people the support they need, at least not harder than anything else in government, we just Don’t Want To.

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 14h

imo the thrust of the advice to "know your audience" is not "write what your preexisting audience wants to read, or what you expect An Audience to want to read" it's "there is an audience who wants to read what you want to write, so write squarely for them and don't hedge it"

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Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social · 14h

There’s a world of institutional difference between autocracy and constitutional monarchy and a whole spectrum in between.

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Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House" @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 17h

I think the irony here is calling out basic vetting as 'purity tests' while simultaneously demanding purity tests all their own that somehow lack 'don't be cavalier about literal Nazi iconography' as a redline.

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Councilor Angelita Morillo @councilormorillo.bsky.social · 16h

Before becoming a City Councilor I was an anti-hunger policy advocate working to expand SNAP access. What the federal administration is doing is morally bankrupt. We need a functioning government so families can afford to eat. I was proud to sign on to this statement.

multco.us/news/multnom...

Multnomah County and Portland leaders, community partners call on Trump administration to fund food assistance to prevent hardship, hunger and suffering for 136,000 County residents

The federal administration can immediately act to release these contingency funds at any time — today, even — and spare 136,000 of our neighbors from needless suffering and hunger.

multco.us

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 18h

Another illegal military strike on a boat — this time in the Pacific — broadening the Administration’s deadly campaign to another ocean.

Once again, there is no detail on who was killed or why.

The urgency increases: Congress must stop America from being dragged into another war.

US military strikes boat in Pacific in apparent expansion of campaign against alleged drug trafficking | CNN Politics

The US military conducted a lethal strike against a boat in the eastern Pacific on Tuesday, killing both people on board, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

www.cnn.com

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Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social · 17h

at this rate it'll be like 2 weeks before he's finished and eyeing up the washington monument

Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social · 17h

heroism!

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 22h

that ICE clearly leaked to media and had a bearcat on standby indicates this raid was conducted for a stunt.

reporting also states despite dozens of feds, only 4 known kidnappings occurred - down from rumored 30-40 reported earlier.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 22h

in addition to dozens of feds, ICE also rolled out a bearcat with HSI emblazoned across the side. initially reported as SRG (NYPD), but this was incorrect.

that bearcat was later documented being marched from canal to 26 federal plaza accompanied by armed feds.

visuals of military takeover.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 22h

yesterday ICE appeared in force on canal street, making what reporter @felipedlh.bsky.social described as “indiscriminate arrests” of anyone they racially profiled as potentially a non-citizen (read: black & brown people).

ICE claimed this was due to selling counterfeit goods and appeared to—

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 19h

the day that society at large understands that testosterone and estrogen are necessary hormones in your body regardless of your sex, and that hormone supplementation is a health question rather than a loaded emotional question, will be one of the greatest days in human history.

Brady! 🏳️‍⚧️ @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 21h

when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence”

when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:

NYT Magazine headline “‘I'm on Fire': Testosterone Is Giving Women Back Their Sex Drive - and Then Some
There is no F.D.A.-approved testosterone product for women. Insurance won't cover it. Many doctors won't prescribe it. It's become a cultural phenomenon.”

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Jeff Merkley @jeff-merkley.bsky.social · 18h

Just stepped off the Senate floor after almost 23 hours.

The fight isn’t over—we need to keep standing together to resist Trump’s attempts to tighten his authoritarian grip.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 18h

BREAKING: The entire East Wing of the White House will be demolished “within days,” according to two Trump administration officials, a significant expansion of President Trump's original stated plan.

Trump administration demolishing entire East Wing of the White House to add new ballroom

Trump said in July that the $250 million project “won’t interfere with the current building.”

nbcnews.to

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