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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 8h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 12h

This Supreme Court case in Louisiana is about one thing, and one thing only: reinstituting Jim Crow by way of ensuring that Black Americans are taxed without receiving representation in Congress.

Everything else is noise and bluster.

This stolen Supreme Court is going to send us back to the 1860s.

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Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 8h

Lol, well yeah; they hate this country as it actually exists

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 12h

For my newsletter, I wrote about the disturbing tendency of US Republicans to have more solidarity with foreign conservatives than with their own American neighbors. www.burnsnotice.com/gopers-have-...

GOPers Have More Solidarity with Foreign Conservatives than other Americans

For Republicans and their international counterparts, the advancement of their ideology takes precedence over their own neighbors. A news item that caught my eye this week was President Donald Trump ...

www.burnsnotice.com

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LA Blue Dot in GA @namwella1961.bsky.social · 10h

As a child who lived through the Cold War, I never imagined it would be the Republican Party & the Supreme Court who would undermine our democracy, our rules of law, and our Constitution.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 1d

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 15h

these people have the self-reflection of a vampire

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Scott @smadin.net · 1d

it's so fun how "originalism" means the text of the Constitution can only ever mean what its authors would have understood it to mean in the context of their time, except if that text was written between 1864 and 1870.

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AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 1d

#Pinks #ProudBlue
I think Martin Sheen’s description of trump’s cabinet smelling like “ego, fear and false worship” is about as accurate as it gets.
torontosun.com/entertainmen...

Martin Sheen slams Trump administration for 'lack' of humanity

The former West Wing actor appeared on The Best People podcast, claiming U.S. President Donald Trump’s inner circle is a joyless group.

torontosun.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Imagine the media reaction if a single Democrat ever said anything like this ever once in history.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."

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Kristina Sunshine @discoqueen.bsky.social · 1d

And let's not forget Sinclair, who owns a huge share of "local" news outlets across the country and is absolutely Republican

Carl Ott, Author @bubba687.bsky.social · 1d

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joes-spot.bsky.social @joes-spot.bsky.social · 1d

The man wants to revoke healthcare for the able bodied unemployed… yet he himself has federal healthcare and hasn’t worked in 70 days.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 7d

“ICE needs to go into Chicago because the Chicago police are incapable of protecting the city but ICE can’t protect themselves so the Chicago police must protect them”

God I hate fascism so much

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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 1d

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 2d

Kamala May Have Won.
Indications Of Elections Fraud

The missing votes uncovered in Smart Elections’ legal case in Rockland County, New York, are just the tip of the iceberg—an iceberg that extends across the swing states and into Texas.

She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.

How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.

thiswillhold.substack.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

The Speaker of the House isn't allowed to give that answer. He's not some guy who missed the local news that night.

Anyone not following up with "isn't it your job to know? What were you doing instead of paying attention to services being cut for American children" isn't a journalist

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Shari in AZ🌵 @mutsy67.bsky.social · 3d

Trump has pushed GOP-led states to redraw maps and add more Republican seats—tilting Congress away from the country we actually are. America is more balanced than that & our representation must respect that

Prop 50 is how Californians can defend a fair, representative democracy. Vote #YesOnProp50

Stylized poster promoting Proposition 50 in California. The top reads “Vote YES on Prop 50” in bold, capitalized letters. Below, a bear-shaped illustration contains iconic California imagery: the Golden Gate Bridge, mountains, ocean waves, palm trees, and a sunset. Beneath the bear, “CALIFORNIA” is written in large, bold letters. The bottom features a scenic landscape with orange poppies, rolling hills, and a river—symbolizing California’s natural beauty.

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gcassady.bsky.social @gcassady.bsky.social · 3d

Yup..

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

George Michael releases “Faith” as a single 38 yrs ago today.

Asked why he chose it as a title, he said: “I believe that the forces of Good and Evil are real things. … I do not have a religion, but I believe that one can influence one’s life, one’s future, through faith and decency towards others.”

gcassady.bsky.social @gcassady.bsky.social · 3d

🤔hmmm

Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 3d

Who was President that day, Pumpkin?????

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 4d

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 4d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 3d

Gutless red-state governors are bending over backwards to do Trump’s bidding – and they’re taking down democracy with them.

California is fighting back! VOTE Yes on Prop 50! #YesOnProp50