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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

The only explanation for this is that these people would disprove the administration’s narrative about the identity of the people we are murdering. I’m a little surprised they didn’t just straight-up murder these two in custody. That’s who the government is now.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h

Breaking News: The Trump administration has decided to repatriate two survivors of a deadly U.S. strike this week on suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea rather than prosecute them or hold them in military detention, people with knowledge of the matter said on Saturday.

U.S. to Repatriate Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel

The U.S. military rescued the two men in the Caribbean Sea after Special Operations forces fired on a semi-submersible that was assessed to be smuggling drugs.

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Rachael P @plussone.bsky.social · 16h

Helicopter view of Chicago #NoKings in Grant Park via @cbschicago.bsky.social

View from the sky of tens of thousands gathered in Chicago's Grant Park for the No Kings protest

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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 17h

A well-oiled machine that corporate America could learn from. I look forward to the Harvard Business Review case study.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 18h

It’s amazing that Antifa was able to hire this many protesters. Their back-office payroll processing and HR pipeline is just first-class; just imagine the tax paperwork to hire up across all 50 states, not to mention all the rounds of Zoom interviews for prospective protesters….

OrangeSage @orangesage.bsky.social · 18h

#NoKings Miami!

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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 19h

Amazing player. Just meh personality.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 19h

There's a #NoKings protest in my DC neigbhorhood before the big event. Several hundred people on Conn Ave, cars honking. Great energy.

I did love the resisting bitch face sign and the woman who made it was taking pics of other protesters - including me!

photo of me with a signg that reads"This is my resisting bitch face"

photo of No Kings protest on Conn Ave in DC, people lined up on both sides of the street

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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 19h

I should clarify... how empty "conservative" political ideology was.

Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 19h

In an attempt to engage thoughtfully with this, which right-wing voices would be beneficial here? Is Bill Kristol a resistance lib now? How about the former FBI & DOJ folks? If anything, Trump II has shown how empty right-wing political ideology truly was. So which ones would benefit the discourse?

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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 19h

Yep, so much of the schtick is perfromative content creation. A nation of grifters is part of Trump's legacy.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20h

the money you used to give to the New York Times and Washington Post should be going to ProPublica

Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 20h

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 22h

Really beautiful. And reminds me of the time I caught Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and I sobbed uncontrollably for the entire performance. Lol it does it to you!

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

During a shutdown only the most essential government services continue, like having maladjusted groypers break the Hatch Act on Bluesky to own the libs.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 22h

This is a must-read profile of Russell Vought, the extremist who is leading the Trump regime’s crusade against the federal government.

Vought is a proud Christian Nationalist who has a warped view of America’s founding and hates modern America.

www.propublica.org/article/russ...

Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President

From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

www.propublica.org

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

No member of Congress should vote for any appropriations if the whole exercise is a non-binding farce.

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

Volodymyr Zelenskyy gets a question from former Biggest Loser trainer Cara Castronuova, a Jan. 6 defendant advocate who now works for the MyPillow Guy's network.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 1d

Which makes him about the easiest mark for psychological manipulation in human history

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 1d

The line extension with the brand happened very early too with cartoons and food etc. Building a deeper cultural nostalgia for the characters and stories. I rewatched some of the cartoon episodes with my kids.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo calls on journalists to report facts and expose disinformation.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 2d

Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

Making YouTube thumbnails is one of those soul-crushing things I've decided are somehow essential in this moment. And I don't think I'll ever do better than this one, so I'm using it everywhere!

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Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social · 2d

I hear they thrive on soy, making the collapsing international soybean export market for US farmers a real strategic mistake in the war against AnTiFa by the Trump admin

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 2d

Guy, we're all going pre-spectral intervention Cratchit Family holiday dinners this year. Feed a family of eighteen on a $39.99 squab. All pre-dinner prayers will begin with the homily "None of us voted for this.."

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

(ABC News) - The U.S. Labor Department is warning of a potential food crisis linked to President Trump’s immigration raids ..

abcnews.go.com/US/family-fa...

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