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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 13h

Should you RSVP before attending next week's No Kings protest? There's lots of discourse about this so I decided to consult some experts. www.altrightdelete.news/p/to-rsvp-or...

To RSVP or not to RSVP

That is the question

www.altrightdelete.news

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21h

Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country. I will be there on October 18th, and I hope you will be too.
#NoKings
snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings-f...

No Kings — Freedom (video)

Why protest is patriotic

snyder.substack.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

The One Big Beautiful Bill cut a trillion dollars from healthcare, Schoolmarm Johnson

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Mike Johnson: "Republicans are the party that are fixing healthcare. We just demonstrated that in the one big beautiful bill."

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

School can be challenging for kids with disabilities.

There’s ableism, discrimination and bullying.

Chronically ill kids are just learning what their “normal” looks like, and they need and deserve the support to adapt.

These cuts are going to harm kids in the poorest (and reddest) areas the most

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

Utterly evil

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

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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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker

But I am losing faith, rapidly.

Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

There is so damn much trauma in the world. Endless amounts of it. Acknowledging someone else’s trauma doesn’t take away or delegitimize your own. There’s plenty to go around.

That’s what bothers me the most about whataboutism and enforced equivalencies.

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Community Catalyst @communitycatalyst.org · 2d

Lawmakers recently passed the biggest health care cuts in U.S. history—ripping coverage away from 15M ppl. Millions more will see costs soar if Congress allows enhanced premium tax credits to expire.

We're fighting back.

📢 10/14: Join us & @familiesusa.bsky.social for a #CareNotCuts day of action!

Families shouldn't have to choose between groceries and health care. Dark green background event flyer with two women standing side by side features details: Join Community Catalyst and Families USA for a Bluesky chat on why Congress must make the enhanced premium tax credits permanent. Tuesday 10/14 at 12pm PST 3pm EST on Bluesky. Use #CareNotCuts to join the conversation,

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2d

Anne Frank and Underground Railroad analogies write themselves.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 2d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 2d

There it is: $20 billion for Argentina at the same time they’re taking markets away from our farmers.

But no $ for health insurance for Americans?

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 2d

Someone made at least $200 million trading crypto moments before Trump’s tariff announcement today.

In case you didn't know - the BTC whale closed 90% of his BTC short and fully closed his ETH short, making around $190-$200M profit in just one day on Hyperliquid.
The crazy part is that he shorted another 9 figs worth of BTC and ETH minutes before the cascade happened. And this was just publicly on Hyperliquid imagine what he did on CEXs or elsewhere. I'm pretty sure this guy played a huge role in what happened today.

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Isa Leshko ❌👑 @isaleshko.bsky.social · 2d

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 2d

It looks like they're trying to kill the Epidemic Intelligence Service. I maintain this "rif" is unlawful.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Sarah Dohl ❌👑 @sarahdohl.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely wild that congressional Republicans woke up today and decided to call millions of patriotic Americans terrorists. If you want to change your profile picture today to tell people you're showing up on October 18th, we've got you covered.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 2d

HANDS OFF TISH JAMES

Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 2d

Standing with our communities to say #HandsOffTish — keep your tiny hands off our badass Attorney General @newyorkstateag.bsky.social. Tish always fights for us, and we will fight for her!
#HandsOffNYC #NoKings

@indivisible.org @nywfp.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social

Protesters holding Hands Off Tish signs and speakers at the rally

A sign that says Hero over a picture of Tish James and Zero over a picture of Trump

Sign that says Cowards We See You and Enough Distractions Release the Epstein Files

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

That's wild. If you know anything about ICE agents, looking scared, changing your demeanor, etc are eminently reasonable reactions

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 5d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Not only is this rude, inappropriate, partisan, costly, and illegal, it reveals the fundamentally anti-American idiocy of this administration’s policy of handing over to China the most important economic sector of the 21st century.

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 11d

Next move from OMB - canceling $8 billion in clean energy funds. You will note, all of the projects are in states led by Democrats

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Mamdani: I run against a disgraced former governor who, in this moment, has chosen to issue a statement in which he cannot even say the name Tish James, nor the name Donald Trump.

If you cannot say Trump’s name today—how will you stand up to him tomorrow?

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Another journalist is forced to the ground and arrested by ICE in Chicago. Her name is Debbie Brockman from WGN-TV.

ICE put a photojournalist in NYC in the hospital.

They’re attacking the press.

They’re attacking immigrants.

They’re attacking citizens.

No one is safe.

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Isa Leshko ❌👑 @isaleshko.bsky.social · 2d

I didn’t know either. I think this is relevant:

bsky.app/profile/katz...

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 5d

This is literally an old joke.

In a private exchange between Jones and Republican Virginia Delegate Carrie
Coyner, Jones griped about how the then-Republican speaker of the House of Delegates Todd Gilbert was paying tribute to a former moderate Democratic
lawmaker who died, according to screenshots of text messages first reported by the National Review and obtained by CNN.
"Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head," the text reads in part, referring to Gilbert and the two dictators.

- Return to Search Results
r/funny 14yr. ago
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inmyrhyme
You're stuck on an island with Hitler, Stalin, and a lawyer. You have a gun with two bullets. What do you do?
Shoot the lawyer twice.
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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 2d

Glad to see Russ Vought is setting himself up to go to jail when accountability starts.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2d

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 2d

The Qatari government has given Jared Kushner $5B over the last several years, and given Trump a luxury airliner.

Corruption out in the open.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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