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jacqrat (This Machine Annoys Fascists) @jacqrat.bsky.social · 5h

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will top Democratic party officials recognize that today’s electorate is not made up of moderate centrists?

jimhightower.substack.com/p/what-if-th...

What If the Democrats Started to Support Democrats Again?

When will top Democratic party officials recognize that today’s electorate is not made up of moderate centrists?

jimhightower.substack.com

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jacqrat (This Machine Annoys Fascists) @jacqrat.bsky.social · 5h

Is this the "Willfully Ignorant laugh emoji" writ large? Because it's at an epidemic-level rampant down here, and I know you have a lot of it in some backwards places in the Great White North, too,

jacqrat (This Machine Annoys Fascists) @jacqrat.bsky.social · 6h

www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2019/11...

Democratic Voters Prefer Progressive Policies, Not Centrist Policies

On Friday, Upshot / Siena polling suggested that Democratic voters want a candidate who would “promise to find common ground with Republicans,” “be more moderate than most Dems” and “promise to br...

www.dataforprogress.org

jacqrat (This Machine Annoys Fascists) @jacqrat.bsky.social · 6h

Not sure why you're laughing, I'm correct on both points.

jacqrat (This Machine Annoys Fascists) @jacqrat.bsky.social · 1d

NO WE DO NOT. Public opinion polls show our policies are UNIVERSALLY wanted. The Rich just keep them from us because so far, they can.

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jacqrat (This Machine Annoys Fascists) @jacqrat.bsky.social · 1d

"THE LEFT?" why chide us? We're the ONLY ones fighting!
I think Mister "I forgot where I put my comfortable shoes... SORRY!" should help not shit on the only people doing the work.

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jacqrat (This Machine Annoys Fascists) @jacqrat.bsky.social · 1d

The movements of the 1960s built lasting institutions. Today’s movements need more than moral clarity: they need leadership and coordination...

hartmannreport.com/p/when-the-c...

When the Chant Fades, Who Builds the Future?

The movements of the 1960s built lasting institutions. Today’s movements need more than moral clarity: they need leadership and coordination...

hartmannreport.com

jacqrat (This Machine Annoys Fascists) @jacqrat.bsky.social · 3d

Make Trump & Co. sweat. 💦

Go here
Find a local protest. Show up in yooge numbers to defend the Constitution.

Power in numbers, in unity of purpose.

Make the administration fret about what will happen when they lose power to a democratic uprising.

digbysblog.net/2025/10/18/y...

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jacqrat (This Machine Annoys Fascists) @jacqrat.bsky.social · 4d

It Time, #Virginia. Have someone who speaks to Your Heart. Blue America's Howie Klein endorsed her, that's good enough for me! She and others are on #BlueAmericaBetterLegislature candidates' list. Every bit goes into their own campaign funds on ActBlue!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

A formal organization chart of the Trump regime would show Trump on top, his Cabinet officers underneath him, the White House staff below them, and various appointees at the bottom. The reality is far different. Let me explain...

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-power-map-of-the-trump-regime

The Power Map of the Trump Regime

Who really works for whom?

robertreich.substack.com

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 4d

Jeffries Drops Scathing Rant on ‘Sick’ Karoline Leavitt, ‘Racist’ GOP Leaders’ Chat: ‘They’re Ripping the Sheets Off’

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Jeffries Drops Scathing Rant on ‘Sick’ Karoline Leavitt, ‘Racist’ GOP Leaders’ Chat: ‘They’re Ripping the Sheets Off’

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

This could seriously be one of the 2 or 3 biggest Presidential scandals in US history

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 7d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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jacqrat (This Machine Annoys Fascists) @jacqrat.bsky.social · 7d

🍃🍒 #LetsGrowTogether
The #SanLeandro #VictoryGarden #Tour event by #TandiFamilyFarms is now #FREE!

Scan The #QRCode below for tickets! Starts at #EvergreenNursery at 11am on 10/25 SATURDAY - FAMILY FUN
We hope to see many of you on the tour. 🚨And in your OWN Victory Gardens next year!

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7d

Federal officials telling social media companies to take down posts was supposedly a free speech crisis. It’s not even really hypocrisy, since the right was lying about much of it.
And this isn’t misinformation, foreign influence ops, or public health, just 1A-protected speech the govt doesn’t like.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 7d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 7d

Further premeditated, lawless killing in the Caribbean.

Making at least five such US strikes.

Against unidentified "narcoterrorists" affiliated w/ an unspecified "designated terrorist organization" allegedly trafficking unspecified narcotics.

POTUS is asserting a license to kill outside the law.

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 7d

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🧵🧊✈️ TUE 14 OCT 2025 – PART 2

⚠️ HEADS UP SEATTLE‼️

👉 ICE Air inbound to Boeing Field

Creepy White Avelo 737 😬

Tail N803XT – ETA 11:45am 👀

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jacqrat (This Machine Annoys Fascists) @jacqrat.bsky.social · 7d

your energy still registers non-humanity

jacqrat (This Machine Annoys Fascists) @jacqrat.bsky.social · 7d

yeah so a fascist. I was right all along

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jacqrat (This Machine Annoys Fascists) @jacqrat.bsky.social · 7d

#Tuesday #HardTruth

There be #Monsters 👺👹😈 In the #WhiteHouse

Bold White Text on a black background. Says, "If your government says there's too many autistic kids, then eliminates the entire special education department; they don't care about autism, or kids, or education, Text above graphic says "#HardTruth #Tuesday, there be #Monsters (3 nasty looking monster emojis) in the #WhiteHouse

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 7d

"The image of the ugly American always competed with the image of the generous American. Now that the latter has disappeared, the only Americans anyone can see are the ones trying to rip you off."

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Swallowed by Politics @scoller65.bsky.social · 7d

She's fantastic and will fight the bullshit head on.

The Weeknight on MSNBC @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social · 7d

"I will not give in, I will not give up!": Attorney General Letitia James of New York rebukes President Trump at a rally for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. It was her first public appearance since she was indicted on federal charges of bank fraud and making a false statement.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

In twelve days, New Yorkers will begin to cast their ballots and face a stark choice.

A choice between democracy and oligarchy. Between a city you can afford or more of the same. Between the hope of a brighter future or a broken past.

We will choose the future.

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jacqrat (This Machine Annoys Fascists) @jacqrat.bsky.social · 8d

You are replying to the words of a gifted scholar, Thom Hartmann, not me. You also don't seem very smart. Even for a bot

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jacqrat (This Machine Annoys Fascists) @jacqrat.bsky.social · 8d

You seem smart: (Not really I was mocking you)

It's #FASCISM, "Jason" and calling us communists for wanting everyone to have clean air and water and to see a doctor when needed is not Communism-- It's HUMANITY.

You should check it out sometime. Because your current energy is not human.

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jacqrat (This Machine Annoys Fascists) @jacqrat.bsky.social · 8d

Every raid, every body slammed to the pavement, is a public ritual meant to teach us obedience. The goal isn’t enforcement — it’s submission...

🤬#SHAME on them for calling themselves "Christians"

hartmannreport.com/p/the-brutal...

The Brutality Is the Message: Why America’s Violence Against Immigrants Isn’t About Immigration

Every raid, every body slammed to the pavement, is a public ritual meant to teach us obedience. The goal isn’t enforcement — it’s submission...

hartmannreport.com