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Jeff Waid
@jeffwaid.bsky.social
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We are all Abrego Garcia. "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." ignorant pawn of a subversive anarchist agenda here, and elsewhere: https://answerkeysurvivalguide.blogspot.com/
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Jeff Waid @jeffwaid.bsky.social · 17h
@mayor.lacity.gov , which of the rallies did you attend today? Did you speak? Looking for video.
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Jeff Waid @jeffwaid.bsky.social · 1h
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1h
Anytime you ask “why did the Times cover it this way?” or whatever corporate media it is, remember that influential moderates are the tool of the wealth class and are there to normalize whatever the wealthy want and create doubt regarding reform and change.
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Jeff Waid @jeffwaid.bsky.social · 2h
Again, there is nothing we can not do that will prevent them from doing anything.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2h
In 2020 when I said Democrats should refuse to seat Republicans I was told if they did that nothing would stop Republicans from doing the same.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right?

MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.
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Jeff Waid @jeffwaid.bsky.social · 2h
Trump, showing once again he's full of shit.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 3d
Judge hauling ICE official into court as aggressive tactics continue despite her order: 'I'm not blind' Also going to order body cameras on federal agents! chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Judge hauling ICE official into court as aggressive tactics continue despite her order: 'I'm not blind'
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis wants the ICE official to explain "why I am seeing images of tear gas … and reading reports that there were no warnings given." A Trump lawyer says the reports are inacc...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 2d
You can’t cover Washington accurately and not mention white supremacy: presswatchers.org/2025/10/you-... NEW from Press Watch.
You can't cover Washington accurately and not mention white supremacy | Press Watch
Media fails to sufficiently call out the racism that permeates Republican rule
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 5h
Even worse, firing levels of innumeracy. NYT's headline writers don't know the difference between "thousands" and "millions." Should we assume that they are dumber than rocks or that the NYT is controlled by lying pieces of excrement?
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h
New NYT euphemism just dropped
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12h
Nothing that any elected Democrat has ever said about Republican voters is ever as crass or as cruel as what Trump says about Democratic constituencies every single day, and the media just treats it as background noise.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h
Donald Trump keeps posting images of him as a king and the legacy media ignores it as if it is normal. It is not. It is dangerous.

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Jeff Waid @jeffwaid.bsky.social · 17h
@mayor.lacity.gov , which of the rallies did you attend today? Did you speak? Looking for video.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 20h
CNN’s Scott Jennings Defends Trump Spox’s Rant About Dem Voters being criminals and pro-terrorist. Trump could literally kill us and Scott Jennings would both defend it and CNN would still have him to do that. This a reminder of how horrible CNN is www.mediaite.com/media/tv/cnn...
CNN’s Scott Jennings Draws Fire Defending Trump Spox’s Rant About Dem Voters: ‘Where Is The Lie?’
Jennings drew fire defending Leavitt saying Dem voters "are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals," asking "Where is the lie?"
www.mediaite.com
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Victoria W. Wolcott @vwidgeon.bsky.social · 1d
Good morning from Buffalo!
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 1d
The New York Times continues the decades-old effort to divert anger against the rich into generational conflict. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o... Insofar as young people have it hard today, it is because we rigged the economy to give the rich all the money, not because of baby boomers.
Opinion | Thanks a Lot, Boomers
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…”

~Patrick Henry
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d
TOMORROW is #NO_KINGS_DAY!!! Give me your Tired, your Poor, your Huddled Masses of Frogs, Unicorns, Pandas, T-Rexes, Mushrooms, Sharks, SpongeBobs & everyday Folks yearning to peacefully protest a clownishly incompetent buffoon of a Prez who, if there were any justice, would be in jail. 🤡
#BeThere
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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 4d
Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d
If Donald Trump is allowed to weaponize the Department of Justice against his political opponents, democracy itself will not survive. I went on MSNBC to break down the shocking indictment of John Bolton, explaining why it’s not about justice — it’s about revenge and power.

Watch and share.
Trump’s Revenge Politics Exposed
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Jeff Waid @jeffwaid.bsky.social · 1d
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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 1d
In the history of the House of Representatives there are no parallels to what Mike Johnson is doing to Rep Grijalva.This is all new ground. Johnson has also had the House in recess the longest since 1948. His actions are unprecedented. His legacy will be of failure, obstruction and lies #ProudBlue
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d
Trump's agents have been snatching people off the streets without due process — and over 170 US citizens have been caught in the mix. Outrageous and unacceptable. The lawlessness must end.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d
I really think the public is in the dark about just how weak the accountability guardrails are right now for DHS agents, meaning Trump's paramilitary forces are largely unconstrained.

This is an overlooked way GOP abdication of oversight is putting us all in danger:

newrepublic.com/article/2019...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d
This is an unusual move: Chris Murphy is pressing DHS to account for why the agency initially engaged in official deception, ie propaganda, about the shooting:

newrepublic.com/article/2019...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d
Trump is using state-sponsored propaganda to a degree unmatched by any president in modern times. But we should also note that this is enabled by the GOP's crippling of Congressional oversight on Trump's behalf.

This Chicago shooting is a case in point:

newrepublic.com/article/2019...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d
Important: Sen Chris Murphy just sent pointed questions to Kristi Noem about DHS's account of shooting of US citizen by Trump's paramilitary forces in Chicago. The official line is imploding. Murphy wants Noem to explain why DHS misled. More like this, Ds.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2019...
Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged.
As the official Trump administration line about the shooting of a Chicago woman crumbles, Senator Chris Murphy is asking pointed questions about what really happened here. Will we ever get answers?
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