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Jaymichael48 @jmp1956.bsky.social · 3h

Well his staff makes funny posts anyway

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Reparations leaders ‘deeply disappointed’ as Newsom vetoes university bill

Backlash as California governor rejects measure allowing preferential treatment for descendants of enslaved people

www.theguardian.com

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Jaymichael48 @jmp1956.bsky.social · 4h

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Cruellest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail

Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two...

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Jaymichael48 @jmp1956.bsky.social · 5h

Katrina remembrance, New Orleans

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 23d

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23h

This weekend, three men in Evanston hugged their families goodbye to look for work at Home Depot but were attacked by ICE before they could return home.

Two were abducted, one is petrified of leaving the home.

If you’re able, please help us support our neighbors: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Donate to Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid, organized by Michele Hays

If you are on social media and live near Evanston, IL, you ma… Michele Hays needs your support for Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid

www.gofundme.com

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

The president is clearly insane, is on a white supremacist government purging spree, has masked men in the streets abducting people based on their race, is trying to start a war with Venezuela, and is tanking the economy, and none of that would be apparent just going by most corporate news outlets
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PANDA @panda-news.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump just bombed his fifth boat off the coast of Venezuela MURDERING 6 more INNOCENT people.

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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 1d

Fresh off not winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump decides to blow up another boat and call it narco terrorism.

Why Venezuela hasn't declared war on us, I don't know.

apnews.com/article/trum...

US strikes another boat accused of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing 6, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

apnews.com

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✨Cramer©️ @cramer-1.bsky.social · 1d

Trump just murdered six more people off the coast of Venezuela.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 1d

World Cup and Olympics should fucking boycott the US.

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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W.M. @minuteman04.bsky.social · 1d

Now Trump's threatening to take World Cup games away from Boston (which he has ZERO authority to do). Given the strong likelihood that ICE thugs will be haunting U.S. WC venues and harassing domestic and foreign fans, would you support FIFA moving games to Canada and Mexico?

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Amir Talai @amirtalai.bsky.social · 23h

STREAMING IN LIKE THREE HOURS

I will be great at:
chat about politics, Gritty, and the new season of Hazbin Hotel!!

I will be horrible at:
play Untitled Goose Game

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 STREAM TONIGHT 🚨

The inimitable @amirtalai.bsky.social and I will be playing Untitled Goose Game while we chat about politics, Gritty, and the new season of Hazbin Hotel!!

YouTube and Twitch, 7 PM CT!! Be there!

STREAM GUEST TONIGHT

JOIN US 7 PM CT

AMIR TALAI

TWITCH.TV/KATABUGHAZALEH

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Jaymichael48 @jmp1956.bsky.social · 1d

“When” is the only question

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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 4d

It’s absolutely chilling how Zuckerberg’s Meta AI describes it. We’re so fucked. bsky.app/profile/radl...

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d

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FactsOverFeelings @thunderstorming.bsky.social · 4d

I’m gonna repeat this over and over. THIS IS KIDNAPPING. Ice IS NOT LAW ENFORCEMENT. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS VIOLATIONS ARE CIVIL OFFENSES. Another tell? THEY ARE RUNNING AWAY FROM THE SCENE OF THE CRIME.

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@spiritbeing.bsky.social @spiritbeing.bsky.social · 4d

Our law enforcement officers should be arresting these nazi gestapo for assault and kidnapping.

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Jaymichael48 @jmp1956.bsky.social · 1d

We pay these guys’ salaries, remember?

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 1d

This is the event I am talking about. Who and where is she? bsky.app/profile/thet...

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 2d

🥳🌹💫 Happy birthday to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — a voice of courage, conviction, and compassion. Her vision, integrity, and relentless fight for justice inspire a new generation to believe in progress, equity, and the power of people over politics.

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Shanna's World ~Live and Let Live @jami-jam.bsky.social · Aug 11

#animals #love #kindness #nature I love animals of all kinds. I believe the Golden rule applies to more than humans, but all living things. All animals were created for a purpose. Preserve and protect them and their habitats. For what is man without the sound of birds singing and all animals....

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 4d

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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supernovafactory.bsky.social @supernovafactory.bsky.social · 4d

Purging the US’s ability to respond to a pandemic or any level of coordinated cybersecurity attack…

What do you even say anymore? The rightwing are a population of morons, their leadership repeatedly giving aid to our enemies and squeezing money out of our system & the working class for themselves.

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Jaymichael48 @jmp1956.bsky.social · 1d

Heroes, not bigots

kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-jo...

Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero

The IPI said Roshchyna's death on Sept. 19, 2024 "exposed the brutal treatment suffered by the dozens of Ukrainian journalists unjustly held by Russian authorities, and brought new urgency to the need...

kyivindependent.com

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supernovafactory.bsky.social @supernovafactory.bsky.social · 3d

…it’s wild to take a step back and realize where we are.

Unconstitutional goon squad disappearing people. Media disinfo statements on “balanced” coverage while holding up a false reality for the Trump admin. Healthcare being further dismantled. Science/intellect being demonized.

This is hell.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

Last Sunday, @demiforillinois.bsky.social, @raygunsite.com and I hosted a No Kings protest sign-making party with the best problem:

So many people showed up, we ran out of table space.

This is what community care looks like.

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