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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

(CBS News) - A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

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www.cbsnews.com/news/pardone...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”

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JonSmyth @jonsmyth.bsky.social · 2h

We are not better than this, this is who we are.
And unless we change,
this is who we will be.
🇺🇸

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”

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💙🦋 @humanity101.bsky.social · 5h

💯✔️

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JonSmyth @jonsmyth.bsky.social · 2h

“A half-truth is a whole lie.”
Yiddish Proverb

With Mike Johnson there are no half truths, it’s always a whole lie.

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JonSmyth @jonsmyth.bsky.social · 2h

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
@schumer.senate.gov
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 15h

Per new filings:

RNC cash on hand: $83,895,993.23

DNC cash on hand: $14,946,622.29

The DNC’s cash on hand hasn’t been this low since 2020.

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 6h

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

Morning Brew ☕️ @morningbrew.extwitter.link · 1d

BREAKING: Amazon Web Services

A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours

Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

REAGAN: “When someone says let’s impose tariffs, it may look like they’re doing the patriotic thing… but over the long run trade barriers hurt every 🇺🇸 worker.”

🇨🇦 Ontario just ran this👇🏽powerful ad using Reagan’s voice against Trump’s trade war during game 7 of the ALCS ⚾️

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JonSmyth @jonsmyth.bsky.social · 4h

Trump 2.0

@washingtonpost
January 24, 2021

Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years

By the end of his term, Trump had accumulated 30,573 untruths during his presidency — averaging about 21 erroneous claims a day.

If lying works for you, why change?

JonSmyth @jonsmyth.bsky.social · 14h

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China's Canton Fair 2025...America is Done! (tariffs not working)

YouTube video by Living in China

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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 14h

Yes we do!

Keep on fighting,
@crockett.house.gov
💙🌊🩵

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JonSmyth @jonsmyth.bsky.social · 14h

Truth justice and the American way 🫤

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JonSmyth @jonsmyth.bsky.social · 14h

Trump 2.0

The White House is often called The People’s House so this makes sense:

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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 15h

Asking Kid Rock about politics & democrats is asking to lose brain cells. Kid Rock: "The first thing that comes to my mind is ... Idiots! Speaking of Chicago, who is Trump really trying to help out here? Black people! And he wants to help these people, and God forbid we're still all Nazi racists."

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JonSmyth @jonsmyth.bsky.social · 15h

“we're still all Nazi racists”
🤯

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JonSmyth @jonsmyth.bsky.social · 15h

Dedicated to:

Donald Trump
The U.S. House
The U.S. Senate
The United States Supreme Court
The American Republican Party

JonSmyth @jonsmyth.bsky.social · 15h

BlackSeeds4Me.blog
A Virus Comes to Dinner

Dinner in America 2019
Joe Morton: “You destroy the world. Everything beautiful you poison. You drag us from our home, you rape our daughters, murder are sons, you crack our spines and do all you can to break our will.”

youtube.com/watch?v=j4gi...

Joe Morton Dinner in America

YouTube video by Dominick

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JonSmyth @jonsmyth.bsky.social · 15h

BlackSeeds4Me.blog
A Virus Comes to Dinner

Dinner in America 2019
Joe Morton: “You destroy the world. Everything beautiful you poison. You drag us from our home, you rape our daughters, murder are sons, you crack our spines and do all you can to break our will.”

youtube.com/watch?v=j4gi...

Joe Morton Dinner in America

YouTube video by Dominick

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 16h

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JonSmyth @jonsmyth.bsky.social · 15h

A little something for the white evangelical christians:

“Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”
Matthew 7:21

JonSmyth @jonsmyth.bsky.social · 17h

This is the American Republican Party, just a friend of a friend you know?
#BoysTalk 🧑🏼‍🦲

JonSmyth @jonsmyth.bsky.social · 18h

2026 🇺🇸

They don’t like us as much as we don’t like them. The only difference is we pay them not to like us.

“To Serve Man”
The Twilight Zone
Season 3, Episode 24

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20h

This is an actual quote from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to HuffPost reporter S.V. Dáte.

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JonSmyth @jonsmyth.bsky.social · 18h

When somebody hates you, they find ways to show you large and small. Donald Trump hates people who aren’t rich.

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