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Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 6h

Saw a youth on tiktok asking "why didn't anyone tell me that Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face?!" We are failing to pass down the lore to younger generations

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Jeffries: "I remind all of these corrupt individuals, these sycophants -- the statute of limitations is five years. The American people want accountability, deserve accountability, and will get accountability."

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 7h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 8h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 17h

I couldn’t be more proud of this team! 🥹

If you haven’t listened yet, Ultra Season 2 is available for free and in full here:

www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcas...

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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 3h

A poem

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Ruth @poofer.bsky.social · 18h

That's the truth right there 👊💙

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

Gov. Josh Shapiro: "It's important that in this time of political violence that none of us grow numb to it, or accept this as the normal course of doing business for elected officials."

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 7h

ICE agents interfered with—and even threatened to “shoot and arrest”—emergency personnel rescuing an injured protester last week in Portland.

The agent “pointed his finger at me in a threatening manner,” the driver recalled, “and began viciously yelling in my face.

newrepublic.com/post/201774/...

ICE Agent Threatens to Shoot Ambulance Driver Helping Protester

Federal agents swarmed an ambulance crew to prevent them from taking an injured protester to the hospital.

newrepublic.com

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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 9h

ICE is randomly targeting peaceful protesters because the point is to terrorize the public into accepting martial law.

Indiscriminate attacks send the message that there’s nothing you can do to stay safe.

The regime wants you to cower at home and cede the streets of your city to their control.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7h

CNN, Fox News, NPR, Newsmax, and over a dozen other outlets refuse to accept the Trump regime’s demands on restricting Pentagon reporting: “The public has a right to know how the government and military are operating.”

US news outlets reject Pentagon press access policy

At least 20 news organizations declined to sign a new Pentagon access policy for journalists, warning of the potential for less comprehensive coverage of the world’s most powerful military ahead of a Tuesday deadline to accept new restrictions.

www.reuters.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7h

As the intensity of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has risen, residents of Chicago are increasingly pushing back. Federal agents repeatedly have been observed releasing smoke bombs, tear gas and pepper balls to disperse residents who gather or capture videos.

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

Residents have begun forming volunteer groups to monitor their neighborhoods for federal immigration agents. Others honk their horns or blow whistles when they see agents nearby.

nyti.ms

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

“Swear her in! Swear her in!”

#TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14h

Me: “Why do you think ‘Succession’ was such a big show?

Arian Moayed/'Stewy': "Because the truth of ‘Succession’ dials into what we’re witnessing every day in our news cycles. There’s an elite group of 10 to 15 people that run everything."

Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/succession...

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Mattison @mattison.bsky.social · 7h

“Nazis, we will replace you. We will displace you. We will be louder and more numerous. We anti-fascists are full of music and love and nachos. We will always replace you."

#NoKings #WeThePeopleAreThePower

A bright spot from a friend in Philly:
"The Proud Boys - a white supremacist group with a stupid name - planned a rally a block from my house today. The "belly of the beast" rally. Because apparently that's where I live - the belly of the antifa beast. Whatever the fuck that means.
2 hours before it was supposed to start, the park starts filling up with my neighbors. A drum line shows up. A brass band plays. The anarchists are giving away vegetables and nachos and some artists are selling jewelry. Black leaders give speeches. We chant Breonna Taylor's name. And all the other names.
No right-wing rally every coalesces. There was never room for a critical mass to congregate. A lost-looking man or two walks to the park, doesn't see their people, turns around. A right-wing vlogger trying to debate people is surrounded and walked to the edge of the park.
Someone spotted with a handgun is chased through the park, to their car, by over 100 people. The ice cream truck music plays the whole time.
The usual guys sets their chess tables and start playing, the crowd of neighbors start to break up.
Nazis, we will replace you. We will displace you. We will louder and more numerous. We anti-fascists are full of music and love and nachos. We will always replace you."

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Mattison @mattison.bsky.social · 7h

It was illegal to hide Anne Frank.

Bondi is a racist monster.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Bondi claims that cities aiding residents hurt by immigration raids is breaking the law

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Nathan Sage for U.S. Senate @sageforiowa.bsky.social · 17h

Iowans are pleading for help as this administration and our supposed leaders in Washington rip their healthcare away and jack up their premiums, and we’re supposed to sit back and do nothing? HELL NO!

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Coastal Georgia for Democracy ⛲️ @coastaldemocracy.bsky.social · 17h

No Kings Savannah will have it all.
Plus, you can be a royal pain in the ass when you sit in The People's Throne!

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Mattison @mattison.bsky.social · 8h

Mike Johnson. Straight out of pedophile protecting central casting.

CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 10h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 10h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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🇺🇲💙🇺🇲 Lani McG 🇺🇲💙🇺🇲 @lanimcg.bsky.social · 9h

Im still waiting for some decent politicians to step up and get the military to uphold Article 2 Section 4 or at least call for a coup and clean that damn mess out of Washington. Im not getting any younger. Let's get it done.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15h

David Brooks is not wrong www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 16h

Your daily reminder that while military families are standing in food lines, the president is gilding the inside of the Whitehouse in gold.

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Mattison @mattison.bsky.social · 8h

We didn’t hold the South accountable for the Civil War and we gave reparations to the enslavers for “loss of property”. Hold ICE and every Constitution-crushing, law breaking Trump regime member and Republican sycophant accountable for their crimes. May we all heal.

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