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Micah Faulkner @micahfaulkner.bsky.social · 17h

Democrats should agree that they will refuse to seat GOP congressmen for the same amount of time the GOP stalls on this next time. Just put a calendar on the wall and start marking days.

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Micah Faulkner @micahfaulkner.bsky.social · 18h

Can someone overdub this with "You'll Be Back" from Hamilton for me?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 18h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Micah Faulkner @micahfaulkner.bsky.social · 1d

Target image boards and gamer chats.

The Nazis breed and radicalize there. We already know this.

Send in agents to find these people.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity is the only way

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 1d

Jack Bryan on Threads talks about how Frank Sinatra saved Don Rickles's life. Rickles said, "Some goons were beating me up. Frank comes over and says, 'Okay, guys, that's enough.'"
Bryan says--with some truth--that he remembered that anecdote when Trump hogged the credit for ending the war in Gaza.

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Micah Faulkner @micahfaulkner.bsky.social · 1d

It's sad that so many people don't know that their library has all sorts of subscriptions, if they don't want to pay for one themselves.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 1d

Jesse Watters tried to make a protester he dubbed "Antifa Kermit" look menacing. I added the words of Secretary of Homeland Security describing Antifa along with some footage of Antifa protesters from an ABC affiliate Local 10 News. The music is royalty free.🎶🪩💃🕺

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Micah Faulkner @micahfaulkner.bsky.social · 2d

Good work, @washingtonpost.com , @nytimes.com, @cnn.com , @theatlantic.com , @theguardian.com , @wsj.com, @newsmax.com , @washingtontimes.bsky.social, @breakingdefense.com, and @reuters.com for refusing to sign the DOD agreement, especially Newsmax, the Post, and WSJ.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

www.10news.com/news/local-n...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3d

The only way we save our country is through our numbers.

Trump and MAGA don't have the majority, not even close.

Overwhelm them with numbers. Resist everywhere. They are too reckless, incompetent, and self-destructive.

Also, divide and conquer. Many fissures, especially around Epstein.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3d

Ragebaiting people on social media is ironically the exact kind of unproductive, divisive-for-no-reason discourse that Bluesky critics (and critics of the left more generally) claim it engages in

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3d

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Micah Faulkner @micahfaulkner.bsky.social · 3d

ANOTHER restaurant mass shooting???

Didn't we just have one of those 2 weeks ago?

Micah Faulkner @micahfaulkner.bsky.social · 3d

The Democrats need to build a Project 2029 document that publicizes the super-capable team that will need to be installed in order to rebuild our nation.

Run on competence.

Micah Faulkner @micahfaulkner.bsky.social · 4d

Pretty sure the airport video on a loop is a violation of the Hatch Act.

Every time it's aired, should be treated as another violation.

Next admin: do that.

Micah Faulkner @micahfaulkner.bsky.social · 4d

I love A.I. Scott.

#SNL

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Micah Faulkner @micahfaulkner.bsky.social · 4d

I've long felt hat Wreck-it Ralph is the legitimate sequel to TRON.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Micah Faulkner @micahfaulkner.bsky.social · 5d

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Lebanon, Indiana” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS Lebanon, Indiana · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

www.mobilize.us

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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 5d

Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, in what MAGA figures saw as a snub to Trump.

MAGA Rages Over Donald Trump Missing Out on Nobel Peace Prize

www.newsweek.com

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