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The Right Jumps to Defend Young Republicans' Racist Texts

J.D. Vance and other prominent conservative influencers downplayed racist messages sent by members of various Young Republicans chapters.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 5h

These young republicans are not college kids. They are 30 year old incels.

New TV series just dropped: “The Unfuckables” 💀😂

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 5h

These young republicans are not college kids. They are 30 year old incels.

New TV series just dropped: “The Unfuckables” 💀😂

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RA Jones AKA Opa Jones 🚫NO DM's @mifd327.bsky.social · 3h

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Alberta beef entering Mexico’s Costco market where U.S. cuts once reigned | CBC News

Alberta beef is now stocked in the meat section of Costco Mexico's 41 locations, joining a host of other Canadian products on the shelves of the retail giant in the country. Agriculture Minister Heath...

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RA Jones AKA Opa Jones 🚫NO DM's @mifd327.bsky.social · 3h

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Trump confirms he authorized CIA action in Venezuela

Trump's comments were an extraordinary acknowledgement from a president, and they step up the administration's pressure campaign against Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.

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RA Jones AKA Opa Jones 🚫NO DM's @mifd327.bsky.social · 3h

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"governors across the U.S. to launch the Governors Public Health Alliance, a new nonpartisan initiative bringing together governors across state lines to strengthen coordination, preparedness and response on public health issues."

Washington Governor Bob Ferguson joins group of 15 governors in launching Governors Public Health Alliance

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RA Jones AKA Opa Jones 🚫NO DM's @mifd327.bsky.social · 6h

Last time I checked "kids" are anyone under the age of 18, these are young adults and need to be held accountable as adults.

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"The Hatch Act is still the law. As is the Anti-Lobbying Act of 1919, which prohibits the use of appropriated funds for activities designed to “support or defeat legislation pending before Congress.” open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

The Trump Regime is Wildly Violating the Hatch Act

The propaganda spewing from Trump's departments and agencies is illegal

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RA Jones AKA Opa Jones 🚫NO DM's @mifd327.bsky.social · 9h

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China Buys Argentine Soybeans After Tax Drop, Leaving U.S. Farmers Sidelined

Chinese buyers booked at least 10 cargoes of Argentine soybeans after Buenos Aires scrapped grain export taxes, three traders said on Tuesday, dealing another setback to U.S. farmers already shut out ...

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Elsa Caroline @elsacaroline.bsky.social · 10h

#Epsteinfiles cover up is the real reason for this. And Dump admins have concocted a scheme to try to turn American civil liberties into terrorist tendencies to further their warped war on truth. This is not the action of a confident regime that "won" the last election. Liars, cheats, pedophiles!

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”

New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

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DawnieFish @dawniefish.bsky.social · 10h

PLEASE SPREAD THIS FAR AND WIDE:

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Inside Trump’s NSPM-7: The Secret Directive Targeting Americans as “Radical Threats”

A new national security memorandum quietly signed by Donald Trump is being used to surveil and label millions of Americans as potential terrorists for their political and religious beliefs.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 11h

When the police assault you, you have a 100% chance of being accused of assault.

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Police and federal law enforcement officers have made dozens of arrests, with Trump administration officials calling the long-running demonstration at a single Portland site an act of terrorism.

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RA Jones AKA Opa Jones 🚫NO DM's @mifd327.bsky.social · 10h

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 10h

In 2015, Trump retweeted a post calling himself “the king of kings."

RA Jones AKA Opa Jones 🚫NO DM's @mifd327.bsky.social · 10h

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How a billionaire’s bet on Donlin could inject new life into the slow-moving Alaska gold project

A global mining giant is selling its 50% stake in Donlin Gold. One of the buyers is John Paulson, who made billions betting against the housing market before the 2008 financial crisis.

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RA Jones AKA Opa Jones 🚫NO DM's @mifd327.bsky.social · 10h

Trump Admin canceling $20 million flood protection grant makes sense if viewed as retribution; the Native Village of Kwigillingok joined other Kuskokwim region tribes in a federal lawsuit challenging the permits awarded to the proposed Donlin Gold mine.
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Six Tribes in Southwest Alaska Win Legal Challenge Against the Donlin Gold Mine

The federal court ruling in Alaska declares that a key federal permit authorizing the construction and operation of the world’s largest pure gold mine violates environmental and subsistence protection...

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 12h

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 12h

Appalachian coal workers suffer from black lung, an incurable respiratory disease killing its victims slowly & painfully.

@kimkelly.bsky.social reports on how the Trump administration is delaying a life-saving safety rule, while claiming to stand with miners.

Trump to Coal Miners: Drop Dead

The administration keeps delaying a life-saving safety rule—while claiming to love coal miners.

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RA Jones AKA Opa Jones 🚫NO DM's @mifd327.bsky.social · 10h

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Blue Jays fans, beware of ICE

In their aggressive quest to meet quotas set by the Trump administration, immigration enforcement agents are going far, far beyond their alleged mandate to round up dangerous criminals who are in the ...

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RA Jones AKA Opa Jones 🚫NO DM's @mifd327.bsky.social · 10h

Mike Johnson is a Pathological Liar

"'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not." - Dale Archer

RA Jones AKA Opa Jones 🚫NO DM's @mifd327.bsky.social · 10h

"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own."
Herbert Hoover

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 11h

So much for Facebook's renewed commitment to free speech.

And so much for this administration's condemnation of social media censorship.

How long will it be before the DOJ demands platforms remove news reporting on ICE?

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group ICE Sighting-Chicagoland has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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RA Jones AKA Opa Jones 🚫NO DM's @mifd327.bsky.social · 11h

Trump Admin canceling $20 million flood protection grant makes sense if viewed as retribution; the Native Village of Kwigillingok joined other Kuskokwim region tribes in a federal lawsuit challenging the permits awarded to the proposed Donlin Gold mine and won. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Before Alaska flooding, EPA canceled $20 million flood protection grant

The disaster laid bare the Alaska Native village’s vulnerability to flooding and the consequences of the Trump administration’s cuts to environmental programs.

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RA Jones AKA Opa Jones 🚫NO DM's @mifd327.bsky.social · 11h

"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own."
Herbert Hoover
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U.S. revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of Kirk.

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RA Jones AKA Opa Jones 🚫NO DM's @mifd327.bsky.social · 11h

“What I’ve seen is the abuse of law enforcement by radical leftist activists. Most recently,” Johnson went on, “the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

U.S. House speaker calls Portland naked bike ride ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’

House Speaker Mike Johnson had harsh words to say about Portland's World Naked Bike Ride over the weekend.

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