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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 12h

Gateway is the largest infrastructure project in the country, terminating funding will limit our whole nation’s potential.

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yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 9h

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 18h

Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection www.publicnotice.co/p/tim-dickin...

Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection

"It would be funny if it wasn’t so f**king serious," Tim Dickinson says.

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refugeepat.bsky.social @refugeepat.bsky.social · 6h

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc

maureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 7h

30 people disappeared in this shaded area today.

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 6h

they don't have warrants or intel. DHS agents are roaming the streets of Chicago looking for brown people to abduct.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc

maureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 7h

30 people disappeared in this shaded area today.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7h

The FDA approved Enovid (AKA “The Pill”) as a contraceptive on May 9, 1960. JFK became president months later. So, of course, pregnancy rates were much higher than now, as birth control pills became more easily available to women.

RFK Jr. is an idiot.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

This sounds familiar.

Annette @resistnow2024.bsky.social · 1d

This. Said. It. All. ⬇️⬇️

Please. Share. So. Everyone. Knows. The. Truth.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations

Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries

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refugeepat.bsky.social @refugeepat.bsky.social · 6h

Exactly

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Fight 4 Democracy Continues @politically.bsky.social · 10h

So...John Bolton was indicted for "mishandling classified documents". That's fine and dandy but may I remind DOJ that this President had classified documents in his bathroom right next to his toilet.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

What used to be a place of joy or simple routine check-ins has become a horror house of fear and separation under this federal government.

As someone who would be the first immigrant Mayor in generations, I refuse to stand for it.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 6h

Ireland is taking its cue from Australia by banning Candace Owens for eternity. “We haven’t had snakes here in thousands of years - why invite one in.”

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16h

Yesterday was the Q3 FEC deadline. That means we found out how much money my opponents raised and who donated to them.

So how did we do? Well…

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h

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refugeepat.bsky.social @refugeepat.bsky.social · 6h

Hold the line!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

Translation: If Dems vote for the CR, Thune will allow a vote on extending ACA subsidies then Mike Johnson will kill that in the House.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

You're hearing it more and more.

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refugeepat.bsky.social @refugeepat.bsky.social · 6h

Newt? Seriously?

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NOTUS @notus.com · 12h

Politicians whose campaigns still owe large sums, according to October FEC filings:
- Newt Gingrich: $4.6 million
- Al Sharpton: $925,000
- Rick Santorum: $983,000
- Mehmet Oz: $25.5 million
- Mike Pence: $127,000

via @davelevinthal.com & @taylorgiorno.bsky.social
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Deadbeat Political Campaigns Still Owe Creditors Millions

Old campaigns of also-ran politicians remain hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in debt. Will they ever pay?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"

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Palmer Report @palmerreport.com · 9h

By criminally indicting John Bolton, Donald Trump just confessed his own guilt: www.palmerreport.com/politics/don...

Donald Trump just confessed his guilt

Recently convicted felon Donald Trump only ran for office again to try to stay out of prison. Now that it’s improbably worked, he and his band of thugs are attempting to put his political enemies in p...

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 12h

The White House melted down Thursday afternoon over a CNN town hall in which Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) discussed the ongoing government shutdown.

'Clown show!' White House melts down over CNN town hall

The White House melted down Thursday afternoon over a CNN town hall in which Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) discussed the ongoing government shutdown.The two lawmakers insisted that Congress needed concrete action to secure long-term Affordable Care Act subsidies...

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Stahl @stahltex.bsky.social · 10h

Eugenia Bates isn’t getting enough credit for her role as the overzealous FBI agent who supported this prosecution. Bates called the defendant a “libtard,” which was a nice, concise way to expose this prosecution as a political witch hunt.

Good job, Bates.

Final score: “Libtards” 1 - 0 Trump DOJ.

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refugeepat.bsky.social @refugeepat.bsky.social · 7h

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 10h

Former House Leader Steney Hoyer (D-MD) warned this week that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) could be slow-walking Congress into an era where he refuses to swear in more members of the Democratic caucus.

'It's a dictatorship': Lawmaker fears future Dems may never be sworn in under Mike Johnson

WASHINGTON — Former House Leader Steney Hoyer (D-MD) warned this week that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) could be slow-walking Congress into an era where he refuses to swear in more members of the Democratic caucus. Speaking to Raw Story on Thursday about Johnson's refusal to swear in Rep.-elect Adeli...

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 9h

President Donald Trump's Justice Department has been pressuring an acting U.S. attorney to indict Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) even though she hasn't been able to make a legitimate case for it, according to a report.

Prosecutor couldn't charge Adam Schiff — so she went after John Bolton instead: report

President Donald Trump's Justice Department has been pressuring an acting U.S. attorney to indict Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) even though she hasn't been able to make a legitimate case for it, according to a report.Writing for MSNBC.com on Thursday, Carol Leonnig, Vaughn Hillyard, Ken Dilanian, and Lisa...

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