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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 4h

Remember when Biden bungled a comment and it sounded like he called all MAGA garbage, quickly corrected and it was still a 3 day news story?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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murderedbybluesky.bsky.social @murderedbybluesky.bsky.social · 4h

They already have, this is just violating the corpse till its 100% locked it so they can proceed to fuck it.

New Jim Crow laws are coming. No one wanted to resist with any real force so this is where we are. VRA dies & we all lose our rights to this religious death cult loyal to Trump/MAGA...

Voting Rights Act: SCOTUS Poised to Gut Law & Weaken Electoral Power of Black Americans

The Supreme Court appears ready to strike down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, threatening the equal representation of Black voters, and potentially greenlighting Republican gerrymandering ah...

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Shannon Edrie @shannonedrie.bsky.social · 7h

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The State of the United States: A Conversation with Jack Smith

YouTube video by UCL Laws

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Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social · 22h

I wrote this a little over a month ago:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 9h

Supreme Court justices are inherently political and the important thing to recognize is that John Roberts is not being presented with a country that could hypothetically be fascist without the VRA. We live here now, and he is still going to choose to finish this project. He wants ~this~.

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project

If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.

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Shannon Edrie @shannonedrie.bsky.social · 8h

Here’s the thing though the “mess” is a relatively new thing. We were doing ok maybe moving a little to slow and had some bad players in government but most were trying to do the right thing. Our institutions stood for something moral and tried to stop those who didn’t. That has ended.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Another $20 billion. That is the face you make when you heist the US taxpayers for $40 billion two weeks before your midterm elections from the most corrupt America Last regime in history.

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Paris Paname 😊 @parispaname.bsky.social · 9h

📸 Ed Clark.
Peintre de Montmartre
1946. Paris 18e

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 22h

She ain't lying.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 9h

🚨The new escalation of “normal” violence includes breaking into homes, ransacking/destroying property and THEN disappearing families. 🚨🚨We. Are. Occupied. 🚨🚨
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 9h

The soybean crisis may have been induced by tariffs, but it's the *culmination* of a lack of resiliency in the farm economy, with overdependence on exports and single crops and self-perpetuating bailouts. Great breakdown from Naomi Bethune:
prospect.org/politics/202...

America Bet the Farm on Soybeans. Then Came Trump.

Collapsing soybean exports reveal an agricultural sector rife with longstanding problems.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

In an incredibly timely opinion, Richard Leon throws out Gary Shapley's defamation lawsuit against Abbe Lowell.

The front page of a memorandum opinion in Gary Shapley's lawsuit against Abbe Lowell. It shows that Richard Leon granted Lowell's motion to dismiss and denied Shapley's bid to amend his complaint.

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 9h

Hear me out: we need to create space for the conservatives on the Supreme Court to realize that Trump v. US was a huge mistake and to take steps to rein it in

Creating this permission structure would have to be a serious enterprise among legal elites for it to work

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Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups

The effort would install a Trump ally at the IRS’s criminal unit who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.

www.wsj.com

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 9h

It’s day 15 of the Epstein shutdown

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Shannon Edrie @shannonedrie.bsky.social · 9h

She is an idiot and anyone who follows here idiocy deserves what they get

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Thune: "If I were a woman I'd be talking to my doctor and not taking advice from RFK"

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 9h

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social: "The Republicans attacks on the No Kings protests are sickening.

To them, only pro-Trump speech is protected. If you oppose Trump - you 'hate America' or you're a 'terrorist'.

What they're trying to do is simple: suppress turnout this weekend. Don't let them win."

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Amy McGrath @amymcgrath.bsky.social · 1d

This Saturday, October 18, Americans everywhere are standing up to say we’ve had enough. Enough corruption. Enough compliance. Enough excuses.

No Kings is a reminder to Washington that voters are paying attention & we’re ready for change. To find an event near you check out: www.nokings.org .

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

www.nokings.org

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AnarchoTerran @anarchoterran.bsky.social · 1d

In the USA, you can't even go to a pharmacy without masked ICE terrorists rampaging through the isles. Here, in Chicago, Kristi Noem's terrorists terrorize a store and its customers.

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 2d

You need to read every word of National Security Presidential Memorandum 7

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

www.whitehouse.gov

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 1d

For the fist time, the US passport is not among the ‘most desirable ‘

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1d

Trump is DOUBLING the amount of the Argentina bailout, to $40 billion. Nothing's been done to lower your cost of living right here, in America. America last.

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🌹Weegie 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 1d

At Joe Biden's direction, his negotiation team made it a priority to have them released first. Does Laura want to thank him now or later?

Social media post:
Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer
All of the female hostages are dead.
Where is the outrage?
Savages
4:20 AM · Oct 14, 2025 - 629K Views

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

(AP) — Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power.

@apnews.com
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