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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 53m

alaska national guard

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Dirk Straun @dirk-straun.bsky.social · 46m

Yikes. I'm just seeing this. It's not just Spotify either, Homeland Security (cringe) has placed ads across multiple streaming services (not Tidal, yay). It won't hurt me a bit to give up Spotify.

www.newsweek.com/users-vow-to...

Users vow to boycott Spotify after streamer runs ICE recruitment ad

Part of the message from DHS said millions of immigrant criminals were running around the country.

www.newsweek.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 44m

Trump and Hegseth are shutting down I-5 so they can play soldier by firing some missiles. www.latimes.com/california/s...

I-5 may be shut down due to concerns over live-fire military event at Camp Pendleton

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is weighing whether to close parts of Interstate 5 beginning Friday amid concerns over what it says is a White House-directed plan to use live ordnance during a military ann...

www.latimes.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h

The reason No Kings has had limited political impact isn’t the size of the thing, which is astounding, but because it’s largely been ignored by the institutional structures that call crystallize popular anger and discontent into lasting policy and pressure for change. Dems won’t claim it, basically

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h

The con worked, until it didn’t?

ROGAN: “I really thought they were just going to go after the criminals… I really thought there was enough gang members.”

ME: He still doesn’t get it. That’s what Trump wanted everyone to believe. They’re not even trying to go after “the criminals”.

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RestlessAlbatross @restlessalbatross.bsky.social · 42m

The dumb fucks who voted for Trump THREE times have made it quite clear they would rather starve to death while his cronies loot the country and all their neighbors (and eventually them too) get labeled dissidents and sent to forced labor camps before they'd admit they fucked up by voting for him.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 7h

A 3,000-pound, 17-foot-long "DEMOCRACY" ice sculpture is melting away on the National Mall today, a statement from activists and artists on the weakened state of American democracy under the Trump administration.
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

A 3,000-Pound Ice Sculpture Of 1 Word Is Melting In Front Of The U.S. Capitol

“It's time for all of us to resist, speak up and save our democracy before it's too late,” artist Marshall Reese said of his 17-by-5-foot installation.

www.huffpost.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 35m

China is a humble superpower. They’re not bragging about this. They are just getting it done, and that’s why people are shocked.
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Access Restricted

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 35m

While Trump plays trade war like he’s holding all the cards, our executives are coming back from China terrified.

They’re walking through “dark factories” where robots run the show so efficiently the lights don’t even need to be on.

One exec saw a plant pumping out phones with zero human workers.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 34m

Mockler: I have spent all my formative years watching the President talk about the opposition party like they should not exist. His claim to fame in politics was saying that Obama was not born in America.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 31m

Every passing day reveals that this is the fundamental crux of the shutdown: whether we will have a government or collapse into dictatorship

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 15d

If I’m running messaging, the word on the street is that Democrats are refusing to fund a dictatorship. Either Article 1 means something or nobody gets anything.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 29m

House Republicans are saying that they are doing all of this work, but they are twiddling their thumbs and refusing to negotiate.

I have never seen people who hate working this much. They need to pick up the phone.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

ICYMI — PELOSI: “Shut up. I did not refuse the National Guard. The President didn’t send it. Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you’re a serious journalist?”

(The unserious questioner is Alison Steinberg, who works for Mike Lindell — the my pillow guy)

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Sara Montour Lewis @saramontourlewis.com · 29m

Meta gonna Meta.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 26m

"The near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens combined with the lack of an available legal workforce, results in significant disruptions to production costs and threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S consumers," according to a Department of Labor report.

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 55m

Anyone vote for this? Anyone? A nation underfed is making America great again?

The U.S. Labor Department is warning of a potential food crisis linked to the Trump administration’s immigration raids due to a resulting worker shortage.

abcnews.go.com/US/family-fa...

Family farm in Idaho faces worker shortage as Trump administration immigration raids escalate

The U.S. Labor Department is warning of a potential food crisis linked to the Trump administration’s immigration raids due to a resulting worker shortage.

abcnews.go.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 5h

Before it was illegally destroyed by Musk and co., USAID had a budget of $35 billion (in 2024)

Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 6h

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the bailout for Argentina, now doubled to $40 billion, is part of an effort to swing Latin America to the right

@jacobbogage.bsky.social @davidjlynch.bsky.social David Feliba report

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Bessent says bailout for Argentina will double to boost U.S. influence in region

The Trump administration is working to arrange private sector financing for Argentina that would double the total U.S. financial lifeline for the embattled Latin nation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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770yd.bsky.social @770yd.bsky.social · 2h

Being shocked that MAGA Republicans are racist, xenophobes is like being shocked to find out water is wet.

Racism is literally the Republican brand.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

I have seen a range of opinions and reactions from across the ideological spectrum on the Young Republicans thing, but one take you really don’t hear from anyone is that they are shocked this was happening.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2h

Accurate. They are exactly who we thought they were.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

I have seen a range of opinions and reactions from across the ideological spectrum on the Young Republicans thing, but one take you really don’t hear from anyone is that they are shocked this was happening.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 2h

All decent, patriotic Americans are ANTIFAscist.

The only people defending fascism are MAGAs.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/were-all-a...

We're all ANTIFA, Donald.

Hey Donald,

johnpavlovitz.substack.com

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 5h

4 months apart

Official ICE government account
June 6, 2025:
"To call us 'Nazis' - to compare us to one of the worst groups in history - is disgusting and just outright wrong.
"What the men and women of ICE are doing in Massachusetts and all over this country is making communities safer."
—ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons

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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 8h

People do remember that the country wasn’t like this last year, right?

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 7h

They grabbed him, pulled him over the line and then charged him with trespassing once he was there. #RobbyRoadsteamer

consequence.net/2025/10/robb...

Musical Comedian Robby Roadsteamer Detained by ICE in Portland

Comedian Robby Roadsteamer says he was detained by ICE in Portland and charged with trespassing after singing a Rod Stewart parody during a protest.

consequence.net

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

It should be a litmus test for Democratic presidential primary candidates whether they will restore the White House and DC public properties to exactly the way they were before the Palm Beach lounge lizard decided to turn it into Mar-a-Lago meets 1936 Nuremberg.

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