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blkhks07 @blkhks07.bsky.social · 9h

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h

The half-life on our National Conversation™️ about toning done the rhetoric lasted about as long as expected.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

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

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 18h

Dubai Dicky was outraged when Lucy Connolly was convicted of the same offence. Sounds like he's in favour of two tier justice.

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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 15h

John Thune lying on MSNBC this morning saying that if the Dems vote to reopen the gov, he will make sure there is a vote on healthcare. He pinky swears.

He is also super mad that insurance companies profit off the ACA. Wasn't that the GOPs idea in the first place?

#GOPShutdown
#GOPShitdown

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The propaganda spewing from Trump's departments and agencies blaming Democrats for the government shutdown is blatantly illegal. We have the Hatch Act for a reason. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trump-regime-is-wildly-violating

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carolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 @carolmac80.bsky.social · 13h

They don't have an alternative, they just want to take it all away.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Collins: Speaker Johnson that Republicans are actually the party that wants to fix health care by addressing issues with it, as he says they did in the one big beautiful bill.

Sanders: Did he really say that? They're trying to fix health care by throwing 15 million people off of it?

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

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Tasha 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @tashajeanslife.bsky.social · 12h

What a vile ignorant woman. She's beyond repulsive.

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

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

If Dems will vote for the CR then Mike Johnson “will look at” maybe having a vote on ACA subsidies in the future. What a deal!

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 13h

Tim Davie BBC Reform & previously Tory Chief Propaganda Officer AKA Director General wanting ppl prosecuted if they don’t pay the licence fee is no surprise as he wants £’s to promote Farage & Reform

What really got my goat is him saying its journalists act “without fear or favour” Utter bollox❗️😡

BBC boss Tim Davie backs prosecution of people who evade licence fee

The director-general made his comments as he answered questions from his own staff on the BBC Breakfast sofa.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

Russia’s Ambassador to the US Luna continues to push insanity from the Kremlin.

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Vet Voice Foundation @vetvoicefoundation.bsky.social · 10h

“That’s my biggest fear. Somebody mistakenly pulls a trigger... and that causes an escalation that then creates even more pretext for the President to militarize further or take a more aggressive step.” - Janessa Goldbeck, Marine Corps veteran and CEO of the Vet Voice Foundation.

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 1d

He told you.

If you don't accept having a king you will not get a paycheck to survive.

Semantics Schemantics.

Out of context my ass.

He. said. It. Out. Loud.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Shaheen: "That's the kind of rhetoric that was used against people who were marching for civil rights, students' rights, women's rights, people who were marching against the war in Vietnam ... it's one of the things that makes this country great and different from Putin's Russia -- peaceful protest"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h

Open enrollment for ACA plans began yesterday in Idaho.

One couple got notice that their monthly premium next year would jump from $51 to $2,232 as subsidies expire.

25,000 Idahoans are expected to be priced out of coverage.

This is what's at stake in Trump's shutdown.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Raskin: "There's a regime of fear that has come down on the Republican Party. They've looked at what happened to Liz Cheney, to Adam Kinzinger, to Mitt Romney, to others who have taken on the president. They insist on absolute 100% loyalty above everything else."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Letitia James: "The indictment is baseless. It's nothing more than retribution. Retribution for basically doing my job ... I will defend these charges. And I want everyone to know that it is completely baseless and I am totally innocent."

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson called us back from July 4 recess on 7/3 so he could gut Americans’ healthcare in the Big Ugly bill. Since then, he has only had the House in session for 19 of the subsequent 104 days. That’s how we ended up here.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11h

🇺🇸 The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) focus on free speech, but the legal challenges they bring tend to use the issue instrumentally as a way to gain allies in their battle against reproductive rights.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/oct/16/nigel-farage-us-anti-abortion-group-women-britain

Nigel Farage is cosying up to the US anti-abortion group that challenged Roe v Wade. Women in Britain should know that | Zoe Williams

ADF, a conservative Christian lobby group that counts among its allies JD Vance, has stated that its goal is to see abortion rights curtailed in Britain, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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John Droutsas @johndroutsas.bsky.social · 11h

CNN headline: “As aggressive ICE tactics are caught on camera, the government says agents are being smeared.”

In other words, believe a government led by a serial liar instead of your own eyes.

Freedom of press remains a foundation to a working democracy.

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💙💙🤔CJ🤨🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · 15h

Imagine That! 😳😳😳😳😳

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 11h

So Trumpleforeskin is just openly buying elections for his allies now.

How very unexpected.

Trump says US will not
'waste our time' helping Argentina if Milei loses

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