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Vanessa @vacatmom3.bsky.social · 5h

a man with a beard and a brown jacket says " no "

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Sean Duffy: "We are gonna save billions of dollars by getting rid of the fuel economy standards that are set way too high, that no combustion engine can meet, costing each car to the tune of thousands of dollars for the end consumer. We're in the process of getting rid of those rules."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine lying as easily as @RepTimBurchett does. Nobody is paying the millions of people who will be out there.

Wanting better for your country isn’t hating it, Tim. Quite the opposite. It’s real patriotism. 🇺🇸

Throwing out the constitution to cling to power is the real hating your country.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6h

NEW: in a hearing where a judge is asking the government why it’s defying her court order about deploying tear gas without warning in Chicago, the government argues ICE isn’t using body cams, and they can’t start using them because the government is shut down.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 7h

Skedzielewski also cites the shutdown and says "I don't believe that it will be possible, on a short timeline, to roll out a body cam program in the Chicago [area of responsibility] for ICE.

For CBP it "may be more workable."

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orynthia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 8h

People talk about the 300k+ Black women who have lost their jobs as if they are statistics for their research projects and I’m here to remind yall, we are real ass people feeling the effects of it. In our homes, quality of life and well-being.

To those of you in this boat with me, I see you. 💙

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Vanessa @vacatmom3.bsky.social · 5h

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Jared Kushner Is Trump's Grifting Incarnate | Inside Trump's Head Clip

YouTube video by The Daily Beast

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Vanessa @vacatmom3.bsky.social · 6h

Don’t forget that spineless Cassidy!

Vanessa @vacatmom3.bsky.social · 6h

What about everyone else? He’s full of shit!

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

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Vanessa @vacatmom3.bsky.social · 6h

#CrueltyIsTheBrand

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The Ken Harbaugh Show @thekenharbaughshow.bsky.social · 6h

Under Trump, cruelty became policy. Ken Harbaugh and vet Kris Goldsmith discuss fighting fascism and restoring constitutional government.

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Follow The Ken Harbaugh Show here: linktr.ee/thekenharbau...

The brutality IS the point

Under Donald Trump, cruelty has become official government policy—ICE and DHS are openly terrorizing families, detaining citizens without cause, and turning propaganda into lawbreaking.

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Vanessa @vacatmom3.bsky.social · 6h

a man in a suit says i couldn 't agree more

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Vanessa @vacatmom3.bsky.social · 6h

a close up of a man 's face with the words lock em up written on it

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Russell Vought is a piece of shit.

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Vanessa @vacatmom3.bsky.social · 6h

This is a crime! #AbolishICE

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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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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s stop pretending. The issue before the Supreme Court right now is easy to understand: There are still many people on the far right who don’t see Black Americans as equals...they see them through the same filthy slur they whisper when the cameras are off. That's right...that word.

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Vanessa @vacatmom3.bsky.social · 6h

a woman is sitting next to a man in a tuxedo and smiling with her hands in the air .

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 7h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
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Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Vanessa @vacatmom3.bsky.social · 6h

Getting instructions from his handlers!

Vanessa @vacatmom3.bsky.social · 6h

He’s lying!

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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 7h

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

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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LINDZEE @lindzee2.bsky.social · 6h

This is where we are. The House has been out of session 73 of the past 85 days.

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