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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 1h

the air of self-importance is also unbearable. she’s giving off the facade of a legacy media reporter “seeking truth” but engaging in a much different project that’s extremely palatable to reactionary billionaires

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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 2h

it is not illegal to fund protests

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Ron Johnson on the No Kings protest: "One of the things I hope Kash Patel and Pam Bondi are looking into is the funding of these groups. Who pays for the busses to bus a lot of these folks in?"

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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 4h

going out of your way as a party to talk about how extreme and terrible the protests will be is such an odd strategy. you’re drawing more attention to the protests and then you will seem like morons when it’s literally just millions of normal people at them

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 6h

“no kings equals no paychecks” is such a dumb counter, it’s almost admirable. we won’t pay you unless you let us install a king!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."

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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 8h

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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 6d

the journals:

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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 7d

or, as legacy media would put it, “both sides trade barbs”

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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 7d

Bondi Goes on Attack

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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 7d

and these are just fuel costs. I just switched from a gas car to a Mustang Mach-E a few months ago and I’m betting I’ll save hundreds if not $1k per year on maintenance, oil changes, etc.

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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 9d

they are demanding that people accept their unhinged fantasies to justify their authoritarian actions. we cannot cede reality to these people

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Q: I don't know of many Democratic politics who have endorsed these terrible incidents. I also don't know of evidence that there's a vast organization funding them.

STEPHEN MILLER: We know that it's true

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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 9d

the administration and Fox News are working overtime to keep their followers fenced into an anti-reality pigpen. they are justifying cruelty, destruction, and authoritarianism with complete fantasies

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

McLaughlin: "Pritzker is saying we're using racial profiling to go after people. That's absolutely not true. We are targeting criminals who have perpetrated very horrendous violence against the people of Chicago. And yet he continues to lie and say we're zip-tying children. These are fake images."

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Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 10d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 12d

this is arbitrary and capricious governance in action

this hurts all parties and helps virtually no one

Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 12d

unbelievable levels of stupidity and lazy work on display in these DOE clawbacks

they 100% ctrl+f searched for blue states to cancel things, but this MISO-SPP seams transmission project affects 7 states (including 6 red ones) and they clearly didn't read anything 🔌💡

yardsale.energy/doe-terminat...

DOE Terminates $464 Million for Midwest Transmission Expansion – Yardsale Energy

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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 12d

it looks like the Minnesota PUC is poised to approve the acquisition of ALLETE by BlackRock, which portends to be potentially disastrous for ratepayers and clean energy goals in Minnesota

the work continues

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 13d

BlackRock is leading a consortium buying Minnesota Power in a private equity foray into utilities. The decision will be made tomorrow. Meanwhile, Gov. Walz's Department of Commerce flipped to supporting the deal, & emails show numerous contacts with the acquisition’s supporters. From James Baratta:

Private Equity Power Play in Minnesota

BlackRock-owned Global Infrastructure Partners and a Canadian pension giant want to buy a Minnesota-based utility. Gov. Tim Walz’s agencies have been in on pushing the deal.

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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 14d

great idea to prove you’re not fascists by arresting people who say “stop the fascists”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Stephen Miller: "They say they are trying to kill the fascists & stop the fascists. It's deliberate. President Trump is saying that we as a nation are not going to tolerate it anymore & the joint terrorism task force at the FBI is going to find these terrorists & we're going to put them behind bars"

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14d

every republican president of my lifetime has completely destroyed the economy

Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 14d

More from ADP: The number of jobs created in August 2025 was revised downward from 54,000 to a loss of -3,000.
What's more, employment fell for the third time in four months, ADP said
#EconSky

Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 14d

ADP Nonfarm Payrolls for September: -32,000. A big miss -- the forecast was for a gain of 50.5k -- and it is the largest decline since March 2023
ADP numbers are leading non-farm payrolls lower.
#EconSky

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 18d

THE HILL
Opinion
Opinion - Kamala's newest lie:
Trump will send the army after you
Derek Hunter, Opinion Contributor
Wed, October 16, 2024 at 7:00 AM CDT • 4 min read

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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 20d

We are ceding leadership and the rest of the world is moving on. I’m happy that other countries are taking climate change seriously but its very dishesrtening to see us tether ourselves to the past at tremendous cost. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/c...

At Global Climate Summit This Week, U.S. Isolation Was on Full Display

www.nytimes.com

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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · 21d

“left-wing political violence is out of control”

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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · Sep 11

again, one party unequivocally condemns political violence while the other does not. and that is very bad for the country

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · Sep 10

Sigh.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump • 27m
In honor of Charlie Kirk, a truly Great American Patriot, I am ordering all American Flags throughout the United States lowered to Half Mast until Sunday evening at 6 P.M.

abcNEWS
Trump says calling Walz after Minnesota shootings would be
'waste of time'
"I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out," Trump said.
By Rachel Scott
June 17, 2025, 12:44 PM • 5 min
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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · Sep 10

we need comprehensive gun control laws and unequivocal condemnation of political violence. unfortunately we have a major political party holding the reins of power that doesn’t believe in either of those goals

alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · Sep 5

shocked it isn’t ambassador to Turkey

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 5

Breaking News: An effort to get Eric Adams to drop out of the New York City mayor's race is said to involve a plan for President Trump to nominate him as ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Talks Between Adams and Trump Adviser Center on Saudi Ambassadorship

The discussions are said to be part of an effort to get Mayor Eric Adams to end his mayoral campaign in New York City, clearing a path for Andrew Cuomo.

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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · Sep 5

rather than being damning and disqualifying, this is something one can probably highlight on their resume to work in this administration

Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · Sep 5

NEW: Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics ran an anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, anti-gay slurs, and far-right conspiracy theories.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...

Trump’s pick to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics ran anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading and bigoted attacks | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics operated a since-deleted Twitter account that featured sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, derogatory remarks about gay...

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alex mears @alexmears.bsky.social · Sep 3

using wildfire containment as a venue for haphazard immigration enforcement is just one of the many new heights of immorality we’ve seen from this administration

you can’t say “well if you’re legal then you don’t need to worry” when we have seen citizens and legal residents abused and harassed

High Country News @highcountrynews.org · Sep 3

Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities, shares Stateline.

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Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire - High Country News

Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.

www.hcn.org

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Sep 3

There's a "national emergency" somewhere. We're just not sure, but we'll figure it out soon & send in the troops. Somewhere, to be sure, with a bunch of Black people.

Just wildly unconstitutional, immediate presidency-ending stuff, & yet here we are for the One Special Boy

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 3

Trump: "We're making a determination now -- do we go to Chicago, or do we go to a place like New Orleans where we have a great governor who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that's become quite tough, quite bad?"

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