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David Nir @davidnir.com · 1h

Man, this freaking guy.

"I have no staff ... The phones don't work. There's no computer," Grijalva says from her sparsely furnished office on Capitol Hill. "We don't have a government email." www.npr.org/2025/10/16/g...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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Andy K @andyknudsen64.bsky.social · 1h

Does he even realize he is House Leader?

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 2h

Karoline Leavitt is a complete disgrace.

Her violent and unhinged rhetoric is going to get someone killed.

These extremists are sick people.

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Andy K @andyknudsen64.bsky.social · 6h

Hey bitch. Liberal here. Not sympathetic to Hamas, third generation American, no criminal record. Just a middle class white guy, tech worker, graduate degree. Pretty harmless. But I will fight people like you to save our democracy. That's for damn sure.

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Andy K @andyknudsen64.bsky.social · 6h

You mean the gestapo are going to start killing civilians? Because I'm just a peaceful protester. I don't bring my handguns to a protest. So there.

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Andy K @andyknudsen64.bsky.social · 6h

Liberal progressive here, cheering on MTG! Get out the space lasers and let's take care of MAGA once and for all.

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Andy K @andyknudsen64.bsky.social · 8h

Wait, I'm confused. Why aren't the hyper-decorated generals in the background clapping furiously or at least crying for joy? I'm not feeling the love.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12h

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Andy K @andyknudsen64.bsky.social · 1d

Spot on! 👇

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

The secret power of a people’s movement is that it’s random.

It’s neighbors protecting immigrants from ICE. It’s millions canceling Disney+. It’s a man throwing a sandwich. It’s inflatable frogs dancing.

Dictators struggle to fight a movement, because they can’t do what they want most—control us.

Andy K @andyknudsen64.bsky.social · 1d

This is spot on!!

Andy K @andyknudsen64.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings rallies, never mind other smaller rallies every single weekend, happening all over rural America. Big efforts underway to get Dems on statewide ballots. Indivisible is powerful in my state and so is Respect MO Voters, 50501, and Mobilize Progress. Ask Jess Piper! indivisiblestl.org Donate!

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Andy K @andyknudsen64.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings rallies, never mind other smaller rallies every single weekend, happening all over rural America. Big efforts underway to get Dems on statewide ballots. Indivisible is powerful in my state and so is Respect MO Voters, 50501, and Mobilize Progress. Ask Jess Piper! indivisiblestl.org Donate!

Indivisible St. Louis

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

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Andy K @andyknudsen64.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings rallies, never mind other smaller rallies every single weekend, happening all over rural America. Big efforts underway to get Dems on statewide ballots. Indivisible is powerful in my state and so is Respect MO Voters, 50501, and Mobilize Progress. Ask Jess Piper! Indivisiblestl.org Donate!

Indivisible St. Louis

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Andy K @andyknudsen64.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings rallies, never mind other smaller rallies every single weekend, happening all over rural America. Big efforts underway to get Dems on statewide ballots. Indivisible is powerful in my state and so is Respect MO Voters, 50501, and Mobilize Progress. Ask Jess Piper! Indivisiblestl.org Donate!

Indivisible St. Louis

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

Americans have gotten more than $21 billion back in their bank accounts after being cheated and scammed by big corporations, thanks to the CFPB.

But Trump and his Administration love grifters and scammers.

So they're trying to kill the agency holding them accountable.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Supercut of comments from Republicans today alone about the No Kings rallies taking place this weekend. This has to be some of the worst, and most anti-American, coordinated messaging of all time.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

It really is bizarre to me that every single member of GOP House leadership & the admin has decided their coordinated talking point this week is that the No Kings demonstrations this Sat are essentially acts of domestic terrorism. Are they that afraid of free & peaceful assembly?

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Andy K @andyknudsen64.bsky.social · 1d

I spend a lot of time thinking about how we can have conversations and bridge divides, and then I see this and it just makes me want to pummel them into oblivion.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat - POLITICO share.google/v2vDMGKQE9eV...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Andy K @andyknudsen64.bsky.social · 2d

Ya think?

www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of ...

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Andy K @andyknudsen64.bsky.social · 2d

Is anyone investigating these killings and identifying the victims?

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Andy K @andyknudsen64.bsky.social · 2d

I gave up on WaPo some time ago. In fact, I am giving up on a lot of media. I still read The Economist. I still watch PBS News Hour. The distressing thing is I don't know what will replace legacy media. I get more and more of my news from uncorroborated social media, with bothers me.

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