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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Raskin: "Speaker Johnson described the exercise of 1st Amendment rights across the country by 6 or 7 millions Americans as part of No Kings as a 'Hate America Rally.' The Hate America Rally happened on January 6 ... there were more than 140 police officers who were wounded."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

The Trump Doctrine: If a supposed “narco terrorist” survives our attempt to kill him, we send him home and let him go free.

Kind of makes it look like they didn’t have sufficient proof to present in court.

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Angels In Velvet @angelsinvelvet.bsky.social · 1d

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 21h

No other U.S. president has used the military as their own personal police force against the American people.

We implore the courts to reject Donald Trump's ongoing, illegal actions and definitively affirm states' sovereign right to handle public safety matters.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 18h

Two days ago, he took a shit on the American people. Today, he began demolishing the People’s House. That’s all he does. He shits on people, and he destroys things. Bcuz he’s a horrible person. I blame him a lot for the death & destruction he’s caused. I blame his enablers & his appeasers even more.

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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 18h

Trump’s ICE Jacks Up Weapons Spending by 700%—Including ‘Guided Missile Warheads’ www.commondreams.org/news/ice-wea...

Trump’s ICE Jacks Up Weapons Spending by 700%—Including ‘Guided Missile Warheads’ | Common Dreams

The Trump administration's massive increase in funding for ICE weapons is alarming. ICE is now armed to the teeth, treating its officers as a private military to deploy against Americans. Why does ICE...

www.commondreams.org

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 21h

“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.”

Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

futurism.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 22h

The Trump regime is going to continue to abuse its power by sending National Guard troops into our streets.

Although the Frog Army of Portland is undoubtedly well-prepared, we highly recommend reading up on how to interact with the Guard as it is different than engaging with ICE.

Learn more here:

Responding to Federal Occupying Forces

Click here for another version of this document optimized for readability and accessibility. Table of Contents (click to jump ahead) We the People are PISSED: statement/intro Situation Report: current...

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Scarecasmorator @sarcasmorator.bsky.social · 23h

Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

Subtle metaphor for America.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom.

Full Story: wapo.st/42RiU2q

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

One more reason why Democrats need to take back Congress. We need hearings, subpoenas, and daylight on every back-channel to Moscow.

We have no ‘friends’ at the Kremlin‼️

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 1d

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The WH steals people’s property constantly and never asks permission. Another example of Trump acting like a king.

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Over 500,000 views before the Community Note fact check.

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

“Republican Party has devolved into a cult of personality that mirrors the worst authoritarian regimes… today, I quit allowing my complacency to destroy 🇺🇸, and urge you to quit too…”

GOP insider Miles Bruner writes in @thebulwark.com he wishes he did it sooner

www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d

All for this techno-garbage that steals our stuff, that plunders art and information and jobs, that just all around sucks at doing all the miracle things it's supposed to do. It tanks productivity, makes jobs harder, lies and plagiarizes, and salt in the wound? Drinks our water, burns our world.

Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 1d

“By 2035, data centers globally are projected to use about as much electricity as India…according to the International Energy Agency. A single data center can also use more than 500,000 gallons of water a day, nearly as much as an Olympic-size swimming pool.”

🎁:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy

www.nytimes.com

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

In Giuffre's 2015 civil case against Maxwell, she named:

"All staff and employees at Mar-a-Lago during 1999-2002" as individuals who may have knowledge of Maxwell's crimes.

Shown here, paragraph 91

7 other Epstein survivors also can be placed at Mar-a-Lago

Giuffree not the only one

#Epstein

#1090, Att. #41 in Giuffre v. Maxwell (S.D.N.Y., 1:15-cv-07433) – CourtListener.com

***STRICKEN DOCUMENT. Deleted document number [1090-38 and 1090-41] from the case record. The document was stricken from this case pursuant to 1091 Order Striking Document from Record, . (yv) NOTICE o...

www.courtlistener.com

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Daphne Odell @artistdo.bsky.social · 1d

That’s hardly lashing out but ok. Thanks for the advice

Daphne Odell @artistdo.bsky.social · 2d

You assume it hasn’t hit me directly. Don’t.

Daphne Odell @artistdo.bsky.social · 2d

Yes 💯. I guess I am not shocked by anything they do at this point. When he got elected in 2016 I sobbed inconsolably for hours and while my husband was also upset he couldn’t understand the utter despair I experienced. Now he gets it a decade later…

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Drew Abides @drewabides.bsky.social · 4d

I’m just sick. One of my students-a sweet, kind freshman came to my office yesterday. Through the sobs she told me how her brother, a 22 year old dreamer, brought to this country from Guatemala when he was a child, was abducted by three men on his way to work. They don’t know where he is.

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Daphne Odell @artistdo.bsky.social · 2d

Please don’t assume I’m broken or insensitive because i’m not shocked by the depths of the utter depravity of others. He’s a fucking rapist who is murdering fishermen and abusing immigrants. A shit video does not shock me. Repulsive yes, but truly indicative of who he is.

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Daphne Odell @artistdo.bsky.social · 2d

Didn’t mean to criticize for the shock, and the phrasing revealed otherwise. It was masking my own utter revulsion.

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