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Cancel the Washington Post and NY Times and support independent journalists who actually care about democracy and holding truth to power No Kings Reposts ≠ Endorsement
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 5d
This is perfect!

It is weird. That’s from when people were losing their minds about people telling Dems they should talk like normal people and mobs were arguing against it. You helped prove my point. Thank you!! Haha.
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Oedipal Arrangements 🇵🇸 @6to12elbow.bsky.social · 5d
Lmaooooo fuckin weirdo
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 3m
Facts don’t really seem to matter anymore. Most things are just running on vibes at this point. And, most of the vibes aren’t good.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1h
A judge issued a protective order against a Republican congressman from Florida on Tuesday, forbidding him to contact a former girlfriend who in court proceedings said he had threatened her with revenge porn after she broke up with him.
Woman Is Granted a Protective Order Against Representative Cory Mills
Representative Cory Mills’s former girlfriend, Lindsey Langston, the reigning Miss United States, told a judge that he had threatened to release sexually explicit videos of her.
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 6m
AGAIN? The timeline remains off by five months (Smith wasn't made Counsel until 11/22; didn't return from Europe until 1/23)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 14h
Kernen just trashing democrats and guests who worked for Joe Biden this morning on cnbc. So crude & classless. It’s really unbelievable @cnbc.com allows him to be so f’ing rude and downright classless to guests. Can’t wait until he retires.

And hes loves to ignore the deficit swelling under Trump!
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 14h
The double stanard is amazing.

I’m old enough to remember journalists (tapper may have been one?) running multiple A block stories literally asking if Hunter Biden should be allowed to sell paintings under his own name while his dad was the POTUS and then chastising him for doing so.
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 14h
Do it out in the open and the press barely lifts a finger to question it. The trumps & kushner got alot, what did America get? Wild.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 15h
The UAE bought $2B of Trump’s crypto — and gets computer chips

Saudi Arabia gave Kushner $2B for a new Trump Tower — and gets weapons

Qatar gives Trump a private jet and a $5.5B real estate deal — and gets US military protection

This is how bribes work.
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Quid Pro Presidency
Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits fro...
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 14h
This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h
You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 14h
This is exactly what Curtis Yarvin has been dooming about lately. He sees this for what it is.
Doing the little shit, Yarvin says, is much harder and less impactful than the big shit. Overthrowing a nation with entrenched small-d democratic institutions ingrained into every part of society would take a brand of brutality and domination that can't be achieved by flooding the American public with splashy propaganda or putting a far-right hatchetlady in charge of CBS News or sending Confederate troops to pro-democracy cities only to have them called back because they're too fat. It can't be done by bringing farcical charges against high-profile people who have been mean to the god-king or telling universities and colleges they can't say the word "transgender" anymore or pressuring a media company into suspending a comedian's late-night show for one week. It can't be done by doing performative mass federal government layoffs before begging those workers to return to work.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23h
Please don't put in the paper that I have camelneck, whatever you do don't tell anyone
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d
Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie
Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle HIS TRIUMPH by ERIC CORTELLESSA THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED by EHUD BARAK HOW GAZA HEALS
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23h
Kavanaugh Stops
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d
"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents. “I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.” During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley. “They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”
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✶ MarcusD ✶ @marcusd.bsky.social · 23h
Caleb Williams looking at you
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d
What Trump is doing is very bad. But I want to push back against some of the numbers here.

ICE did not hire 10,000 agents. It WANTS to. That it keeps running ads suggests it is struggling. And when it does, it seems to cannibalize local police, who don't like that.

More significantly:
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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 1d
"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."
Purge, Merge, and Surge
Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 23h
When people ask me to rank the top 10 teams right now
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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 1d
Egypt has extremely strict gun control laws. Civilians are only permitted to own handguns -- no rifles or shotguns -- and only if they can prove they need the weapon for a specific purpose. Background checks for licensing are extensive and include vetting of family members and psych evaluations.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump on Egypt: "They have very little crime. Because they don't play games. That's why. Like we do in the United States with governors that have no idea what they're doing."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d
Phone numbers I currently have memorized:

- My own
- My wife’s cell
- My parents’ cells
- The (no longer in use) landline for my childhood home
- My friend Ben’s parents’ house landline
- A pizza place in my hometown
- The immigration court hotline to find out when your client has a hearing.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d
the funniest thing about this is that those of us who grew up in the divide all have a bunch of pre-cell phone numbers memorized and almost none afterwards

I know the home phone numbers of two of my childhood best friends from thirty years ago and none of the cell numbers of my college friends
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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d
WSJ reports that Ghislaine Maxwell is treated like a VIP guest at a five-star resort in her new minimum-security Club Fed prison. She recently received a special visitor, and the entire facility was placed on lock-down while the guest was there so that no one could see who she or he was. Creepy.
Lockdowns and a Mysterious Meeting: A Quiet Texas Prison Adapts to Life With Ghislaine Maxwell
The unexpected arrival of the Epstein associate upset the camp’s routines. Some inmates say she got favorable treatment.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 2d
A new Portland character has entered the chat at the ICE facility….meet The Unipiper!
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 2d
Just to clarify for the few who seem confused:

It's not the "Biden FBI" if Biden is not president. Trump was president on January 6, 2021 and the FBI director was appointed by Trump. It was "Trump's FBI."
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 2d
This demented sack of sprouting potatoes thinks Joe Biden was president on January 6, 2021.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 2d
Our government is engaged in child trafficking. They transported a kid across state lines, something even a parent is not allowed to do without the express permission of the other parent. Someone in the GOP needs to explain how this makes this country safe. 2/2
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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe
The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 2d
Trumps head of operations for the war being waged in Chicago is openly trying to channel the supposedly masculine imagery of the Nazis

Make no mistake these domestic enemies waging war against the states are Nazis.

Bovino is really trying to sell its aesthetic now.
Bovino standing in a Trenchcoat in a hallway lit red. It’s giving Temu fascism.
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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 2d
I’m old enough to remember journalists (tapper may have been one?) running multiple A block stories literally asking if Hunter Biden should be allowed to sell paintings under his own name while his dad was the POTUS and then chastising him for doing so!
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