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

Dismantling the VRA is their plan. An all out attack on black/brown representation that would give Republicans a hammer-lock on power.

A potentially 20-plus house seat shift. Pay attention.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

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Carl Ott, Author @bubba687.bsky.social · 22h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22h

This is what happens when your country is run by incompetent knuckleheads.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1d

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 13h

NEW: No Kings is this Saturday, and here are my tips for how to mitigate anxiety in large crowds. Feel free to share! youtu.be/nxpkVk9TGgQ?...

NO KINGS! Tips for Protesting with PTS and Anxiety

YouTube video by MSW Media

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

AOC: The problem is that the Trump administration, they think that destroying our health care, making sure that housing is too expensive to live in, that jacking up the cost of our groceries—they think all of this is about hurting Democrats. What they are doing is hurting Americans

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Mikie Sherrill @mikiesherrill.bsky.social · 10h

Donald Trump is trying to terminate Gateway Tunnel funding, the most important infrastructure project in New Jersey, and the country.

I’m for Gateway. Jack is for Trump.

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bmt1895.bsky.social @bmt1895.bsky.social · 6h

Let me guess - Russian money? Just like happened for the Brexit campaign.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 20h

No surprise

Reform has become first UK political party to accept cryptocurrency donations. Ireland has banned such contributions precisely because they are untraceable. UK, as usual, has opened the door, & Farage is walking right through it, undermining democracy as he does @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Cryptocurrency: lawlessness disguised as liberty

Cryptocurrency is sold as radical innovation and financial liberation. In reality, it’s an old familiar story: fraud

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 10h

Spare us the patronizing 'bless her heart' comments. It took Speaker Johnson less than 24 hours to swear in his Republican colleagues.

He’s stalling because he’s scared of his puppet master Donald Trump.

This delay isn’t about process. It’s about obstruction. #ReleaseTheFiles

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

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 19h

The Reform Party now takes cryptocurrency donations. Ireland banned them. The UK welcomes them. And Farage calls it freedom. It’s not. It’s money without accountability – and that’s a threat to democracy, argues Prof Richard Murphy.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk

Cryptocurrency: lawlessness disguised as liberty

Cryptocurrency is sold as radical innovation and financial liberation. In reality, it’s an old familiar story: fraud

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12h

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

Another $20 billion. That is the face you make when you heist the US taxpayers for $40 billion two weeks before your midterm elections from the most corrupt America Last regime in history.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 12h

www.wabe.org/msnbc-host-r...

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on producing new documentary ‘Andrew Young: The Dirty Work’

Ahead of the debut of the documentary “Andrew Young: The Dirty Work,” Emmy-winning MSNBC host and executive producer Rachel Maddow joined Rose Scott on “Closer Look” to talk about the project.

www.wabe.org

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bmt1895.bsky.social @bmt1895.bsky.social · 6h

DT's babbling on about a massive arch for Washington DC.

Gee - his hero Hitler wanted to build a triumphal arch for his re-imagined cities too.

"A massive triumphal arch would mark the city’s southern entrance, dwarfing its Parisian inspiration." 99percentinvisible.org/episode/616-...

The Nazi Block - 99% Invisible

In the heart of Berlin’s Tempelhof-Schöneberg district, an unusual concrete cylinder sits as an abandoned eyesore. At first sight, it might be mistaken for a deteriorating grain silo or a remnant of C...

99percentinvisible.org

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Gerri McGerriface @messmonstergigi.bsky.social · 1d

Quelle Surprise, Reform is promoting crypto.

eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/fin...

Cryptocurrency: lawlessness disguised as liberty

Cryptocurrency is sold as radical innovation and financial liberation. In reality, it’s an old familiar story: fraud

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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

“Kids”

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 1d

Self Explanatory.......

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 7h

Images of press leaving as the US enters dictatorship.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12h

If you’ve recently awoken from a coma, the Speaker of the House is stalling the swearing in of a newly elected member from Arizona because she would be the deciding vote in the discharge petition to release the Epstein files, which would be trouble for his boss.

You’re caught up.

Ps: Welcome back.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17h

Finally. Let’s start holding Farage to account for the relentless shitshow that is Brexit.
Because..
“What could be more elementary than asking voters to judge a candidate on their previous assurances? What more basic function of democracy could we ask for?”
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/398...

Labour admits Brexit was terrible. Now it’s time to act

For years now, the economic situation facing this country has been buried in the small print

liveapp.inews.co.uk

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 1d

I'M TIRED OF "LIBERAL" BEING USED AS AN INSULT.
LIBERALISM GAVE YOU THE VOTE.
LIBERALISM GAVE YOU EQUALITY.
LIBERALISM GAVE YOU FREE SPEECH
LIBERALISM GAVE YOU YOUR INALIENABLE RIGHTS.
LIBERALISM IS THE ENEMY OF TYRANTS, AND I'LL BE FOREVER PROUD TO DEFEND IT.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 9h

Commentary: A wide majority of Jewish Americans say President Trump is exploiting antisemitism in disingenuous fashion — that it’s a thinly veiled disguise to justify his assault on higher education, as revealed by a national survey.

Professors: Most Jewish Americans believe Donald Trump is exploiting antisemitism to assault universities

A wide majority of Jewish Americans say Trump is exploiting antisemitism in disingenuous fashion, as revealed by a national survey.

www.chicagotribune.com

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TovahR 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇲 @tovahr.bsky.social · 1d

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