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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3h

ICE agents surrounded, seized, and zip-tied a U.S. citizen who had just finished working a double shift because she didn’t “look” American to them.

She had her U.S. passport on her when she was detained, yet she was interrogated for an hour. trib.al/hDC7Vgv

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Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 3h

"tested" doesn't seem like the right word
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Gaza ceasefire tested as Israeli forces kill five Palestinians

Israeli troops redeploy in Gaza according to agreed deal, but clashes and killings threaten stability of the ceasefire.

www.aljazeera.com

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Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 4h

They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

Let’s make a deal with the most corrupt president in U.S. history— Donald Trump.

🔥 HOT MIC: Indonesia’s president straight up asks if he can meet with Eric and Don Jr. You can’t make this up.

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Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 4h

Always with Trump, the "deal" falls apart

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Lincoln Democracy 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 @stef47.bsky.social · 4h

How soon we forget.

Of the 220 hostages that survived,
all but 20 were released while Biden
was in office.

Trump got 20 hostages released.

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Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 4h

It is their updated "welfare queen" lie

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson says Medicaid is "intended for vulnerable populations, the elderly, disabled, and young pregnant women, and not young able-bodied men without dependents who are playing video games."

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Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 4h

As with everything else, when details come out it will be a half assed mess and somehow he will benefit financially from it.
abcnews.go.com/US/trump-dec...

Trump declares end of Israel-Hamas war, but experts see the hard work as just beginning

While President Donald Trump has declared the Israel-Hamas war over, some Middle East experts say the process to end the two-year conflict is just beginning.

abcnews.go.com

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Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 1d

They sure love Trump despite never have seen anything he says, writes, or does

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 1d

That fucker has to die soon

Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 4d

Wrong time of the year to mulch

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 4d

Today, the National Guard began patrolling in Memphis.

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Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 5d

Insanity, total insanity

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Kristi Noem: "I was in Portland and met with the governor and mayor and chief of police and superintendent of the highway patrol. They are all lying and disingenuous and dishonest people. Because as soon as you leave the room, then they make the exact opposite response."

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Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 5d

States rights !!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Noem: "With your authority, we're purchasing more buildings in Chicago to operate out of. We're gonna not back off -- in fact, we're doubling down. We're gonna be in more parts of Chicago in response to the people there. We're looking at facilities we can deploy more law enforcement out of."

Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 5d

Obama would have been impeached in 24 hours if he said this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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[email protected] @2braids.bsky.social · 6d

These dummies are having a fake presser about a fake organization...it's sooo funny. They are leading up to stop elections in 2026 and 2028. This is part of the plan. Ya'll better be aware.

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Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 5d

I love Chicago

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 5d

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Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 5d

This is all insane, totally insane

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

SORTOR: I took this flag from the man that was burning it in the street

TRUMP: Do you know who he is?

SORTOR: Oh yeah

TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 5d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 6d

Merrick Garland sure disappeared.
Not seen in public, not interviews, etc.
He knows he is responsible for all this.

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Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 6d

"Did Homan keep the money" seems like a reasonable question

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Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 6d

He wants to say the N word soooooo bad

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 6d

"No room at the Inn" is his favorite line in every Christmas play

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 6d

Mike Johnson is the ultimate compilation of every Scooby Doo villain right after their hood is pulled off

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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The Independent @the-independent.com · 6d

Kristi Noem praised for ‘staring down’ Antifa. It was a dozen reporters and a guy in a chicken suit

Kristi Noem ‘stares down’ Antifa. It was reporters and a guy in a chicken costume

www.independent.co.uk

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Cling2Reality @cling2reality.bsky.social · 6d

It is almost November

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