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Pixie Thinks🧚🏽‍♀️ @pixiethinkss.bsky.social · 7h

Not for nothing we should have started burning things down when the the private equity companies got into the business of private prisons in the 80s!

"Private prisons" shouldn't even exist..

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David Combest @decombest.bsky.social · 59m

Methinks Mike got tingles in his naughty bits imagining big sweaty naked men pedaling around Portland.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

I had to listen to the audio to confirm it, but yes, as troops are being deployed to American cities, as masked goons are disappearing citizens from our streets, as ICE agents are shooting pepper balls at priests ... Mike Johnson thinks nude bicyclists are "the most threatening thing I've seen yet."

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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stat-monkey.bsky.social @stat-monkey.bsky.social · 1h

This is Bertrand Russell ANTIFA

You should know his story.

"The first step in a fascist movement is ... a number of men who possess ... brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 3h

Don't you DARE tell me both parties are the same.

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 2h

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David Combest @decombest.bsky.social · 1h

Sounds of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel

Hello darkness my old friend...

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 2h

Breaking: Ewic says Daddums owns the government - so I guess he owns the shutdown too

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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 2h

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

"George has continued criticizing the president and figures of his administration, including Stephen Miller (during her appearance on The Katie Miller Podcast, Kellyanne described the Millers as some of her 'best friends' in the current administration)."

www.thedailybeast.com/kellyanne-co...

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Destry B @destry.bsky.social · 13h

I wasn't aware that antifascism even had a leader. Shouldn't we all be against fascism?

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Greed Apocalypse @juanmunoz.bsky.social · 4h

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America is ‘going broke slowly’ says J.P. Morgan, as national debt balloons and tariff revenue looks shaky | Flipboard

Fortune - • J.P. Morgan’s David Kelly warned this week that while America is “going broke” it’s doing so slowly enough that markets aren’t panicking yet. With …

flip.it

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I. Blade Daily @ibladedaily.bsky.social · 4h

So the American government at this moment is 50% cult, 50% criminal enterprise, 0% functional.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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realKyleKeegan @realkylekeegan.bsky.social · 3h

This is beginning to look not very Nobel-worthy.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 6h

People think politics is corrupt… all of it. And to fix it, we need to rebuild trust.

That’s why I’m running on:

- Banning stock trading by members of Congress
- Overturning Citizens United
- And not taking a dime of corporate PAC $$

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LittleMissVrb @littlemissvrb.bsky.social · 4h

Losers are taking over the country.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 5h

Highlight of my day: the amazing third graders at Annunciation stopped by my office while visiting the Capitol today.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

In other words, prospective appointees in a future Vance Administration.

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Angry Byrd @tylerbigbyrd.bsky.social · 4h

Trump complaining about China attacking the US economically is like a thief complaining a dog bit their leg in the yard while they tried to steal your shit

China should have to buy soybeans otherwise they are hurting our feelings right! Nobody dictates how we are going to feel Not Ukraine Nor China

a man sitting next to a man in a suit and tie with a sign that says you 're in no

ALT: a man sitting next to a man in a suit and tie with a sign that says you 're in no

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Congressman Eugene Vindman (VA-07) @gene4va.bsky.social · 8h

The voters made their voice heard. And now, Adelita Grijalva is officially certified to represent Arizona’s 7th Congressional District.

It’s time for Mike Johnson to stop playing games and swear in Adelita so she can get to working for the people of AZ-07.

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