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Don Hoskins 🍁 True North Strong & Free!🍁 @djbhoskins.bsky.social · Feb 14

Well, Canada, did you stand tall for our wonderful True North Strong & Free today? Bypass that bourbon? Forgo Florida fruit? Ask if the restaurant buys Canadian?

It’s a battle for our country & we’re all soldiers… Our wallets are our weapons & our $$ are our bullets…

True North Strong & Free!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 49m

Trump: "It's over $18 trillion being poured into our country." (The entire GDP of the US is $30 trillion ... )

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Robertscribbler @robertscribbler.bsky.social · 49m

Trump and his flunkies double down on fascist scumbaggery.

a group of star wars characters standing next to each other with a robot in the background

ALT: a group of star wars characters standing next to each other with a robot in the background

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Seung Min Kim @seungminkim1.bsky.social · 2h

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from firing federal workers during the government shutdown.

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Tom @tomofbell.bsky.social · 1h

It's funny because he's a murderous Nazi sociopath who is directing a lawless army of masked thugs to abduct, torture and disappear those he considers undesirable.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1h

Trump: I want to thank Stephen Miller I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1h

The plan to force taxpayers to cover emergency medical costs for non-citizens is a law called EMTALA: signed into law by the infamous democrat Ronald Reagan.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Lisa McClain: "Democrats' plan forces taxpayers to cover the majority of emergency medical costs for all non-citizens. Another $28 billion tab for who? You guessed it, the American people."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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Ole Vet USAF @olevetusaf.bsky.social · 50m

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbxS...
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump causing hell to break loose in Chicago and cities across the United States as Trump uses ICE to try to provoke peaceful communities to find a pretext for more extensive military invasions.

All HELL BREAKS LOOSE as Trump INVASION backfires

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 7h

President Trump and I have something in common: We both recently got our annual flu and updated Covid vaccines!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

The last people who said this here were American colonial merchants who remained loyal to King George III. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Marilyn 🇨🇦 @mlauriat.bsky.social · 4h

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Navy vet buries Trump for 'sacrilegious' plan to make US 250th anniversary about himself

Commenting on a plan to honor Donald Trump on the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the United States, a retired U.S. Navy officer called out the president and his supporters for going all out...

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Marilyn 🇨🇦 @mlauriat.bsky.social · 4h

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Trump admin slammed for using ethnic cleansing euphemism: ‘Wannabe Nazis’

The Department of Homeland Security relayed a message on social media Tuesday from its official X account: a single word that critics say is a blatant call for ethnic cleansing.“Remigrate,” the post r...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

EISEN: What do you say to people who say the government taking stakes in private companies and picking winners and losers sound socialist?

BESSENT: We're not going to come in and takes stakes in non-strategic industries, but we've identified seven industries

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Don Hoskins 🍁 True North Strong & Free!🍁 @djbhoskins.bsky.social · 4h

The man lies so smoothly and easily... It's astounding how he can do this with a straight face every time he opens his mouth...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 4h

Cleaning off my glasses and reading this again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 9h

“Footage, obtained by the outlet, captured the musician face-down in the mud, with her instrument about two feet to her left, struggling as what appears to be a federal agent straddled her backside. A police officer stood next to the pair.”
The Feds then jailed her across state lines. For music.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Suzanne Ward 🟠 @suz4nn3.bsky.social · 10h

I wish people knew the difference between Illegal Immigrants and Asylum Seekers - the former are people who have overstayed their visa, the latter are those who can only claim asylum once they’re in the country they wish to live in #PoliticsLive

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

I presume that orchestra people have vicious stereotypes about clarinetists that could be deployed here. I once heard three performers riff on violists for ten minutes and it was frightening.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10h

Block the slop

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 10h

How the world sees us: @spiegel.de: How the US government continues to exploit Charlie Kirk's Death. The propaganda show continues....

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 10h

OTOH if anybody is an authority on pearl clutching it's JD Vance

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

MAGA: We are owning the libs by siding with Hegseth to let the military industrial complex keep us in the dark about everything doing on inside the Pentagon and DOD.

They actually want to simply accept govt propaganda on the military. The definition of blissful ignorance.

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 9h

Jesse Watters misrepresented something Joy Behar said then went on a crazed rant where he blamed the collective 'left' for the murder of Charlie Kirk along with a shooting at an ICE facility and the attempts on Trump's life. Watters is part of the problem.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 12h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 10h

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