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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 7h

saw crowd in portland and my brain just shut down when I tried counting. 50k just downtown maybe? tens of thousands for sure. turnout at no kings in june might have been the biggest action in portland in decades but this one is bigger several times over

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earsquid.bsky.social @earsquid.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine having billions of dollars and still licking boots and kissing asses

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

Sanders: It is in danger when we have a president who grossly violates the constitution by accepting gifts from foreign leaders including a $400 million plane from the royal family of Qatar and then allows that family to build an air force facility in Idaho.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h

Sanders: I have been asked over and again. Bernie, great ideas but how are you going to pay for them? Great question, thanks for asking. And here is the answer… the top 1%, and large profitable corporations will pay their fair share in taxes

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earsquid.bsky.social @earsquid.bsky.social · 12h

What's the Dropkick Murphy connection? I've seen Robby's videos pop up on my feed and noticed he wears a Dropkick Murphy hoody.

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earsquid.bsky.social @earsquid.bsky.social · 1d

"Give me the man and I will give you the case against him." - Soviet era saying attributed to Lavrently Beria, Stalin's secret police chief

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earsquid.bsky.social @earsquid.bsky.social · 1d

Lines up with what Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel (the owner of JD Vance) believe.Yarvin said something to the effect of "That which has no owner begins to rot"

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AZBlueDot @redheadnona.bsky.social · 1d

The US Government just created and videotaped a FAKE RIOT in Portland, Oregon
~Senator Jeff Merkley

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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 1d

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

No surprise that someone who signed up for Benjamin Netanyahu's legal defense team doesn't know the occupation is illegal.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

FLORIDA — “Are you Haitian?”

A self-identified off-duty ICE agent snuck in some racism as he was busted for driving drunk with his kids in the car (and resisted arrest)

Full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZtV...

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earsquid.bsky.social @earsquid.bsky.social · 1d

The Conservative Party is the Regressive Party and our establishment Democrats are the new Conservative Party

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earsquid.bsky.social @earsquid.bsky.social · 1d

Lyin' Leavitt is a true believer. Look how her eyes light up when she starts her praise and worship hour of Donny. Those are the eyes of a fanatic.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

This is grossly dark. These are broken people.

But it's also so politically dumb.

How do they think Americans will react to being told that anyone who doesn't support Trump is a terrorist?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 2d

Soullessness and greed seem to be winning and before enough people wake to it many good things will be destroyed and many people hurt. But the fight will be joined and after so much grifting and brutality a reckoning will come.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbm-...

Lisa O'Neill - The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right

YouTube video by Lisa O'Neill

m.youtube.com

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earsquid.bsky.social @earsquid.bsky.social · 2d

It looks like it's coming towards me 👀

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earsquid.bsky.social @earsquid.bsky.social · 2d

Spare me the outrage. You ghouls just eviscerated drug outreach and counselling programs. Just admit you love killing brown people

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earsquid.bsky.social @earsquid.bsky.social · 2d

I wish him the same compassion and empathy he has shown to the working class

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earsquid.bsky.social @earsquid.bsky.social · 2d

Saving money is woke now?

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

AOC: Trump should be having congressional leaders in the WH. Do you see that every day? No, you don't because they're playing golf and they're going to mar-a-lago and the Republicans in the house have been on vacation for weeks now

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earsquid.bsky.social @earsquid.bsky.social · 3d

And so continues the saga of King Donald the Mad

earsquid.bsky.social @earsquid.bsky.social · 4d

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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 4d

The reanimation of the corpse of monarchy. It’s hideous. It stinks. Yet somehow it moves about.

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