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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 24m

‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like

Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'

a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'

so the funding disappeared??

and people are dying??

Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 3h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 50m

Trump is in no small part the result
of failing to staff up the IRS and send it after white-collar crime, so of course now that he has a second presidency he's planning to use it as a weapon against his political enemies.

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Gloomy Gus @gloomygus.bsky.social · 12m

Punishing our enemies must include media collaborators

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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 1h

Reuters reporting this blatant crime as if it’s a lunch date is a prime example of the kind of careless, aloof normalization in journalism that has greased the skids of this catastrophic authoritarian power grab.

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

reut.rs

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 2h

Half the internet is slop & it shows.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 5h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 6h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 42m

Yes. What works (or “works”) for this government they think should work for society at large www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 10h

You have to understand that there is NO accountability for ICE even in theory. You can't sue an ICE agent. They won't be criminally prosecuted for violating your rights. They won't be fired. THE ONLY WAY TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM ICE IS TO RUN FROM ICE.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 10h

Here's another Kavanaugh stop in action. Agent says: "Why are you running?" Admitting that he had no cause to stop and tackle this boy.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 13h

Minneapolis is a union town! Workers deserve a living wage and an affordable home. Mayor Frey turned his back on workers when he vetoed the Labor Standards Board and proposed gutting co-enforcement. As Mayor, I'll champion workers, and ensure our workforce can stay in Minneapolis.

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Jordan @slclunk.com · 1h

Brendan James
@deep_beige
If Andrew Sullivan wants to keep writing his race science shit, it's worth noting (as an intern of his in
2013): At a private meeting, his entire staff challenged him on it until he asked, exasperated,
"well, why didn't Africa conquer Europe, then?"

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 6h

They filmed her naked during a strip search too

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 6h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 1h

i see the VP's full on backing of the hitlerite group chat as showing the GOP understands that their power in large part flows from their unified front. meanwhile the democrats continue to attack their left and progressive members. not a surprise the GOP keeps running circles around them

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DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · 1h

The first two lines of 30 Rock

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 13h

rip drew

Painted poster by Drew Struzan for The Goonies which has been edited.

A guy with cow horns and ears and a heavy brow ridge obscuring his eyes hangs from a stalactite as a chain of kids hang on below him, each holding a leg of the person above them as they dangle perilously over oblivion. The cow guy at the top has a lump with handle cow tools in one hand that would have been a hand-hold but has broken free from the rock face.

Title reads "the toolies"

Tagline: They call themselves The Toolies. The secret barn. The old farmhouse. The lost saw. The treacherous lumps. The hidden Prongler. And sloth... Join the adventure.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 7h

Weird how this stuff keeps happening to Republicans!

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

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Gloomy Gus @gloomygus.bsky.social · 1h

No-knock raids on Jan. 6th people and ICE gestapo. Flashbangs through the bedroom windows.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1h

LOL - reads like Politico's "Playbook"

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1h

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 1h

A Border Patrol agent in tactical gear wearing a skull mask and sunglasses covering his face

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Gloomy Gus @gloomygus.bsky.social · 1h

I have thoughts about how to deal with the supreme court. Did you know that if the court rules it's constitutional, it is? That means that if you add ten new justices without congressional approval, they can simply decree that congressional approval was never required and it's now the law.

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