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gnrb64.bsky.social @gnrb64.bsky.social · Apr 5

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"Cultivating an impression of working-class relatability is key to #Poilievre’s political brand."

www.desmog.com/2025/03/25/p...

Poilievre Mapped: His Inner Circle of Lobbyists and Right-wing Activists

Koch Industries, Elon Musk’s X Corp., Loblaws, Enbridge, Pathways Alliance, the Canadian Gas Association, Rumble Canada, Rebel News, Canada Proud, and Facebook. These are just a handful of the corpora...

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 5h

"It's not about how old you are, it's about how old your ideas are." Graham Platner, a Democrat running to replace Susan Collins to represent Maine in the U.S. Senate, talks with Jen Psaki about what's behind the generational battles taking place within the Democratic Party.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

This is a great factcheck on the DHS sizzle videos of them rounding up immigrants: they are leaving a lot of context out.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 7h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 8h

It is alarming that the Trump Admin & rogue ICE agents would abduct a 13-year-old child from Everett, transport him to a facility over 500 miles away & reportedly subject him to harrowing conditions.

They must stop violating our constitutional rights.

My full statement:

A graphic that reads:

“It is absolutely alarming that the Trump Administration and its rogue ICE agents would abduct a 13-year-old child, transport him to a facility over 500 miles away without his family, lawyer or a court knowing, and reportedly subject him to harrowing, inhumane conditions, including inadequate nutrition and sleeping on a concrete floor with an aluminum blanket while still healing from a broken foot.

“He is a 7th-grader who should have been met with compassion and care, not criminalized and sent to an adult prison.

“The Trump Administration must stop violating the constitutional rights of our constituents. I join the chorus of community voices demanding basic adherence to due process, preservation of this child’s constitutional rights, and his immediate return to his family.”

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 8h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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should be scared by this blatant attack on someone
standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
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Indiana University fires IDS
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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 15h

Happy 87th birthday to John Dean, who is living history. 52 years ago, he stood up to an out of control POTUS whose behavior seems quaint to what we are dealing with now. He admitted his own mistakes and did the right thing. Ever since he has spoken out loudly about authoritarianism & so much more.

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PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 6h

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

HANNITY: Antifa is working against the American people. What would that be called?

BONDI: It would be called organized crime. And that's what they're doing ... they are no different than MS-13

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 6h

THE DNC AND ITS OFFICERS DO NOT ENDORSE IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS —PERIOD!

THE DNC IS NOT FOR— OR— AGAINST YOUR FAVORITE CANDIDATE. WE SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES CHOSEN BY VOTERS.

WE FOCUS ONLY ON BEATING REPUBLICANS SO GOVERNMENT WORKS FOR US.

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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Jayne4Freedom @jayne4freedom.bsky.social · 1d

Woohoo @Maddow is getting a Edward R Murrow award!
Congratulations Rachel, you deserve it. 👏👏👏👏 we love you!

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 12h

This is the right kind of energy.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14h

Sadists. Truly sick people.

ICE is thoroughly un-American.

Don't you want to know—as I do—how many of these armed, masked, warrantless, insignia-less, nameless, essentially untrained Big Government goons are Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters and other J6 runoff? apnews.com/article/immi...

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

apnews.com

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ᑕᕼᗴᖇYᒪ @cheryl2877.bsky.social · 10h

#Pinks
#ProudBlue

Love this intelligent, competent woman!!

#JasmineCrockett

“The problem is that Americans thought it was ok to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of The United States and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things.

Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of The United States and if we don’t wake up we may not have a United States.”

Congresswoman
Jasmine Crockett

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Dr Eric Farmer @himself132.bsky.social · 21h

This is the man who bizarrely mocked Adam Schiff's neck.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7h

Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most important redistricting and voting rights case of the term. Democracy Docket isn't just covering it for the day. It has been covering this case for years.

Support its vital work to help keep you informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 8h

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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it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 1d

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Immigration Hotline.

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 9h

What are you guys doing Saturday? #NoKings 🇺🇸
act.link/gi-nkdlm

@indivisible.org
youtube.com/shorts/ZQE2U...

It's TIME to SHOW UP!

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

⚠️ Warning: these back-to-back scenes are hard to watch unless you’ve got a depraved heart.

These are thugs, not officers with any real training. We keep seeing it again and again, and at this point, it’s clearly the op.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

"I do think he needs help, and I don't think anybody around him on a day-to-day basis wants to get him any help, because they have more power based upon his diminished capacity."

@jbpritzker.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

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

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 1d

Italian American congressman has filed a bill to punish cities and states that replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-n...

Bill would punish governments that replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day

YOUNGSTOWN — U.S. Rep. Michael Rulli, R-Salem, introduced a bill that would punish any local or state government that celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead of Columbus Day. Called the “Italian He...

www.newsandsentinel.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

Klippenstein: The memo says it considers as indicators things like anti-Christian sentiment, anti-government views, and anti-traditional family positions.

These are descriptors that would cover millions and millions of people in this country.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11h

Cartoon by @edwexler.bsky.social.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

First there was the Opium Wars. Now we have the Cooking Oil War.

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