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Boboloca @boboloca.bsky.social · 14h

Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 17h

@deanobeidallah.bsky.social
"If anyone was holding out hope that the younger generation of Republicans could save the party from continuing down the path of white supremacy, hate and fascism, you can stop hoping.
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Young GOP leaders racist, fascist, anti-Semitic and sexist messages are vile--but perfectly sum up MAGA

The future of the GOP on parade

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 17h

The stupid. It burns.

Jim Jordan wants to question Jack Smith about his search of Mar-a-Lago, which was searched months before Smith was appointed.

Just as Trump demands answers as to why Biden put 200+ FBI at the Capitol on Jan 6, when Trump was president.

Can't they read a calendar!?

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 18h

NEW: Jim Jordan wants to question Jack Smith about his search of Mar-a-Lago, but Merrick Garland executed that search months before Jack Smith was even appointed. One of several lies in this letter demanding Jack Smith's testimony. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 17h

Young Republican leaders on Telegram referred to Black people as monkeys and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 18h

Sucking up to the boss, but not doing his job...

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18h

I see that this small-minded puritanical pixie is laser-focused on getting the government reopened and the troops paid.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 18h

I guess Johnson needs to check in with his son when he views naked bicyclists.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 18h

Trump orders another extra-judicial killing, the 5th off the coast of Venezuela. In all, 27 people have been killed.
Trump argues he has the legal authority because the US is in “armed conflict” with Latin American drug cartels. It's a lie and illegal.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

U.S. kills 6 alleged drug smugglers in new strike off Venezuela, Trump says

The operation follows Senate Republicans’ narrow defeat of a measure that aimed to prevent the administration’s actions on legal grounds.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 19h

Trump's diminutive Johnson lies all the time...

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 19h

They're hand-cuffing six-year olds...!

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 19h

Moving piece by NPR veteran Pentagon reporter on why, after 28 years, he's giving up his Pentagon press pass.
www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 22h

Journalists flex their muscles and refuse to abide by Pentagon censorship. All but one...

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 22h

@jefftiedrich.bsky.social
maybe it’s just me, but I’m more concerned with the fact that the Fox News dunk-tank clown currently running our military is a terminally inept fuckstick and less with the physical appearance of the troops he oversees...

www.jefftiedrich.com/p/pete-kegst...

Pete Kegstand shits a brick when Meal Team Six shows up in Chicago

how fucking petty can one man be

www.jefftiedrich.com

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 22h

Thorough take-down of CBS News' new chief...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social
Earlier this month, a federal judge appointed by President Trump in 2019, did the worst thing you can do to Trump in a court of law: She took him seriously. She read his words, found them disconnected from reality and acted accordingly.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

Opinion | How a Trump Judge Exposed the Trump Con

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Former ICE Chief: The president’s team vowed to target gang members, murderers and rapists, but we’re not just rounding up violent offenders. We’re arresting working parents, students, asylum seekers and even U.S. citizens, to create made-for-TV crackdowns.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Opinion | This Isn’t Crisis Response, It’s Crisis Construction

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Good. Journalists working at The Washington Post, New York Times, The Atlantic, CNN and the Guardian and other major news publications will not sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Prominent news outlets reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline

The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

This professor experienced both Woke and MAGA censorship. MAGA was worse...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | As a professor, I’ve seen woke and MAGA censorship. Which is worse?

Both attacks on free speech are devastating for academia, but in different ways.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

@adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com
SCOTUS will hear arguments whether President Trump can fire officials for any reason or no reason, despite laws meant to shield them from politics.
There is little question that the court will side with the president. But...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

British philosopher Bertrand Russell, 1925.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

"Floodlit by DHS spotlights, the square outside the ICE facility shows how those events can be shaped and polished in video clips into furor, and ultimately policy, in an administration that has harnessed the power of social media to inspire and enrage."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A conservative influencer was arrested in Portland. Trump was watching.

After conservative influencer Nick Sortor was arrested outside an ICE facility in Portland, Donald Trump latched on to justify a federal crackdown.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

British philosopher Bertrand Russell on how a nation becomes fascist. From Freedom and Government, 1940.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Bondi, take two. SNL Cold Open....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSfC...

Pam Bondi Hearing Cold Open - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

The Greek historian Thucydides spoke of two mindsets — the Athenian’s, eager to venture out into the world to acquire something new, and the Spartan’s, intent on staying home to guard what he already had. Broadly speaking, the Athenian spirit is associated with golden ages.

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Opinion | Is it America’s fate to decline and fall? Here’s what history says.

The American experiment will soon turn 250. Is its time running out?

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

@washingtonpost.com
"Republicans have tried more than 70 times over the past 15 years to weaken or kill Obamacare. But their campaign keeps backfiring."

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Why Republicans’ attempts to kill Obamacare keep backfiring

The White House and some Republicans are growing nervous that Democrats’ demand to boost Obamacare as part of a government funding bill has salience with voters.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

@washingtonpost.com
"The ongoing government shutdown will collide with the U.S. economy this week, as missed paychecks and the absence of billions of dollars of government services reverberate beyond federal workers and sting the broader public."

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The pain from the government shutdown is about to hit the public

Federal officials are bracing for the worst effects of the ongoing government shutdown to collide with the U.S. economy this week as missed paychecks and the absence billions of dollars of government ...

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