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JT Compton 🌊 fighting tyranny @jtcompton.bsky.social · Nov 12

The problem was never the Harris campaign or her strategy. For 25+ yrs our information space has been steadily co-opted by greedy fascist oligarchs who use lies to sell fear, hatred & division for profit. Limbaugh, Smith, Murdoch, Musk etc. There's NO left-wing analog because facts are boring. 1/2

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5h

Solidarity is the only way

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JT Compton 🌊 fighting tyranny @jtcompton.bsky.social · 7h

Trump forgot that he was president on January 6, 2021.

But we'll never forget that he sat on his ass for 187 minutes and did NOTHING as the Capitol and its police were violently assaulted.

The National Guard was under HIS command but he refused to pick up the phone.

#FDT #ETTD #J6

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 9h

The GOP budget is going to be the single most unpopular and destructive budget in modern American history - tariffs/higher prices, exploding deficits, gutting health care, slashing clean energy/higher electricity costs, huge ICE expansion.

Going to be a parade of horrors and they are scared of it.

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 9h

Where is the Republican budget? By law it was required to be passed and in place by Sept 30th. Anyone seen it? Got any idea what might be in it? Why the f-ck is the House taking a month long vacation without getting their work done?

Dems ready to negotiate. Rs remain on vacation.

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

Dana Perino seemed a bit confused on why no women hostages were released today by Hamas. Although some women were killed while being held by Hamas most were released during brief ceasefires in Nov. 2023 and Jan - Feb. 2025

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JT Compton 🌊 fighting tyranny @jtcompton.bsky.social · 10h

To my friends in #NY17 please spread the word about this Town Hall in Lawless Lawler's backyard a week from today, Oct 20. Help David Hogg inform and recruit younger voters to flip this crucial NY district BLUE. #Tarrytown @davidhogg.bsky.social

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15h

Mike Johnson keeps canceling House business to shield Republicans from questions about huge healthcare cuts and health insurance premium hikes.

We must keep up the pressure on Republicans to stop hiding and end the Trump Shutdown: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

(next to an image of the Capitol and a hand holding a megaphone) STOP THE TRUMP SHUT DOWN

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 15h

Massive Protest - Historic Event in the USA This Saturday! Be Part Of History #NoKings: An unprecedented event is set to occur this upcoming Saturday, October 18. Millions & millions of Americans will gather in what is expected to be the largest peacetime protest in American history. Citizens…

Massive Protest - Historic Event in the USA This Saturday! Be Part Of History #NoKings

An unprecedented event is set to occur this upcoming Saturday, October 18. Millions & millions of Americans will gather in what is expected to be the largest peacetime protest in American history. Citizens will come together & gather at over 4,000 locations throughout the country - neighborhoods, towns, & cities - to reaffirm and champion America’s founding principle: No Kings. No Kings in America. #NoKingsOct18 FULL STORY: https://socialcontractwithjoewalsh.substack.com/p/podcast-team-trump-is-scared-to-death

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Derrick ♎ 🟧 🟦#BLM 🏳️‍🌈 @spawn03.bsky.social · 15h

Narrator: They have no plan.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14h

How two lawsuits could expand Citizens United, eliminate campaign donations restrictions, and turn America into a kleptocracy — and how this nightmare can be stopped.

The Right's Secret Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections

J.D. Vance and other MAGA interests are working to get the Supreme Court to end restrictions on campaign-spending limits.

www.rollingstone.com

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14h

I appreciate @punchbowlnews.bsky.social noting something that's objectively true and necessary context, but routinely elided over:

The House GOP is not away because of the shutdown, but to avoid taking a vote on releasing info about a notorious pedophile because that info implicates Trump.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 15h

👀 “The Ghost House”: Eye opening report from @punchbowlnews.bsky.social this am on how Mike Johnson has turned the House into a joke under Republican rule. He has turned House Republican leaders into Trump White House’s poodles (if you catch my drift) covering up for #EpsteinFiles.

$“The Ghost House. Speaker Mike Johnson and top House GOP leaders have kept members home since Sept. 19. While the complaints are growing louder inside House GOP ranks over the issue, Johnson insists Republicans have done their job and there’s no reason for them to be here. House GOP lawmakers passed a “clean” CR that would keep federal agencies open until Nov. 21. Senate Democrats have repeatedly blocked that measure, which led to this shutdown. Democrats are demanding a vote on their own proposal to permanently extend expiring Obamacare premium credits, a rollback in massive Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the end of unilateral spending rescissions. Yet the House’s absence makes it easier for the shutdown to continue. Part of what ends shutdowns is anxiety building among the rank-and-file. Members are home, so there’s limited pressure on House GOP leaders to do anything. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and dozens of Democrats have been in D.C. throughout the shutdown. More importantly, Johnson has emerged as the “face” of the shutdown for House Republicans. He’s doing daily press conferences and more media interviews, putting himself in the center of the fracas. A C-SPAN caller begging Johnson to bring the House back last week went viral. So did Johnson’s hallway confrontation with Arizona Democratic Sens. Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly over Johnson’s refusal to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, a move that has infuriated Democrats.”$

OBBB and done. The reality is that since the OBBB passed on July 3, the House has been checked out. A virtual non-entity for more than three months. And this is the off-year, when Congress is supposed to be busy.
Since July 3, the House has only been in session for 20 days (out of more than 100 calendar days.) Even accounting for the normal August break — which began early because of the Epstein mess – the House has been AWOL.
There have been just over 90 floor votes during this period. A lot of these were amendment votes or votes on non-controversial suspension bills. Several were partisan FY2026 spending bills that have no chance of passage. All in all, very little of substance has been taken up. But as Johnson will remind you, the House did pass a CR.
The only period comparable to this in recent decades was in 2020, during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi used proxy voting to buttress the Democratic leadership’s power. Republicans yelled loudly about that at the time, even filing an unsuccessful lawsuit to stop it. But a similar thing is happening in reverse now.
If you see it, don’t say it. House Republicans have done virtually no oversight on the Trump administration, rolling over on a number of issues that their predecessors would have screamed loudly about. It’s true that House Democrats did little or nothing to rein in President Joe Biden when they controlled the House. But Trump has gone far beyond Biden in using executive authority. “Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an ‘iron fist,’” the Wall Street Journal reported.
For an institution that has complained for years about the need to claw back power from the executive branch, it’s a sad state of affairs. And it shows no sign of ending soon.

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 14h

This week’s main story is about Paramount’s decision to name Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS News, the future of U.S. journalism, and why we think she shouldn’t describe her endeavors as “punk.” Bari, look at us: You are not punk. Joe Strummer would’ve hated your fancy Substack, Bari!

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14h

A very narrow hostage deal Trump had nothing to do with was made, after which Netanyahu immediately (a) attacked the West Bank, and (b) said the military campaign in Gaza would continue.

I literally have no idea why any media anywhere is covering the Trump victory lap as having any meaning at all.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

"Most Americans probably don’t have a detailed grasp of what’s happening with ACA subsidies right now, but once people start getting letters notifying them of how much their premiums are going up, it will become a much bigger issue."

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare

And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

www.publicnotice.co

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Trump Resistance Movement @trm.bsky.social · 15h

Well put! @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

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JT Compton 🌊 fighting tyranny @jtcompton.bsky.social · 15h

More examples of "not governing:"

Taking away our rights
Restricting our liberties
Ignoring the Constitution
Harmful tariffs
Cutting government services
Demonizing opponents
Repressing protest
Betraying allies
Defunding law enforcement
Hiding the EPSTEIN file

The GOP is NOT a governing party.
#FDT

Meme with a photo of and quote by former Republican operative Stuart Stevens: "Republicans had years top pass an alternative to Obamacare. Never did it. Republicans had years to pass an infrastructure bill. Never did it. Governing isn't attacking the other side. Governing is getting sh*t done. The Republican Party is NOT a governing party."

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 15h

Leave it to Trump to make this moment entirely about him and leave it to the media to play along dutifully. Keep sharing those clips and gettin’ them clicks. You know, cause ‘journalism’.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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JT Compton 🌊 fighting tyranny @jtcompton.bsky.social · 18h

Food prices keep rising.
Appliance prices keep rising.
Home goods prices keep rising.
Car & parts prices keep rising.
Homeowners insurance rates soaring.
Health insurance premiums DOUBLING.
Inflation accelerating.
Job market weaking.

Trump has been a DISASTER for our economy & deficit.

#FDT #ETTD

Trump keeps saying he's 'defeated' inflation but coffee is 21% more expensive and groceries just had their largest non-pandemic jump in a decade | Fortune

Grocery prices moved up 2.7% in August from a year ago, the largest gain since 2015 outside the pandemic. Brazilian coffee beans are tariffed at 50%.

fortune.com

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JT Compton 🌊 fighting tyranny @jtcompton.bsky.social · 19h

Trump & his circle aim to designate protest as "terrorism" to criminalize protesters & silence all who oppose Trump's tyranny.

Peaceful protest is a foundational principle of American democracy, protected by the FIRST AMENDMENT.

Trump's vile assault on protest is un-American.

#FDT #ETTD #Fascism

Side-by-side photos of peaceful, unmasked protesters carrying an upside-down flag and armed, masked federal agents in combat gear carrying guns, with the large caption: "Remind me again, who are the terrorists?"

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JT Compton 🌊 fighting tyranny @jtcompton.bsky.social · 20h

Trump LIES that Blue cities are full of "insurrection" & "rebellion" in a deliberate bad-faith scheme to justify invoking the Insurrection Act to control America like a dictator.

But there is NO insurrection, only patriots with signs & frog costumes.

Keep refuting his un-American lies.

#FDT #ETTD

Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social)

If a federal judge, appointed by Trump, can call him “simply untethered to facts,” our White House press corps can as well.…

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JT Compton 🌊 fighting tyranny @jtcompton.bsky.social · 21h

ICE has become a lawless goon squad unaccountable to the public, operating without decency, principles or meaningful oversight. Their indiscriminate brutality, criminality & disdain for everyday citizens is disgusting & profoundly un-American---exposing them as traitors to liberty & the law.

#FDT

Meme from mediumboi with photo of masked federal agents in full combat gear and guns with caption: "This is sickening. Am man came out & said that during the South Shore ICE raid, he hid a terrified 7-year-old girl under his bed after she ran to his door crying. When it was over, residents found maps and door stickers showing who lived where. They are literally marking homes the same way the Nazis did."

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