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Karen DenBleyker
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Karen DenBleyker @kdneedles.bsky.social · Jan 19
We will not line his thin bestainèd cloak
With our pure honors, nor attend the foot
That leaves the print of blood where’er it walks.
King John
#ShakespeareSunday
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 3h
Where we stand, in long arc of history:

-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.

-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.

I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."
Two headlines on front page of NYT. First is "Trump Weighs Transforming Refugee Policy. White People Would be Given Preference." Second is "Justices May Ban Race as a Factor in District Maps. Nation's Political Balance Could Shift If Court Guts 1964 Law."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h
Top 10 Rally Reminders for #NoKingsDayOct18th
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Karen DenBleyker @kdneedles.bsky.social · 2h
The explanation is a visual. Look at the pictures of the two groups.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2h
This is the most Kim Jong Un thing America has ever done
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 2h
It is reported that Vance & Hegseth will be @ Camp Pendleton to witness the events on Saturday.
abc7.com/post/5-could...
5 Freeway could be shut down due to concerns for live fire during military event at Camp Pendleton
Parts of the 5 Freeway could be shut down between Los Angeles and San Diego due to concerns of live fire during a military event.
abc7.com
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Karen DenBleyker @kdneedles.bsky.social · 2h
What about college students who express opinions about, say, Gaza or Charlie Kirk that Vance doesn't like?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 4h
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 2h
Oh! Oh! Are we calling people "illegitimate" if they've been convicted by a court of law??
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
UN Ambassador Mike Waltz claims Maduro is an "illegitimate leader," citing the fact he was "convicted in the Southern District of New York."
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Karen DenBleyker @kdneedles.bsky.social · 2h
Americans get insurance rates they can't afford!
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Chevron @lachevron.bsky.social · 4h
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2h
Even better! Ask every magat you know if they are glad their $7k DOGE check was rerouted to Argentina.
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Karen DenBleyker @kdneedles.bsky.social · 3h
Oops
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h
We can’t pay air traffic controllers during the shutdown, making us less safe, but we can send $40 billion to bail out Argentina.

Make it make sense.
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Karen DenBleyker @kdneedles.bsky.social · 7h
Some are older than Charlie Kirk, old enough to run for president
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d
GOP’s labor market policy is market protectionism for white men.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d
"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office
Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16h
The situation in Venezuela is an authoritarian basket case and no, another authoritarian basketcase from our country is not going to make it better with bombs and other forms of punishing Venezuelans
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UnCivil Defense™ 8647 🗽 @musiccomposer.com · 17h
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Karen DenBleyker @kdneedles.bsky.social · 16h
And if a missile "accidentally" is off target?????
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h
AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 16h
The Central Park Five—whom Trump wanted executed for a crime they did not commit—were 14 to 16 years old.
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 19h
NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!
No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"
We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.
www.motherjones.com
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 22h
REPREHENSIBLE! 🤬
On the very day the Supreme Court is poised to gut the Voting Rights Act, Mike Davis — a former clerk to Justice Neil Gorsuch and close ally of Trump’s top “civil rights” lawyer Harmeet Dhillon — calls the first Black House Minority Leader a “house slave.” VILE!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d
Bessent’s friends have huge investments in Argentina.

Elon Musk does too.

Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come.

There is zero oversight. Congress not involved.

One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,
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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 22h
The cost of holding down ACA premiums for a year is less than this…
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23h
BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h
When college kids publicly say "Israel's war on Gaza is bad" that is full-blown anti-Semitism that requires the federal government to crack down on all colleges.

When Young Republicans in their 20s and 30s privately praise Hitler and "joke" about the Holocaust, well, that's just freedom baby.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d
The plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was commissioned by Congress in 2022, remains in storage. Mike Johnson has refused to place it on the wall, as was intended. That "deed" speaks pretty loudly.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."
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Karen DenBleyker @kdneedles.bsky.social · 22h
Must be a very, ah, interesting church