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Kupcake @kupcake.bsky.social · 3h

Protesting, not overthrowing? Weird.

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Kupcake @kupcake.bsky.social · 3h

"Don't trust anyone except the anonymous person next to you who says they were military"
Lmao jfc you're dumb.

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 22h

Was this reported on Fox News? #arrestrepublicans

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

🤷🏼

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Kupcake @kupcake.bsky.social · 1d

Damn, is Daly in charge again?

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

State troopers in riot gear just plowed into the crowd, started arresting protesters and clergy.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

State troopers in riot gear just plowed into the crowd, started arresting protesters and clergy.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly.

Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.

Stay safe out there.

This picture is from about 5 minutes after being hit. A visible bruise is forming on my right cheekbone and by my right eye.

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Kupcake @kupcake.bsky.social · 1d

Latina

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 2d

From the article

How do you feel about becoming a political lightning rod?

People occasionally just flip Imel off or whatever, but nobody's come up to me and tried to make a statement about anything. Personally, it's kind of dumb.
It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement, but nonetheless it is.

[Editor's note: Taylor was arrested and convicted of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He was later pardoned by President Trump.]

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

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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Kupcake @kupcake.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a blue shirt is sitting on a couch with his mouth open

ALT: a man in a blue shirt is sitting on a couch with his mouth open

media.tenor.com

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Kupcake @kupcake.bsky.social · 2d

...in that he raped black women? Wtf is she trying to say?

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Kupcake @kupcake.bsky.social · 2d

Venetian

Kupcake @kupcake.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, this dude is getting added to the on sight list.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

a swastika? in a republicans office? of the republican party who all explicitely endorse fascism? no way this could have been predicted

Politico @politico.com · 3d

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

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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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 3d

journalists really need to report that jd vance gushes about hitler so much you'd think he was charlie kirk's neck

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TheBlackDahlea @theblackdahlea.com · 2d

We all knew this, but it’s worth repeating 💸

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

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Kupcake @kupcake.bsky.social · 3d

"Comes in Green Alien"
Yeah, I heard that about him.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 3d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3d

So like this is funnier and more offensive than anything anyone else said about Kirk that got them fired

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 4d

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Matt Stocaí Bána @stocaibana.bsky.social · 3d

Was just talking about this with all the other babies in the hospital that I was born in last night and we all think it’s true

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