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From Safety Nets to Zip Ties: What MAGA Calls ‘Democrat Programs’

Liberty's Lens @libertyslens.bsky.social · 7d

If helping people is partisan, what do we call this? Layoffs, higher premiums, masked raids. The shutdown isn’t a pause—it’s a purge.
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#GovernmentShutdown #DemocratPrograms #AuthoritarianDrift #HealthcareForAll #IamTheEnemyWithin #WeAreTheEnemyWithin

When programs that keep families healthy are dismantled, the state’s muscle moves in. Welcome to the new governing philosophy.

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Own Goal: Trump Is the Best Player on China’s Team

Liberty's Lens @libertyslens.bsky.social · 9d

Is Trump really making America great again?

When Beijing celebrates U.S. cuts to soft power and science, that’s not fiscal prudence—it’s strategic malpractice.

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#China #Geopolitics #DemocracyWatch #RuleOfLaw

Beijing doesn’t need a perfect game plan if Washington keeps scoring on itself

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Liberty's Lens @libertyslens.bsky.social · 10d

Whatever you do, don’t subscribe to Liberty’s Lens—or Trump will add you to his watch list for ‘radical left lunatics.’
Every subscription is one more voice Trump can’t silence.
Join the resistance!
#IamTheEnemyWithin #WeAreTheEnemyWithin #CivilRights
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Liberty's Lens @libertyslens.bsky.social · 10d

“We’ve done the demolition phase… now we need to build.”
Israel’s finance minister said the quiet part out loud. Here’s what Trump’s Gaza plan really means.
#MiddleEast #PeaceDeal #RemoveTrump #RuleOfLaw
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From Genocide to Gentrification

Trump’s “Board of Peace” and Israel’s real estate bonanza reveal the true cost of Gaza’s war: sovereignty traded for profit.

The Puppet Presidency: When confusion meets control, who holds the strings?

Liberty's Lens @libertyslens.bsky.social · 11d

Foreign leaders are laughing. His allies admit he’s “unhinged.” And operatives are using it to reshape America. Who’s really running the country? Read the full analysis:
#IamTheResistance #WeAreTheResistance #CognitiveDecline #Project2025 #USPolitics
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Are Stephen Miller and the Fox "News" pipeline really running the show?

HUMILIATION: Mike Johnson finally gets what he DESERVES | Another Day

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Sal Vadacchino 🇨🇦 @sal-vadacchino.bsky.social · 12d

HUMILIATION: Mike Johnson finally gets what he DESERVES | Another Day youtu.be/TE_5pP5wTNY

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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Liberty's Lens @libertyslens.bsky.social · 13d

NSPM‑7 casts dissent as terrorism. Hostility to MAGA = ANTIFA, then ANTIFA = terror. Add vague terms like civil disorder & doxing, and protest becomes crime
#WeAreTheEnemyWithin #IamTheEnemyWithin #DemocracyUnderThreat #Authoritarianism #CivilLiberties
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The Enemy Within: How Trump Is Rewriting the Rules of Power

“The best form of government would be an authoritarian strongman who had your best interests in heart — which turns out to be Trump. Is he…

Follow the Money, Follow the Power: How Big Tech Flipped Its Script — and What That Says About the…

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 🚨 🚨 BREAKING: Trump has seen the polls that a large majority of Americans blame Republicans for the shutdown.

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Miss Kitty @misskitty.art · 15d

Maybe those are already robots.

Left Of Center Orange Hater @henshinhal.bsky.social · 15d

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Liberty's Lens @libertyslens.bsky.social · 15d

When Trump's DoJ demanded Apple pull ICEblock they complied within hours. The developer called it “capitulation to an authoritarian regime” on baseless claims. Civil liberties experts agree

#BigTech #FreeSpeech #IamTheEnemyWithin #WeAreTheEnemyWithin #ICEBlock

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Ignore the theatrics about “censorship.” The real story is how platforms chase power — and how the state is learning to use that reflex.

Follow the Money, Follow the Power: How Big Tech Flipped Its Script — and What That Says About the…

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Liberty's Lens @libertyslens.bsky.social · 15d

When Trump's DoJ demanded Apple pull ICEblock they complied within hours. The developer called it “capitulation to an authoritarian regime” on baseless claims. Civil liberties experts agree

#BigTech #FreeSpeech #IamTheEnemyWithin #WeAreTheEnemyWithin #ICEBlock

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Ignore the theatrics about “censorship.” The real story is how platforms chase power — and how the state is learning to use that reflex.

Follow the Money, Follow the Power: How Big Tech Flipped Its Script — and What That Says About the…

Liberty's Lens @libertyslens.bsky.social · 15d

When Trump's DoJ demanded Apple pull ICEblock they complied within hours. The developer called it “capitulation to an authoritarian regime” on baseless claims. Civil liberties experts agree

#BigTech #FreeSpeech #IamTheEnemyWithin #WeAreTheEnemyWithin #ICEBlock

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Ignore the theatrics about “censorship.” The real story is how platforms chase power — and how the state is learning to use that reflex.

Follow the Money, Follow the Power: How Big Tech Flipped Its Script — and What That Says About the…

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Joshua Aaron @joshua.stealingheather.com · Aug 31

This is not about cost. If you militarize every street in this country crime will go down but you are then living in a military state. That is not what this country wants/needs. That is fascism and authoritarian rule and the people will rise up against it. Crime is already down across this nation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 31

RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement

WES MOORE: They are picking up trash

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Joshua Aaron @joshua.stealingheather.com · Sep 6

It’s what plants crave

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Sep 6

Am I the only person who thinks this is INSANE?

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Joshua Aaron @joshua.stealingheather.com · Sep 18

Without our funding how will have our monthly pancake breakfast?

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

With Trump declaring ANTIFA a terrorist organization, it bears remembering that he once told us that the MAGA January 6 insurrectionists were ANTIFA.

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Liberty's Lens @libertyslens.bsky.social · 15d

When Trump's DoJ demanded Apple pull ICEblock they complied within hours. The developer called it “capitulation to an authoritarian regime” on baseless claims. Civil liberties experts agree
#BigTech #FreeSpeech #IamTheEnemyWithin #WeAreTheEnemyWithin #ICEBlock
medium.com/p/follow-the...

Ignore the theatrics about “censorship.” The real story is how platforms chase power — and how the state is learning to use that reflex.

Liberty's Lens @libertyslens.bsky.social · 15d

I seriously could not believe he shared that video. The president can launch a nuclear strike that ends the world in minutes and has the mentality of an angsty tween. Would anyone put a tween in charge of the nuclear football? No.

Donald J. Trump, 79, Remembered for His Greatest Grift: The Presidency

Liberty's Lens @libertyslens.bsky.social · 16d

I hear Trump hasn’t been seen much lately. After that slurring incoherent speech he gave the other day, it makes one wonder. Just a joke, but who knows?

#IamTheEnemyWithin #WeAreTheEnemyWithin
#DidTrumpDie
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Survived by Truth Social, Unpaid Legal Bills, and a Buffet of Cold McDonald’s Fries

From Genocide to Gentrification

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Liberty's Lens @libertyslens.bsky.social · 17d

lol

Liberty's Lens @libertyslens.bsky.social · 17d

I’m so angry that this clown has ruined the country’s semiquincentennial. What should be a celebration of America is 100% about Trump
#IamTheEnemyWithin #WeAreTheEnemyWithin

Liberty's Lens @libertyslens.bsky.social · 18d

“We have paid a lot of money for this war. We have to see how we are dividing up the land in percentages. There is a business plan... that is on President Trump’s desk"
Profiteering from genocide
#Gaza
#Trump
#Israel
#MiddleEast
#HumanRights
#GazaRiviera
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Trump’s “Board of Peace” and Israel’s real estate bonanza reveal the true cost of Gaza’s war: sovereignty traded for profit.

If Defending Democracy Makes Us the Enemy, So Be It

Liberty's Lens @libertyslens.bsky.social · 18d

Trump says the “enemy within” is America’s greatest threat. If defending democracy makes us the enemy, so be it.
#IAmTheEnemyWithin
#WeAreTheEnemyWithin
#DefendDemocracy
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Trump’s call to target U.S. cities and purge the military isn’t patriotism—it’s authoritarianism in plain sight.

From Free Markets to Government Checks

Liberty's Lens @libertyslens.bsky.social · 20d

Trump’s tariffs aren’t free—they’re a tax on you. Now the White House wants to turn that tax into bailout checks for farmers who already voted for this policy.
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#FarmPolicy #Tariffs #Bailouts #USAID #Politics #TradeWar

How Rural America’s Loyalty to Trump Turned Tariffs into a Permanent Subsidy Machine