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/Colton @longleafhill.bsky.social · 32m

Trump: Democrats are terrorists now give me the peace prize while I level Gaza to build condos

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 34m

He wants the peace prize.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING

“The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, stepping up a campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian leader.”

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

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/Colton @longleafhill.bsky.social · 3h

Defending his people

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/Colton @longleafhill.bsky.social · 4h

Identifying racism is now "pearl clutching" or "virtue signaling" now.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

/Colton @longleafhill.bsky.social · 11h

Trump has been emboldened to the point that the government is setting up cameras to film the ICE raids and to show the kidnappings to their fucked up supporters. They send it to FOX News to spread their racist propaganda. How did they have time to set up cameras in these "war-torn" cities?

/Colton @longleafhill.bsky.social · 23h

He keeps mentioning how he turned his head because that was part of the con. He's is giving it away. That's what he does.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · Jul 14

I feel like people also forget Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was a district court judge back in 2021 and presided over multiple criminal January 6th cases.
Speaking of which, Justice Jackson has more trial court experience than all three of Trump’s Supreme Court appointees combined.

Lee Rudnicki @leerudnicki.bsky.social · Jul 14

She’s also one of the few attorneys on the Court that has respect for the rule of the law right now, as opposed to the rule of one angry guy.

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Just Jill 💖 @just-jillg.bsky.social · 1d

While they make cuts and rollbacks to anything “climate” related, the future will continue to look grim for future generations.
Denying or ignoring won’t make it go away.
#ClimateChange
#ProtectOurPlanet

www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Planet's first climate tipping point already reached: international study

An international report from climate scientists suggests tipping points for coral reefs have been reached, putting them at risk of dieback.

www.abc.net.au

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Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 1d

No kidding

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/Colton @longleafhill.bsky.social · 1d

The right wing trolls are going to hijack the term "disappeared" and make it about how the media hates Trump instead of ICE kidnapping people off the streets and sending them to concentration camps.

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/Colton @longleafhill.bsky.social · 1d

Trump uses the word "disappeared" because he is literally disappearing people and so that came to him easily. Constant projection.

paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 1d

@wefail.bsky.social

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Mary @mfbrodie.bsky.social · 1d

This is real. I checked. Not a joke.

The right has absolutely lost their minds. To think that shrimp can cause you to become a baby xenomorph means...

1. You never saw a movie in the Alien franchise.

2. That's not how radiation works!

3. You're delusional!

4. Are those fart noises in there?

Kennedy: If you eat radioactive foreign shrimp, you may turn into an alien

YouTube video by Senator John Kennedy

youtu.be

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/Colton @longleafhill.bsky.social · 2d

Not so much a ceasefire as there just isn't anything left to bomb.

/Colton @longleafhill.bsky.social · 2d

It's a white supremacy holiday

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 2d

Columbus wasn't on a mission to expand scientific understanding. Nor did he "find" a new world. And far from progress, Columbus brought enslavement, genocide, and mass rape. Finally, “Columbus Day” is only 88 years old, it isn't some ancient American tradition.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/indigenous...

Indigenous Peoples' Day Must Replace Columbus Day

Columbus was a historical figure who should be studied, not an icon to be honored

www.qasimrashid.com

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/Colton @longleafhill.bsky.social · 2d

Same reason they refused to pronounce Kamala correctly.

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/Colton @longleafhill.bsky.social · 2d

Stupid clown

/Colton @longleafhill.bsky.social · 2d

But for real, Trump (the Mob) had Epstein arrested to get their hands on all the evidence. Do you think they handed it all over??? Of course not. So Trump has been using it to blackmail members of the media, etc etc. That's why the media turned on Biden all of a sudden.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 2d

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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/Colton @longleafhill.bsky.social · 2d

They are pretending crime is out of control to install Fascism. Same as before the election, they cried about crimes but it was at an all time low.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

/Colton @longleafhill.bsky.social · 3d

Joe Rogan is a lying piece of shit

/Colton @longleafhill.bsky.social · 3d

So many stories of mistreatment do not get told. We need to change that. I've got one about a top institution that needs to be told.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

This story is NUTS

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 4d

Look, I've never skeeted about this before but when I was at NYT I was involved in a sexual harassment thing. I was not the person lodging the complaint (nor was I the harasser). I was a corroborating witness let's say. Anyway, NYT did the right thing and fired the harasser.

BUT

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The Economist @economist.com · 3d

The real damage from economic isolation will be in the longer term. America accounts for only 15% of global final demand for goods imports. If its drawbridge remains up, the world will gradually integrate without it

Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America

The pain from trade and immigration restrictions cannot be postponed forever

econ.st

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/Colton @longleafhill.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure anyone told y'all, but science has been cancelled.