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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 41m

I’m going to lose my mind when we inevitably will bail these assholes out with taxpayer money.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 16h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 18h

This is why those “who’s surprised?” comments really don’t move me because we act as if this is sectioned off into “politics” or “culture wars” and don’t affect the bedrock institutions in the society.

Notreal @susannyc.bsky.social · 20h

She is a school Counselor!!!!!!

From the school website identifying her.

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 19h

screen shot of a phone text exchange:

first text “I'm Janet Mills and I'm running for U.S. Senate to defeat Susan Collins. Can you chip in $5 to help on Day 1? https://.
millsforme-text.com/kB9Znf
Stop To End”

the reply: “Absolutely not. Thanks for your service, but this 55 year old thinks we need a new generation of leadership.”

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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 1d

the normies are very mad

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t disagree that contested primaries are good, but Schumer is tipping the scale here. Which of course he can do, but we who are sick of his shit can also organize to replace him with someone much better.

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 1d

Schumer is spending his time convincing a 77(!) establishment candidate to run for the Maine Senate seat to prevent an exciting progressive from winning, meanwhile…..

Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Van Hollen for Senate Minority Leader.

We need someone at the helm who understands the fight we're in and is willing to fight it. As far as I've seen, no one in the Senate Dem caucus is speaking with more clarity or conviction.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Biden let Bibi play him for a fool, to his face, badly damaging his own political standing and that of his party, all in service of a genocidal campaign of retribution

all out of, as far as I can tell, a devout belief that Israel can do no wrong

that is his legacy and he brought it on himself

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

i do not have a lot of tolerance for people whining that Netanyahu fucked Biden over in order to get Trump in office so he could do whatever he wanted. yeah. he absolutely did that. that was obvious before 10/7.

there is no person on Earth more incompetent as a foreign policy thinker than Biden

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1d

fact it didn’t fucking work. It didn’t work electorally, it didnt work geopolitically, it didn’t work for tens of thousands of dead palestinians

how did joe biden spend the lame duck? great question, calling on world leaders to continue supporting israel after the likud coalition helped elect trump

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 1d

🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

BREAKING: Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins, AP sources say.

Maine Gov. Mills will announce challenge to Sen. Collins in key 2026 Senate contest, AP sources say

Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

The Dem establishment is going to back Mills over the absolute phenom outsider Platner in Maine, which tells you everything you need to know about how well they understand the current moment & how prepared they are to meet it.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 2d

Look & listen - this is what the Democratic base is hungry for and what our current Democratic leadership in Congress is not delivering.

If Schumer is successful getting 77 yo Gov Mills into this race those of us who can, need to send $, because Mills will have plenty of it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 3d

HE WAS PAID 50 K IN A CAVA BAG, COME ON!

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

People who act confused by Hamas' desire to free Barghoti are bizarre to me, Hamas wants him out even though he isn't Hamas affiliated because they believe he is one of the few, or maybe even the only, individuals who can unite the whole of Palestinian factions under the PLO

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 4d

#neverforget

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 4d

Shocking, that after 2 yrs of seeing shocking images out of Gaza, folks are clutched their pearls about Harris’s feelings being hurt! People were BEGGING her to choose a different path, laying out exactly what would happen and we are supposed to get upset that her book tour was interrupted? smh

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 4d

I love this for them.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 4d

looking forward to the selfie already

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 4d

yes.

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 4d

although I am willing to sponsor 1 or 2 if they stay 40 bucks a pop

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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 5d

HAHAHAHAHAHA get fucked you rich asshole

Carlsbad homeowner ordered to remove private gate to public beach, fined $1.4 million

John Levy was penalized by state Coastal Commission for a string of Coastal Act violations stretching back years

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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