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Mattison @mattison.bsky.social · 5m

Trump has never shopped for groceries in his life. He just discovered the word “groceries”.

And as every regular American knows all too well, grocery prices are way up.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

Groceries are up

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

Groceries are up

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Mattison @mattison.bsky.social · 7m

The Party of “I love Hitler” needs to be removed from all power.

Politico @politico.com · 5h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Politico @politico.com · 5h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 7h

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3h

Correct Response: "What an incredibly inappropriate thing to say, you creepy, crazy old man."

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Pop-Pop @dcdiversity1.bsky.social · 21h

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 3h

ICE targeted an apartment building near my home. Masked agents in unmarked cars. I've said this before. Democratic Governors & Mayors need to order their local police depts to arrest any & all unidentified & masked alleged ICE agents.

This anonymous denial of due process is deadly.

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The TransAdvocate @transadvocate.com · 20h

#FunFact: Sorbo became a hateful paranoid right-wing fool after getting brain damage.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2h

The three major airports near New York City have joined Los Angeles, Phoenix, Seattle, Portland, Charlotte, Cleveland, and Buffalo.

Newark, JFK, LaGuardia will decline to play Kristi Noem’s politicized TSA video - New Jersey Globe

Three major airports in the New York City area – Newark Liberty International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport –

newjerseyglobe.com

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Mattison @mattison.bsky.social · 1h

ICC

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2h

I see that this small-minded puritanical pixie is laser-focused on getting the government reopened and the troops paid.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Mattison @mattison.bsky.social · 1h

HER KIDS ARE U.S. CITIZENS. TRUMP’S ADMIN DISAPPEARED THEM ANYWAY www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

www.rollingstone.com

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Mattison @mattison.bsky.social · 1h

I’m an American citizen born on a military base. I have brown skin. During a routine traffic stop I was asked for my SSN number. Will you fight for me? Will you hide me if ICE comes for because SCOTUS said racial profiling is legal? Will you stand up for all neighbors targeted for not being white?

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 3h

Trump's tariffs are raising prices. His federal purges are surging Black unemployment. His ICE raids are damaging local economies.

Dems don't have to pick between affordability & democracy messaging.

Trump's authoritarianism is a kitchen table issue.

Authoritarianism Has A Cost: How Trump’s Abuses Of Power Are Harming The Economy

Trump's tariffs are raising prices. His federal purges are surging Black unemployment. And his immigration raids are damaging local economies. Trump's authoritarianism is a kitchen table issue.

www.ahmedbaba.news

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3h

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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Ric Fouad @ricfouad.bsky.social · 9h

First reading of @davidklion.bsky.social was his thoughtful review of The Outsider. Have since relished his political writing, now at Nation. Fitting to read here his 5-star review of 5-star One Battle After Another, both a delight: David does sublime movie justice.
newrepublic.com/article/2011...

How One Battle After Another Imagines an Armed Left

The rebels in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie resemble the Weather Underground less than the right’s conspiratorial image of “antifa supersoldiers.”

newrepublic.com

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Mattison @mattison.bsky.social · 2h

* Samuel Douglass

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

NEW: Jim Jordan wants to question Jack Smith about his search of Mar-a-Lago, but Merrick Garland executed that search months before Jack Smith was even appointed. One of several lies in this letter demanding Jack Smith's testimony. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2h

President Trump can’t seem to explain why Americans are the ones responsible for making “Argentina great again" to the tune of $20 billion in taxpayer dollars. trib.al/p3jpDN2

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Mattison @mattison.bsky.social · 3h

Michael Steele urges former Pres. George W. Bush to speak out against Trump, noting that former Pres. Obama has become the lone presidential voice confronting the global rise of authoritarianism and the erosion of democratic norms.

Imagine the powerful message if Bush and Obama sat down together.

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Mattison @mattison.bsky.social · 3h

Dear South Park: Thank you in advance.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 4h

omfg

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