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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

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MeganKCool @megankcool.bsky.social · 1h

Absolutely not.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/u...

The Democrat Picking a Fight With His Party Over Transgender Rights

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 1d

"We have a rising new Dem star who really engages with people, and is sure to win their next election."

DEM LEADERSHIP: That's fantastic.

"What are the next steps?"

DEM LEADERSHIP: Simple. Force them to step aside and throw their support behind this 80-year-old lifetime politician.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 18h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 1d

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 7h

I think the idea of "cancel culture" persists mainly because it conveniently is some outside force acting on someone rather than them torching their reputation all on their own

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MeganKCool @megankcool.bsky.social · 8h

Where the fuck was this Joe Scarborough when Mahmoud Khalil (here legally) was arrested????

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 22h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Notreal @susannyc.bsky.social · 1d

She is a school Counselor!!!!!!

From the school website identifying her.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

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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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

We have a lot of work to do right here to build trust.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Sir there were many people calling for “ceasefire” while denouncing Hamas and explicitly saying that Netanyahu was the problem & was not even supported by Israelis. They were also condemned. The lines were drawn very sharply. Please don’t remake history.

Malcolm P. Johnson @admiralmpj.bsky.social · 1d

Not true. If people were merely calling for a Ceasefire, they would have been agreed with, 100% by supporters of Israel, 80% of whom hate Nethanyahu.

But people were using Zionism as an epithet.

People wanted Israel to cease to exist.

And that as the LEAST of it.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

These young Republicans are exactly what you would think young Republicans are like if you believed the absolute worst stereotype of young Republicans and Trump supporters.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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MeganKCool @megankcool.bsky.social · 1d

This is what I think about every time Joe Scarborough talks about his kids and his friends kids in college who are afraid of being "cancelled."
If you say hateful shit and believe hateful shit, expect people to call you out in class and online.

MeganKCool @megankcool.bsky.social · 1d

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · Aug 19

My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.

I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 1d

Florida man murders 6 people after losing Nobel Peace Prize.

US strikes another boat accused of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing 6, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another small boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

apnews.com

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

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever I see men complain about the male loneliness crisis or unique emotional/psychological issues faced by men, it’s very clear that they just don’t see women as full people capable of experiencing the exact same emotions they do

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MeganKCool @megankcool.bsky.social · 1d

Surprise?

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

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