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mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 2h

She got rid of all the couches

mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 15h

Today’s #NoKings turnout shows the only card these fascists have left to play is to try turning the troops against the people. But like everything else they’ve done, it will only serve to turn the people - and the troops - against them.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Vance: Trump wanted me to tell each and every one of you despite the Schumer shutdown, he will do everything he can to make sure you get paid exactly as you deserve. Democrats seem to want to keep the government shutdown even though it would mean a lot if you would not get your paycheck

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 16h

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 1d

Powerful

Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 1d

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 3d

JD Vance does a lot of stupid things to this day.

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mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 4d

We don’t talk enough about Article IV Section 4. Keeping the House out of session indefinitely and invasion of American cities with US troops seems a pretty direct violation.

mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 7d

It’s all about the grift, and it always has been. And no matter how much they steal, it’s NEVER enough.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 7d

It’s no wonder that Trump has such a twisted view of war and sacrifice. And the utility of bribes.

Donald was seven years old, and his father was brought before a U.S. Senate committee investigating abuses in a housing program for war veterans and middle class families. President Eisenhower had been outraged to learn of the bribes that developers paid to bureaucrats and of the alleged profiteering practiced by Trump and others. Ike called them "sons of bitches."
As federal investigators had discovered, the elder Trump had collected an extra $1.7 million in rent-equivalent to $15 million today-before beginning to pay back his low-cost government loan. He was able to do this because a bureaucrat named Clyde Powell approved the paperwork.
Powell, who had never been paid more than a modest government salary, had mysteriously amassed a small fortune. (While it was clear Powell accepted bribes, the sources were never officially identified.) In addition to collecting the extra rent, Trump paid himself a substantial architect's fee. And he charged inflated rents based on an estimate of construction costs that was far greater than what he actually spent. All of this was legal, even if it did victimize taxpayers, veterans, and other renters.

mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 7d

At what point I wonder will rank and file MAGA realize they’ve been conned? If you’re MAGA and you’re not part of the grift, Trump’s regime is screwing you, right now, in ways you aren’t even aware of. Doesn’t that make you angry?

Mary McNamara @marymcnamara.bsky.social · 7d

Gun rights folks are seething. They want Pam Bondi fired. And I gotta say - I don’t blame them.

mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 7d

It’s time for Illinois law enforcement to enforce the laws. Stop these vehicles and when they resist, arrest and jail them. ICE will figure out it’s not worth the trouble and pull back. #TACO Let ICE Barbie whine and Little Stevie rant some more. Screw them.

mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 8d

Mike Johnson is scared of people in dinosaur costumes.

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mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 9d

Please continue to stand firm and do not negotiate. Do not legitimize this Regime’s crimes by giving the funding to continue their lawlessness.

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 10d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 10d

I’m a huge football fan and I do not want Mike Fucking Johnson or any other politician telling me who my SB halftime performer should be. And frankly I’m surprised pipsqueak Mike even knows what a football is. Sure knows how to protect pedophiles though!

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mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 11d

It’s hard to make people actually believe the elder Trump has dementia when his offspring sound just as demented.

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mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 11d

Welcome to the rebellion

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11d

I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Ingots We Trust

Are soaring gold prices telling us something important?

open.substack.com

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mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 12d

No! They own this and they don’t get to “distance themselves” from the calamity they helped unleash on the rest of us. Fuck these assholes.

mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 12d

You have to understand that Little Stevie is color blind. He can only see black and brown crime.

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mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 13d

Spoken like a man hiding from a simple truth.

mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 13d

So POTUS is now in the soybean business. Some free market we’ve got here….

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Amy Tidd @amytidd.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks Carl!

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mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 14d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov Respectfully suggest you go to Broadview and other areas of ICE activity and see it for yourself

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 15d

I am once again calling on state governors to mobilize their National Guards to escort congressmembers into ICE facilities so they can DO THEIR LAWFULLY ASSIGNED FEDERAL DUTIES

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15d

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER

In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.

blockclubchicago.org

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mjg21.bsky.social @mjg21.bsky.social · 15d

Check that, not confused. Just dumb as a sack of rocks.