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Morna

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Sorry, I don't do DMs. In fact, they're deleted immediately, unread. No exceptions. No offense intended, it's how I protect myself from strangers. Hitherto, thou shalt come, but no further. 🌊

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Morna @morna6.bsky.social · Aug 29

Trump business model:

Start a company with other people's money.

Steal the money.

Declare bankruptcy and have the debt forgiven.

Leave investors, contractors, clients, holding the bag.

Repeat.

See also: Start a charity.

MudPuppyAZ @mudpuppyaz.bsky.social · Aug 28

substack.com/@scottdegrof...
So he told them he was great businessman and they ate it up.

Scott D (@scottdegroff)

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

As I got to know them, they gave me a $400m plane.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

Crazy week.

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thewakan.bsky.social @thewakan.bsky.social · 5h

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 7h

If it’s not okay to be anti-fascism anymore, is it still okay to be pro-democracy? 🤔

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Morna @morna6.bsky.social · 3h

Valid question

Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 1d

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 7h

The human mind is not equipped to deal with the constant onslaught of realizing that there are far more ignorant, genuinely sponge-dumb people in the world than you ever thought possible.

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Lea Zengage @leazengage.bsky.social · 1d

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h

The Supreme Court’s 2025 term will decide critical election and voting rights cases that could reshape American democracy. I explain what is on their docket and what cases deserve your attention.

Please watch and share.
youtu.be/0iKo6YdLxhA

Supreme Court's SHOCKING New Agenda Revealed!

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Florida Wild Child @floridawildchild.bsky.social · 4h

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5h

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 6h

"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16h

I would like to say something

Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 16h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @jesseduquette.bsky.social )

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Morna @morna6.bsky.social · 7h

This, my friends, is how it's done.

🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 11h

More of this. Cut the mic, cut the bs

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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 17h

Rep. Jason Crow is a former Army Ranger who served three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the 82nd Airborne Division and the elite 75th Ranger Regiment.

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Morna @morna6.bsky.social · 7h

This administration is making MURDERERS of our Military.

They're cutting services to these brave people to deal with the issues they carry away with them from service.

I'm not okay with any of this.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h

Kelly: I really worry about those aviators, drone operators, special forces guys that are in the Caribbean right now striking these boats and whether or not this is legal..

There’s no authorization for the use of military force. The Congress has not given that to the president. He hasn’t asked.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

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Morna @morna6.bsky.social · 7h

I admire his restraint.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 8h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Morna @morna6.bsky.social · 7h

These brave patriots are making me proud to be American again

Morna @morna6.bsky.social · 11h

I mean, there's really no other way to see this.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13h

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Kamala Harris: "Here in Chicago I'm told the helicopters that were descending on an American city were Black Hawks. Do you know what Black Hawks were designed to do? War. So I think everyone can draw their conclusions just based on the facts."

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