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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 9h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 9h

Republicans: Shooting Christian pastors is OK, Due process is overrated, & bombing Venezuelan boats is good!

Young Republicans: We love H*tler, we should gas everyone who doesn't support us

Democrats: No Kings, No H*tler

Republicans: See that?? Democrats keep escalating the political rhetoric.

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Paulley Ticks @tomadelsbach.bsky.social · 11h

Fixed it.

#DonaldTrump #Time

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16h

If we write off all news media, we’re playing into Trump’s hands. Some outlets are doing well while others stink.
In this installment of my free Stop the Presses newsletter, I give letter grades to major media outlets. See if you agree.

I’m handing out pro-democracy grades to the media

The Guardian gets an A, the NY Times gets a C, CBS gets an F

www.stopthepresses.news

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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 13h

Despite Trump's dementia, he has the inhibitory reflex to keep talking only about her "lips" in public. Still very creepy. Like his Meloni comments. Still less uninhibited than his profoundly creepy comments about Ivanka's "tits" & "ass" in private in the Oval.
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

Trump, 79, Can’t Stop Talking About Karoline Leavitt’s Lips

The president has a history of discussing his 28-year-old press secretary’s looks.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 17h

“WHERE’S MY MEDAL?!!!!”

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14h

“‘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.”

‘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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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 14h

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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 14h

I highly recommend subscribing to @gregsargent.bsky.social 's podcast for TNR, The Daily Blast. Every one is short & articulate conversation with none of the filler that makes for too many, too long podcasts. If you're a fellow "antifa terrorist" you will like it.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 17h

This "America-hating, Hamas-supporting, leftist terror cell" is, uh...
David Brooks? (& Bill Kristol, Mona Charon, Charlie Sykes, et al.)
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

www.theatlantic.com

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 19h

The Trump administration is now ticketing LEGAL residents for failing to carry their papers.

We're at the "papers, please" stage of fascism.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 19h

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Laurie Lipton @laurielipton.bsky.social · 20h

“A government shutdown falls on the President’s lack of leadership. I mean problems start from the top & they have to get solved from the top. A shutdown means the President is WEAK!”-Donald Trump 2013 (“POST TRUTH 2017”, 4ft10x8ft9”, charcoal & graphite on paper) #governmentshutdown

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22h

instead they get grandmas, and priests, and inflatable frogs, and ordinary decent people rising up and saying "this is vile, this is unamerican, these are secret police"

they get kristi noem in a staring contest with a guy in a chicken suit

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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 19h

🙄
www.ashevilledailyplanet.com/component/co...

Church's Bible and book-burning prompts protest in Halloween rain

Asheville Daily Planet provides local news, entertainment, sports, and more for Asheville and Western North Carolina.

www.ashevilledailyplanet.com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19h

they dont need subscribers, the value in owning the post is getting to say “according to the washington post the only hope for civilization is tax cuts for the rich and private prisons and charter schools”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 19h

Like many ordinary Nazis who did horrific things, not because they were psychopaths lacking conscience like some were, but because their conscience was so warped they could convince themselves they were doing something righteous, patriotic, even Christian.

Their rationalizations will get darker.

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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 1d

10/14/2025- Mideast Peace www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/oc...

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 7d

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own bunker, who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves.'

The techbros will be the first to be torn to pieces by mobs if society collapses

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 22h

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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 22h

And the first page of Zinn’s book:

Howard Zinn’s first page.
But, hey, read ANY legit history.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 1d

www.threads.com/@toddfrancis...

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 1d

In 2020 we published in TIME about the $50 trillion upward redistribution of income since 1975. The editors told us it was one of their most widely read online pieces ever, and begged us for more. Four years later we pitched an update ($79 trillion)—they weren't interested.
time.com/5888024/50-t...

TIME headline: The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure.

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