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(She/Her) Tempest in a teapot. Heart of a linebacker, body of a tiny dancer. Interior Alaska girl forever. Born fighter. Always in want of coffee & wine. https://instagram.com/outofthisworlddesigns_?igshid=MjEwN2IyYWYwYw==

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Churro @risaamor.bsky.social · Feb 18

I write. I’m a writer, so it’s my duty to accurately record what is happening in written word and I have the best notebook for that.

Green notebook that says record and a woman in a purple dress with triangles

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Churro @risaamor.bsky.social · 2h

Guess whose body was in a significant amount of pain and didn’t really know until the nerve zaps started.

All I knew I couldn’t get comfortable to save my life.

a woman is giving a thumbs up and saying this girl !

ALT: a woman is giving a thumbs up and saying this girl !

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Churro @risaamor.bsky.social · 8h

Oh God Peacemaker…

Jfc

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 16h

Here at the Portland #NoKings, the costumes are ON POINT.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 15h

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16h

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14h

holy shit, man

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 16h

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 16h

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 22h

A $1.2 trillion tax hike -- in ONE YEAR -- w/o congressional approval.

By comparison, the Trump tax cuts were ~$4 trillion *over 10 years,* so about a third the size of new taxes on consumer goods.

Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 23h

Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says.

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/t...

#Tariffs #Consumers #Economy #Business #Bills

Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says

The firm said its estimate of additional expenses for companies is probably conservative.

www.cnbc.com

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

So the Dallas ICE shooter was an unemployed, online, loner, gamer dude with no friends who was politically unaligned with any particular ideology except the white male internet brain rot.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

A newly released police report states that Joshua Jahn lived with his family and didn't have a job. n.pr/3Jj982m

Shooter at Dallas ICE facility was motivated by notoriety over ideology

A newly released police report states that Joshua Jahn lived with his family and didn't have a job.

n.pr

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 20h

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Someone who saw the evidence in that case and wanted to have dinner with Epstein is not anyone who should be allowed near children.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING

Jeffrey Epstein skied with, had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show

Full Story: bit.ly/4nVTRUe

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Churro @risaamor.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao went insane and walked to the mailbox today because oh if I sat still one more second I was going to explode.

I’m over this cast and these crutches

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Colleen Mondor @chasingray.bsky.social · 1d

Ryan Air yesterday, taking out a load of "Typhoon Dogs" from the evacuated village of Kipnuk, Alaska.

These folks rock.

#aviation #avgeek

Aircraft parked on the ramp in Kipnuk, AK to pick up kennels of dogs.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 1d

Police just detained two protesters.

One dressed as the Statue of the Liberty.

Woman dressed as Statue of Liberty wearing an American flag cape is arrested by Broadview police with assistance from Illinois State Police.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

One thing to note here: Governor Abbott is NOT deploying the National Guard to Houston, Dallas or San Antonio despite large planned protests. Why? Because he doesn't have enough. And that's vitally important to know. They are outnumbered.

Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨Gov Abbott announced deployment of the Texas National Guard ahead of “No Kings” protests in Austin, Texas.

The fascist governor claimed the protest has links to antifa.

www.kxan.com/news/texas/t...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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Churro @risaamor.bsky.social · 3d

Things republicans and serial killers have in common:

Brain trauma

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3d

Quite a day.

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Churro @risaamor.bsky.social · 3d

Just did for me too

Churro @risaamor.bsky.social · 3d

Anthropologie is doing a collab with the New York City Ballet for the holidays. So obvs its Nutcracker and you guys.... I have to hold myself back so much. I love it all so much.

Churro @risaamor.bsky.social · 3d

Its fucking insane.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 3d

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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