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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 15h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

Ted finally deleted this lie over 24 hours later. Only the 900th time he has posted a fake right-wing internet lie. You would think a US Senator would take a few minutes to make sure these things are legit, but we are talking about Ted Cruz.

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Elseagee 🟧 🌊 🌊 🌊🎨 🎸 @elseagee.bsky.social · 21h

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 12h

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

The biggest renovation of the White House -- the so-called Truman Reconstruction of 1949-1952 -- came about only because the building was in such a state of disrepair that inspectors decided it was unsafe for occupancy.

Not because the president just decided he needed a big fancy ballroom.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

I guess they don’t think the images of Trump tearing apart the WH and grounds are helpful to them.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 22h

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to decide if drug users can have guns

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

Making Argentina Great Again

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Elseagee 🟧 🌊 🌊 🌊🎨 🎸 @elseagee.bsky.social · 22h

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 15h

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 11h

Americans are worried about the economy… www.pbs.org/newshour/eco...

Americans are more worried about their chances on the job market under Trump, AP-NORC poll finds

Some 47% of U.S. adults are “not very" or “not at all confident” they could find a good job if they wanted to, an increase from 37% when the question was last asked in October 2023.

www.pbs.org

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 19h

This is how I felt at No Kings, tbh.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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RK Atkinson @rkatkinson.bsky.social · 17h

Just like Portland businesses putting up plywood instead of windows...everything NOT Trump is headed for disaster...and only he can fix it.

Just look around you...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20h

Moskowitz: We need $30 billion to extend, obviously, these healthcare subsidies, which allow Americans—Americans, not illegal—Americans, citizens, to afford healthcare.

And the president’s like, “We don’t have $30 billion, but I am going to send $40 billion to my dear friend in Argentina.”

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

An even better version! (Apparently hand-drawn, rather than AI.)

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings couldn't have gone better - massive turnout, no violence, and it drove Trump so crazy his response was "Kings are good and I poop on everyone." Best of all was the effect on the millions of participants and everyone watching.

My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/no-kings-p...

No Kings was a huge success. Just look at Trump's response.

Turnout was enormous. There was no violence. And the wannabe king is triggered.

www.publicnotice.co

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

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RK Atkinson @rkatkinson.bsky.social · 21h

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21h

On Sunday, a DOJ whistleblower told 60 Minutes what the public has suspected for months now: The Trump administration told him to lie to a judge about Ábrego García. trib.al/TE5xu42

"What’s to stop them if they decide they don’t like you anymore? To say you’re a criminal, you’re a member of MS-13?"