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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 7h

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 6h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

Bailing out Bessent’s billionaire friends on Wall Street from their bad investments is much more important.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5h

This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a ceasefire. Why is the media calling it a peace plan?

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ltwlauren🤸‍♀️❤️🎶🎨🐾 @ltwlauren.bsky.social · 2d

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Red Lori Bright Eyes Pissed Off American @redloribrighteyes.bsky.social · 1d

KNOW who you are dealing with by the type of mask they wear

Not All Masks Are Equal

PROTECTION
a picture of KN95
Worn to protect the health yourself and of others and to provide cover for those unable to mask or vaccinate

ABUSE
a picture of gator masks
Worn to protect the identity of those committing human rights abuses against vulnerable members of our communities

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7h

⚠️ Warning: these back-to-back scenes are hard to watch unless you’ve got a depraved heart.

These are thugs, not officers with any real training. We keep seeing it again and again, and at this point, it’s clearly the op.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 8h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h

How MAGA sees things.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 9h

Breaking: Text messages of Young Republican groups across the country have just been leaked.

They talk about putting Democrats in “gas chambers,” attacking “Jews,” calling Black people “watermelon people,” calling to “rape” their enemies, and bringing back slavery.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9h

Meiselas: MAGA Mike Johnson was being questioned about the shutdown during this disastrous press conference he held. He literally says, “I don’t have any strategy." Then Rep. Lisa McClain jumps in, apparently realizing Mike Johnson had just blown it and she completely unravels on camera.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 8h

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 8h

This is the right kind of energy.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h

I see that this small-minded puritanical pixie is laser-focused on getting the government reopened and the troops paid.

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SECarter @secarter.bsky.social · 12h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 13h

When Trump's masked thugs are detaining & torturing us citizens, Iraqi War Veterans...giving no Constitutional rights before brutalizing & abducting people, you know democracy is in danger.

So do something! Volunteer to help win the upcoming elections, recruit others and march on no Kings Day!
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 13h

US Soybean farmer: This is caused by this administration, and it’s having a negative major consequence on not only farmers, but also on American factory workers..."

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 15h

Trump labeling "antifa" a domestic terrorist group and then smearing Democratic organizations as antifa is right from fascist playbook. Mussolini and Hitler both criminalized opposing political parties on way to establishing one party rule. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-is-n...

Trump is now working to secure one party rule--just like Mussolini and Hitler did

History is screaming at us!

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Ted Streuli @streuli.bsky.social · 16h

“The unconscionably high insurance premiums ... cause my office grave concern that the State of Oklahoma is not adequately protecting its consumers,” the attorney general wrote to the insurance commissioner. That and more in today's FIrst Watch newsletter. oklahomawatch.org/newsletter/f...

First Watch: Stuff You Should Know - Oklahoma Watch

Oklahoma AG Gentner Drummond slams Insurance Commissioner Mulready for inaction on soaring homeowners insurance rates, four times the national average. Criticizing the file-and-use system and dismissi...

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 17h

"The most ubiquitous form of American culture nowadays is not jazz programming going out on shortwave radio across Eurasia, but the social-media platforms that pump conspiracy theories, extremism, advertising, pornography, and spam into every corner of the globe."

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 17h

"We always think about America’s postwar role in Europe as an act of great generosity, the defense of allies from Soviet aggression. But by putting democracy at the center of our international identity, we also helped strengthen our own political system"
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The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

www.theatlantic.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17h

A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.

(Published June)

Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs

A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.

www.propublica.org

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Human☮ @4humanunity.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the deal, Mike Johnson, you worked 9 days since July, make $200K, and get best free healthcare we pay for, while shutting down ours.

Want it fair? Start with your paychecks. No work, no pay and no damn free healthcare for any of you. Let Congress feel the pain they dump on the rest of us.

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