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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3h

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

Collins: Marjorie Taylor Greene—is she someone that you could see yourself working with?

AOC: On what? If she actually wants to support legislation and expanding healthcare… I'm more than open to doing that. But it's not just about talking the talk. We got to walk the walk.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2h

🚨Jim Carrey’s fresh out of fucks, and we are here for it!

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2h

Trump considering strikes on land against Venezuela cartels.

Venezuela is taking the threats -- open or clandestine – seriously, with Maduro ordering large-scale military exercises

u.afp.com/SsJL

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john207.bsky.social @john207.bsky.social · 6h

Why are they being paid? Deduct those days from their salaries!!

Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 9h

When a picture says a thousand words…

#TrumpsShutdownDragsOn

14 days….. SMH.

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Whalen @timeformoretea.bsky.social · 1h

Living overseas in reality? I had to come home to have Fax News blow smoke at me again!

Whalen @timeformoretea.bsky.social · 2h

I feel this one! Don't charge me more for AI!!! Leave me with the old tech!!!

When They Update The Service 😒 Mushie & Birdie | Animation Meme | Original Audio: @someguymark

YouTube video by Under Studio

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 5h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 4h

When a picture says a thousand words…

#TrumpsShutdownDragsOn

When a picture says a thousand words…

Photo of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson biting his lip

#TrumpsShutdownDragsOn

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Whalen @timeformoretea.bsky.social · 3h

Go like Katniss--"get it on tape".

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

the entire conservative project these days is built off of making it illegal to dislike them or say rude things about them even in private

it is not enough to be in charge, or even feared, they must be adored

or else

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 11h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 7h

There’s more of us than there are of them. They can’t control us. They can’t stop us from voicing our dissent. Thugs and thuggery is not a winning future, even if they think so. See you at No Kings.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 6h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 6h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Whalen @timeformoretea.bsky.social · 4h

And then I assume the judge released him??? Because there was nothing to charge

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Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 2d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is thug trash.

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 2d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5h

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Whalen @timeformoretea.bsky.social · 4h

Why are these places still paying taxes?

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5h

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6h

"It is ridiculous that antifa has become this boogeyman. If they're going to tell us they are going to find the founder of Antifa, isn't the founder of Antifa...Winston Churchill? FDR? Didn't they lead a war against fascism? Wasn't that anti-fascism?" - me
zeteo.com/p/mehdi-conn...

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Whalen @timeformoretea.bsky.social · 6h

Once they gerrymander, we'll have to make the argument... "They can't win on ideas or by helping Americans, so they're just trying to cheat. But they've cheated you too! Soybean and tariffs betrayal, closed hospitals, and monster inflation! Will you let them cheat us all?!?"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 22h

“Please someone listen to me, I don’t want to die”

These are the words of a woman named Harmonie who had an ectopic pregnancy

Her obgyn refused to help, citing a
1% chance the fetus could survive

She lives in a blue state & still couldn’t access the life saving care she needed

Illinois Woman Denied Treatment for Ectopic Pregnancy

10.14.25

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16h

I believe the south side Chicago building was “full of Tren de Aragua gang members” about as much as I believe the Venezuelan boats are filled with “narcoterrotists”.

The regime will say anything to justify unreasonable, and even lethal, force.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9h

Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 10h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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