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Jeff Jachens @jeffjwarwick.bsky.social · 18h

"As for Scalise’s assurances... congressional Republicans have been working on an alternative to the ACA for roughly 16 years. To date, they’ve produced nothing."

On keeping health care coverage affordable, the GOP’s Steve Scalise gives away the game www.yahoo.com/news/article...

On keeping health care coverage affordable, the GOP’s Steve Scalise gives away the game

Speaker Mike Johnson said Republicans are ready for "thoughtful conversations" about the ACA's future. Majority Leader Steve Scalise said largely the opposite.

www.yahoo.com

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RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 18h

www.rawstory.com/humphreys-ex...

'Bombshell!' Ex-clerk to Clarence Thomas sends shockwaves with Supreme Court warning

The U.S. Supreme Court seems almost certain to side with President Donald Trump in an upcoming challenge to his authority to fire government officials for any reason, but a leading conservative legal ...

www.rawstory.com

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Tiina-Liisa 🇫🇮🇨🇦 @tiina-liisa.bsky.social · 18h

If no mentally disturbed person
should have an
assault weapon,
should a mentally
ill president have
an army?
DerekMay.Baky.Social

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venilia13.bsky.social @venilia13.bsky.social · 17h

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Aster Vérité @aster-verite.bsky.social · 18h

ICE Murder... depraved indifference

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 20h

🚨After being tased and beaten by ICE, a man dies in a Chicago hospital. Date and location in following post. These are the horrors of 2025 and we cannot look away. 1/2

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venilia13.bsky.social @venilia13.bsky.social · 17h

When trust and hope disappears- they will Never Ever be trusted again 😢🙏😢🙏

RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 18h

www.rawstory.com/gaza-2674178...

Israeli defense minister says bombing will resume after hostages are released 👿👇🏼

'Don’t say you weren’t warned': Trump openly defied by Israeli officials during visit

A number of high-ranking Israeli officials are openly defying President Donald Trump and his Gaza peace plan amid the president’s visit to Jerusalem on Monday, publicly rejecting key elements of his p...

www.rawstory.com

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American Partisan™ @partisan.social · 18h

GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT: The Trump 2.0 fascist police state is harassing, persecuting and treating legal immigrants like criminals. Just like German Jews in the 1930s.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 21h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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venilia13.bsky.social @venilia13.bsky.social · 17h

#BoycottUSA #BuyCanadian #ElbowsUp #CanadaStrong

🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦 @beppil007.bsky.social · 18h

💯 this.
I would like to remind those entitled, victim blaming Americans who are crying because the consequences of their actions are being felt, that many of the Canadians who #BoycottUSA & #BuyCanadian are doing so at a financial cost, they are principled people on fixed income & seniors. #ElbowsUp

Joan Skelton - Nasty But Nice Canadian @jskel70.bsky.social · 18h

Sovereignty is not difficult to understand. Our reaction is based on the threat of annexation with tariffs as one of the tools the orange menace is using to try to weaken us. Much of our boycott is grassroots, with everyday Canadians saying we won't be pushed around.

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RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 18h

www.rawstory.com/ice-26741800...

‘They don't have the training or skillset’: Ex-customs official slams ICE agents

A former President Barack Obama official slammed ICE agents, saying "they do not have the training or skillset" to conduct law enforcement operations in cities.As ICE tactics grow more violent, concer...

www.rawstory.com

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venilia13.bsky.social @venilia13.bsky.social · 17h

#cdnpoli #onpoli #Ottawa

Don Nadon @donnadon.ca · 18h

Look at that reduction. 👀

#cdnpoli #onpoli #ottawa

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venilia13.bsky.social @venilia13.bsky.social · 17h

How devastating to loose soo many lived ones

Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 18h

This shouldn’t be reported in isolation, COVID changes our brains & vascular health😷

“Even if you’ve never had heart issues before, you can have heart problems after COVID. But if you have cardiovascular disease, you face the greatest risk of heart problems”

my.clevelandclinic.org/health/artic...

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RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 18h

www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

This sinister truth lies behind Trump's campaign of ICE brutality

For the Trump regime, the brutality is the point. It’s the means to the end of a violent, single-party state that they’re openly proclaiming, even though our media insists on turning away from it.Back...

www.rawstory.com

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 18h

We can only hope can’t we? Someone should tell her!

#PamBondiIsCorrupt
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

youtube.com/shorts/FOL7j...

Pam Bondi is Going to Prison #duet #pambondi #attorneygeneral #AG #guilty #criminal #corrupt #trump

YouTube video by Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk

youtube.com

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venilia13.bsky.social @venilia13.bsky.social · 21h

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Queenie 🇨🇦 @queenie3.bsky.social · 21h

News coverage of the current disaster in Alaska won’t get Trump Nobel points so he doesn’t care.🤨

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 23h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 21h

Footage from the battle of Portland where musicians came to give a musical support to the war-torn population. May the power of the frog be with them.

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Aster Vérité @aster-verite.bsky.social · 21h

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“When you drink US booze, you're drinking with ICE.”

It’s a hell of a line.

Short, potent, morally radioactive.

It fuses consumption with complicity, purity politics in a shot glass.

A perfect example of how resistance memes hijack our moral circuitry.

#WebOfBeliefs #NarrativeWarfare

John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 1d

When you drink US booze, you're drinking with ICE.

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 2d

85% drop of American liquor sales to Canada.
We were their biggest market.
Now we're done.
Bye bye mon cowboy.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Homebrew593🇨🇦 @homebrew593.bsky.social · 21h

#NoKings
#TrumpIsAChildRapist
#SheWas13
#BelieveTheWomen
#TrumpFucksKids
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#QuidProPedoQuo

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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venilia13.bsky.social @venilia13.bsky.social · 21h

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MeUncensored, 🇨🇦co-owner & ♀︎💙💛🏳️‍🌈📎 @meuncensored.bsky.social · 1d

The #CONservatives may well yet do so at the leadership review coming up in January...

venilia13.bsky.social @venilia13.bsky.social · 21h

#PeaceSummit #Peace 🕊️🕊️🙏🙏 #PMMC

Neel Kumar @neelkumar3050.bsky.social · 23h

JFC Maple MAGA and the Cons are pissed off that our PM is attending in Egypt? As Lisa says he was invited FFS. Why wouldn't he go?Whether there will be peace over there in the future or not is not the point. Canada supports a two state solution. Of course he should be there.
youtu.be/V3me79YbXfY?...

Of course he’s going. Duh. #markcarney #peacesummit #peace #canada

YouTube video by Lisab0923

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venilia13.bsky.social @venilia13.bsky.social · 21h

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AsylumHouse @asylum.bsky.social · 22h

Frumpy claims the war is over. It’s a cease-fire only. It will not last.

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 22h

Without counting people outside the US.

Sign in a yard:

TRUMP
Based on 328 Million Reviews
VERY BAD
NOT RECOMMENDED

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 22h

The political right is soaked to the bone in black ops, grift & Ponzi schemes of stupidity & corruption.

It’s not bad enough violent MAGA rubes engaged in an insurrection, savagely beat officers & engaged in a conspiracy against 🇺🇸, THEN OUTRAGEOUSLY GOT PARDONED, but the #J6 lies & grift continue…

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venilia13.bsky.social @venilia13.bsky.social · 21h

#NeverPoilievre

Brad Weldon @canadensis.bsky.social · 22h

“Mr. Poilievre knows that the President is the reason the world runs like The Sopranos right now. And he definitely knows that any squeeze on the economy is courtesy of the White House.
 Mr. Poilievre knows all of that because he’s not stupid. But he seems to think the people listening to him are.”

Opinion: After Trump visit, Poilievre blames Carney for everything under the sun, including sunburn

The Conservative Leader isn’t stupid. He just thinks the people listening to him are

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Queenie 🇨🇦 @queenie3.bsky.social · 22h

I would love to feel elated and happy but I just feel disconnected. 🥴

Too much horror watching Gaza reduced to rubble and the death and destruction…
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 23h

After two long years being held captive by Hamas, the 20 living Israeli hostages were released and are finally home.

There’s still much work that remains to ensure lasting peace but the hostage release and ceasefire serve as critical steps toward closure and hope for the future.

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 22h

“Certain Canadian politicians are now comfortable demonizing the press. Some don’t think twice about doing the same with their political opponents. Trump has succeeded in normalizing this type of nastiness, which amplifies online abuse and emboldens partisans to feel they can behave that way, too.”

Observations from Montreal

An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.

cultmtl.com

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🇨🇦 Ken Robinson: Proud/ NASTY CANADIAN in AB 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @kprobinson0155.bsky.social · 22h

Cynical...😏

𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 1d

Everybody in his administration bought stock on Friday when the market crashed.

Today there will be some magic good news pill that will take the market back up so they can sell and make more money.

Watch.

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