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libradunn1.bsky.social
Didnt get to watch the orange dude's temper tantrum last night, I was having dinner with some fine Americans instead...
December 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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karlbode.com
Larry Ellison will own a part of TikTok alongside the Chinese.

Great job @schumer.senate.gov and team, you really solved the social media propaganda and privacy threat
TikTok U.S. Sale to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Ladies and gentleman: The President of the United States
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
One woman, then a model and college student in her early 20s living in Manhattan, said she attended four parties at the mansion. She cannot recall the names of most of the men she met at the gatherings, not even those Mr. Epstein directed her to “take care of” at two of them. Recruited by Ms. Maxwell and then abused by Mr. Epstein, she buried her shame and kept their secrets for years. But Mr. Trump’s presence stood out, she told The Times. He was a household name, someone Mr. Epstein often bragged about to the women around him, yet also seemed to compete with. “It was like a pissing contest — who had the most women,” she recalled. She requested anonymity to describe her experiences in detail, saying she feared for her family’s safety after Mr. Trump said some of his critics could be executed for sedition.
December 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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politicsgirl.bsky.social
Mike Johnson could call vote to protect our healthcare, but he’s sending the house home early. Mark my words: He wants them out of DC so they can’t protect our healthcare AND they won’t be around when the Epstein files AREN’T released tomorrow….
December 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Trump and Republicans claim they want to "protect children."

But they've rolled back child labor laws and environmental protections, blocked gun safety reform, and spread lies about vaccines that save children from deadly diseases.

Hello?
December 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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jayapal.house.gov
Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities.

28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Tina Davis, who modeled for Ford in the mid-1990s, said in an interview that her Ford booker instructed her to get dressed up and attend a Mar-a-Lago party in late 1994. Just 14 and new to Miami, she was told to “dress sexy,” according to her mother, Sandra Coleman, who had accompanied her to Florida. Eight or nine other models came along on the bus. “All the girls were really young,” Ms. Coleman recalled in an interview. “Some of them could have been in training bras.” When they arrived at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Coleman said, her daughter was promptly handed a glass of champagne. She took it away, but waiters kept offering more. Each time one of the middle-aged men at the party approached her daughter, Ms. Coleman would walk over and introduce herself as Ms. Davis’s mother. During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump’s new wife, whom they had met earlier. Ms. Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye. “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband,” she told Ms. Coleman. “Protect her.”
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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malena.bsky.social
Have you told your low info or MAGA family about this story of #ICELawlessness where #immigration officers who knew this woman was pregnant forced her on her stomach during detention & put their knee on her!

This is rough, but we must bear witness! We must speak up, call Congress & tell others.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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aclu.org
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.

The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
We are failing our kids
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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muellershewrote.com
Nothing more than perceived wealth that doesn’t exist for the purposes of taxes, but magically does for the purposes of leverage. Meanwhile, the rest of us pay real taxes on low wages and can’t leverage shit. The game is rigged. Tax the rich.
forbes.com Forbes @forbes.com · 3d
The world’s richest person just hit another major milestone thanks to the soaring valuation of his rocket maker SpaceX.

Full story: www.forbes.com/sites/mattdu... (Photo: Kevin Winter via Getty Images)
December 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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forevernever.bsky.social
Goose chasing man meme, two panels. First panel: Goose looking suspiciously off-screen, asking "why did we regulate the financial system in 2008?" Second panel: Goose angrily chasing man, demanding "WHY DID WE REGULATE THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM IN 2008, ASSHOLE?!?!?"
December 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”
December 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
The four Democrats on the Gang of Eight are demanding Pete Hegseth release the full, unedited tape of the controversial September 2nd double-tap boat strike before Congress leaves town for the year at the end of this coming week. tinyurl.com/4h8nb8ea
December 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
😳🇺🇸
December 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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tizzywoman.bsky.social
Reminder…you have a sexual predator in the WH. in this page from the House Oversight Committee, you’ll see that Diddy Rump is specifically named.
He, & all other predators & enablers deserve consequences.
Survivors deserve justice.
We the people deserve the truth. #ReleaseTheFiles
4. I was hired by and paid directly Epstein by Mr. from the years of 1991-2000 to attract adolescent women to attend these parties, most of which were held at what is known as the Wener Mansion located at 9 E. 71st St. in New York City. 5. In June, 1994 while performing my duties as a recruiter of adolescent women to attend Mr. Epstein's parties, I met a adolescent woman, 13-year-old at the Port the Plaintiff in this matter, Authority in New York City who said that she had come to New York City in the hope of starting modeling career. 6. I persuaded the Plaintiff to attend a series of parties of Mr. Epstein that took place during the summer of 1994. I told her that, if she would join me at the parties, she would be introduced to people who could get her into the modeling profession and she 7. would be paid for attending. It was at these series of parties that I personally witnessed the Plaintiff being forced to perform various sexual acts with Donald J. Trump and Mr. Epstein. Both Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein were advised that she was 13 years old. 8. I personally witnessed four sexual encounters that the Plaintiff was forced to have with Mr. Trump during this period, including of these encounters where Mr. Trump the fourth forcibly raped her despite her pleas to stop. HOUSE OVERSIGHT 025937 Case 1:16-cv-04642 Document 1-2 Filed 06/20/16 Page 2 of 9. I personally witnessed the one occasion where Mr. Trump forced the Plaintiff and a 12-year-old female named pertorm oral sex on Mr. Trump and witnessed his physical abuse of both minors
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
REP. @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “The biggest ‘welfare queens’ in 🇺🇸 are corporations that don’t pay a penny in federal taxes, and CEOs who get a tax deduction for flying on a private jet — not hungry kids, or working parents who work multiple jobs.”
December 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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sanders.senate.gov
As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”

Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
After our last post, MAGA voices rushed to claim that Trump had nothing to do with the traffic stop involving Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s son, where federal agents demanded proof of his citizenship. Let’s be clear about why this is not a coincidence.
December 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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tomtomorrow.bsky.social
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
tomtomorrow.bsky.social Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 4d
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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malena.bsky.social
Imagine your precious child, a high schooler, goes out to walk the dog & never comes back.

The reason: he gets abducted by #ICE who just release the dog.

Neighbors rescue the dog & return it with the news of #ICELawless.
Your son's detained for months in brutal conditions.
youtu.be/NumOmTjZHoY?...
Reseda student returns home after ICE detention
YouTube video by NBCLA
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December 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM