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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

‼️ CHATTANOOGA - Public school kids outperform voucher kids AGAIN

As @GovBillLee steers more and more taxpayer funds away from public schools to private (mostly Christian) schools for wealthy families who are already there.

More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/oc...

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 33m

Crowdsourcing! Anybody around grocery shopping to take the matching picture and post it here? And don't forget those cheap eggs!

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Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social · 2d

Your timely reminder that Donald Trump tried to claim NYC residence to take a $49,000 tax break on his Manhattan condo while he and Melania lived in the White House, only to get it yanked after my colleague and I caught the misrepresentation.

EXCLUSIVE: City nixes property tax break for Trump’s NYC apartment

New York City has nixed a $48,000 tax break President Trump was set to receive on his Trump Tower condo following inquiries from the Daily News about whether he is still eligible for the savings. O…

www.nydailynews.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 35m

So costume character dance parties are being treated as a national emergency, meanwhile, almost every damn day:

4 people were killed and 20 more were injured in a shooting at a bar in South Carolina, sheriff says

A mass shooting at a crowded bar on the idyllic South Carolina island of St. Helena left four people dead and at least 20 injured.

www.newsday.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30m

The One Big Beautiful Bill cut a trillion dollars from healthcare, Schoolmarm Johnson

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 36m

Mike Johnson: "Republicans are the party that are fixing healthcare. We just demonstrated that in the one big beautiful bill."

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 29m

The economy is crumbling, experts are warning global terrorism threats are rising with no one listening and Republicans are bumbling through the shutdown incapable of governing. All while Trump's mental decline is on full display. Today's Coffee With Texas Paul, JOIN US at 11 AM Eastern.

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The Christian Left @the-christian-left.bsky.social · 1h

LINK TO ORDER ANY OF THE THREE NEW DESIGNS — https://www.thechristianleftblog.org/blog-home/my-dad-was-antifa-us-army-us-navy-us-army-air-force-merch

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

This Is Fascism

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aedaw9i.bsky.social @aedaw9i.bsky.social · 8h

Smh. They’re against DEI, but all in on unqualified nepotism

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 17h

🐀 Mike Johnson caught lying using the receipts he directed us to use. Jen Psaki for the 🎯

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 9h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 9h

Trump's Justice Department is firing the people who prosecute terrorists, Jake Tapper argues. The president's politically motivated personnel decisions make "the United States and the world less safe":

Trump’s Purge of Terrorism Prosecutors

The politicization of the Justice Department is making Americans less safe.

bit.ly

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 22h

This is a GoFundMe supporting the tamale lady taken by ICE on 21st Place and Damen in Pilsen yesterday.

“Now she’s being forced to start over in Mexico with nothing — no home, no job, and no access to the medical care she desperately needs.”

Donate to Help My Aunt Rebuild Her Life After Being Taken by ICE, organized by marilyn perez

We just found out through social media that my aunt — who sells t… marilyn perez needs your support for Help My Aunt Rebuild Her Life After Being Taken by ICE

www.gofundme.com

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 11h

Jesus.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 23h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 12h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 18h

How it's going in Chicago

After ICE arrested US citizen and WGN Producer Debbie Brockman

Agents driving the white van cut off and hit another car, swarmed the vehicle at gunpoint, dragged out the driver-who is ALSO a citizen-and arrested her, too

Straight up fascism

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8APPaBL/

Agentes de ICE chocan contra el vehículo de una mujer y después la sacan a la fuerza para arrestarla. N Paulina St & W Schubert Ave, Chicago, IL 60614

TikTok video by ¿ Qué Pasa ?

www.tiktok.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

“America’s senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, must approach Trump now and make clear to him that they will not obey illegal orders to act against American citizens or disrupt the American political process.”

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 16h

Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales

abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so

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

#MedicareForAll

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aedaw9i.bsky.social @aedaw9i.bsky.social · 13h

The worst of America elected this POS

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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 13h

Help us push for an investigation into Trump's Epstein scandal HERE: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Congress: Fully investigate the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case

Contact Congress today!

actionnetwork.org

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Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 14h

I became a subscribing member because of Ben Meislas’s genuineness and commitment to relay current events without whitewashing.

Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 16h

I spoke to the hardest working man in podcasting: BEN MEISELAS of Meidas Touch, who's taking the fight to Maga (and beating Joe Rogan in the ratings), and doesn't mince his words about the state of US media, and its failure to meet the current moment.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle

His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?

www.theguardian.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 13h

Vought is a small, unhappy, hateful and anti-social person.

He is also evil: opposed to Jesus‘ teachings, and exactly what Jesus warned about in the Bible.

The first step in bringing Vought down is being honest about who he is.

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