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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 18h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 15h

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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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 19h

It feels like there is a good chance that Johnson never reconvenes the House.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21h

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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zdubya83.bsky.social @zdubya83.bsky.social · 1d

So drugs are now giving us money?

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Amy and a Cat @amyandacat.bsky.social · 1d

Oooof, you're right.

Amy and a Cat @amyandacat.bsky.social · 1d

Well-played, China. Did you notice this affects not just us, but everyone? Trump has started to turn countries against us. China just solidified the world's anger at us.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

The schism within MAGA is an opportunity, but it will only help openly fascist movements and projects unless we fight to change our status quo, which helped create this problem in the first place.

Failing to do that likely means something even worse after Trump.

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Amy and a Cat @amyandacat.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting that you posted this. My evangelical friend got very angry when I said something bad about Musk. My MAGA step-dad now wants everyone to boycott Netflix because of something Musk said. This is starting with the churches, isn't it?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

New England can only dream of California’s bold “eat my ass and hair” approach to rich sociopaths trying to keep people off the state’s 100% public beaches.

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 2d

HAHAHAHAHAHA get fucked you rich asshole

Carlsbad homeowner ordered to remove private gate to public beach, fined $1.4 million

John Levy was penalized by state Coastal Commission for a string of Coastal Act violations stretching back years

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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Amy and a Cat @amyandacat.bsky.social · 1d

100%. We need to be playing clown music when they walk down the street, dress up, have dance parties - make it so their stupid trauma porn can't be filmed.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, if you're already a person who is extremely agitated that people from the Middle East can drive for Lyft, this one is gonna get you spun up

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Amy and a Cat @amyandacat.bsky.social · 1d

So, what part of this army of cops (that we pay for) is present to actually protect the American people and our constitutional rights. The Constitutional Sheriffs have shit the bed, y'all. Who would have thunk it?

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Amy and a Cat @amyandacat.bsky.social · 1d

Smearing shit all over the walls of the Capitol Building.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 1d

interesting that if you say the constitution creates a separation of powers systems in which there are no kings, they think you hate america

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Men will run for Mayor and complete their term rather than go to therapy

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

"What is it going to take before you drop your hate and say, 'Listen, the guy did the job!' I'm not running anymore, so you no longer have to do this whole charade. I turned the city around, folks—come on! ... Stop coming up with all of these creative ways of saying 'Eric failed.' Eric didn't fail."

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

Under my guidance, our Washington Post editorial page is now devoted to free markets and individual liberties. Here’s an op-ed sanewashing January 6th.

by Jeff Bezos

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Amy and a Cat @amyandacat.bsky.social · 1d

They are arresting journalists.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Amy and a Cat @amyandacat.bsky.social · 1d

And these guys seem not at all concerned with our constitutional rights. Thanks, MAGA.

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Spencer Reynolds @sreynolds.bsky.social · 1d

DHS Federal Protective Service is meant to secure federal property but is a weapon to deploy thousands of DHS agents to counter protestors. (See my next post for how they did this in LA.)

A new legal memo shows how far off the wheels have come.

Cities like Chicago can, must restrict work with FPS.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Amy and a Cat @amyandacat.bsky.social · 1d

We've been laying off people every month for three months.

Amy and a Cat @amyandacat.bsky.social · 1d

This bailout: Keep in mind that it's just to pay back the bank loans. They will still lose their farms. The tariff nonsense is destroying us.

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Amy and a Cat @amyandacat.bsky.social · 2d

I'll let the little old white ladies in my neighborhood know, as they attended the last one and plan to march in this one.

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