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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

"The original #NoKings protest was 250 years ago. We've had democracy since then. Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away—King Donald the First. Fuck that. Stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18."
👉👉 nokings.org

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 9h

Simple messaging I recommend you share and text friends, family, and neighbors.

These are the lines Democrats need to be using.

Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 10h

Trump went for a Covid shot and then set the CDC on fire.

If that ain’t that asshole in a nutshell.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 9h

When people wonder how Epstein continued to have powerful friends even after everybody knew, consider that a Nazi salute followed by blithely starving children and cutting off their life sustaining medicines wasn’t a deal breaker for anyone in power positions.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

Letitia James is being indicted for saving $50/month on a loan?

Gee, I wonder how much loan money Donald Trump saved when he got more than $270 million in debt forgiven after he failed to repay loans on his Chicago skyscraper development . . .

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h

The grand jury indictment against New York AG Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased.

James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, the indictment alleges.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Letitia James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, indictment alleges

The grand jury indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased in Norfolk, Virgini

www.nbcnews.com

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 9h

An anonymous trader made a fast $88 million by shorting Bitcoin.

The trader made the bet that Bitcoin would plummet in value on Friday after opening their account “30 minutes before Trump’s announcement of 100% tariffs on China."

Not suspicious at all, right?

www.rawstory.com/trump-267417...

‘That’s the MAGA playbook’: Crypto trade made moments before Trump post raises eyebrows

An anonymous online cryptocurrency trader reportedly scored an $88 million profit after making a lofty bet that the value of Bitcoin would plummet, a bet that was made just before a major tariff annou...

www.rawstory.com

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 9h

We are seeing dozens of these videos every day. It's happening all over the ocuntry. I know many people are outraged but it's just continuing unabated.

This feeling of impotence is devastating. How does it end? With the country emptied of brown people and dissidents in jail?

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 10h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 9h

Let’s not forget that every single Republican who stands by and enables Donald Trump could stop this recklessness today, tomorrow or any damn day of the week. Their failure—their refusal—to do so makes them complicit in his crimes and the crimes of his corrupt, lawless regime.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

And people tell me the libs have no knack for messaging.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 9h

Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 9h

When you think back to Trump’s unhinged Ebola freak out during Obama’s presidency this seems extra insane.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10h

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

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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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 9h

They're stopping wind and solar because the president is an idiot who doesn't understand how anything works, doesn't try to learn, and assumes he knows more than all the experts about almost everything that he knows nothing about.

Also because Big Oil gives him lots of money.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

Schatz: They’re stopping wind and solar because this guy has some very strange ideas about the energy mix. And it’s consistent with the rest of his political and economic philosophy — if there’s less of everything, it gives him more authority to dole out favors

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 9h

"Kid Rock" looks like a plucked chicken that robbed a pimp and took his clothes. Not all is lost, though...at least he's a f*cking moron. #America

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 9h

I hate having us be the stupid country that's quickly losing it's role as a world leader.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10h

America's collapse in one swath of the NYT homepage

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

California is going to “stick it to Trump” this November— Vote YES on Prop 50.

This ad 🔥😂

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

The National Guard mainly exists for domestic purposes as a compact where Governors agree to help each other in cases of disasters.

It runs on trust and norms of reciprocity.

Having Governors send their troops against the will of the receiving state creates some real long term problems.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 9h

You know a lot of attention has been put on #RFKJr,
#RussellVought & the #GOP Congress on the mess we’re facing but it’s time for #JohnRoberts and his court to take equal blame for the lawless destruction of public health. They are political actors here, no longer can hide behind their robes.

a man in a judge 's robe is sitting at a desk

ALT: a man in a judge 's robe is sitting at a desk

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 9h

As Trump Moves Toward Autocracy, Top Aide Stephen Miller Is Way Ahead Of Him

Trump’s chief propagandist accuses opponents of “insurrection” and attempting a “coup” — while declaring Trump has “plenary authority.”

As Trump Moves Toward Autocracy, Top Aide Stephen Miller Is Way Ahead Of Him

The president’s chief propagandist accuses opponents of “insurrection” and attempting a “coup” — while declaring Trump has “plenary authority.”

www.huffpost.com

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 9h

Lots of reasons this kind of undercover work doesn’t happen in the U.S., but no good ones it shouldn’t

Adrian Polglase @adrianpolglase.com · 10d

We've been undercover in the UK's biggest police force revealing evidence of racism, misogyny and officers revelling in the use of force at Met Police's Charing Cross station. Here's my article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Secret BBC filming exposes hidden culture of racism and misogyny inside Met Police

Panorama undercover investigation captures evidence that

www.bbc.co.uk

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 9h

Perhaps if rich pedophiles contracted it Congress might become interested in protecting America from this malpractice.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

Today I took questions from more than a dozen South Asian news outlets and spoke about our agenda to make this city affordable for each and every New Yorker.