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Brian Friel @brianboru1965.bsky.social · 15h

This is simply stupid

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 17h

Oh come ON!

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 18h

FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award at the draw for the World Cup on Dec. 5 in Washington. https://to.pbs.org/47LyluB

FIFA to award new peace prize at World Cup draw in Washington

FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award for the first time at the World Cup draw on Dec. 5 in Washington.

www.pbs.org

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Anne Golden @annegolden.bsky.social · 19h

Raise your hand if you’re astonished.

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Brian Friel @brianboru1965.bsky.social · 17h

What a clown.

Brian Friel @brianboru1965.bsky.social · 17h

“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” was an amazing book also written by John LeCarre.

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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 1d

“to distinguish real (ICE) operations from fakes”.

Hmmm, maybe ban masks, display badges, use warrants, and employ due process rather than abduct people into unmarked cars.

It’s easy for criminals to impersonate ICE since ICE act like criminals.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: On Election Day, President Donald Trump renewed claims of election fraud — this time targeting California’s mail voting system, calling it “rigged” and threatening a “legal and criminal review” of ballots being cast in the closely watched special election.

Trump Pushes Baseless Claims of ‘Rigged’ California Election, Promises ‘Criminal Review’ of Mail Ballots

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

The woman in this video had just had kidney surgery.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.

Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.

She was later released with NO CHARGE.

A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.

You decide…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on The View (!!!): "The worst thing that I just can't get over is we're not working right now. And I put that criticism directly on the Speaker of the House. We should be at work."

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Brian Friel @brianboru1965.bsky.social · 1d

What a ridiculous response.

Brian Friel @brianboru1965.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s hope so!

Brian Friel @brianboru1965.bsky.social · 2d

Walter White for the score!

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3d

Brett Kavanaugh's behavior during today's second oral arguments has been incredibly obnoxious and rude. He is so eager to kill a service member's lawsuit against a negligent government contractor that he keeps interrupting other justices, raising his voice, and getting emotional. Weird and erratic.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”

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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 3d

After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...

ICE again prevents Chicago Catholics from bringing Eucharist to immigrant detainees

More than 2,000 faithful gathered to pray outside the Broadview ICE Detention Center Nov. 1, but the group's main request — to bring Communion to detainees — was rejected by federal immigration offici...

www.ncronline.org

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 5d

Just the second largest state authorizing judges — state officials — to refuse to perform legal marriages of LGBTQ & interracial couples.

This is their strategy to dismantle civil rights protections: Abuse the First Amendment to legalize discrimination, even by state officials.

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Brian Friel @brianboru1965.bsky.social · 4d

What’s frustrating is the schedule, two straight weeks with back to back road games.

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Brian Friel @brianboru1965.bsky.social · 4d

This is already the second time this season the NHL scheduled two consecutive days with road games for the Avalanche? They were in Boston and New Jersey last weekend and then in LV yesterday and in San Jose today. This is crap.

Brian Friel @brianboru1965.bsky.social · 4d

The state of South Dakota didn’t do us any favors by electing her to the U.S. House and then to the governor’s office. I used to work with several people in SD, and they were like WTH? She is an awful person.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 5d

You can't make this up.

Another host, Eugene Daniels, asked Mr. Cuomo what he meant by diversity being a “weakness.”

“Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan,” Mr. Cuomo said, mistaking Mr. Daniels for his co-host Jonathan Capehart, both of whom are Black.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d

President Trump said a lapse in SNAP funding would “largely” hurt Democrats. But interruptions to the program will also affect a sizable number of people who live in Republican states and districts.

Fact-Checking Trump’s Claim About SNAP and Partisanship

The president said a lapse in SNAP funding would “largely” hurt Democrats. But interruptions to the program will also affect Republicans.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5d

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 5d

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5d

The government is shutdown, and millions of Americans are about to go without food and/or medicine because of him.

So what does Donald Trump do? Keeps bragging about his $300,000,000 golden ballroom and throws a Great Gatsby party at his private resort.

He is so stupidly tone-deaf.

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NPR @npr.org · 5d

More Americans are turning to food banks to help fill the assistance gap, but administrators caution they aren't designed to act as a safety net for a government program. n.pr/3JyA9Pq

With the outlook for SNAP benefits uncertain, food banks are warning of a crisis

More Americans are turning to food banks to help fill the assistance gap, but administrators caution they aren't designed to act as a safety net for a government program.

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