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Bruce Leonard

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Stand up Comic from Cincinnati, Ohio. Documenting the Idiot Apocalypse and trying to maintain sanity with jokes and memes. Banned for life from Facebook. Host of Bruce Leonard Leans Left (While it’s Still Legal) Tues, Thurs, Sat. 6pm EST on YouTube, Twitch

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Bruce Leonard @bruceleonard.bsky.social · Dec 20

Couldn’t take the garbage can that Twitter has become so here I am. Please listen to my comedy, share it with your friends. I’m an independent artist and I’d like to stay that way

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18h

Trump’s Gaza deal may bring a welcome pause to years of bloodshed — but let’s be clear: one ceasefire doesn’t make him a peacemaker.
While he chases a Nobel Prize abroad, he’s been stoking violence at home.
Peace isn’t a brand. It’s a character test.
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The "Peacemaker" Who Thrives on Chaos

Trump’s Gaza deal may earn him applause — but his record of stoking violence at home shows he’s no champion of peace.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19h

ICYMI: Speaker Mike Johnson is second in line to the presidency, but he wants you to know he has no opinion on anything and takes responsibility for nothing. His go-to line is “not in my lane.”

Jen Psaki last night…

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h

So the argument for sending US troops into cities to be used against Americans is that Antifa has apparently taken over our cities and the troops have to battle them.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

Democrats should just start insisting that they saw very real videos of people rioting at Mar-a-Lago -- overturning golf carts, setting fire to the brunch buffet, stabbing busboys with carving knives, whatever -- and calling on Trump to send the Illinois National Guard there to restore order.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 20h

It’s SHAMEFUL to watch US Senators vote NO on the War Powers resolution & give this administration a blank check to bomb whoever the hell they want. The current conduct in the Caribbean is unconstitutional and unacceptable!

Time and time again, these cowards bend the knee.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19h

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Bruce Leonard @bruceleonard.bsky.social · 1d

Someone asked ChatGPT why people continue to support Trump despite a decade's worth of overwhelming evidence that he is a pathological liar, routinely betrays his closest allies, and rarely acts in his voters' best interests. Here's what it said: