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Baal @clawfoot.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck all of this

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

Home of the Brave launched a $1 million national ad campaign in support of the peaceful No Kings rallies on Oct. 18th.

The ads will run in over 185 local papers and The New York Times, USA Today and The Washington Post calling on Americans to “peacefully protest our false king."

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Baal @clawfoot.bsky.social · 3d

Butheremails

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Baal @clawfoot.bsky.social · 3d

Those 90s militia guys are in charge now, fuck

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Baal @clawfoot.bsky.social · 3d

Evangelicals core policy project is to make the church responsible for everything except police and border/war. Anything they take from secular power is a win for them .

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Baal @clawfoot.bsky.social · 3d

A big push on that phenomenon is you might be talking to someone who thinks people eat infants a few times a year

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Baal @clawfoot.bsky.social · 3d

100% there's at least a few nazi tats on those camo cunts

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 3d

I fully believe the theory that's going around that ICE has deliberately been recruiting from far-right militia groups, and the masking and refusal to identify ICE agents have been doing is an attempt to obscure that fact as opposed to being intended to "protect" them.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4d

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

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Baal @clawfoot.bsky.social · 3d

Yup, The only leverage we have left is "Fuck, my pile of money can't secure a 51% victory anymore!"

Baal @clawfoot.bsky.social · 3d

Breaking: ICE has started deporting people to farms owned by private equity firms. Stocks rally

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Baal @clawfoot.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah but were 1200pts higher and ready to deploy 'all measures' to bail out...lemme see here,,,,argentina
Fuck

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Baal @clawfoot.bsky.social · 4d

Friday: got 2 more Nobels for ending 3 trade wars just today, suck it shitlibs

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 4d

Part of this hierarchy has been created over decades by labor market economic stuff but universities embrace it so they can hire fewer profs overall and more Deans of ChatGPT Strategery 🙄🤮 It's also a deliberate political strategy to tighten up exactly who gets to have "academic freedom."

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 5d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Baal @clawfoot.bsky.social · 5d

But Kavanaugh said these stops were very minimal and over in a few seconds. Fuck these guys

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 5d

"THEY WERE EVENTUALLY LET GO AFTER SHOWING THIER DOCUMENTS". In other words, they were pulled out of their cars for looking "Mexican".

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 5d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Baal @clawfoot.bsky.social · 6d

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 8d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 8d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Baal @clawfoot.bsky.social · 8d

There needs to be consequences for thus, it can't be just "woops my bad". And don't give me that if we do it they will do it back to us. They tried to perp walk Comey you dipshit

Baal @clawfoot.bsky.social · 9d

What a shame, they were on the verge of passing a second bill this year

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 10d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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