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Alicia Victoria Lozano @aliciavlozano.bsky.social · 1d

Someone showed up with a cart of inflatables. The protest is now a dance party outside the PDX ICE facility. Federal police have mostly stood back but did unleash a toxin into the air @nbcnews.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6h

I’m a patriotic American, so I’m proudly anti-fascist. How about you? 🇺🇸

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Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, so NOW we’re in a dangerous time… thanks for being so on top of things, NYT.

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Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 23h

Where’s the hot dog video? I kind of have a thing about that…

Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 23h

Your latest taxpayer-funded stormtrooper activity:

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.

Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 1d

It fascinates me how some powerful people think it makes sense to take over a leadership position and start by insulting everyone who works for you and telling them you know nothing about what they do.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 1d

Huh… still doesn’t explain why Trump didn’t get it…

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 1d

LMAO

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Chevron @lachevron.bsky.social · 1d

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Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 1d

Once again, Republicans throwing out the old “the black man didn’t earn it”. Wow, that one never gets old.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

BARTIROMO: On your point about the Nobel Peace Prize, do you think maybe the reason Trump won't get it is because you had to get the application in before Jan. 31, and that was only 11 days into his term?

SCALISE: Look, they can play technicalities. They gave it to Obama for just getting elected.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Weird that a campaign of murdering Venezuelan fishermen didn't win him the Nobel.

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Defend Democracy @finalreckoning.bsky.social · 1d

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Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 1d

They don’t need to be afraid of bloodlust, they need to be afraid of justice

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Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 2d

“Her baby in her placenta.” Back to biology class for you RFK…

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

Remember all of the ghouls who denied this was happening and did everything they could to make the problem worse from JK Rowling to Wes Streeting. The NHS who did a stitch up report to hide the growing number of suicides from trans youth on the waitlists. They should never be forgiven.

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Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 2d

Distribute widely - this is America.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

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

Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 2d

But maybe the richest 1% are much more deserving than the rest of us….

Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 3d

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 2d

We can’t let Jeff Bezos re-write history because it keeps him in Trumps inner circle. Anyone who paid attention to Smiths independent investigation knows it was solid - only de-railed when the Supreme Court decided virtually everything is an official act. The Post is mere propaganda now.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 2d

On the bright side, look at how things turned out for Ceausecu…

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d

kinda wild how we're leaping straight to late Ceausescu

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 2d

“They’re eating the dogs! They’re arresting the girlfriends!”

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

Lol, lmao.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 2d

This is hilarious… the Left operating as an efficient machine in pursuit of a liberal utopia. That’s precisely why we assigned Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer with the task of leading the effort in Congress.

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Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker also isn’t a female, otherwise Trump would call him “nasty” too. Only women and people of color get certain put downs from Trump.

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker isn't low-IQ because he's not Black. Only Johnson is low-IQ because he's Black.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "They've had hundreds of people shot and then a guy like Pritzker or this low IQ mayor gets up -- the people are all against him. Beautiful Black women are wearing a MAGA hat last night on TV. And they said, 'We don't care who comes, just stop the crime.' They don't care if it's military."

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Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 2d

Add your own chyron to this - anything will be more accurate than Fox News…

Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 3d

🤣🤣 seems legit!

Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 3d

😂!!!!