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RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 28m

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This is the same psychopath who wants the Nobel peace prize 🤨🧐👇🏼

Trump threatens land strikes in Venezuela after blowing up boats

President Donald Trump said he was looking at military strikes on land in Venezuela after weeks of targeting boats off the country's coast.While speaking to reporters at the White House on Wednesday, ...

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dgwoods.bsky.social @dgwoods.bsky.social · 7m

Delusion.

dgwoods.bsky.social @dgwoods.bsky.social · 7m

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Too many Americans don't know enough about how our democratic government works or what human rights the Constitution gives them. And they don't really know or want to know what kind of person Donald really is.

A third of Americans believe Trump’s rise to power is part of God’s plan as he leans further into MAGA evangelicalism - NewsBreak

President Donald Trump ’s second term has been peppered with more Christian rhetoric and policies — a strategy he’s seemingly taken to strengthen and expan

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 2d

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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dgwoods.bsky.social @dgwoods.bsky.social · 18m

'What gives them the right?' MAGA senator melts down over Muslims praying outdoors

Are GOP leaders forbidden to read and discuss the Constitution?

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'What gives them the right?' MAGA senator melts down over Muslims praying outdoors

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) suggested that Muslims did not have the right to pray outdoors in the United States.During a Thursday interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Tuberville expressed o...

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dgwoods.bsky.social @dgwoods.bsky.social · 21m

Trump threatens land strikes in Venezuela after blowing up boats

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Trump threatens land strikes in Venezuela after blowing up boats

President Donald Trump said he was looking at military strikes on land in Venezuela after weeks of targeting boats off the country's coast.While speaking to reporters at the White House on Wednesday, ...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28m

Trump on tariffs: "We're allowed to do whatever we want. We just had presidents that didn't want to do it for whatever reason. Of the eight wars, tariffs are directly responsible for me ending 6 of them. 5 or 6."

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dgwoods.bsky.social @dgwoods.bsky.social · 22m

Trump’s war on ‘the enemy within’ keeps running into a legal buzzsaw

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Opinion | Trump’s war on ‘the enemy within’ keeps running into a legal buzzsaw

Lower courts are rejecting the president’s claims of rebellion to use the military on U.S. soil.

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dgwoods.bsky.social @dgwoods.bsky.social · 30m

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Trump & regime are building a white Christian nationalist country????

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

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dgwoods.bsky.social @dgwoods.bsky.social · 32m

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War on Venezuela? This is how Donald wants to address the drugs issue?

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

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Truthout @truthout.org · 34m

In 1934, the Antifa of Palestine came out of Arab and Jewish revolutionaries working toward a shared social revolution of Palestine’s Arab and Jewish peoples. The group sought liberation from the British Empire; who intentionally divided Arab and Jewish people in Palestine so better to rule them.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 36m

In the 1930s, anti-fascism became a global cause. The global anti-fascism that announced itself with its immense mobilization during the Spanish Civil War had a lot of qualities in common with the Arditi del Popolo —some of the Italian anti-fascists went to Spain to fight world fascism there in '36.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 38m

The antifa concept can be traced to Arditi del Popolo movement, an Italian anti-fascist group that was founded in 1921 for the purpose of defending working-class people and institutions from the assault of Mussolini’s blackshirts.

From 1920s Italy to 1930s Palestine to 1980s Ska Scenes, Antifa Has Many Faces

A historian discusses past anti-fascist organizations and practices in light of Trump’s effort to criminalize “antifa.”…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 44m

Trump has frozen or canceled $28B in funding for infrastructure projects in Democratic congressional districts.

Meanwhile, representatives of those districts are fighting to extend ACA subsidies — more than half of which go to people in GOP-held districts.

Remember this.

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dgwoods.bsky.social @dgwoods.bsky.social · 44m

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Violence at Portland’s ICE facility is coming from one side: the officers - NewsBreak

The crowds amassing on Portland’s South Waterfront on Sunday, Sept. 28, outside the city’s ICE processing facility, featured activists from nearly every co

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1h

America First? Republican Sen. Tim Scott blocked Elizabeth Warren's bill seeking to stop Trump’s unprecedented $20 billion bailout of Argentina and its far right government. Warren sharply criticized Trump for giving Milei a massive handout while gutting health care benefits for millions at home.

GOP Blocks Warren Bill to Stop Trump’s “Brazen” $20B Argentina Bailout

“For Trump, the leader of Argentina is more important than American families struggling with rising costs,” said Warren.

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dgwoods.bsky.social @dgwoods.bsky.social · 1h

More false statements. Who's feeding him these lies?

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John Roberts is slowly dismantling America - NewsBreak

The chief justice arrived from central casting, in the guise of the midwestern dad next door, remembering the Indiana farmland of his boyhood and promising

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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 5d

Claims that the shutdown has forced their hand are false.

Nothing about a shutdown justifies these firings or makes them necessary. That’s why they haven’t happened in past shutdowns – including in the first Trump admin.

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Administration Plans for Mass Firings in a Shutdown Not Justified by Law or Prudent Management | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Raising the prospect of mass layoffs as direct retaliation if Democrats do not accede to the House Republicans’ short-term funding proposal is simply an Administration threat to hurt the American peop...

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Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 5d

Firing federal employees during a shutdown is not only illegal but must be seen for what it is: blatant extortion.

The Trump Administration is using working people and their families as pawns in a power play with no concern for who gets hurt.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17h

A huge and consequential argument in the SCOTUS tomorrow. Is SCOTUS hell-bent in gutting the Voting Rights Act?

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