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Woody Asters @liatris.bsky.social · 7h

If there's anything more clownish than a foundation dedicated to Ronald Reagan, it's a foundation dedicated to Ronald Reagan that lies about and pisses on the sincerely held views of Ronald Reagan, in support of someone whom Ronald Reagan probably would've hated.

How profoundly pathetic all around.

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Aquilino A. Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social · 15h

He really really cares about veterans.

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD 🐸(🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 7h

✊🏾

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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Deborah Buck @dvbuck.bsky.social · 12h

Just think - if ICE started arresting their peers they’d actually accomplish their proclaimed mission to get the criminals & they’d meet their quotas. Forget about those bonuses tho - Don the Con never pays up.

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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 1d

OMG. What an ad!

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 18h

When people glorify ‘Tough On Crime’ they are just saying that they are gleefully punitive & nothing more.

Being tough on crime isn’t the same as addressing crime. We know that the largest predictor for reducing crime is addressing need.

Reducing benefits increases crime, endangering everyone.

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.

Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

YouTube video by Reagan Library

youtu.be

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 1d

This is the ad Donald Trump woke up furious about.

Would be a shame if it went viral.

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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 1d

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Sen. Michael K. Garrett @michaelgarrett.bsky.social · 2d

They Were So Afraid, They Erased the Words.

Yesterday, I spoke truth about what happened in North Carolina. About democracy being stolen in broad daylight. About rigged maps and broken promises. About betraying every sacrifice ever made for the right to vote.

Then something extraordinary happened.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. Lockheed Martin is among the companies reported to have pledged at least $10 million. That sum is close to what the company spent in all of 2024 on federal lobbying.”

@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social $LMT
www.thebulwark.com/p/our-house-...

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 2d

Republicans strengthened Medicaid the way Trump just strengthened the East Wing of the White House.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes.

Please Use it and SHARE!

ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

Federal Action Reporting Form

Federal Action Reporting Form Please use this form to share information regarding federal government action in New York state. Filing a complaint does not start

ag.ny.gov

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"nearly half..." ???

it's an open book test.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 3d

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 2d

Trump: To touch Confederate monuments is to launch an attack on our collective history.

Also Trump: I unilaterally decided to destroy a third of the White House because I see Americans’ treasures as my own. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Literally and figuratively, Trump is trashing the entirety of the White House’s East Wing

In July, the president said his ballroom project wouldn’t “interfere with” the current White House structure. So much for that idea.

www.msnbc.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Trump hosted a dinner last week for White House ballroom donors.

Then he went to Mar-a-Lago for a $1 million-per-person dinner benefiting his super PAC.

Last night, he treated big GOP donors to dinner on his new White House patio.

The government has been shut down for 22 days.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4d

WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 5d

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 4d

Military troops shouldn't be policing our communities.

Purple graphic reading ""Observers may be tempted to view the majority’s ruling, which accepts the government’s characterization of Portland as a war zone, as merely absurd. But today’s decision is not merely absurd. It erodes core constitutional principles, including sovereign States’ control over their States’ militias and the people’s First Amendment rights to assemble and to object to the government’s policies and actions." – Judge Susan P. Graber, dissenting in the decision to allow President Trump to deploy 200 Oregon National Guard members to Portland

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realGuyFawkes. @realguyfawkes.bsky.social · 5d

We need to make these assholes infamous.
Clark Construction, McCrery Architects, and AECOM for their willingness to illegally demolish The White House without Approval from Congress and the National Capital Planning Commission

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Deborah Buck @dvbuck.bsky.social · 6d

I’ll bet that JD Vance had some unholy thoughts when he saw it.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6d

Tell me again, Donald, about the "Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax."

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Deborah Buck @dvbuck.bsky.social · 6d

Check out the app Front Pages. It shows front pages from newspapers in every state & internationally. The dearth of coverage by US newspapers is overwhelming. For many ppl their local rag is their mainstream news.

Deborah Buck @dvbuck.bsky.social · 6d

Sad when US media doesn’t even cover the #NoKings rallys or diminishes the extent of the participation. Meanwhile foreign media covers it as a major event with millions participating. If I hadn’t attended the protest & relied on the local & nat’l coverage today I would assume it was a big bust.

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