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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

Heard about this earlier, and my jaw didn’t drop. You know who else isn’t surprised? Pretty much every Republican.

As someone who’s been a frequent target, none of this shocks me. I don’t expect real consequences from the right because I doubt today is the first day they heard about it.

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Wharf Rat 🖖✌️🤙 @wharfrat-314159.bsky.social · 10h

Groomers. Hitler Youth groomers

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

These are the faces of men who think racism, rape, and gas chambers are punchlines.

The fact that these are actual GOP officials, not trolls in a reply section, says everything about the rot inside their movement.

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🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 11h

Everything is a transaction with Trump. What is he getting for our $20b?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Jeffries: "If Donald Trump can find $20b to bail out his right-wing dictator friend in Argentina, it's extraordinary to me that Republicans are unwilling to even have a discussion about how we address the healthcare crisis that they've created."

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🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 11h

Apply spotlight for the sake of civilization! @huffpost.com
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12h

The more GOP officials and right-wing hacks try to spin and pivot from their Young Republican leaders praising Hitler and racism and gas chambers for their enemies, the more it puts the story in the spotlight.

Keep at it!

🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 12h

Evil hiding behind false Christianity. @huffpost.com
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

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🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 12h

Finally the corporate media is standing up to the fascists. @huffpost.com
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 13h

CNN, Fox News, NPR, Newsmax, and over a dozen other outlets refuse to accept the Trump regime’s demands on restricting Pentagon reporting: “The public has a right to know how the government and military are operating.”

US news outlets reject Pentagon press access policy

At least 20 news organizations declined to sign a new Pentagon access policy for journalists, warning of the potential for less comprehensive coverage of the world’s most powerful military ahead of a Tuesday deadline to accept new restrictions.

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🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 12h

The ICE Gestapo is refining their thuggery. @huffpost.com
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 13h

ICE agents interfered with—and even threatened to “shoot and arrest”—emergency personnel rescuing an injured protester last week in Portland.

The agent “pointed his finger at me in a threatening manner,” the driver recalled, “and began viciously yelling in my face.

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ICE Agent Threatens to Shoot Ambulance Driver Helping Protester

Federal agents swarmed an ambulance crew to prevent them from taking an injured protester to the hospital.

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🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 12h

Trump Regime runs government for personal profit. @huffpost.com
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

🔥 @vicmensa.bsky.social : “I see a lot of you still drinking the kool-aid of racial division… The same motherf**kers running detention centers own private prisons (Core Civic & Geo Group). They maxed out Trump’s campaign, and they’re making billions from this, bruh. Be informed.”

🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 12h

Trump has directed ICE to deliberately incite violence. LA County is resisting. @huffpost.com
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

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🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 12h

All because Mike Johnson is desperate to protect a pedophile. @huffpost.com
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

“Swear her in! Swear her in!”

#TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

🔥 @vicmensa.bsky.social : “I see a lot of you still drinking the kool-aid of racial division… The same motherf**kers running detention centers own private prisons (Core Civic & Geo Group). They maxed out Trump’s campaign, and they’re making billions from this, bruh. Be informed.”

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 13h

ICE agents interfered with—and even threatened to “shoot and arrest”—emergency personnel rescuing an injured protester last week in Portland.

The agent “pointed his finger at me in a threatening manner,” the driver recalled, “and began viciously yelling in my face.

newrepublic.com/post/201774/...

ICE Agent Threatens to Shoot Ambulance Driver Helping Protester

Federal agents swarmed an ambulance crew to prevent them from taking an injured protester to the hospital.

newrepublic.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 13h

CNN, Fox News, NPR, Newsmax, and over a dozen other outlets refuse to accept the Trump regime’s demands on restricting Pentagon reporting: “The public has a right to know how the government and military are operating.”

US news outlets reject Pentagon press access policy

At least 20 news organizations declined to sign a new Pentagon access policy for journalists, warning of the potential for less comprehensive coverage of the world’s most powerful military ahead of a Tuesday deadline to accept new restrictions.

www.reuters.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

Was Mike Johnson and House Republican leadership trying to double participation in No Kings on Saturday or did they just stumble and bumble their way into doing that?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

I can’t wait to find out if the deal Trump gave to the Hamas leaders was as good as the one he gave to the Taliban.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12h

The more GOP officials and right-wing hacks try to spin and pivot from their Young Republican leaders praising Hitler and racism and gas chambers for their enemies, the more it puts the story in the spotlight.

Keep at it!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Jeffries: "If Donald Trump can find $20b to bail out his right-wing dictator friend in Argentina, it's extraordinary to me that Republicans are unwilling to even have a discussion about how we address the healthcare crisis that they've created."

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🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 12h

Prison consultant: ‘They are treating Maxwell like she’s a guest at a hotel’. Including a top-secret meeting inside her minimum-security prison in Texas, telling @ErinBurnett she had a visitor who prompted a “complete facility-wide lockdown”. Pure blackmail! www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Which Republican genius came up with the talking point to label millions of ordinary Americans peacefully protesting their government as paid Marxists who hate America?

That’s really what you are going with?

That we hate the United States of America?

Fuck you.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump really really doesn’t like this photo, so whatever you do… don’t share it. He would HATE that. 😈

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