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A refugee from a torn and broken land suffering under the iron fist of a mad despot.

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Expatriot @expatriot.bsky.social · 3d

So just to recap. ICE can legally grab any minority. Or, sorry, anyone who "looks unamerican" and then throw them into a GEO group prison for however the fuck long they want, where they will be FORCED LABOR to the tune of 60 hours a week for $10. Not an hour. Not a day. Ten dollars.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 5h

Making flash cards with beard insults to pass my Hegseth quiz

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 6h

It turns out that what Todd Gilbert meant by "that escalated quickly" is that he was unwilling to support a grand jury investigation into the origins of the Trump/Russia case. I'm surprised and impressed that Gilbert took this stand. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Iryna @irynaov.bsky.social · 5h

Uh huh lol
Something something “all (AI) hat and no cattle.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

HANNITY: Antifa is working against the American people. What would that be called?

BONDI: It would be called organized crime. And that's what they're doing ... they are no different than MS-13

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

“Swear her in! Swear her in!”

#TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

If we don’t speak up for the communities that Trump is terrorizing right now, we will be next.

His authoritarianism will come for all of us in the end. https://youtu.be/tkaBlgXR8tY?si=bJcUxXZWMrae4kwx

No One Is Safe From Trump's Authoritarianism

Robert Reich

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Stevens: There’s $1.3 trillion of credit card debt. There are people putting grocery bills on credit cards and then paying interest on them. We are in an affordability crisis. Coffee is up 20%, beef is up 16%, bacon is up over 10%. And now we’re going to see health care costs skyrocket.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 5h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 5h

A disaster hits, domesticated pigs escape into the wilderness, and in a few weeks have gone super Saiyan.

Each now feral sow giving birth to dozen pigs, 3 times a year: wildly exponential growth.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 5h

It's cool that domesticated pigs *immediately* go feral.

Like, basically overnight their bodies literally transform, they reshape themselves to become faster, stronger, better predators.

Which is one reason why they thrive so well in disasters.

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 5h

If you understand what's happening here, this is very very bad lol

www.texasstandard.org/stories/texa...

Ag Commissioner Sid Miller wants to stop screwworms with pesticide bait, but the USDA is hesitant

Cases of the parasite have been found less than 100 miles from the Texas-Mexico border.

www.texasstandard.org

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 5h

Screw worm is going to be a word everyone knows very soon lol.

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Libra on Fire 🔥 ⚖️ @libraonfire.bsky.social · 4d

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100% tariff on China.

Translation: “Let’s see how fast we can make Temu luxury retail.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Jeffries: "I remind all of these corrupt individuals, these sycophants -- the statute of limitations is five years. The American people want accountability, deserve accountability, and will get accountability."

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SAM @samierens.bsky.social · 5h

Time was considering this for the cover, given the Plane got Qatar an Air Force Base in Idaho!

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AsylumHouse @asylum.bsky.social · 5h

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Mike Lowe @mike-lowe.bsky.social · 5h

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 5h

Nobody in Russia gives a shit about what photo TIME uses of Trump on its cover. But, Putin does give a shit about what Trump might think of the photo TIME uses on the cover, only because he actually needs to kiss Trump's ass for a change. That's what this is... it's Trump psychology.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

The Kremlin is upset about their boy’s Time cover photo.

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acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 5h

i like public figures who didn't get shot

SCARED Vonnegut @skrrtvonnegut.bsky.social · 5h

www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

Surely that means he should lose his job amirite

Trump Brags About Surviving Assassination Attempt at Charlie Kirk Ceremony

The Presidential Medal of Freedom places Kirk in the company of Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Libra on Fire 🔥 ⚖️ @libraonfire.bsky.social · 5h

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A Nobel Peace Prize perhaps 😂

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Resister @chrissmithmuso.bsky.social · 5h

F*ck them fascists.

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 7h

more detailed story in the @oregonian.com

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 20h

It’s a mental illness

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Expatriot @expatriot.bsky.social · 5h

They have *nothing* else.