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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 8d

and while we’re on the subject of how i can contribute to the general understanding of “words the right wing is using wrong” and “bad faith attacks on the man poised to become NYC’s first mayor who isn’t a batman villain,” consider this: ‘communism’ is just whatever they’re most afraid of right now

Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · Jul 3

New Weird Little Guys: There Is A Spectre Haunting New York City 🗽

@socialistdogmom.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12h

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.

Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.

She was later released with NO CHARGE.

A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.

You decide…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Louisiana — the red state that Mike Johnson nominally represents — has the second highest percentage of residents enrolled in SNAP in the nation.

They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Mike Johnson: "These blue states have abused the SNAP program just like they've abused Medicaid and so many other government programs."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10h

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Elon Musk endorses Cuomo for mayor of New York and makes sure to add some racism in there: “…Mumdumi or whatever his name is.”

Elon Musk: Remember to vote tomorrow in New York!
Bear in mind that a vote for Curtis is really a vote for Mumdumi or whatever his name is.
VOTE CUOMO!
11:45 AM • 11/3/25 • 1.2M Views

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Freswinn @freswinn.bsky.social · 9h

(.. disregarding the way the founding of this nation came about and quoting only a few lines before he goes into some prelapsarian bs, but still..)

Freswinn @freswinn.bsky.social · 9h

O beautiful for spacious skies,
but now those skies are threatening
We're beating plowshares into swords
for this tired old man that we've elected king
Armchair warriors often fail, and we've been
poisoned by these fairy tales.
-Don Henley, "End of the Innocence"

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

She's just been arrested lol

Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 1d

I deleted the thread since it’s misleading now.

Israeli Chief JAG went missing after becoming target of public scrutiny and right wing attacks over her leak of investigation video of abuse of Hamas prisoners. She has since been found healthy following report of note left behind in her car.

Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 1d

She’s alive and well and has been contacted. A huge relief

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

The War Powers Resolution was Congress’s attempt to rein in the quasi-legal military authority that had been accumulated by the presidency. It was passed in response to Nixon’s secret bombing of Cambodia, Operation Menu, which was *drumroll* an airstrike campaign.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

The Justice Department told Congress this week that President Trump could lawfully continue his lethal military strikes on people suspected of smuggling drugs at sea. The move rests on the idea that a Vietnam-era law called the War Powers Resolution does not apply to airstrike campaigns.

War Powers Law Does Not Apply to Trump’s Boat Strikes, Administration Says

The move deepened the idea that a Vietnam-era law, which says congressionally unauthorized deployments into “hostilities” must end after 60 days, does not apply to airstrike campaigns.

nyti.ms

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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 1d

Jimenez, 25, was charged in federal court with assault on a federal officer. A judge released him on bond Friday.

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Jonathan Harris @jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so funny that Trump immediately and openly shits all over the fake outrage the right has spent all week peddling. They’re planning to throw out Biden’s pardons and EOs because he supposedly had no idea what was going on!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them.
After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer."
www.calonews.com/featured-top...

Carlos Jimenez, a 24-year-old U.S. citizen, was on his way to work at a food bank when he was shot by ICE officers in what a DHS spokesperson calls “defensive shots.”

On Thursday morning at approximately 6:30 a.m., ICE officers were at Vineyard Avenue in Ontario when Jimenez, who was not in the target vehicle, attempted to pull in front of the officers.

According to Javier Hernandez, executive director of the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, Jimenez was trying to assist and provide aid to the person who was being stopped by ICE officers.

After Jimenez was shot in the shoulder, the LA Times and LA Taco reported that he drove to his brother’s house so he could take him to the hospital.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 2d

this is why I think Matt Yglesias’ stance that we shouldn’t talk about anything other than healthcare is insane

the average American doesn’t yet realize that Trump has created a Gestapo. Democrats need to talk about it and raise awareness of videos like this rather than just ignore it.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Poll: Americans say “too divided”
Pundit: Dems are being too divisive

Poll: Legal system unfair
Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes

Poll: Low trust in media
Pundits: MSM is too far left

Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."

Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.

Ezra Klein

This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism

I saw a poll a few weeks ago that struck me. It was from The New York Times and Siena University. It asked Americans what they thought the top problem facing the country was. No. 1 was the economy. That was what I expected. But No. 2 wasn’t immigration or inflation or democracy or climate change or even Trump. It was political division. In that same poll, 64 percent of the country said we’re too divided to solve our problems. They’re not wrong.

I hear it when Trump says, “I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them.” When I hear that, I hear something scary, but I also hear an opening, an opportunity: In the end, most Americans want America to work. They know we disagree with one another. They don’t want us to hate one another.

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Feljin Jose @feljin.ie · 2d

Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.

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Leigh Kunkel @leighkunkel.bsky.social · 2d

I can't think of anything to say

A girl holding a sign reading SET MY DAD FREE

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

My latest is about the latest revelations on the failed prosecution of Donald Trump, and why you should blame Merrick Garland more than the Supreme Court.

You Should Blame Merrick Garland

Garland's incompetence gave the Supreme Court the chance to set Trump free

stringinamaze.net

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2d

Texas leads the nation in uninsured rate, with 16% of our population having no medical insurance.

Even among TX children, 14% have NO coverage, which is >2X the national average.

And in the GOP budget proposals, it will get even worse. And those it hurts will almost all be minorities.

1.7 million Texans could lose health coverage under expiring tax credits, ACA changes in GOP megabill - The Texas Tribune

Having never expanded Medicaid, Texas avoided most of the looming federal cuts other states will face. But the Affordable Care Act is a different story.

www.texastribune.org

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

coloradosun.com/2025/10/30/c...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Outside Chicago—

State police and sheriff's officers at Broadview detention center are out in riot gear.

A large Halloween demo is being prevented from doing a Jericho walk through the intersection.

Arrests of protesters ongoing. Troopers have also assaulted multiple reporters already.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 2d

Is the correct position supposed to be that Israeli settler violence is good

New York Post @nypost.com · 4d

Video shows Zohran Mamdani fervently shouting about defunding ‘Israeli settler violence’ just months before Oct. 7

Socialist mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani fervently shouted about defunding "Israeli settler violence" at a Big Apple rally -- just months before Hamas carried out its deadly Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack, newly surfaced video shows.

nypost.com

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Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 2d

The Fugitive Slave Act legalized bounty hunting.

It’s crystal clear what Make America Great Again really means.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 2d

“Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive “monetary bonuses” depending on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report to ICE.”

Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.

ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants

Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate — and paid cash bonuses for performance.

theintercept.com

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW investigation: We uncovered previously undisclosed details about an 18-month money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that took place alongside the 2007 sex crimes probe, according to emails obtained from Epstein's personal Yahoo account
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Jeffrey Epstein Went to War Over Money Laundering Probe in 2007 Sex Case

Federal prosecutors opened a financial-crimes investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 amid their larger sex-trafficking probe. The financier and his legal team waged a war against them, his emails ...

www.bloomberg.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 3d

Ezra Lavant said it was weird that JD Vance threw his wife under the bus to please groypers and had to delete the comment after the Vice President put him on blast. Now he's furiously posting clips of Nick Fuentes calling JD Vance fat gay and a race traitor

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What a disgusting comment, and it's hardly been the only one along these lines.

First off, the question was from a person seemingly to my left, about my interfaith marriage. I'm a public figure, and people are curious, and I wasn't going to avoid the question.

Second, my Christian faith tells me the Gospel is true and is good for human beings. My wife--as I said at the TPUSA--is the most amazing blessing I have in my life. She herself encouraged me to reengage with my faith many years ago. She is not a Christian and has no plans to convert, but like many people in an interfaith marriage--or any interfaith relationship--I hope she may one day see things as I do. Regardless, I'll continue to love and support her and talk to her about faith and life and everything else, because she's my wife.

Third, posts like this wreak of anti-Christian bigotry. Yes, Christians have beliefs. And yes, those beliefs have many consequences, one of which is that we want to share them with other people. That is a completely normal thing, and anyone who's telling you otherwise has an agenda. https://x.com/ezralevant/sta/ezralevant/status/1984072547357618408

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Nick Fuentes on Vice President Vance:

"He is literally a fat, gay, race traitor that married a *slur*"

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 3d

reposting this very violent scene following a rear-ending at Oakton and Asbury in Evanston as obtained by Matthew Eadie @ Evanston Now. it's really, really bad out there right now

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