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ResistPrevailRepeat @resistprevail.bsky.social · 4h

UT System hasn't signed yet. Not too late to contact the board of regents, the president's office, the alumni center, and Development (fundraising).

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“It is anti-free speech,” UT Austin students protest White House funding proposal

The fight over academic freedom continues at the University of Texas at Austin as university leaders consider a White House offer that would trade federal fundi

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17h

The new talking point from the Speaker of the House is that the No Kings rallies were about calling for the murder of political opponents??

The way they defame the American people is insane.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people?

MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 9h

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

How to Join ICE

theonion.com/how-to-join-...

STEP 1
Be born with something just…missing

STEP 2
Try deporting a few neighbors without the constitutional authority to do so, to see if it’s for you

STEP 3
Unlearn any secondary languages you may know

STEP 4
If filling out the application form presents a challenge, candidates may instead demonstrate how hard they can punch a dog

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life

and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

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Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 14h

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15h

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

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It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

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thebobbygee @thebobgoodman.bsky.social · 1d

I thought there is separation between church and state. Guess not.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 13h

“Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians, in what it calls security prisoners or detainees,” says Sari Bashi, an Israeli American human rights lawyer and former program director at Human Rights Watch.

The Forgotten Captives: Israel Still Imprisoning 9,000 Palestinians Even After Hostage Deal

“Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians, in what it calls security prisoners or detainees,” says Sari Bashi, an Israel...

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gspinell @gspinell.bsky.social · 19h

He is coming more undone. He couldn't stand the millions of people saying shit about him!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

The Feces Fighter Pilot speaks.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

-A living wage
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence

These are the foundations of real freedom.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

Over 500,000 views before the Community Note fact check.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 14h

Deplorable promotion of antisemitic trope. They get away with this crap with impunity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Ernst: "I think it is extremely important that we look at who is funding these protests. We have to get to the bottom of this. It could be the usual suspect -- George Soros."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Moskowitz: We need $30 billion to extend, obviously, these healthcare subsidies, which allow Americans—Americans, not illegal—Americans, citizens, to afford healthcare.

And the president’s like, “We don’t have $30 billion, but I am going to send $40 billion to my dear friend in Argentina.”

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 6d

Trump is saying the quiet part out loud: he sent a $20B taxpayer-financed bailout to help his far-right buddy Milei cling to power.

Meanwhile our government is shut down, public servants aren't getting paid & we're barreling toward a Trump-made health care crisis. Sounds like Argentina First to me.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

KENNY LOGGINS, on the Feces Fighter Jet:

“.. I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us. Too many people are trying to tear us apart .. We’re all Americans ..”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

You know it’s bad when the Dept of Labor says immigration raids are “threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for US consumers.”

@opinion.bloomberg.com #CPI
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15h

I intellectually understand why corporate media is scared of Trump and why they regularly pull punches, though I find it deeply cowardly. But I do not understand why they refuse to describe in plain, factual terms the things he says and does

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News Outlets Won't Describe Trump's AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America

Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, or poop, poop.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 17h

Man. There were 300 people at the No Kings rally in my tiny rural county. Which didn't crack the top 50 biggest No Kings events in California. Meanwhile The Gray Lady continues to dance the false equivalency two-step.

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Midge & Susie @midgeandsusie.bsky.social · 1d

We love that they are proving this book correct.

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Barb @godoggotofreedom.bsky.social · 1d

This fact that Dutch Intelligence has determined the US cant be trusted and has leaked to Russia, has proved even after 47 is long gone, the regime has squandered the world's goodwill. A third of voters care, a third didn't care to vote, and the last third can created this dumpster fire.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

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 ...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

This is sick. Several of the MS13 gang members Trump traded to Bukele so he could have access to CECOT prison for deportees were actually COOPERATORS with law enforcement. He betrayed them. wapo.st/4nbNiM4

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · Feb 16

Friends,

May we never forget that while negotiations,statements, addresses and the rest of the (undoubtedly important) diplomacy track are happening,exhausted #Ukrainian men &women in military uniform are holding back evil on the frontlines.

Without them,there would be no diplomacy track at all.

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