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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 1h

Look for the self-serving, self-dealing, self– aggrandizing, self-enriching angle on this one…

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2h

I, for one am shocked - <shocked> - that American financial institutions stand to benefit from bailouts to other countries

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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 1h

“Hey buddy, can you spare a trillion?”

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2h

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 1h

Snowflake fascism is the worst kind of fascism

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 2h

Blaise Ingoglia, DeSantis’ handpicked CFO, was asked about the postcard and if his DFS officers should have treated it as a threat. He said he never saw it but then said “I’m sure that’s not the only thing” when a reporter told him what it said.

Ingoglia also has ties to Susie Wiles.

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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 2h

It won’t be as pretty as all that for lil Step

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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 9h

Friday’s Subconscious Editorial Cartoon
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Friday’s Subconscious Editorial Cartoon

Shark Week

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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 11h

Another criminal gang snatching people off the streets of America. Where is our police protection? Where are our law-enforcement officers? What the fuck are we paying for?

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 11h

Dream protest!

Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 20h

Trump is trying to deploy the National Guard to Oregon, claiming that the state is a battlefield and troops are needed to protect federal agents who are attempting to enforce immigration laws

Meanwhile, at the ICE facility in Portland, it’s

Cry “havoc” and let slip the axolotls of war

Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 11h

No shit, Sherlock…

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 11h

As tensions mount between governors over Trump’s interstate National Guard deployments, the Republican leader of the National Governors Association said the move is a violation of states’ rights.

Newsom urged governors to speak out against interstate troop deployments. A key Republican just did

As tensions mount between governors over Trump’s interstate National Guard deployments, the Republican leader of the National Governors Association said the move is a violation of states’...

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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 11h

We have their names. They will be prosecuted.

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 11h

The mob wants people running, scared and begging for medicine at any price. This is a mobster operation, not a government.

#GeneralStrikeNow

If you ever wanna see any kind of real medicine again

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 11h

I predict a road rage blowout coming soon.
I bet he’s already wearing the diaper in the gym

Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 11h

That headline makes me wanna puke.

He’s a scumbag abroad

He’s a scumbag at home

He’s a world class lowlife scumbag in a world full of lowlife scumbags

Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 11h

Gestapo. They are the Gestapo.

The Gestapo is very bad

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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 11h

“Are you familiar with the concept of willful blindness?“

OMFG

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

New blockbuster reporting on the secretive map drawing process in Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

New Details Emerge in Federal Court About Texas’ Secretive Redistricting Map

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 17h

Winston Churchill could not have said it better…

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 1d

A criminal regime acknowledging its anti-constitutional stance against everything that America is and will be.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 1d

#PutinIsAWarCriminal
And he isn’t finished with the war he started
#NATONow

Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 1d

Xi has him, an US, by the short hairs.
Every instinct Trump has is destructive. He is a tool for the criminal syndicates awaiting the sawing up of the carcass.

But we’re not dead yet!!

#GeneralStrike

To take back this country and the economy from these crypto kleptomaniacs

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump posts a bizarre, whiny screed signaling an escalation of tensions with China

Some very strange things are happening in China! They are becoming very hostile, and sending letters to Countries throughout the World, that they want to impose Export Controls on each and every element of production having to do with Rare Earths, and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it’s not manufactured in China. Nobody has ever seen anything like this but, essentially, it would “clog” the Markets, and make life difficult for virtually every Country in the World, especially for China. We have been contacted by other Countries who are extremely angry at this great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere. Our relationship with China over the past six months has been a very good one, thereby making this move on Trade an even more surprising one. I have always felt that they’ve been lying in wait, and now, as usual, I have been proven right! There is no way that China should be allowed to hold the World “captive,” but that seems to have been their plan for quite some time, starting with the “Magnets” and, other Elements that they have quietly amassed into somewhat of a Monopoly position, a rather sinister and hostile move, to say the least. But the U.S. has Monopoly positions also, much stronger and more far reaching than China’s. I have just not chosen to use them, there was never a reason for me to do so — UNTIL NOW! The letter they sent is many pages long, and details, with great specificity, each and every Element that they want to withhold from other Nations. Things that were routine are no longer routine at all. I have not spoken to President Xi because there was no reason to do so. This was a real surprise, not only to me, but to all the Leaders of the Free World. I was to meet President Xi in two weeks, at APEC, in South Korea, but now there seems to be no reason to do so. The Chinese letters were especially inappropriate in that this was the Day that, after three thousand years of bedlam and fighting, there is PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

I wonder if that timing was coincidental? Dependent on what China says about the hostile “order” that they have just put out, I will be forced, as President of the United States of America, to financially counter their move. For every Element that they have been able to monopolize, we have two. I never thought it would come to this but perhaps, as with all things, the time has come. Ultimately, though potentially painful, it will be a very good thing, in the end, for the U.S.A. One of the Policies that we are calculating at this moment is a massive increase of Tariffs on Chinese products coming into the United States of America. There are many other countermeasures that are, likewise, under serious consideration. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 1d

#GeneralStrikeNow for the ultimate in newsworthy, regime ending actions by masses of people.