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Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 11h

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Rep-Elect Adelita Grijalva announces her election results will be OFFICIALLY certified tomorrow, destroying Mike Johnson’s last excuse to delay her swearing in.

“Mike Johnson needs to do his job so I can do mine.”

No more lies.
No more delays.
Swear her in!

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Colleen Boland 🇺🇦🌏🏳️‍🌈🫡 @colleenboland.bsky.social · 10h

Bernie’s 🔥 response to Mike Johnson on the Oct 18 #NoKings rallies. NY-23 Congressman Nick Langworthy, take note.

2,500+ rallies in the U.S., in Canada and in Europe. Millions of people will gather to decry Trump and his sycophants’ unlawful, cruel, and cowardly policies.

@aarongies.bsky.social

No, Speaker Johnson.

YouTube video by Bernie Sanders

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maga-crime-watch.bsky.social @maga-crime-watch.bsky.social · 9h

When the Speaker of the House admits he's unaware of the details of layoffs of thousands of government workers, then that just shows us how much Congress has surrendered their authority to Donald. And that's truly scary. # Mike Johnson

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🐿️Square Squirrel🐿️🌏🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇲🇺🇦🇲🇽🇨🇦🌈🦔🐈🐾 @squaresquirrel.bsky.social · 8h

"Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House, has ordered members of his party to stay away from Washington."
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House Republicans 'beginning to doubt' Trump’s 'government shutdown tactics'

The United States' federal government has been partially shut down since October 1, and as of Monday afternoon, October 13, a resolution appears to be nowhere in sight.House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Lo...

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Jason Odell @luminescentphoto.com · 11h

Up there in the clouds, the NLCS is being called by Scully and Uecker. Imagine that.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12h

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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Lee @leeephillips.bsky.social · 6h

Johnsons favorite line is ' I've been busy, I haven't seen that ', but he is always busy preparing strategy for his next interview or press conference. There is the occasional ' I don't negotiate in public ', but he doesn't in private either.

Lee @leeephillips.bsky.social · 6h

So America will be the outlier radicle people who defy far extremist right fascism. So what is the problem in that?

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15h

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News!
www.foxnews.com/politics/squ...

Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future

Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

www.foxnews.com

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Lee @leeephillips.bsky.social · 6h

When an administration portrays street crime as an insurrection or terrorist act it is extremely ignorant of both, a person believing that administration is incredibly stupid and horribly lazy for not knowing the ignorance.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Lee @leeephillips.bsky.social · 6h

ICE is not Law Enforcement it is immigration, and DHS does not have the right to forcibly clear state or city owned public roadways. Their security enforcement detail ended the moment they walked off Federal property and began acting as illegal vigilantes in an imagined war.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19h

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Lee @leeephillips.bsky.social · 7h

Staged or not the only real question is WTF because any way a person were to look at it, it says " look at us we're Fn stupid "!

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Truth & Facts Matter 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦 @cancatdo.bsky.social · 10h

I hope the protesters will do 2 things:

Sit down immediately, wherever they are - everyone just sit down on the ground & refuse to engage no matter what they do! They’ll stand out like sore thumbs!

Record every second of them - try to get identifying features of the individuals on video!
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Swanky Somm III @sommaf.bsky.social · 12h

These people are despicable. When you look at the no King's protest post, everything says, be peaceful and respectful of everyone and everything around you. And what do they do? They're ready to bring the proud boys into "take care of business, the easy way." 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼

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Lee @leeephillips.bsky.social · 8h

" proudboys " - ' trespass, assault, destruction of property, intent to stop the Government transfer of Power ( Insurrection ), so much America ' .
Oann - ' they get things done without the police, the military, and I commend and recommend my friends '.

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 13h

💥 MAGA TV host (Eric Bolling) delivers ominous on-air threat: 'We don’t wanna condone violence — wink-wink' twp.ai/9PXNaI

MAGA TV host delivers ominous on-air threat: 'We don’t wanna condone violence — wink-wink'

MAGA TV host Eric Bolling lobbed a sarcastic threat at Antifa during a live call with one of his show's viewers on Monday.A caller asked Bolling why groups like the Proud Boys have not been sent after...

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 11h

OAN today bsky.app/profile/chri...

Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 13h

Right Inciting Violence on Live TV 10/13/25
💥 On Antifa: "Why can't we just send the PROUD BOYS in there and take care of business the easy way- without the cops, without the military, just go in there and let him go at it!" twp.ai/9PXNaI

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11h

Solidarity is the only way

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 8h

Freed photojournalist Shadi Abu Sido, kidnapped on March 18, 2024, during Israel’s raid on Al-Shifa Medical Complex, spoke after nearly 20 months in captivity, expressing shock at global silence.

“For two years I was starved, I went in starving and came out starving,” he said.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

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Lee @leeephillips.bsky.social · 13h

The US bought the Louisiana territory from France, and France was instrumental in helping the US defeat England in the Revolutionary War.

Lee @leeephillips.bsky.social · 13h

They knew there would be a Johnson, that's why they made it possible to vote him out.