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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, all voted for cuts to the CFPB.

Yet collectively, they routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.

(Published August)
By @joeljacobs.bsky.social

These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.

Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, lo...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h

This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 8h

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

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 · 16h

"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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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 9h

Are American citizens being disappeared? Yes.

Are American citizens who are veterans of the US Armed Forces being disappeared? Yes.

Without warrant or probable cause—solely based on skin color—Trump goons captured and caged a citizen veteran for days.

This is a fascist regime.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

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 · 16h

"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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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, America, he is referring to the 100% peaceful No Kings rallies that have literally nothing to do with Hamas or antifa or hating America.

America has been gaslit by these lunatics every day for a decade, and at some point the other shoe will drop—though I have no idea what or when that will be.

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LE Murphy @lemurphy.bsky.social · 10h

I, too, could use a blanket binkie lately.

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LE Murphy @lemurphy.bsky.social · 10h

This means that the Pacific Northwest will be under constant incursion of a foreign military. Trump is sending a FOREIGN MILITARY to America.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11h

Pete Hegseth announced an agreement today to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at a U.S. Air Force Base in Idaho.

Reminder: Earlier this year, the Trump admin accepted a Boeing 747 jet as a gift from the Qatari royal family.

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 10h

WGN employee detained amid ICE activity in Chicago, later released

thehill.com

WGN employee detained amid ICE activity in Chicago, later released

twp.ai

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

😳 800 citations in two years for ignoring the laws in Nevada and @GovBillLee invited this wrecking crew to dig through the capital city www.newschannel5.com/news/elon-mu...

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 11h

Sending billions to Argentina while laying off Americans at home.

Letting Qatar build a base on US soil coz they bribed Trump with a plane and are investing billions in his personal business ventures.

Doesn’t seem like “America First”, does it?

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19h

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Real estate investors now own about 20% of single-family homes in the country.

A big reason why home prices have skyrocketed in recent years is a lack of supply — and investors sinking their teeth into whatever is left on the market is making the problem even worse.

How Wall Street Priced You Out of a Home | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump is ordering extrajudicial killings of suspected drug smugglers.

He's vilifying his political opponents and threatening to jail them.

His ICE agents are terrorizing immigrants and firing chemical agents at peaceful protestors.

And some people think he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize?

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LE Murphy @lemurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Antifa

General George S. Patton. The one Hegseth and Trump idolize. Who fought against Fascists to win WWII.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

"I have trouble with the term 'liberal Zionism'"

Anti-Zionist Jewish Hollywood star Hannah Einbinder on the "settler colonialist ideology" and "apartheid" of Zionism, in the new Zeteo podcast 'Beyond Israelism with Simone Zimmerman'.

Full show: zeteo.com/p/beyond-isr...

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Weird how offended Christians get about the teachings of Christ.

Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 1d

Lol

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LE Murphy @lemurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! I apologize to Sen. Cantwell. I'm glad BOTH my senators are on the correct side of history.

LE Murphy @lemurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Murray has been a refreshingly solid voice in leadership that otherwise are a bunch of mealy-mouthed wimps.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Only the best people.🙄

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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PhillipUSA @phillipusa.bsky.social · 1d

🧐

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LE Murphy @lemurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Only 50% for my state. Cantwell cannot be counted on. Murray is solid.

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LE Murphy @lemurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Brava! We need this shown EVERYWHERE!!!

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Congresswoman Sarah McBride @mcbride.house.gov · 1d

🚨 It’s Mythbusters time. I asked my Democratic colleagues to help me clear up the shutdown misinformation being spread by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
@pelosi.house.gov
@frost.house.gov
@raskin.house.gov
@kim.senate.gov

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