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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 6h

No undercover FBI agents at Jan. 6 riot, watchdog finds in rebuke to conspiracy theories

The report Thursday from the Justice Department inspector general’s office knocks down a fringe conspiracy theory advanced by some Republicans in Congress that the FBI played a role in instigating the...

www.pbs.org

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 7h

This senile liar who currently occupies the White House does not remember that he was President on January 6th.

If you voted for this senile liar, and if you enable him today, you clearly are ok with breaking America. The ruins of our once great nation are because of you.

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 10h

Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who correctly remembers that contrary to trump's post, Joe Biden was NOT the President on January 6, 2021 -- trump was.

His delusional episodes are increasing, it's time for the 25th Amendment.

HE IS UNFIT TO SERVE.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 7h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

WATCH — @drjessicaknurick.bsky.social : “Here’s a partial list of things Trump is choosing to no longer study — food insecurity, gun violence, toxic exposures etc… Just because you don't measure it doesn't mean the problem went away. Censoring science & data collection is scary in a democracy.”

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Troopers with batons aggressively shoving crowd back.

Just saw two demonstrators arrested.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This MAGA propaganda is deeply sinister. Stephen Miller has been lying about Portland/Chicago relentlessly. It's core to his project: He's trying to establish quasi-absolute power for Trump to simply invent pretexts by fiat to justify whatever abuses he launches. 5/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 16h

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 8h

Going on @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social shortly to talk about the Supreme Court’s ongoing reign of terror over our constitutional democracy

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Wiley Miller @wileymiller.bsky.social · 1d

Via WaPo:
"The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed last week that the president’s crackdown is cutting off agriculture’s labor supply and threatening “the stability of domestic food production.”

Golly, who could have possibly foreseen THAT repercussion?

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15h

Fridays firings www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 18h

So there’s the billionaire in the White House who was born very rich and is now carrying out the pinnacle of his career as a fraud.

His campaign was largely funded by a billionaire who was born to owners of an emerald mine and made billions by lying for a decade about what his products could do.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19h

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

I recently sat down with three leaders who are part of the @obamafoundation.bsky.social's alumni network to hear more about their work to strengthen democracy in Hungary and Poland. They’re an example for us all. Take a look:

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Luke @lmwilliamsphd.bsky.social · 1d

Get involved at home Mr President. We need you here.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2d

“Sir, you didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize. What time do you want the bombings to begin?”

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 1d

meh 😏

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Venezuelan opposition leader dedicates Nobel Prize to Trump for ‘decisive support’

“I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause,” she wrote in a post on X.

www.politico.com

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Luke @lmwilliamsphd.bsky.social · 1d

The f?

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 1d

I had a biology teacher who regularly used to say he 'should get the Nobel Peace Prize here' for his work in quietening down the class. To my knowledge he never was recognised by the panel.

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LocoRunner @locorunner.bsky.social · 2d

We need to follow Portland's lead on this. Everyone should show up in ridiculous costumes and bounce around. The optics of their threats vs. costumed protestors would be more powerful than showing up angry (even if we ARE angry).

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 1d

It's a two-fer, you get your antisemitic conspiracy theory AND the insistence that there is no such thing as sincere progressive opinion, it couldn't possibly be that people are genuinely pissed off so they must have been paid to protest.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

We’re about to enter our LAST WEEK of our livestream fundraising experiment.

I wanted to prove that campaign fundraising can be fun and transparent instead of being reliant on rich people.

ICYMI, here’s how it’s been going:

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