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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 1h

Look & listen - this is what the Democratic base is hungry for and what our current Democratic leadership in Congress is not delivering.

If Schumer is successful getting 77 yo Gov Mills into this race those of us who can, need to send $, because Mills will have plenty of it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 2h

HE WAS PAID 50 K IN A CAVA BAG, COME ON!

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 19h

People who act confused by Hamas' desire to free Barghoti are bizarre to me, Hamas wants him out even though he isn't Hamas affiliated because they believe he is one of the few, or maybe even the only, individuals who can unite the whole of Palestinian factions under the PLO

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 1d

#neverforget

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 1d

Shocking, that after 2 yrs of seeing shocking images out of Gaza, folks are clutched their pearls about Harris’s feelings being hurt! People were BEGGING her to choose a different path, laying out exactly what would happen and we are supposed to get upset that her book tour was interrupted? smh

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 1d

I love this for them.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 1d

looking forward to the selfie already

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 1d

yes.

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 1d

although I am willing to sponsor 1 or 2 if they stay 40 bucks a pop

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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 2d

HAHAHAHAHAHA get fucked you rich asshole

Carlsbad homeowner ordered to remove private gate to public beach, fined $1.4 million

John Levy was penalized by state Coastal Commission for a string of Coastal Act violations stretching back years

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

Janet Mills — who is 77 — should stay the absolute fuck away from the Senate race and this situation is honestly

FRUSTRATING. AS. FUCK.

GRAHAM PLATNER FOR SENATE!

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 2d

he did it! 🎉🎉🎉

Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 2d

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 2d

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 2d

what an odd group

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d

lol this is crazy i mean this guys the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 2d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 3d

ok who else is hyped for Good Bunny

screenshot of headline: MAGA rage over Bad Bunny at Super Bowl sparks an alternative show

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Liam Jeffries @sorathecyclist.bsky.social · 3d

This is the absolute dream challenger to Jeffries. Please, please, please let this happen.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 3d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 4d

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 4d

they are really trying to provoke some shit

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 4d

soooo i guess that means the yellow tape stays up?

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BREAKING: DHS Sec. Kristi Noem announces she warned Portland's mayor and police chief today in their meeting that she will flood the city with four times the number of federal agents if they don't immediately crack down on Antifa at the ICE facility:
"What I told him is that if he did not follow through on some of these security measures for our officers, we were going to cover him up with more federal resources and that we were going to send four times the amount of federal officers here so that the people of Portland could have some safety, they could have some security."

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 4d

truly vile times

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s video of the incident

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Lauren Macdonald @maclauren.bsky.social · 4d

Schumer’s gotta go 👋👋👋

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d

Janet Mills is 77, turning 78 at the end of this year. If she won in 2026, her first term in the Senate would end when she's 85 years old.

"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has lobbied Mills to run for months..."

Axios @axios.com · 4d

Scoop: Maine Gov. Janet Mills is poised to jump into Maine Senate race

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 5d

The obvious answer is because you’re implicated in organizing with treasonous criminals who attempted to overthrow the government and they want to know what you said to them, you seditious piece of shit

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d

Graham: Can you tell me why my phone records were sought by the jack Smith agents. Why did they ask to know who I called and what I was doing from January 4th to the seventh? Can you tell me that?

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 5d

one way to understand the moment’s grand conflict is between apartheid and inclusion as the structuring ideal of the state. 1/

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