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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18h

This is insane. If Obama did this the GOP would impeach

omg!

"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...

"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 14h

Oh, and it’s definitely wrong and illegal. We shouldn’t be using the military for that.

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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 14h

This is why law enforcement is best left to law enforcement.

If you’re not collecting evidence and ensuring chain of custody and all that other good stuff, you’re just shooting yourself in the dick.

Arbitrarily whacking drug cartels is easier, faster but in the long run it is not better

Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 15h

The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean was released by authorities in Ecuador after prosecutors said they had no evidence he committed a crime in the South American nation, a government official said Monday.

Ecuador says it has no evidence survivor of US strike in Caribbean committed any crime

www.stripes.com

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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 22h

There’s a metaphor somewhere in here

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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 1d

Pure cruelty

WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 1d

A video from Pokrovsk showing shot civilians was posted by Ukrainian volunteer Denys Khrystov.
t.me/c/1564038678...

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SAINT JAVELIN @saintjavelin.bsky.social · 1d

Message on the ruins of a building in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine as it comes under russian attack.

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BeardlessMountainMan @capnrickysully.bsky.social · 1d

Important to remember how instrumental this paper was in pushing the case for the Iraq war, how it fired voices of dissent. Glad people are finally realizing what a witch the Gray Lady has long been.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 10

In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders:

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

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Mike @mcgwh.bsky.social · 1d

Hometown newspaper doing yeoman’s work. www.gjsentinel.com/news/western...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 10

In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.

StatesmanJournal.com
SERVING SALEM, KEIZER
AND THE MID-VALLEY
"If you don't say anything, you're accepting it."
Mari Jensen, McMinnville resident
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CHOICES
LIMIT GOVERNMENT
Oregon Taxpayers United
FREEDOM
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TIMOTHY J. GONZALEZ | Statesman Journal
Alan Grosso (center) of Happy Valley joins in chanting under the window of the speaker of the House on Wednesday during the Salem Tea Party protest at the Capitol.
Protesters slam Fed spending
Hundreds gather at Salem Tea Party to rally against bailouts, state-level taxes
BY DENNIS THOMPSON JR.
Statesman Journal
Hundreds of people uneasy over the future of their country gathered on the state Capitol steps on Wednesday to protest federal spending and state-level taxation.
Oregon State Police estimated more
SCRAP THE CODE
than 1,000 people attended the Salem Tea Party protest, which ran from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Organizers placed attendance at more than 2,000 people.
The rally was passionate but peace-ful, although many people carried handmade signs bearing stark and angry messages. A fake wooden pitchfork read "Politicians take note. We the people are about to revolt." Anoth er sign read "200+ years to build the Republic, 3 mos. to destroy it."
Many attendees said they were motivated to protest by the billions in stimulus spending and bailouts that have been doled out in recent months.
Willy Lowman of Falls City wears a label on his head that reads "Scrap the Code" at the tea party protest.
West Salem resident Steve Albin said he
came to protest federal bailouts of banks and automakers.
"They need to fail. That's what capitalism is all about," said Albin, who had a tea bag dangling from the brim
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Inside
Protesters take part in Tea Party events across the nation, Page 2A
Supporters to push for immigration reform, Page 2A
• ONLINE: See photo galleries and a video from the protest at StatesmanJournal.com.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

everyone: we don’t want kings

rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king

the entire trump administration:

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesn’t seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

one interesting thing is the collapse of mass support for trump before he took office. his in-person events were sparsely attended. his conventional fundraising (donations in the dollar to thousand dollar range) was more or less nonexistent.

Trump I was a grassroots phenomenon. Trump II was elite.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesn’t seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

the media has made a huge deal about Neutrality and Not Editorializing and it all falls apart when you realize they are too afraid to publish a factual description of the video Trump posted

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 1d

Russians started a human safari in Pokrovsk too. Videos are just civilians getting slaughtered under the surveillance of a drone. This will obviously not make it to headlines but please don’t let russians kill in silence

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 1d

🤬 In Pokrovsk, Russians shot civilians.

💔 Near the railway, to which the Russians had made their way, a drone discovered the bodies of three civilians and a woman with bullet wounds in her legs. She was later carried away in the arms of an unknown man.

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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 1d

⚡️Updated: Zelensky should not be pressured to give up territory, Poland's Tusk says.

"None of us should put pressure on Zelensky when it comes to territorial concessions. We should all put pressure on Russia to stop its aggression. Appeasement never was a road to a just and lasting peace."

'He's going to take something' — Trump says Putin has 'won' territory in Ukraine

"He's won certain property," Trump told Fox News, indicating that Putin would lay claim to Ukrainian lands as part of a U.S.-brokered peace deal.

kyivindependent.com

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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 2d

Believe it or not but sovereign states have the ultimate castle doctrine / stand your ground laws to protect them as an entity.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, Congressman, for your steadfast support of #Ukraine.
You make excellent points.

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 2d

More people marched today than at any time in the history of the United States.

For @nytimes.com, it was the 6th most important story.

They are making sure that those in power do not see what they do not want to see.

This is not what we were brought up to think of as journalism.

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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 2d

I pitty the future historians that will have to spend countless hours in the preparation of their PhD going through this stuff with a fine tooth comb.

Assuming historians and PhDs are still a thing in the future is pretty bold, I know.

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 2d

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 2d

This should be of critical importance anyone with even the faintest interest in US national security.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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