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Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 3h

These people live in an alternate reality.

Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 4h

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 23h

I love this image.

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Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 1d

For the love of everting, please stop saying it's a Qatari base in the US. It will be a Qatari training facility on Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.

Holy shit. Reading comprehension and media literacy is lacking.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Mr. Secretary, the president is on the phone. He sounds very angry and he keeps calling you Lil Marco.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet.

MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

The right loves the accounts, which often rail against supposed voter fraud.

They’re run by a Macedonian who illegally donated to a U.S. House candidate.

Story: bit.ly/47grj1P

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 2d

This entire administration lives in a god damn bubble.

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Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 2d

Renaming our wireless network "Aunt Tifa's HQ".

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com

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Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 3d

AI will be our downfall in more ways than one.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

It's clear most Trump supporters have no idea the videos are fake.

Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World

Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism.

gizmodo.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

Trump just posted what looks like an old DOJ memo about President Kennedy’s use of the National Guard in Alabama to desegregate schools in 1963.

It’s a gross comparison, given the fact that Trump is basically George Wallace and he wants to use the Guard to invade cities, not advance civil rights.

Trump: U.S. Code. Those provisions authorize the President, when faced with such unlawful obstructions against the authority of the United States as existed in Alabama, to "call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary" (10
U.S.C. § 332) and to use
"the militia or the armed forces,
or both, or
• other means" (10 U.S.C. $ 333). The
militia of the United States includes the national guard, meaning the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of the several states. 10 U.S.C. § 311 and $ 101 (9), (10), (12) .
In furtherance of the President's order the Secretary of Defense immediately called into active military service all of the units and members of the Army National Guard and Air National Guard of the State of Alabama to serve in the active military service of the United States for an indefinite period and until relieved by appropriate orders.
This call was transmitted by the Secretary of the Army, acting by direction of, and under delegation of authority from, the Secretary of Defense.
Copies of the Department
of the Army message (No. D.A. 340638, June 11, 1963) were furnished immediately to the Governor of Alabama and to the commanding officers of the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of the State of Alabama.
It is apparent that the Alabama National Guard was properly called into federal service pursuant to 10 U.S.C.
§5 332-4, and in accordance with the procedure provided in those sections. Since the call to federal service did not invoke the authority of 10 U.S.C. $ 3500, referred to by Mr. Bowen, the procedure prescribed by that section was
not
used.
I trust that the foregoing information will be of
assistance to you.
Sincerely,
¡enera.
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10/7/25,

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Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 3d

The possibilities are endless!

Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 3d

The United States of Charlie.

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Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 3d

Why stop there? We could just rename the state CharlieKirkistan. 🤷🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

MSN

www.msn.com

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Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 3d

Everything this administration does is engineered to create the conditions for its endgame.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Michele Brooks @michelebrooks.bsky.social · 6d

Still hearing “I don’t do politics”? Sweetie, they politicized our culture. See Project 2025. Opting out isn’t an option.

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Sully Dawg @sullydawg2.bsky.social · 6d

Scoreboard of Truth

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7d

Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school.

Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 9d

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports

Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

www.pewresearch.org

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