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Michael Adzema @sillymickel.bsky.social · 7h

#TruthWarriors

what apparently they have in mind...

until they can out & out murder us...

facing uncertain demands for labor, with the AI revolution, putting the computer revolution on steroids eliminating jobs..

is to lock as many of us up as possible

for prison labor

or brought out as needed

Libra on Fire 🔥 ⚖️ @libraonfire.bsky.social · 8h

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Stop pretending cuts to food programs are “budget decisions.”

They’re decisions to create crises people can be locked up for.

#PrivatePrisons #SNAP #Jeffries #MikeJohnson #30DayStrike

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

Important to note that it's New York STATE that brought charges against the J6er that threatened Hakeem Jeffries. Not the DOJ.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 9h

DOJ declined to bring charges against two people who threatened to kill @ericswalwell.bsky.social this year, @nbcnews.com reports: www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 7h

Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, has described inhumane conditions in Israeli detention as rights advocates call for his release.

Cold cells, meagre meals: Palestinian American boy suffers in Israeli jail

Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, has described inhumane conditions in Israeli detention as rights advocates call for his release.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 9h

"Eric Trump Says Curtis Sliwa Should Drop Out to Give Cuomo a Chance." When the Trump crime family is endorsing Andrew Cuomo for NYC mayor it tells you all you need to know about Cuomo.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 10h

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

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Michael Adzema @sillymickel.bsky.social · 9h

#TruthWarriors

🟰🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🟰 @antimyopic.bsky.social · 9h

Reality is, he eloquently articulates ideologies that are viewed as moderate to progressive in most western democracies.

It’s just that the U.S. (inc. legacy Dem leaders) has veered so far to the extreme right in the past 20 yrs, it’s lost its ability to reason once someone yells “socialist”.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

“Are you asking the DOJ to pay you? How much?"

TRUMP: *pretends not to understand the Q 🤷🏼 … says he’ll give it to charity 🤥 … rambles for 2 minutes about how the election was stolen from him 🥸*

Endless corruption and greed

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 9h

"Israel takes steps to shut down international aid groups in Gaza and the West Bank." This is because to Netanyahu and his supremacist coalition the lives of Christian and Muslim Palestinians don't matter. www.npr.org/2025/10/21/n...

Israel takes steps to shut down international aid groups in Gaza and the West Bank

Israel is de-registering major nongovernmental aid groups from helping people in the Palestinian territories, according to several officials with humanitarian organizations.

www.npr.org

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

The man should be in prison. But sure, let's pay him a quarter of a billion for being a criminal.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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Chainmailed Heart @chainmailedheart.bsky.social · 9h

ICE is apparently authorized to shoot people, but not necessarily trained.

www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/s...

ICE agents shoot and injure man, deputy US Marshal while serving warrant in South LA, DHS says

A shooting occurred while immigrant agents, assisted by U.S. Marshals, were serving a warrant to detain an undocumented immigrant, authorities said.

www.nbclosangeles.com

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Chainmailed Heart @chainmailedheart.bsky.social · 9h

There's not enough money to help ordinary people, only the very rich.

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Shane Claiborne @shaneclaiborne.bsky.social · 9h

Yoooo… get ready. We’re talking about principalities and powers and exorcising demons and rebuking the devil and confronting evil in high places - tonight at 7:45pmET… don’t miss it.

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INFRAGARD FUNDED Trader Joe’s News @traderjoesnews.bsky.social · 9h

I think just understanding the depth of how much democracy has been dissolved is humbling...I feel for all the 18 y/o starting college, looking forward to what are supposed to be the best years of their lives, now they're dealing w generations' of "good vibes only" politics crashing down.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 11h

BREAKING: Sen. DURBIN sends official congressional correspondence asking if Kristi Noem has hired any January 6th rioters at ICE.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

it's dizzying to me that stories like this -- a corrupt grift built on democracy-wrecking lies that culminated in a coup attempt -- barely breakthrough anymore. they're just daily background noise now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

COLLINS: The NYT is reporting your legal team is seeking $230 million from your own DOJ now in response to the investigations into you. Is that something you want?

TRUMP: It could be, yeah. I don't even talk to them about it. All I know is they would owe me a lot of money. They rigged the election.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

New York:

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 11h

Federal agents are staging a massive operation downtown near Canal street. Show of force with reportedly dozens of agents from agencies including ICE, FBI, IRS, DEA, etx

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9h

Federal agents from ICE and HSI—some in military fatigues and masks—descended on Chinatown today in an aggressive and reckless raid on immigrant street vendors.

Once again, the Trump administration chooses authoritarian theatrics that create fear, not safety. It must stop.

Federal agents descend on Chinatown in apparent raid

The raid follows recent federal arrests at a Midtown migrant shelter, part of what officials call a broader push to “restore law and order” in New York City.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9h

NEW: AZ AG Kris Mayes and Adelita Grijalva have filed suit asking the court to declare Grijalva a member of the House once she's sworn in, and if Johnson won't do it, to allow someone else to. www.abc15.com/news/state/a...

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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 14h

People in historic homes can't even paint without approval, but this guy can demolish part of a historical, government owned building that he is temporarily living in?!? WTH?

#ProudBlue

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Michael Adzema @sillymickel.bsky.social · 8h

right right and right

"Biden did not go after any Jan 6 planners, didn’t release the full Mueller Report, or any Trump Intel files."

#TruthWarriors

JB95842.bsky.social @jb95842.bsky.social · 8h

It is hard to defend Garland, but if Biden wanted to go after Trump, he could have replaced Garland with someone who would prosecute. Biden did not go after any Jan 6 planners, didn’t release the full Mueller Report, or any Trump Intel files. He was forced to release Epstein financial records. Why?

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10h

TRUMP (FIRST TERM): Look at me! I'm refusing my $400,000 presidential salary—and only making tens of millions shaking down foreign nationals at my DC hotel!

TRUMP (SECOND TERM): Put $230 million in an unmarked bag or the country gets a *fucking* shiv in the jugular. Schnell! Schnell, motherfucker!

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

www.nytimes.com

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Jeff Spencer @revjss.bsky.social · 10h

A little reflection on history, morality, money, and protest by me. I'm not Heather Cox Richardson, but you still might find it interesting. @hcrichardson.bsky.social jeffsjottings.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/m...

Money, Morality, and Protest

How we spend our money is a moral decision. It has moral consequences. It either supports our values or it doesn’t. That’s true of the government when it adopts a budget. It’s true for each of our …

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15h

I would take this even a bit further and say that the death cult Trump now leads is on a glide path to forever power and the end of American democracy. In other words, if nothing changes from how things are going right now, it is highly unlikely America will be *any* sort of democracy by early 2027.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15h

Trump and GOP are planning on forever power. I still don't think people realize it. You need Democrats who are willing to step up and fight.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

North Carolina State Senate Approves New Congressional Map in Effort to Add a Seat

www.nytimes.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 15h

Bondi put 1000+ personnel on finding and tagging Trump’s name in the Epstein files. There were training videos showing them how. I’ve filed a FOIA for those videos and have sued the government to get them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Mike Johnson: "Suddenly now, they've somehow convinced themselves that the Epstein files will be damaging to President Trump and Republicans in some way that they've imagined, and so they feign outrage."

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