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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

Sadists. Truly sick people.

ICE is thoroughly un-American.

Don't you want to know—as I do—how many of these armed, masked, warrantless, insignia-less, nameless, essentially untrained Big Government goons are Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters and other J6 runoff? apnews.com/article/immi...

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

apnews.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

👇👇

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Bill odenthal @oldbutclimbing.bsky.social · 3d

You just can’t make this shit up.

RobsMuir 🐀 [insert √ here] @robsmuir.bsky.social · 3d

Mister Fantasy, the #FüQwit, living his best* life.

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

Nice recap

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

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Bill odenthal @oldbutclimbing.bsky.social · 3d

Can we now call them, Turning Pedo USA.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 4d

What I didn't properly prepare myself for was that as the masked and armed fascists start tossing citizens into unmarked vans without license plates, they *also* take to television to opine on how patient they've been with their allegedly hateful and violent—actually law-abiding and peaceful—critics

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 5d

Idiocracy……..

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4d

“This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison”

This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison

Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows.

zeteo.com

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Bill odenthal @oldbutclimbing.bsky.social · 4d

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Bill odenthal @oldbutclimbing.bsky.social · 5d

Nail on the head

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9d

Just a fucking disgrace that any president would say this to active duty military. But I expect it from this asshole, who has never respected the apolitical military tradition we’ve had since Washington. No, what’s more disgraceful is the silence of Republican vets in Congress.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10d

Using massive Medicaid and Medicare fraud.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11d

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 11d

Absolutely heinous.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11d

Donald Trump’s America.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12d

These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans.

Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now is meant to distract you from this.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13d

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 12d

Holy shit. Russ Vought is 49. I seriously thought this mutherfucker was in his late 60s. Further proof that being a monster will age you hard.

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