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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

Next Saturday is #NoKings Day.

Stand up for democracy before it's too late.

Find a protest near you at nokings.org.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents that are attacking your neighborhood and kidnapping your neighbors are being housed at his family’s hotel chain

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Retro Cinema Wood @retrocinemawood.bsky.social · 8d

The Front Page. This sharp, fast-paced comedy redefined journalism films and set the tone for decades of Hollywood wit. Starring Pat O’Brien and Adolphe Menjou.

Watch on #YouTube ⬇️
youtu.be/XgsHGa2dKgU

or #Rumble
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The Front Page (1931) - Lewis Milestone's Screwball Comedy Masterpiece

YouTube video by Retro Cinema Wood

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 19h

Amber Pass
Ivan Eyre
1992

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Burger @burg3rtime.bsky.social · 15h

A fantastic breakdown of why this case has been doomed from the start

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h

By the time of James' arraignment on October 24, DOJ will EITHER have dismissed Jim Comey's case, OR the evidence that Halligan was unlawfully appointed AND the evidence that EDVA knew they had no probable cause against Comey will be public.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/11/p...

Prosecutors Sucking Lemons in Their Vindictive Prosecution of Jim Comey - emptywheel

Unless prosecutors find a way to make the Jim Comey prosecution go away, in nine days, we'll get details (in the Vindictive and Selective Prosecution motion) of the efforts Trump has already made to p...

www.emptywheel.net

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PrairieStories @prairiestories.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you Diane Keaton for sharing your love and curiosity for life. Here's a snapshot from 2023.
www.theguardian.com/film/2023/ma...

‘God, life is so strange’: Diane Keaton interviewed in 2023 on dogs, doors, wine and why she’s ‘really fancy’

The Oscar-winning actor is back for the Book Club sequel. But what she really wants to talk about is big cars, her love for Woody Allen – and her unexpected passion

www.theguardian.com

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 1d

Automatic tax filing for low income, permanent school food program coming in budget: PM Mark Carney #Canada

PM Carney said the federal govt is renewing the “Canada Strong Pass” which lowers the cost for families to visit museums, historic sites, parks & travel.

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Automatic tax filing, permanent school food program coming in budget: Carney

Prime Minister Mark Carney is announcing a series of affordability measures Friday, making good on some spring campaign commitments ahead of the fall budget.

www.ctvnews.ca

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The Economist @economist.com · 1d

A new film by Paul Thomas Anderson makes you both laugh and care—a tricky feat—even as it makes its points about migrants, militarisation and idealism econ.st/43ero3D

Photo: Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures

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PrairieStories @prairiestories.bsky.social · 1d

❤️ anything Little Feat.

Dave @denverwaxfiend.bsky.social · 1d

Little Feat - Sailin’ Shoes

#vinylcommunity #nowspinning #musicsky #vinylsky

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Dave @denverwaxfiend.bsky.social · 1d

Little Feat - Sailin’ Shoes

#vinylcommunity #nowspinning #musicsky #vinylsky

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WIRED @wired.com · 1d

The Trump administration has built its own content mill to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It

The Trump administration has built its own content mill to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.

www.wired.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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PrairieStories @prairiestories.bsky.social · 1d

No no no no. No. No. No.

Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean @mitchellab.bsky.social · 2d

You have got to be kidding me. Have you seen what they're doing to their own country? Absolutely, unreservedly, I can't even believe they have the gall to ask, freaking no.
#cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

www.cbc.ca

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Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean @mitchellab.bsky.social · 2d

You have got to be kidding me. Have you seen what they're doing to their own country? Absolutely, unreservedly, I can't even believe they have the gall to ask, freaking no.
#cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

www.cbc.ca

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 4d

Blue Jay
Patrick Hunter ~ Anishinaabe
n.d.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 2d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can also be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth.”

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

I love that Marge is obviously pissed that old white men in GA say she's not serious and this even older white man is telling the nice little lady to sit down.

By all means, antagonize her some more.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

CNN: Marjorie Taylor Greene says Republicans have no healthcare solutions. What do you say to her?

REP. PETE SESSIONS: She needs a couple more years in office and she would learn that we do have ideas on the table

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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PrairieStories @prairiestories.bsky.social · 3d

Follow up wish - Coons: .... because....?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

COONS: How did you conclude that these strikes on boats in the open ocean are legal?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have issued

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

COONS: How did you conclude that these strikes on boats in the open ocean are legal?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have issued

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PrairieStories @prairiestories.bsky.social · 3d

This sounds flippant I realize but.. Perhaps those monitoring ICE should do so in these costumes. Conceals cameras and provides patting from potential beatings.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

THESE PAGAN LIBTARD WAR DANCES CAN ONLY PRESAGE CALAMITY!!

MEIN LEADER PRÄSIDENT TRUMP, HERR REICHSCOUCHVUCKER VON VANCE, HERR VERRÜCKTPSYCHO STEPHANMÜLLER, DER VOLK DEMAND YOU DEPLOY DIE PANZERBRIGADEN NOW!!!

Vielen Damk für your attention to this matter

PrairieStories @prairiestories.bsky.social · 3d

Current US government manipulation: “... the only way out of the crisis, the Labor Department states, is to hire many more foreign workers to pick U.S. crops at lower wages, a direct transfer of income from workers in the fields to their agribusiness employers."
prospect.org/politics/tru...

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 4d

I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.

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