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Energetic Nova @energetic-nova.bsky.social · 1h

As long as headlines like this, we are winning.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Psychopomp Gecko @psychopompgecko.bsky.social · 47m

A decision cheered on by the far right and by a suspicious number of leftists who claim foreign aid is all a CIA plot.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Psychopomp Gecko @psychopompgecko.bsky.social · 4h

He was given a golden spoon and fork by famous actors at the time, and he trying to argue that it would be a huge loss of culture for them to be melted down.

So they beat him and took them. Then they returned them next day claiming they were gilded.

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Psychopomp Gecko @psychopompgecko.bsky.social · 4h

Idk about that, but the guy who popularized Fettuccine Alfredo was active in Italy back then. It was said at the time that Italy's two most popular exports fettucine and fascism.

Mussolini's government is sent around the secret police to take gold from anyone who didn't donate it, and he refused.

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 6h

"If you want to talk about legacy, let's talk about the legacy of not voting." 💥

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Psychopomp Gecko @psychopompgecko.bsky.social · 4h

To be fair, impeachment would have more teeth if they maintained the original method of choosing a Vice President.

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Psychopomp Gecko @psychopompgecko.bsky.social · 4h

"Um, actually, medieval pogroms in response to the Black Plague were inspired by the United States..."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Psychopomp Gecko @psychopompgecko.bsky.social · 23h

I don't suppose we can get a version of Liberty Leading the People with the frog, can we?

I'd call it Ribbity Leading the People.

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Psychopomp Gecko @psychopompgecko.bsky.social · 23h

I can't wait until Fascism croaks

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Son of Sandor @sonofsandor.bsky.social · 1d

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Psychopomp Gecko @psychopompgecko.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn't want to be around guys with guns while wearing a Kenny costume

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Psychopomp Gecko @psychopompgecko.bsky.social · 1d

Something tells me Dallas there isn't firebombing any Wal-Marts.

Heck Leftists like that are the ones urging people not to protest. Because everyone knows true anti-fascism involved letting fascists do whatever they want unopposed.

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Tron's evil twin brother Troff @tonygoldmark.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint: Dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing might be the BEST fucking way to defy fascism what the fuck are you talking about you uptight ninny

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

This shit is crazy because they're just straight up on video hitting a car that was blocked in the street. The extent as to which DHS now just brazenly puts out lies is utterly obscene.

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

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Psychopomp Gecko @psychopompgecko.bsky.social · 1d

The first things Trump did was send through rifles and bombs that Biden was withholding from Israel. The same arms Netanyahu complained that Biden refused to send him.

Y'all didn't even notice and it was something y'all claim was important to you.

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Psychopomp Gecko @psychopompgecko.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, Trump has yet to get any country to bend the knee despite threatening invasion.

Psychopomp Gecko @psychopompgecko.bsky.social · 1d

All the U.S. aid to Gaza along with Netanyahu complaining about Biden withholding arms to Israel are a problem for that theory.

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tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 1d

uh shutting down MMWR is, in no uncertain terms, crisis level damage for dissemination of accurate info throughout the medical profession

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d

Today is National Coming Out Day.

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Dinosaur Bob @dinosaurbob.bsky.social · 2d

Bibi rejected almost this exact deal a year ago cause he wanted Trump. If you think that’s Biden’s fault you probably believed Tara Reade too.

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Psychopomp Gecko @psychopompgecko.bsky.social · 1d

For all that money was allocated to ICE, no ICE agent is getting paid.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Jeffrey Epstein once dug into his safe to take out photos of Trump posing with topless girls on his lap. The photos became the subject of controversy earlier this week when AG Pam Bondi dodged Sen. Whitehouse’s questions about whether the FBI found the images during a search of Epstein’s belongings.

I’ve Seen Epstein’s Photos of Trump With Topless Girls: Author

Trump biographer Michael Wolff reveals he was shown the lewd photos by Jeffrey Epstein himself.

www.thedailybeast.com

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