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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 6h

🚨🚨🚨Where the fuck is any accountability?!? This is a TEENAGER who, at the end of this video, is shackled. The only reason to shackle a kid is to traumatize him and those around. This was just uploaded. 1/2

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 10h

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5h

I see that this small-minded puritanical pixie is laser-focused on getting the government reopened and the troops paid.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 4h

ICE on Walgreens Property in Chicago grabbing another BLACK citizen! This isn’t about deporting criminals.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 6h

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5h

NEW: Jim Jordan wants to question Jack Smith about his search of Mar-a-Lago, but Merrick Garland executed that search months before Jack Smith was even appointed. One of several lies in this letter demanding Jack Smith's testimony. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 8h

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2h

It's hard to take these people seriously.

BREAKING: In an insane moment, Speaker Johnson says that priests being shot with pepper balls, and journalists being arrested doesn't "cross the line..." but the most threatening thing he's seen yet is "naked bicyclists."

Beyond parody.

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Ruth Holleman @rholleman.bsky.social · 8h

And he calls himself a Christian?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16h

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 21h

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...

chicago.suntimes.com

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨After being tased and beaten by ICE, a man dies in a Chicago hospital. Date and location in following post. These are the horrors of 2025 and we cannot look away. 1/2

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

This is Antifa. Which, I guess, makes Republicans Profa.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 1d

This is what I was getting at in today’s column. Republicans won’t do anything without Trump’s permission. Period.

“GOP will brutalize voters with spiking health care costs unless Trump says to stop.”

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

Big roar for AG Letitia James at the ZOHRAN rally👇🏽

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Let us translate Mike Johnson's comments about Obamacare for you www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Trump greets the delegate from UAE, which put $2 billion into Trump’s crypto company: “They got a lot of cash. Unlimited cash.”

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21h

“Pull my string and I’ll say anything”

A wind-up doll — Trump’s propaganda machine.

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 1d

The Pentagon is restricting press access, and the NYT raises a serious First Amendment concern. The SecDef’s response? A wave emoji. It’s a childish mockery of accountability. But dodging scrutiny with memes is how authoritarians treat a free press.

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