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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 4h

Scott Phillips @rsphillips.bsky.social · 3h

Whenever I think I’m too hyperbolic about how batshit insane things are I find a story like this. So no, we are not overreacting.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 6h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Scott Phillips @rsphillips.bsky.social · 4h

Values based genocide

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Jared Kushner in Tel Aviv: "Instead of replicating the barbarism of the enemy, you chose to be exceptional, you chose to stand for the values that you stand for, and I couldn't be prouder to be a friend of Israel."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Scott Phillips @rsphillips.bsky.social · 6h

Stephen Miller is no butterfly

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Scott Phillips @rsphillips.bsky.social · 15h

With an offering of dead puppies, she will open an airport

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Scott Phillips @rsphillips.bsky.social · 15h

Mariners did things. I’m drunk. Yay.

Scott Phillips @rsphillips.bsky.social · 23h

Also posting to social media and YouTube obviously

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Scott Phillips @rsphillips.bsky.social · 23h

Everyone I know is. Actually, we think this attention might jumpstart Portland’s tourism for the next year, so not all bad.

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Scott Phillips @rsphillips.bsky.social · 23h

Went shopping in downtown Portland today. Can confirm storefronts are still made of concrete, steel, glass, and higher grade lumber:

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Lawrence Bailey @lawrencembailey.bsky.social · 1d

'In Fascist America, Drugs Pay You!'

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 1d

Not surprised by this. Frogs can lay up to 5,000 eggs at a time. There will be more frogs

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Scott Phillips @rsphillips.bsky.social · 23h

I’ll take Things That Never Happened for $1000, Alex

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory

Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

ballsandstrikes.substack.com

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Scott Phillips @rsphillips.bsky.social · 1d

Why?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

Scott Phillips @rsphillips.bsky.social · 1d

Send in the frogs! Send home the Fed clowns!

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Scott Phillips @rsphillips.bsky.social · 1d

How is this real life?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 2d

Roads are too gay, gotta get rid of them

www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2...

Abbott orders Dallas and other Texas cities to remove rainbow crosswalks or lose funding

Dallas is among the Texas cities that risk losing money if it does not remove a rainbow crosswalk.

www.dallasnews.com

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Scott Phillips @rsphillips.bsky.social · 1d

“Fuck you! That’s my message.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: What's your message to families facing missed paychecks because of the shutdown?

TRUMP: Blame the Democrats. It's their fault.

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Scott Phillips @rsphillips.bsky.social · 2d

Good work, bud! You can have an ice cream cone

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I also did a cognitive exam. Which is always very risky because if I didn't do well, you'd be the first to be blaring it and I had a perfect score. And one of the doctors said he's almost never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score. That made me well good ... not the easiest test."

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Scott Phillips @rsphillips.bsky.social · 2d

WTAF

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Rollins: "We had an amazing cabinet meeting. President Trump walked in before the cameras were there. We all stood up & gave him a two minute standing ovation. There's so much love in that room & respect & just appreciation for him. No one could do what that man is doing today. So I was so grateful"

Scott Phillips @rsphillips.bsky.social · 2d

I would think putting a baby in a placenta would cause too much liquid to be in the baby

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

Scott Phillips @rsphillips.bsky.social · 2d

Keep the Liberty and give me death 🙃

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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