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dkcoon.bsky.social @dkcoon.bsky.social · 12h

You Are Mostly Correct...But Reagan Did Even Worse Than That...He Then Withheld Billions In School Aid That Always Went To The States From The Federal Budget Which Drove Up Local Property Taxes....All To Pay For Millionaire Tax Cuts...

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winetipper @winetipper.bsky.social · 12h

A fallacy, a stunning failure.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 13h

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I am SO sick of it all 🥺 @sosickofitall.bsky.social · 2m

PERFECTION ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1h

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 2h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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I am SO sick of it all 🥺 @sosickofitall.bsky.social · 44m

😳😳😳

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Christ, I had completely forgotten about this clown.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

I am SO sick of it all 🥺 @sosickofitall.bsky.social · 1h

We just bailed out Argentina when we have no functioning government. Republicans will NOT negotiate a deal. ICE is literally kidnapping and hurting people who are CITIZENS! Our President is not well. PLEASE EVERYONE HELP, GET OUT and VOTE!

I am SO sick of it all 🥺 @sosickofitall.bsky.social · 1h

Going back to our last Presidential Election…so a lot of people were undecided and at the last minute voted tRump bc Biden didn’t bring us back from COVID fast enough. ALL THOSE PEOPLE AND THEN SOME: Get out to Vote in November and bring SANITY back to the USA 🇺🇸

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2h

"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 10d

The way this made me laugh! 🤣

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 2d

Release the Epstein Files.

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Lettymontana @lettymontana.bsky.social · 11h

Long airplane rides are not good for blood clots.

I am SO sick of it all 🥺 @sosickofitall.bsky.social · 2h

Followed bc of this!

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

If James visits the home regularly then it is available to her for personal use, which means it is not a “rental investment property” as defined by the mortgage rider…and therefore negates the central claim of the indictment

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

NYT reports that Letitia James’s great niece lives in the home that is the subject of the indictment.

The niece reportedly testified before a *different* grand jury, telling them that she had lived there for many years without paying rent. James visits regularly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Letitia James
Indictment
Read the Indictment
Timeline of Conflict
Indic
But in June, IMs. Thompson testified to a grand
jury in Norfolk that she had lived in the house for years and that she did not pay rent, a person familiar with her testimony said. She was not asked to testify again, and the grand jury that voted to indict Ms. James was not seated in Norfolk, but in Alexandria.
The specter of Mr. Trump's revenge campaign has so far overshadowed the facts of the case, given how he has pushed for Ms. James's punishment. For years, he has railed against her on social media, calling her a "crook" and
"corrunt" Last month. he also appointed Ms.

for a peaceful life after years of turbulence in several cities.
The family, Nakia Thompson and her children, have lived at the address ever since, according to two people familiar with the home, and until this week, the plan for a more lacid existence had largely gone as expected. Several times a year, the people said, a great-aunt who had purchased the house in 2020 with Ms.
Thompson in mind would come for an extended stay.
This week, with the filing of court papers some 200 miles north, the plan came to an abrupt end.
The great-aunt - Letitia James, the New York attorney general - was indicted by President Trump's Justice Department. The yellow house,

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I am SO sick of it all 🥺 @sosickofitall.bsky.social · 3h

THIS IS UNCONSCIONABLE!

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 22h

“Can you explain this gap in your resume?”

Me thinking quickly on my feet to explain the period when I worked for ICE: “I was selling drugs… ,uh, to children.”

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 21h

"One source told me that some of the reversals came after the Trump administration realized that they had accidentally terminated critically important staffers working on current measles and Ebola outbreaks."

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 22h

…really?

Breaking News: RIFs in reverse. Some CDC workers have been brought back, in latest whiplash.

This is breaking news.

insidemedicine.substack.com

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I am SO sick of it all 🥺 @sosickofitall.bsky.social · 3h

Depraved is right!

I am SO sick of it all 🥺 @sosickofitall.bsky.social · 3h

Very true. He’s trying to even dumb down America. He has a sick and twisted world view that only a few severely right wing groups believe in. They are literally trying to cheat, maul and splinter America into backing their puritanical and truly dangerous way of being.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 11h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

I am SO sick of it all 🥺 @sosickofitall.bsky.social · 3h

UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 12h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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I am SO sick of it all 🥺 @sosickofitall.bsky.social · 3h

WOW

Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 10h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.