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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10h

It’s endlessly depressing watching all these tech oligarchs try and convince themselves they’re geniuses instead of people who just happened to benefit from capitalism requiring their products and then the entire political and banking system gassing them up with with free money and tireless support.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 11h

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 10h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

Who do they report to @jbpritzker.bsky.social.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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

Live rn from a tiktok user at Broadview, Pritzker still has the Illinois state police out in force protecting 🧊 and brutalizing protesters there

A line of riot gear police with clubs advances on protesters in a “designated free-speech area” near Broadview, Illinois ice facility

Police aggressively clash with protesters, dragging one to the ground

Line of police before they started attacking protesters. Footage is from TikTok live of Amanda protests.

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 14h

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 23h

Citizens demanding transparency and lawfulness from their public servants.

📢This is the way.
#ChicagoStrong

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

🚨🚨🚨Hunger strike at concentration camp in El Paso because a staff member told detainees that the food may have been responsible for the camps most recent death. 1/2

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Nice recap

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Making people afraid to be affiliated with antifascism—making people afraid to be associated with groups and people that actively oppose fascism—is some bleak shit.

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 1d

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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

"Donald Trump and Mike Johnson are engaging in a cover-up to shield people who were involved in raping children."

Rep. Melanie Stansbury

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23h

FUCK ICE FOREVER

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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

👇👇

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

"After a few moments of laughter..."

The No Kings organizers with a fun, tidy response to Mike Johnson's shenanigans.

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

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 3d

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

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