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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

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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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 2h

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 2h

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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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 18h

Congrats to University of California professors & alumni for being awarded 5 Nobel Prizes!

California’s scientists are leading the world in crucial breakthroughs.

www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

University of California sets world record with five Nobel Prizes in one week

The UC system made history this week, as its faculty and alumni won five Nobel Prizes across medicine, physics and chemistry — the most ever awarded to a single institution in one year.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h

When the right loses both Joe Rogan and Marjorie Taylor Greene on the issues in the same week, you know it’s going to get rough for Republicans.

Joe Rogan on ICE: “The way it looks is just horrific.”

QAnon queen MTG on the economy: “I’m just living in reality from here on out.”

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Left Of Center Orange Hater @henshinhal.bsky.social · 18h

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 18h

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News!
www.foxnews.com/politics/squ...

Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future

Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

www.foxnews.com

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 18h

I know I could get into trouble for posting the Antifa battle flag, but I'm gonna do it anyway.

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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 17h

George Stephanopolous did what every anchor and host should have been doing since Bush 2000: Rejecting the bullshit, gaslighting, and rude, evasive filibustering the GOP has perfected to hide their lies.

NO MORE BULLSHIT.

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 17h

THIS!!!

A letter to Benjamin Netanyahu

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BlueCrew community 💙💙 @libertyovergov.bsky.social · 17h

Chicagoans at the Chicago marathon 😂
#BlueCrew don’t hold back, drop a punch too! 👊👊💥

#BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋 #BluePetPatrol💙🐾 #ProudBlue #Resist #TruthWarriors #Chicago

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 17h

Trump never would’ve had the same class as Biden did here

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17h

Let's be clear: If North Carolina Republicans gerrymander their already illegal map further, they will be sued and they will lose.

I never bluff and I usually win.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20h

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 17h

You know who hates America

The guys who took healthcare away from millions of Americans

The ones who CUT billions of dollars for programs like cancer research and FEMA

Who sit and watch the president use military troops to attack our cities

That’s Mike Johnson

HE hates America

NO KINGS
OCT 18

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 17h

Gavin Newsom: "Masked men. Jumping out of unmarked vehicles. People disappearing. No due process. No oversight. No accountability. People say I'm being hyperbolic. Bullshit. This is happening in America today."

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17h

This is the front page of Democracy Docket, the media outlet I created in 2020 to provide independent, pro-democracy news and analysis. Everything on this site is free to everyone.

To make this possible, DD relies on premium members. Support this work by becoming one now. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17h

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 17h

Fuck this shitface. Caucasians are a rather late arrival to these shores, and they have not been a very beneficial immigrant so far.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h

Looks like Justice Amy Coney Barrett visited the La Prairie counter at Neiman Marcus and asked for a "Mar-a-Lago" makeover.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

UPDATE: Media outlets are collectively rejecting Hegseth’s authoritarian rules about reporting on the Pentagon — even Newsmax (!!)

Embarrassing for the Secretary of War On Journalism
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17h

"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures.

...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited.

It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.

From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

ICYMI — with electricity rates already skyrocketing, Trump just canceled the largest solar project in North America.

Utah’s Republican governor seems to understand this is probably not the best idea: “This is how we lose the AI/energy race with China” 👇🏽

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