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Bryan McRell @bpmcrell.bsky.social · 56m

Greed.
Leonard Leo & Chuck Koch going to the mat to keep Coke & Pepsi in the bellies of SNAP users.
Greed is why we need checks & balances.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against Maha

A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy ...

www.theguardian.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5h

This is sick. Several of the MS13 gang members Trump traded to Bukele so he could have access to CECOT prison for deportees were actually COOPERATORS with law enforcement. He betrayed them. wapo.st/4nbNiM4

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

wapo.st

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 8h

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public" - Theodore Roosevelt

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Cat Herder @herdingkitties.bsky.social · 12h

He has a hole inside him. I don't know why it's there, but I know he tries to fill it with money and with praise. And a man that dependent on money and praise is never his own master. Not over his emotions, and not over his actions. He's too easily manipulated.

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Bryan McRell @bpmcrell.bsky.social · 7h

The system is broken- democracy is being choked to death by racism, fear, and the inequality bought & paid for by wicked ppl who worship greed.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 22h

The thing about No Kings the GOP doesn't seem to get isn't that we hate you as much as it is that we recognize you for what you are.

You're a threat. You're a threat to our lives, our livelihoods, our families, our friends.

We WILL drive you out of power. You haven't given us any other choice.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

They use govt accounts, employees & resources to make partisan political messages.

They make partisan political speeches attacking the opposition party to troops routinely.

They get pardoned when they commit crimes.

They ignore the laws.

There is zero congressional oversight.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 22h

In 2005, I wrote an article called "Inventing Akromiya" about how the government of Uzbekistan made up a group called Akromiya to justify a massacre of civilian protesters.

Twenty years later, the US is more like Uzbekistan, and I wrote "Inventing Antifa": sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

Inventing Antifa

In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Bryan McRell @bpmcrell.bsky.social · 23h

Yes- we need to actually make changes. Citizens United exposed how the rich are sycking the marrow from our bones- the Electoral College was a giveaway to the former slave plantations and still drags us down & finally, it's a joke that citizens of DC & PR & Guam & USVI have no representation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

New in PN: Osita Nwanevu on the imperative for a new American founding

"To get to deeper systemic changes, we have to adopt a rhetoric and messaging about democracy that's more galvanizing than what was offered in this last election, when it was just about institutional defense."

“We need to conceive of democracy as something more revolutionary”

Osita Nwanevu on the imperative for a new American founding.

www.publicnotice.co

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DemCastDonGA @donshantajr.bsky.social · 1d

Let's make this happen...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court has set the December calendar. The big campaign finance case, NRSC v. FEC, will be heard on Tuesday, Dec. 9.

I will be arguing for the Democratic Party Intervenors in defense of the law and against the GOP petition.

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

🔥 TEXAS — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Cornyn & Paxton don’t stand for freedom, family, and faith… they stand for control, cruelty, and corruption.”

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Bryan McRell @bpmcrell.bsky.social · 1d

No, gotta disagree, it is in fact easy to tell. They are awful idiots.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

The Santos commutation is a prelude to a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon.

Mark my words.

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Bryan McRell @bpmcrell.bsky.social · 1d

This.

Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 1d

Are we still like a deer in the headlights? I think too many are.

CYNC Verity @chattjazz.bsky.social · 1d

Senator Murphy, courts weaponized, media consolidated, troops deployed to opposition cities, truth suppressed. This is controlled chaos — it’s a plan. Democracy won’t survive on autopilot, "We aren’t nearing authoritarianism — we’re living it."
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social #Autocracy #Democracy

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

NEW: Trump’s DHS appointees have:
• Dismantled civil rights guardrails,
• Protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks,
• Threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests & tactics.

By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

www.propublica.org

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Bryan McRell @bpmcrell.bsky.social · 2d

With the GOP, the wicked past is always present- blocking equality from taking root.
Excellent recap of the pathology that's always haunted our stated claims of freedom & equality.

www.alternet.org/trump-future...

Americans just caught a glimpse of their future — and it is terrifying

On Tuesday, here in Chicago, America caught a glimpse of its possible future, and it was terrifying. Federal agents, dressed like soldiers and armed with the weapons of war, rammed a civilian vehicle ...

www.alternet.org

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 3d

Only in the Federalist Society academic bubble could you say that the government going in and splitting up geographically contiguous communities of Black voters in order to prevent them from ever being a majority in any House district is "government not taking race into account."

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50501az.bsky.social @50501az.bsky.social · 3d

Anonymous.
This fake government is being run by people who have dirt on each other.
I call on every hacker in the world to find out the secret dirt making their decisions.
If you are a real hacker.
You will find out.
Start with SCOTUS.
Anonymous.
Execute.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 3d

“Trump is gonna give Ukraine tomahawks!”

Nope. Just another TACOOOOO

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Hochul: "They promised to extract revenge on their political enemies & apparently any state that has a D gov. Tell me how Florida & Texas could receive these same funds w/o having to go to court? They're playing politics, but more than that, they're playing with people's lives. And that's abhorrent"

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 3d

I haven't been careful enough about keeping every bill, and First Energy deletes them after a year, but the net effect is going from bills around $70 in 2021, to $90 in 2023 to $130-140 in 2025. But ChatGPT will do sexytimes soon, which is way better than curing cancer or funding my Roth IRA

K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 3d

People on the town reddit fighting over data centers and power costs again (we live just north of data center central, Loudon Co., Virginia, and it's constantly threatening to expand). The price really is crazy though: it's almost doubled in four years, from 6.3 cents to 10.9 on the most recent bill

simple line graph showing the price per kilowatt-hour going from 6.3 cents in early 2021, to 10.9 cents in September 2025, with a promised reduction coming that I doubt will even happen (last promised reduction this summer turned into an increase!)

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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