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Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 1d

Just another Friday night’s MAGA endorsed entertainment in Trump’s America. One day it will directly affect all of us and by that time it will be too late to stop it. Act now!

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Four dead, 12 injured after a mass shooting in Leland, Mississippi, following a homecoming football game. (NYP)

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Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 1d

No matter what Tesla does they don’t seem to have the will to get rid of the Musky car smell.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

Car shoppers have long waited for Tesla to release cheaper EVs. The company finally did so this week, and even Elon Musk's biggest fans are disappointed, writes Patrick George.

It’s All Catching Up to Tesla

Elon Musk’s embrace of Donald Trump continues to haunt his car company.

bit.ly

Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when Republicans were whining and moaning about weaponizing the DOJ. Yep! Like always, it was their admission of what they intended to do. If they accuse someone of doing something, it’s a sure bet that is exactly their own planned tactic. #MakeThemPay

Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 2d

Trump told AG Pam Bondi to prosecute Letitia James-calling her “guilty as hell”

When the US Attorney wouldn’t do it, he replaced that lawyer with his personal attorney

And despite the fact that career prosecutors refused go forward

The DOJ got an indictment anyway

THIS
IS
VINDICTIVE
PROSECUTION

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle

His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?

www.theguardian.com

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Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe it’s time for the victims themselves to out the perverts and and watch the backpedaling by those that gave them cover.

Wayne Smith 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @wayneesmith.bsky.social · 11d

An image with a blue background and white capital letters saying, "NOW, HOW ABOUT THOSE EPSTEINE FILES?"

Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 2d

The only people that should be in these camps are the ICE agents themselves and they should be shown all the kindness they’ve dealt to others. I’m disgusted that they walk among us. History teaches that one day the payback will be brutal.

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2d

I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

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Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 2d

The Dog Murderer speaks using your tax dollars.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 2d

John Cornyn is more worthless than a longhorn’s cow patty. He needs to be defeated in the Republican primary in Texas. There’s a certified adulterer, crook waiting to run for that senate seat. GOP voters will have a hard choice to make. But they will and Dems will have a better chance.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, all voted for cuts to the CFPB.

Yet collectively, they routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.

(Published August)
By @joeljacobs.bsky.social

These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.

Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, lo...

www.propublica.org

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

"We have to engage in this moment with the ruthless survival skills of an LGBTQ kid in Florida or in North Dakota who does not have the luxury of prioritizing purity and perfection over goodwill and good intentions."

@mcbride.house.gov joins @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social:

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Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 2d

The best thing about the normalizing of the lawlessness of government is that one day the shoe will be on the other foot and all that SCOTUS nonsense about presidential immunity won’t mean a thing just as the constitution means nothing to the current administration. #Nicolae #Ceaușescu

Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 2d

The national disgrace continues. Now Trump has ceded American territory to a middle eastern foreign power that’s not an ally. This is not “America First.” This is payment for Trump’s new plane. How easily he is purchased. MAGA got what they wanted, a mob boss as President. Proud yet?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

Inventive People of Portland Dressing as Animals:

Please don't dress as dogs. Your life will not be safe with psychopath Kristi Noem on the rooftops.

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 2d

This is awesome.

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Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 2d

Say it clearly: Donald Trump and all his MAGA supporters are murders.

Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 3d

The GOP and MAGA are the political equivalent of cockroaches. They run and hide when the light is turned on.

Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 3d

What a liar! If this were true healthcare would never have been cut in the first place. They just hate having the light turned on them much like cockroaches in the kitchen.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."

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Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 3d

It’s Thursday in Trump’s America.

Sunshine, MPH 🛸🔬☣️ @callsignwhisker.bsky.social · 3d

Such bullshit! Also, our local news is carrying a live stream in front of our Portland ICE facility. See here and feel free to share far and wide. It's what is REALLY happening on the ground: katu.com/news/local/2...

24 hours outside ICE: What is really going on in Portland

Starting Thursday, Oct. 9 at midnight, we will begin a 24-hour livestream outside of the Portland ICE Facility. Our aim is to show the public everything we see.

katu.com

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Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 3d

ICE is recruiting people so ignorant of history that that don’t know what happens to the henchmen and women supporting the evil tyrant. They should all be required to watch excepts from the Nuremberg trials.

Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 3d

Satan masquerading as Jesus is what we’re have been warned about since the first century. There are many carrying bibles who really carry a hammer, nails, and a cross. Because it uses religious language does not make it a follower of The Christ.

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Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 3d

There is no greater evil than the dressing up of evil as good — that is what Trump’s authoritarian take over is doing. Real followers of Jesus don’t need to wear mask like ICE and the KKK do. Stand strong. Be light in the midst of all the darkness.

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

religionnews.com

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Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 7d

They may call themselves Christians but Jesus told us that we would know them by their works.

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Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 7d

Makes you wonder if this is another Right-wing terrorist attack.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7d

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

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

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 7d

Karolyn’s sounds like a public address speaker for the Ministry of Truth in Orwell’s “1984.”

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Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 7d

At the heart of every bully is a crippled creature bent toward evil as they attempt to banish their fear of being worthless by dominating others. Their need is bottomless!They don’t care who they hurt to gain power. They demand adoration from those they feel are beneath them.

Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 7d

Try this on: There is a large and growing movement of rightwing terrorism in this country. It is well organized and funded. And it is shielded by far-right GOP judges, prosecutors and attorneys general. The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks.

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 7d

Notice how this propagandist uses “terrorism” language to push hateful plot.

Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 7d

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 9d

He thinks he’s Cesar

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 9d

Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, JFK and FDR are all on US coins. But none of them put themselves on the coins, that was done to honor them after death. Trump, on the other hand, now plans to put his own face on coins next year. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin

www.nytimes.com