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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h

Trump's big, ugly budget megabill gave ICE more cops than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries. Once the bill is fully implemented, nowhere in America will be safe from Trump's secret police state.

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BeardlessMountainMan @capnrickysully.bsky.social · 12h

Yes but that’s not my argument. She won’t go after the power they’ve accumulated or the structures that allow it to persist. She doesn’t discuss their complicity or corruption, the role they play in our dysfunctional info- sphere, it’s threat to democracy, nor how any of that came to be.

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BeardlessMountainMan @capnrickysully.bsky.social · 12h

I know but I include them in that analysis. Don’t get me wrong, they w done some great work but they have never bitten the corporate hand that feeds them. They keep it pretty partisan.

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BeardlessMountainMan @capnrickysully.bsky.social · 13h

MSNBC hosts may call out the fascism but have almost uniformly refused to call out the wealth inequality, corporate, and oligarchy. They have stayed safely distanced from class war knowing it was the one place they couldn’t go.

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BeardlessMountainMan @capnrickysully.bsky.social · 13h

ham sandwich lobby is pissed

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 17h

Federal charges against a Chicago couple who were arrested for protesting against ICE were dropped after a grand jury refused to indict them.

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BeardlessMountainMan @capnrickysully.bsky.social · 20h

If she has baby in her placenta she might want to see a doctor.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h

An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it.

Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device.

The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

www.npr.org

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BeardlessMountainMan @capnrickysully.bsky.social · 22h

I’m blocked. lol

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BeardlessMountainMan @capnrickysully.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve missed you

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BeardlessMountainMan @capnrickysully.bsky.social · 1d

There he is…

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BeardlessMountainMan @capnrickysully.bsky.social · 1d

Sesame Street may be gone but @horsedisc.bsky.social is here for the kids.

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BeardlessMountainMan @capnrickysully.bsky.social · 1d

Gross

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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 1d

Cries in GWOT

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Noem: “We are hoping…we will get more and more information about the network and how we can route them out and eliminate them from the existence of American society…Antifa is just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA, as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them. They are just as dangerous.”

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BeardlessMountainMan @capnrickysully.bsky.social · 1d

Bros still doing wrap-around shades like it’s 2005 at the Green Zone swimming pool.

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1d

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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BeardlessMountainMan @capnrickysully.bsky.social · 1d

You’re gross

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Captain_B @captain-b.bsky.social · 2d

Last month Jared my Hispanic neighbors were abducted without warning, without due process, by people wearing masks in unmarked vehicles, and DHS refuses to even release the names of those detained

Where are my neighbors Jared?

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BeardlessMountainMan @capnrickysully.bsky.social · 1d

Honored? He invited ICE into our state and has the gall to celebrate Hispanic heritage. He does nothing to protect our residents from warrantless arrest and disappearance. This kind of tone-deaf, empty-gesture leadership must go. He needs to resign.

Governor Jared Polis @colorado.gov · 2d

Honored to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month—recognizing the rich culture, contributions, and stories that make Colorado stronger.

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BeardlessMountainMan @capnrickysully.bsky.social · 1d

Country descending into fascism but at least Polis has bad jokes. True leadership.

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BeardlessMountainMan @capnrickysully.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a race to stoke violence before the election next year before his support collapses.

BeardlessMountainMan @capnrickysully.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a race to consolidate power and control before the tide turns against him. Expect things to get worse next year as they move to stoke violence before the election.

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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 2d

As you watch this horrific video of a protesting priest being shot in the head with a pepper ball by federal agents, know this:

Less lethal projectiles are absolutely deadly, and have killed many people. Specifically, Boston police killed a Red Sox fan with pepper ball 21 years ago this month.