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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 2d

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 1d

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Tom Ruffen @contentwriter.bsky.social · 9h

Those MAGAs in Idaho are just going to love seeing some brand new mosques going up in their towns.

Today's Qatari is tomorrow's ISIS.

Denise Thomas Patrick @deniseky.bsky.social · 16h

There are no independent foreign military bases on U.S. land. There has NEVER been.

Remember when Trump & his regime tried to say there was no quid pro quo with Qatar for that little 400 million dollar jumbo jet? Here it is.

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

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Himbo Slice @antisocialworker.bsky.social · 10h

I love it.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

Mamdani: I run against a disgraced former governor who, in this moment, has chosen to issue a statement in which he cannot even say the name Tish James, nor the name Donald Trump.

If you cannot say Trump’s name today—how will you stand up to him tomorrow?

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Bay State Wiz @paulrb51.bsky.social · 3d

Long but timely & informative essay by Thomas B. Edsall on Trump & Miller’s moves to instigate a violent partisan civil war in the US. Also extremely scary.
Gift article from today’s NYT.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

www.nytimes.com

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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VIBIN NEWS™ @vibinnews.bsky.social · 16h

🐾 Vibin News™: Mental Health Check-In - Cat Edition BREAKING: Cats are officially emotional support agents. Sources confirm that 83% of humans feel better after a surprise headbutt, a slow blink, or a loaf sighting on the windowsill.
#vibin #vibinnews #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness

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ltwlauren🤸‍♀️❤️🎶🎨🐾 @ltwlauren.bsky.social · 1d

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DianneSpiritlight @dpfrazier22.bsky.social · Mar 11

Just know everyone is safe here and I do mean everyone🩷💛💚❤️

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Jim will do @zorander70.bsky.social · 6d

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Jim will do @zorander70.bsky.social · 5d

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Jim will do @zorander70.bsky.social · 16h

www.rawstory.com/trump-267417...
Dear maga wing nuts. The Nobel committee doesn't award it to dicktaters that use the military against their own citizens

'What an absolute joke!' MAGA melts down after Nobel Peace Prize Trump snub

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its annual Nobel Peace Prize Friday to one Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan politician and leader of a resistance movement against President Nicolas Maduro, spa...

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jandee924 🌻🕊️🦋 @jandee924.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you @phoenix509.bsky.social
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Dave - not that Dave, or maybe I am @wrydave.bsky.social · 4d

Hero. @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com should take a lesson. They are too far gone though, so their allegiance is to the oligarchs now.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

CENSORED: “They refused to run my column this week. Too critical of Trump, they said.”

Writer Dan Conway left The Daily Memphian after editors rejected his column for criticizing Trump’s unconstitutional military incursions into US cities.

Read the censored column: www.facebook.com/share/p/16uP...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

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Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 2d

Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.

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Tom Ruffen @contentwriter.bsky.social · 9h

America is no longer the land of the free, but it is still the home of the brave because of people of integrity like Letita James and the resisters who confront the ICE Gestapo every day in cities and towns across our nation.

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Dave - not that Dave, or maybe I am @wrydave.bsky.social · 15h

The President of MIT, Sally Kornbluth, smacks around the fake Secretary of Education with her response to the "compact" they sent to MIT.

Proud of her. Take that Project 2025 assholes!

Part of the response:

Text from a letter the President of MIT sent to the Department of Education.

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Dave - not that Dave, or maybe I am @wrydave.bsky.social · 15h

Oh Portland! 🤣😂😂💀

kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 16h

I found the agitators! They are 2 unicorns, giraffe, canary, panda, mouse, dinosaur, mouse, Stitch, and the frog! And they are right outside of Portland's ICE facility! 🤣🤣🤣

#ProudBlue

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Al GDad1x7 @gdad1x7.bsky.social · 12h

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Post this everywhere‼️
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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