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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2h

Dear CBS News personalities: The Canadians' ad did not portray Reagan's tariff policy fraudulently, and you do not have to repeat the president's false characterization of it.

Or if your new boss insists that you do, you can at least point out that it's false.

www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-b...

MARGARET BRENNAN: Understood. We'll talk to Hakeem Jeffries later in the program. I want to ask you about what the President just announced in regard to Canada. Today, the President said he wants to raise tariffs on Mexico. Yesterday, he said he's going to raise tariffs on Canada by 10%. He blames what he called a fraudulent ad that featured Ronald Reagan advocate- advocating for free trade. It was put up by the province of Ontario. Is this ad really the issue here, or is it just a tactic in this negotiation? Does the President want the USMCA free trade deal renegotiated, or is he looking to do two separate deals, one with Canada, one with Mexico?

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"Velshi" on MSNBC @velshimsnbc.bsky.social · 4h

With expanded ICE operations, lines are being blurred between agencies, @vermontgmg.bsky.social says It's "turned into this giant blob of masked immigration agents on the streets of America.” @nyccomptroller.bsky.social adds “cruelty is the point.” #Velshi

“ICE has become the jailer of children”: The human cost of Trump’s immigration raids

The harsh reality of President Trump’s immigration crackdown is unfolding in cities across America. Reports of detained pregnant women and other terrifying encounters with ICE agents from alleged mistreatment to hospitalizations. New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and journalist and historian Garrett Graff join Charles Coleman to discuss ICE’s increasingly brutal tactics. “They cause chaos en masse then they show that to the world as if there is chaos..the cruelty is the point,” says Lander.

www.msnbc.com

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

You can literally watch Reagan’s words side-by-side with Canada’s ad.

They didn’t misrepresent anything.

Trump is lying. Again. As usual.

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

🤷🏼

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theciscokid2.bsky.social @theciscokid2.bsky.social · 4h

There is no such thing as other people’s children.
-HRC

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 2h

In court Donald Trump never put forth a single shred of credible evidence that the 2020 election was stolen from him

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

The seeds are being planted to rig the midterms. It’s becoming more explicit.

(Also note the gratuitous shot at the NBA, aka Black athletes who oppose him)

What’s worse, the NBA Players cheating at cards, and probably much else, or the Democrats cheating on Elections. The 2020 Presidential Election, being Rigged and Stolen, is a far bigger SCANDAL. Look what happened to our Country when a Crooked Moron became our “President!” We now know everything. I hope the DOJ pursues this with as much “gusto” as befitting the biggest SCANDAL in American history! If not, it will happen again, including the upcoming Midterms. No mail-in or “Early” Voting, Yes to Voter ID! Watch how totally dishonest the California Prop Vote is! Millions of Ballots being “shipped.” GET SMART REPUBLICANS, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!

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Chris Scherf @cscherf.bsky.social · 30m

“Although it’s difficult to pinpoint his exact net worth, Forbes figures it’s somewhere in the ballpark of $600 million.” Unadulterated bs from Bessent.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

WELKER: Coffee prices are up 19%, beef is up almost 15%, and bacon up almost 6% just to name a few. So when are all grocery prices going to come down as President Trump promised?

BESSENT: Kristen, it's unfortunate. As much as I like you, you like to cherrypick.

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Chris Scherf @cscherf.bsky.social · 38m

How to manufacture an excuse for an attack.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2h

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

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Militant Nerd @militantnerd.bsky.social · 5h

Centrism NYT-style:

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h

The New York Times editorial board thinks Democrats should “move to the center.”

Where the hell is the center between democracy and fascism?

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Chris Scherf @cscherf.bsky.social · 42m

Really stupid people don’t know what they don’t know.

Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 1h

My god.

The levels of lunacy and derangement continue to rise every hour at record levels. Its absolutely insane no one in the Republican party has the courage to speak out against a man who is clearly seriously unwell and should be institutionalized immediately. He is terrifyingly crazy.

Chris Scherf @cscherf.bsky.social · 6h

Whiney baby.

Chris Scherf @cscherf.bsky.social · 6h

Every week he shocks me with his stupidity.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

How George Will describes the unlawful arrest of George Retes in the Bezos Post.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The ICEmen were presumably looking for undocumented immigrants. Retes’s driver’s license, which he says the ICEmen never asked to see, identifies him as “Veteran Army.” His license plate includes “DV”: disabled veteran. While ICE’s warriors were trying and ultimately succeeding in smashing his driver’s-side window (the better to pepper spray him), they apparently did not notice his rear window’s “Iraq Combat Veteran” sticker.

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Winston Smith @winstonsmith2019.bsky.social · 1d

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

This ICE removal operated by Omni Air International is now making its second stop, in Sri Lanka. So far, migrants onboard have spent 34 hours in handcuffs, leg irons and a waist chain. There may be more stops.

Omni and its parent company were purchased in April by private equity firm Stonepeak.

An ADSBx map of South Asia showing the flight path of Omni aircraft N819AX. It flew east, landed in New Delhi, then flew south and is approacing Colombo, Sir Lanka.

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Chris Scherf @cscherf.bsky.social · 19h

Quebec’s ad just ran again. Does this mean war?

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23h

John Roberts and his miserable excuse for a high court of justice are presiding over a great disassembling of the United States and the rare American experiment in government by its people. It began with Citizens United and it continues relentlessly. This is a second civil war in slow motion.