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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 2h

it’s going to be awkward when ICE accidentally kidnaps Qatari soldiers

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 7h

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Qatar to build air force facility on U.S. base in Idaho

Laura Loomer and other MAGA figures expressed shock and outrage, but the deal was long in the making.

www.axios.com

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 6h

January 6th thugs = ICE thugs…

Political cartoon by: Clay Jones

ICE agents standing in front of small children saying to each other: It’s easier putting children in zip ties than it was storming the Capitol…

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 13h

here's today's post: "let’s laugh at the sad loser who didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize" — and let’s congratulate the woman who did.
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let’s laugh at the sad loser who didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize

and let’s congratulate the woman who did.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 7h

📌The S&P 500 sank 2.7% in its worst day since April. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 878 points, or 1.9%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 3.6%, on this devastating news.

📌He is wrecking the U.S. economy.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7h

President Trump said that he’s placing an additional 100% tax on Chinese imports starting on Nov. 1 or sooner, potentially escalating tariff rates close to levels that in April fanned fears of a steep recession and financial market chaos.

Trump threatens tech export limits, new 100% tariff on Chinese imports starting Nov. 1 or sooner

President Donald Trump says “there seems to be no reason” to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as part of an upcoming trip to South Korea after China restricted exports of rare earths needed for American industry.

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 4h

Release the Epstein Files.

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 11h

Keep in mind that ICE now has a budget larger than every military in the world except the US and Chinese militaries.

Things are going to get much worse. I'm not saying this to create fear, it's fact.

The administration is at war with Americans.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 5h

“Can you show us a video of Portland in flames?”

Is a question someone needs to ask the frickin’ President of the United States.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h

Sidebar: It’s wild that the guy making the arrest has an accent, and the guy being arrested doesn’t.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13h

MIT has rejected Fat Satan’s blackmail, making it the first university not to bend the knee.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 3h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 2h

Congrats, MAGA, you’ve owned the Libs—and all it’s cost you is a functioning government, a working democracy, human rights, national peace, economic stability, affordable groceries, affordable healthcare, qualified leaders, and global standing.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/congratula...

Congratulations, Trump Supporters, You've Owned the Libs

Well, Trump Supporters, as a member of the woke radical Left, it kills me to say this, but you win.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 8h

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 3h

nobel peace prize is not awarded posthumously

just a little fun fact to file away for next year for absolutely no particular reason

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 4h

To all the Americans losing their jobs and farmers losing their farms, take comfort in the fact that the people in Argentina are doing great.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2h

Donald Trump just got a COVID booster at Walter Reed, per the White House physician.

Let’s be clear this is the same guy who downplayed the virus, mocked masks, and turned lifesaving vaccines into a political wedge that cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 2h

We’ve reclaimed frogs from Pepe.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 5h

I love this image.

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Stace RN Resists 📎💙 Portland Strong @stacernresists.bsky.social · 9d

Reposting this because the crimes against humanity by this fascist regime are mounting up on the daily!

If you agree like many others, please repost as well!

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Woke Everett @wokeeverett.bsky.social · 2h

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 2h

While U.S. troops miss paychecks and the government remains shut down…

- 🍊💩 is building a $5.5 billion beachside golf resort in Qatar
- GOP are approving a Qatari air force base on U.S. soil
- And MAGA’s “ 🇺🇸Firstcrowd is silent

You’re not watching foreign policy.You’re watching a foreign payday

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 11h

Is there any precedence in the history of the United States for having a foreign airbase on American soil?

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 2h

Never in my life have I ever read a medical report that lists "cardiac age" in it. That isn't a thing.

Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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lovescatsanddogs.bsky.social @lovescatsanddogs.bsky.social · 2h

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On June 14th, Millions of Us Said "No Kings." On October 18th, We're About to Break That Record.

We believe this will be the largest peaceful protest in modern American history is nine days away. Over 2,100 events are already planned.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 10h

So glad to know the First Lady is having lovely chats with a genocidal murderer to ask him to return the children he abducted.

Do we even have a State Department anymore?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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