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Frogtifa @frogtifa.bsky.social · 16h

Huge shoutout to George Soros for funding our supporters with suits and pee bottles.

Here’s to a successful False Frog Operation In Portland, Chicago, and any city that oppressors invade.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 16h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 19h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 18h

I guess it's possible that US education outcomes in red states just happen to align so very perfectly with David Brooks' prior beliefs about teachers' unions. I don't know ed policy remotely enough to say, but that piece is emitting serious quantities of bullshit particles.

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 21h

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ALT: a cartoon of spongebob brushing his teeth and holding a toothpaste bottle

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 21h

Another one of the more interesting talks from the Way event last week -

Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 21h

When we started planning #Persuasion2025, Terrance Woodbury from @hitstrat.bsky.social was one of the first names that came up. Terrance has a unique ability to shape a story with data that will fire you up... and maybe scare you a bit. (in a good way)

Persuasion 2025: Terrance Woodbury

YouTube video by Way to Win Action Fund

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

It’s very much Not Great to have GOP leadership describe a planned non violent march as being in service a the “terrorist wing”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 23h

If I give the President an old 747 can I rename NORAD to ANCONARAD

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 23h

wat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Spencer Reynolds @sreynolds.bsky.social · 1d

Antifa is not a group; the president cannot designate domestic terror groups.

My @brennancenter.org colleague @faizapatel.bsky.social is out today with a deep review of NSPM-7. It is a dangerous directive that will facilitate predatory politics-based targeting: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 1d

Rue de la Paix #edouardcortes #cortes

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

oops

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

my command center isn't technically in my mom's house

Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

you should make an exception for charting the way forward, substantive new thinking for putting the dems back together with lots of sizzling hot research.

totally kidding btw, i strongly support your chill

Charting the Way Forward

Politics Podcast · Updated Weekly · Research-informed strategy and intelligence from across the winning Democratic coalition, with Way to Win cofounders Tory Gavito and Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, and g...

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

^ very niche @espiers.bsky.social-only skeet ^ although @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social may appreciate also

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah well I'm brokering a deal between the Abundance Bros and DSA from the makeshift command center in my mom's house, beat that Jared

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Here’s how Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, helped broker an Israel-Hamas breakthrough from a makeshift command center in Florida.

How Jared Kushner, a Self-Described ‘Deal Guy,’ Helped Broker a Gaza Breakthrough

Trained in New York City real estate, the president’s son-in-law had a single goal: Get to a yes first, and hash out the details later. “It’s just different being deal guys — just a different sport,” he said.

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

Ohhh hell yeah I am SO using Self Describe "Deal Guy"

Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

New rule. If they bring up a video in a press conference or media appearance, they need to post the link. I want to see the exact flavor of slop they are frying their brains in.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 2d

And, they failed upward! These same people are now the ones with some of the biggest audiences that Dems are listening to for strategy.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 2d

Lego is way too lazy to nom any of the hoomans

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 2d

been a dark couple of days but this is lovely to hear

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 3d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome to the resistance, Majorie Taylor Greene... typing that sentence just shattered my brain like a ceramic bowl on a tile floor

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 2d

At this point Democrats in Congress shouldn't concede an inch unless Johnson and Thune meet all their demands.

Republican rank and file members know it - majority of public are siding with Dems over healthcare and tired of giving Trump blank checks. www.axios.com/2025/10/08/m...

AXIOS HEADLINE with Mike Johnson reading a folder:

"Mike Johnson faces growing internal revolt over shutdown

Kate Santaliz,Andrew Solender "

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