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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 17h

Perfect parody of elite centrism. The insistence on means testing every bowl 🤌

Alan Partridge volunteers at a soup kitchen - BBC

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 21h

Jimmy Kimmel returns with unfinished business over Trump’s birthday letter to Epstein

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Sue Massa @smassa.bsky.social · 19h

Release
The
EPSTEIN
Files!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

Democrats should just start insisting that they saw very real videos of people rioting at Mar-a-Lago -- overturning golf carts, setting fire to the brunch buffet, stabbing busboys with carving knives, whatever -- and calling on Trump to send the Illinois National Guard there to restore order.

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 18h

you know democrats are winning the political battle of this shutdown beacuse the "actually its savvier for them to have caved on healthcare" takes are starting to bubble up

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Dave Flynn @davehflynn.bsky.social · 18h

www.msnbc.com/top-stories/... Release the files. #epstein

Chris Hayes: One easy way Trump could fact-check allegations about his relationship with Epstein

The president has repeatedly denied doing anything improper with the disgraced financier. But the story still won’t go away.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

I continue to just respect the hell out of this guy

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

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 1d

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It's October... BOO, BITCHES! @alyssonfergison.com · 1d

I'll never get these images out of my head. There was life before this. And there will be life after this. 😏

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

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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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1d

This really is the central problem of the west currently that economically marginal voters want one type of economy, but culturally they absolutely do want it.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1d

These jobs are not coming back and Clinton got pilloried in 2016 from the left and right for admitting that, but this wider inability to admit it is a lot what drives to populist turn in the West.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 1d

Our government’s official policy is “hurt and exploit workers to enrich their bosses.”

Only one of two things can be true: Either Trump's Labor Department actually believes that Trump's immigration enforcement is destroying the agricultural sector and threatening food security, or they are pretending this threat is real in order to crush wages for both foreign and domestic agricultural workers. Neither look particularly good.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents shooting an unarmed priest feels like a metaphor.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Euronews @euronews.com · 1d

Solar energy is now so cheap it costs as little as €0.023 to produce one unit of power, a new study has found.

Solar power named the world’s cheapest energy source

Solar energy is now so cheap it costs as little as €0.023 to produce one unit of power, a new study has found.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

THESE PAGAN LIBTARD WAR DANCES CAN ONLY PRESAGE CALAMITY!!

MEIN LEADER PRÄSIDENT TRUMP, HERR REICHSCOUCHVUCKER VON VANCE, HERR VERRÜCKTPSYCHO STEPHANMÜLLER, DER VOLK DEMAND YOU DEPLOY DIE PANZERBRIGADEN NOW!!!

Vielen Damk für your attention to this matter

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 5d

Living in this country is cool because every day I read another story where my reaction is, I do not think God will forgive the people responsible for this

Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 5d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 5d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 2d

US House Speaker Mike Johnson, a close Trump collaborator, is being called out by US lawmakers for keeping Congress in recess amid the 2025 government shutdown, an apparent move to stall a long-anticipated vote on releasing the Jeffrey #Epstein files. #OpDeathEaters

Speaker Mike Johnson is pictured alongside Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — all of whom have been named or referenced in connections to the Jeffrey Epstein network in public records or reporting.

Donald Trump Jr. is also present, long known to have maintained public ties and online interactions with Andrew Tate, a self-described influencer facing human-trafficking charges.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2d

Transgender Windmills would be a cool band name.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 3d

There it is

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 2d

So, imagine a 2028 that ends with a normal election and a Democratic president.

Does that president punish CBS? Does he kick it out of the Brady room's front row? Does his FCC go after its licenses? Does his FTC probe the Skydance deal?

No, probably not. No fear of reprisal if power shifts back.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Do CBS News executives understand that MAGA will not be in power forever? I genuinely think this is lost on a lot of people. They've gotten scammed by bad actors into believing Trump's 2024 win represented something seismic and even permanent. I predict they'll look back on this as a serious error.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

CBS News current president Tom Cibroski praised Weiss on the call, saying "Bari's energy and passion is infectious and you will feel it, big time." He also added that the Free Press and CBS News "are going to learn a lot from each other...that's what this is all about."

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Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman.bsky.social · Mar 31

Maybe folks are better at probabilities on Bluesky!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

The entire administration is "new legal analysis."

Is the President a King? Yes, according to new legal analysis. Can we fire civil servants, impound funds and eliminate agencies? *Touches earpiece* Yes, according to new legal analysis.

The shame is that SCOTUS has gone along with much of this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Nancy Drew: Girl Detective @sonjajacobsen.bsky.social · 2d

Republican Congressman offers bold statement defending the government shutdown.

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