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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 17h

This isn't going to play well in Finland. Or anywhere in Europe not under Putin's thumb, for that matter.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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PhillipUSA @phillipusa.bsky.social · 20h

#MAGA…

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19h

everyone who knows the kid who didnt do their homework or who was the kid who didnt do the homework and is pushing bullshit to the teacher has seen this speech pattern before

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: With soybeans, what is the plan to help farmers? Is it direct checks?

TRUMP: What happens with soybeans is uhhh, we're gonna see more and more I think opening up and part of the reason-- he's got things that he wants to discuss with me and I have things I want to discuss with him

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 22h

The Republican SCOTUS majority are corrupt, dishonest clowns who defile the office they hold. They should be disbarred.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 22h

I was unable to confirm the detail regarding the number of times Reverend Black was shot or what he was doing at the time. Not that it changes much.

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paulusg.bsky.social @paulusg.bsky.social · 23h

Protect Kamala Harris ✊

This is Reverend David Black, minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago. He was shot seven times in the head with chemical pellets by ICE agents as he was kneeling to pray at a protest.

RETWEET if you stand with Reverend Black against the Trump Administration!

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 22h

oh my god they are panicking so hard right now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d

A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security.

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 22h

All too plausible. I give it a couple weeks before they're just looting stores and holding people up for cash.

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Please Let Our Warfighters Use Your Restroom

By now, you’ve noticed our brave patriots—ICE, the National Guard, police officers, select local mall cops, rando bodyguards, weird little incels, ...

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jkrow.bsky.social @jkrow.bsky.social · 23h

Remember when Christ held that cage fight (sorry, MMA) in his back yard 2,000 years ago?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 1d

How does Bezos's "Prime Day" work? Well, one thing they do is inflate prices enormously the day before, then reduce them back to baseline on Prime Day, announcing a huge discount. More details in link below:

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UPDATE: Lawsuit alleges Prime Day is a fraud

The federal class action lawsuit has been ignored by major media outlets, which continue to promote Prime Day deals.

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 1d

> So while millions of children must die to save a few billion dollars, taxpayers are on the hook for billions more to bail out Bessent’s hedge fund buddies in a predictably futile attempt to save the Elon Musk of the South.

It's hard to be cynical enough.

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Bailing out Bessent’s Buddies’ Bets on Argentina

Trump bails out hedge funds’ failed bets on Milei while his foreign aid cuts will kill millions of children

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump gives CBS the kiss of death.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I think they work in conjunction with some of the media. I think ABC Is very bad. I think NBC is very bad. CBS has a new owner, so we have hope for CBS. CBS has a great new owner."

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Jolly @jolly1766.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Moses is sounding like Nathan Thurm.

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Nathan Thurm: Tobacco Growers of America - Saturday Night Live

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 1d

The Dark Ages began in Western Europe after Rome fell and much of the historical record went blank. Vellum and papyrus decayed. Records were not copied onto fresh media. New records were not kept.

We have entered the US Dark Ages.

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A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 1d

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 1d

There's a secret 11th Commandment that says the 9th Commandment doesn't apply to Mike, so he can bear false witness to his heart's content.

And Mike's heart isn't content with only a *little* false witness. Every day is a Golden Corral of lies for Mikey.

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PhillipUSA @phillipusa.bsky.social · 1d

#PedoDon

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

On ICE raids and attacks in Chicago, local reporters have consistently shown up the national outlets attempting to report remotely.

Locals continue to break story after story even as the nationals are summarizing govt press releases. They've shown physical bravery in very dangerous circumstances.

COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social · 2d

"With local news in a severe tailspin for decades, there was a real question about whether Chicago’s media would meet the moment. But they have indeed," writes @markjacob.bsky.social in Stop The Presses.

The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago

Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable

www.stopthepresses.news

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murderedbybluesky.bsky.social @murderedbybluesky.bsky.social · 2d

"Speaker Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House may have more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records."

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Mike Johnson is holding Congress out of session for two reasons: number one, so that way there are no negotiations; and number two, to cover for all the pedophiles on Epstein's list...They're covering for pedophiles and dropping your healthcare coverage."

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 1d

Gutting.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts 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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Ernesto O. @ernest33141.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
#FuckTrump

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