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Doing my part to defend democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law. #RESIST
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🇨🇦marciebp🇲🇽 @marciebp.bsky.social · 10h
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CBS decided not to air this part - the part where the felon talks about how he sued them.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 18h
Speaker Johnson: Federal employees aren’t being paid. Nutrition cuts may cause children to go hungry. Millions are seeing their health premiums soar.

End the 6 week paid vacation you’ve taken. Join your Democratic colleagues and negotiate an end to this shutdown.
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Buckle Up @edavies.bsky.social · 17h
Thanks for including me, Ian! I appreciate it.
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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 1d
Meanwhile, Trump’s having a champagne Great Gatsby party at Mar-a-Lago. 🤨
#LetThemEatCake 🍾 🥂 …. 🍰
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Brett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 1d
If I see as much as a single video edit I’m suing for $10 billion. Your move, CBS.
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Buckle Up @edavies.bsky.social · 1d
Trump is criminally insane. Every day he is ordering the killing of more and more people in your name and mine. Republicans in Congress who refuse to check his unlawful actions are culpable. This has to stop.
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Trump says he’s ordered Pentagon to ‘prepare for possible action’ in Nigeria | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Saturday he has ordered the Defense Department to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria as he continues to accuse the nation of violence against Christians — an a...
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Buckle Up @edavies.bsky.social · 1d
When you have to threaten news organizations to try to prevent them from publishing the truth, you may not be the good guys. I just made a tax-deductible contribution to ProPublica. I encourage anyone who can afford it to do the same.
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N.C. GOP spokesman urges reporter to drop news story, citing Trump ties
Communications director Matt Mercer later said in a social media post that Trump should “feed ProPublica to the USAID wood chipper.”
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Mr. Howard @mrhoward.bsky.social · 1d
An important part of all Republican presidencies is when they destroy everything, everyone hates them, so they start invading non-white countries, hoping that racism lifts them a bit.
peark.es George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d
New crusade just dropped
Avatar Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter. I am hereby making Nigeria a “COUNTRY OF PARTICULAR CONCERN” — But that is the least of it. When Christians, or any such group, is slaughtered like is happening in Nigeria (3,100 versus 4,476 Worldwide), something must be done! I am asking Congressman Riley Moore, together with Chairman Tom Cole and the House Appropriations Committee, to immediately look into this matter, and report back to me. The United States cannot stand by while such atrocities are happening in Nigeria, and numerous other Countries. We stand ready, willing, and able to save our Great Christian population around the World! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 253 ReTruths 755 Likes Oct 31, 2025, 2:09 PM
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Buckle Up @edavies.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks, Republicans.
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Buckle Up @edavies.bsky.social · 2d
Perfect response. Joe Neguse will be president someday.
oldmanhippy.com ✌️Bob ☮ (Old Man Hippy)💙 @oldmanhippy.com · 2d
This is exactly what this is about. It is not the Democrats holding up anything. It is the orange buffoons lawlessness and that of his enablers in the GOP.
Representative Joe Neguse
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Jori M. @jorinyc.bsky.social · 2d
MAGA prosecutor won't explain scrubbed sentencing memo for rioter who threatened Obama

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MAGA prosecutor won't explain scrubbed sentencing memo for rioter who threatened Obama
President Donald Trump's federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., refused to answer questions from reporters on why the Justice Department whitewashed a sentencing memo for a violent Jan. 6 rioter who ...
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Buckle Up @edavies.bsky.social · 2d
Good. Let him "not buy" them right up until the 2026 midterms. Let's see how he feels on 11/4/2026.
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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d
When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
johncarlbaker.bsky.social John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 3d
It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 4d
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

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Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 4d
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

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ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
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Buckle Up @edavies.bsky.social · 3d
Trump & Republicans are CHOOSING to literally let millions of Americans starve, lose health insurance, and be forced to work with zero pay. Inflation and unemployment are starting to spiral. Overt racism, misogyny, and corruption are praised and rewarded. Republicans are the biggest threat we face.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 4d
Donald Trump Jr. in 2021: “Those Hunter no-show no-experience board seats didn’t come without an expected return!”

Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it.

New: me, for @forbes.com

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After Unusual Machines Names Donald Trump Jr. To New Advisory Board, Defense Contracts Follow
Donald Trump Jr. once mocked Hunter Biden's "no-show no-experience board seats." Now he's on his second newly activated advisory board—and that company just announced $15 million in contracts.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Neguse: "Does anyone here not believe that with one phone call from Speaker Johnson -- one phone call to the president or the secretary of ag -- that those funds would be released tomorrow? And that families wouldn't go starving by the weekend?"
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Buckle Up @edavies.bsky.social · 5d
"It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation."
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The Hunger Games Begin
40 million Americans are about to lose food stamps
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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Buckle Up @edavies.bsky.social · 6d
Apparently, Jeff Bezos needs more money.
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Amazon to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs, reports say | CNN Business
Amazon is laying off as many as 30,000 corporate employees beginning tomorrow, reports say.
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Buckle Up @edavies.bsky.social · 6d
Trump's economy: "Among Americans 20 to 24 years old, the unemployment rate was 9.2% in August — comparable to the overall rate in 2009, during the Great Recession."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8d
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Buckle Up @edavies.bsky.social · 7d
Dear Mafia, if you are listening....
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Buckle Up @edavies.bsky.social · 7d
Exactly the sham Trump and Bannon are trying to perpetrate on the most gullible (and deranged) Americans. Do not let friends and family fall for it. lucid.substack.com/p/tina-there...
TINA (There Is No Alternative) and the Leader as "A Vehicle of Divine Providence"
And my video on covering corruption and violence with an aura of holiness
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