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🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 4h

Across the land, average Americans are realizing that they too could be dragged out of their homes in the middle of the night by Trump’s ICE agents, or tear-gassed and arrested by Trump’s National Guard, or targeted by Trump’s prosecutors, or shot by Trump’s military. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17h

“Border Patrol agents, along with other federal agents, conducted a military-style immigration raid of an apartment complex in Chicago. Video showed agents indiscriminately bursting through doors. ‘All the evidence suggests egregious violations of rights…’”

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‘Cavalier and aggressive’: why are border agents flooding into US cities?

Border agents have become a key force in Trump’s migrant crackdown – operating far from their traditional rural range

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 17h

Help me out here. When did Biden take office? Who was the FBI director on January 6th? Who appointed that FBI director?

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🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 8h

Pope Leo takes aim at MAGA’s false gospel. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

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🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 15h

Trump does not have an “administration”. He sits atop a criminal organization which runs on bribery, extortion and threats. His expanding dementia is allowing the worst of his minions to run amok.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "Look, we've gotta rely on the courts to do the right thing. I realize that sometimes that's risky business, especially when some have been appointed by Donald Trump. But we've seen that even a Trump-appointed judge out in California has ruled against the administration."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15h

Can someone tell me why so many Republicans are working so hard to protect rich and powerful pedophiles? 🤨

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

Nobody from the Trump admin will answer this simple question no matter how many times you ask it. For some reason. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Vance: I’m sure that in the course of his life he has been paid more than $50,000 for services. The question is did he do something illegal.

Stephanopoulos: I’m asking if Homan accepted the $50,000

Vance: Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services? Low income women can’t get food

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 15h

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG!

Bless The Frog Proving Kristi Noem Wrong

It's raining frogs! Hallelujah!

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🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 1d

It is hard to escape the conclusion that James is being prosecuted simply because, in carrying out her functions as a state attorney general, she enforced the law against the person who is currently president. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Donald Trump's administration just made an "unusual acknowledgement" about its immigration policies, according to a new report Saturday.

'Hurting farmers': Trump admin just made an 'unusual acknowledgement' about its policies

Donald Trump's administration just made an "unusual acknowledgement" about its immigration policies, according to a new report Saturday.In a weekend article called "Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices," the Washington Post reported, "In an unusual acknowled...

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

🚨SOUTHERN VOTERS🚨

Your state could be impacted by a Supreme Court ruling that could lock in GOP control for over a generation, and in some states, eliminate majority-Black districts entirely.

Learn about what's out stake if the court guts Section 2👇
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GOP Could Lock in House Control for a Generation if SCOTUS Ends Key VRA Protection, Report Warns

Read more here.

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🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 1d

The endgame for Donald Trump, JD Vance, Kristi Noem, and Pam Bondi is coming into clearer focus, and it’s nearly a one-for-one, step-by-step implementation of Nazi jurist/philosopher Carl Schmitt’s ideas that created and sustained the early Third Reich. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

This Nazi philosopher's playbook explains everything Donald Trump does

The endgame for Donald Trump, JD Vance, Kristi Noem, and Pam Bondi is coming into clearer focus, and it’s nearly a one-for-one, step-by-step implementation of Nazi jurist/philosopher Carl Schmitt’s id...

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

“The Trump administration said that its immigration crackdown is hurting farmers and risking higher food prices for Americans by cutting off agriculture’s labor supply.”

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Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

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🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 1d

O'Donnell urged public recognition of what she considers Trump’s dangerous behavior, warning of serious consequences. O'Donnell also called on media to challenge Trump’s misinformation instead of amplifying it. www.msn.com/en-us/tv/new...

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🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's oligarchs continue the insidious takeover of election infrastructure.
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🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is a crime lord who has muzzled corporate media through extortion. It's a national protection racket.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2d

I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 2d

Don't forget bailing out Argentina while US farms collapse!

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