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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Valerie @gigifor4.bsky.social · 21h

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 4d

There it is

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 4d

Last year they claimed “illegals” were voting, without any evidence.

They used fear mongering to push for voter suppression laws.

Now they claim “illegals” are getting free healthcare, again without any evidence.

So they can make healthcare unaffordable for millions of Americans.

Enough.

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Valerie @gigifor4.bsky.social · 4d

Shame on Tim Cook for caving to Trump and removing the Ice Block app from the Apple store, that allows people to track where ICE raids are happening.

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Valerie @gigifor4.bsky.social · 4d

Kristi Noem says ICE will be “all over” the Super Bowl.

At an average ticket price of $4000-$6000, I can’t afford to go, so how many Tamale vendors or gardeners do they think will be buying tickets?
***Report to DOGE “actual”#WasteFraudandAbuse

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5d

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6d

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9d

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

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Valerie @gigifor4.bsky.social · 9d

Sounds like Lutnick is in the tapes, along with others in Trump’s Cabinet.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9d

Lutnick on Epstein:

Devine: So how come these other people could hang around him and not see it?

Lutnick: They participated. That's what his M.O. was, "Get a massage" And what happened in that massage room, I assume is on video. This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever. That's how he had money.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9d

Lutnick on Epstein:

Devine: So how come these other people could hang around him and not see it?

Lutnick: They participated. That's what his M.O. was, "Get a massage" And what happened in that massage room, I assume is on video. This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever. That's how he had money.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Ossoff: "We have a president who's completely out of control, a crook engaged in unprecedented corruption, who's passing one of the most unpopular agendas in history. The public is turning against him. The opposition is motivated. We can win & we have to win, but we don't have the luxury of despair"

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15d

I honestly don’t care about James Comey.

But I want to live in a democratic republic.

His indictment proves we live in a banana republic, where the autocrat personally orders indictments of his political enemies, and when his own officials refuse he finds new ones that will.

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James Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social · 15d

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23d

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 26d

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Valerie @gigifor4.bsky.social · 25d

This is what the continuous destruction of democracy looks like.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28d

“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said.

@nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · Sep 11

In the interest of transparency, Kash is really bad at his job.

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Valerie @gigifor4.bsky.social · Sep 11

The Utah Legislature, which has a Republican super majority, changed the law earlier this year to make it legal to openly carry a gun on college campuses. Used to be concealed carry w/ permit.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Sep 5

Umm … it’s pretty stupid.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Sep 5

So much greatness.

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · Sep 3

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

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