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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 15h

Outrage Erupts as Trump Sends ICE to Polling Locations

With millions geared up to vote in a key off-year election, including a hotly watched redistricting measure in CA, Trump has ignited fierce backlash by deploying federal election monitors—sparking accusations of “blatant voter intimidation."

‘This Is Voter Intimidation’: Outrage Erupts as Trump Admin Sends ICE to Polling Locations

With millions geared up to vote in a key off-year election, including a hotly watched redistricting measure in California, the Donald Trump administration has ignited fierce backlash by deploying fede...

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 12h

Shame on 60 Minutes. 60 Lies. One per minute.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump brought printouts to his 60 Minutes interview of the "wars" he's "ended"

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TamD @tdzwilewski.bsky.social · 13h

USDA cuts block 370,000 pounds of meat and produce from Idaho Food Banks - LocalNews8.com - KIFI share.google/oL7ZUuhP14t7...

Home - Local News 8

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 14h

Trump is too busy playing MAGA Mad Libs instead of answering how to help Americans make ends meet.

These aren’t the words of a leader who actually cares.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15h

When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t worry because if they’re detained, agents will “promptly let the individual go.”

For these Americans, that wasn’t true.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And…

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15h

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

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Harris Levy @harrislevy.bsky.social · 15h

Any facts there or is just his usual lies?

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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 16h

I tuned in to the @60minutes Trump interview with low expectations, and I haven’t bern surprised. Norah let Trump lie and lie with barely any pushback or provision of corrective facts. Where is the Aussie guy from @axios when we need him?

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Harris Levy @harrislevy.bsky.social · 16h

There’s no incentive for him to stop lying if the networks keep letting him do it.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 16h

Watching CBS interview with Trump and pleading once again: stop interviewing this guy. He will filibuster (lol) and lie and avoid answering; he’ll broadcast further misinformation. No one is a good enough interviewer to crack him bc it is not really an interview.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 16h

#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1983: Reagan signs the bill establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday. The holiday was first observed on Jan. 20, 1986. Reagan opposed the law, but the bill passed both houses of Congress with a veto-proof majority. /1

President Ronald Reagan signs the bill commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday on Nov. 2, 1983, in the White House rose garden. Coretta Scott King is standing to his right. Photo credit: White House Photo Office.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 19h

Wow: George Tidmarsh, brought in by Trump admin to lead FDA’s drug division, is on leave after he says he questioned FDA’s plan to speed drug approvals, @by-cjewett.bsky.social reports

Also says he clashed with Vinay Prasad and blames him for a toxic environment at FDA

F.D.A. Drug Unit Chief Is Placed on Leave, and Cites a ‘Toxic’ Environment

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 23h

This traitor was not only a Confederate general who fought for the destruction of the U.S., he may have been involved in the development of the murderous KKK after the Civil War which terrorized Blacks seeking elective office & voting. What a disgrace to put his statue up again.

NPR @npr.org · 23h

A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square.

A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled

A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a scary floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 1d

the problem here is more fundamental: congress has not declared war against Venezuela, nor has the admin shown that these people are acting on behalf of Venezuela and attacking the U.S. so there’s just a basic lack of constitutional power here.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

The Justice Department told Congress this week that President Trump could lawfully continue his lethal military strikes on people suspected of smuggling drugs at sea. The move rests on the idea that a Vietnam-era law called the War Powers Resolution does not apply to airstrike campaigns.

War Powers Law Does Not Apply to Trump’s Boat Strikes, Administration Says

The move deepened the idea that a Vietnam-era law, which says congressionally unauthorized deployments into “hostilities” must end after 60 days, does not apply to airstrike campaigns.

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Harris Levy @harrislevy.bsky.social · 23h

There’s no incentive for the White House to comply since there’s no enforcement. DOJ and the Supreme Court (R) will let Trump do whatever he wants.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23h

Americans broadly disapprove of how President Donald Trump is handling his job, and a majority say he has gone too far in exercising the powers of his office, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll.

Voters divided on midterms despite broad Trump disapproval, poll finds

Most Americans disapprove the president’s handling of top issues, and a majority say he has gone too far in exercising his powers.

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Harris Levy @harrislevy.bsky.social · 1d

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DesertSkiesSue @desertprogressive.bsky.social · 1d

Out of the 30 states Trump carried in 2024, 25 of them are more reliant on SNAP than the national average.

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Trump Rants Food Stamp Recipients Largely Democrats

Trump falsely ranted to reporters on Air Force One that food stamp recipients are "largely Democrats" as he pressured his opponents on the government shutdown.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

This might be the one that breaks me. Every federal agency reduced to banana-republic personal fiefdoms where criminal Trump allies loot the public and fire vastly more qualified people for daring to do their jobs. It’s unthinkable. It’s obscene.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Kash Patel was angry about his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician girlfriend perform so he forced out a senior FBI official overseeing aviation, Bloomberg reports

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The FBI forced out a senior official overseeing aviation shortly after Director Kash Patel grew outraged about revelations of his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician girlfriend perform, said three people familiar with the situation.

Steven Palmer, a 27-year veteran of the FBI, became the third head of the critical incident response group—which includes FBI pilots—to be fired or removed in Patel’s short regime, adding to a year filled with retributive terminations.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The people on the right getting mad at Tucker Carlson for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes on his podcast don’t seem to have gotten mad at all at Donald Trump for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at his home for dinner. Funny that.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

Turns out the sweetheart deal that Trump's former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta gave Epstein back in 2008 was even worse than we thought. Epstein's emails show Acosta tanked an investigation that had Epstein dead to rights on money laundering, and other financial crimes.

Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW investigation: We uncovered previously undisclosed details about an 18-month money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that took place alongside the 2007 sex crimes probe, according to emails obtained from Epstein's personal Yahoo account
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Jeffrey Epstein Went to War Over Money Laundering Probe in 2007 Sex Case

Federal prosecutors opened a financial-crimes investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 amid their larger sex-trafficking probe. The financier and his legal team waged a war against them, his emails ...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18d

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
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Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 2d

“Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive “monetary bonuses” depending on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report to ICE.”

Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.

ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants

Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate — and paid cash bonuses for performance.

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