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jcstarbuck.bsky.social @jcstarbuck.bsky.social · 13h

If things were reversed, we’d have been screaming for goalie interference…although we know that would not have been guaranteed.

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Nurse RoRo @nurseroro.bsky.social · 1d

Dear WH Press Corp
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Start demanding answers. Portland isn’t on fire. Chicago isn’t at war. Seattle isn’t thanking him.
ANTIFA isn’t assaulting ICE agents
Hold him accountable for the lies.
Refuse to ask anything else until he answers these.
Demand the proof

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Hopeful in AZ, MBA @shimanti.bsky.social · 22h

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle - The Guardian

Grateful for the updates!
@meiselasb.bsky.social 👏

apple.news/ATyFt4gUgSnS...

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle — Guardian US

His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19h

👇👇

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that

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jcstarbuck.bsky.social @jcstarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

They're also illegal.

The Trump Party: "Give us what we want, Democrats, or we will punch these Fed workers in the nuts."

jcstarbuck.bsky.social @jcstarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

As Russia showed so clearly after Putin took control, when the top person is a crook stealing state wealth, the rest of his government and military will follow suit.

You can safely bet that Trump's graft is being openly repeated throughout his cabinet.

The Sopranos writ large.

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𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 1d

WHO IS FIRING WHO??

The president cannot fire federal employees. He appoints a relatively small group of officials:

Cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, and some other political appointees (about 4k total).

Vought can’t either. Only within the OMB, which has roughly 500.

We still have laws, yes??

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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jcstarbuck.bsky.social @jcstarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

Say it together with me...WTF?

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jcstarbuck.bsky.social @jcstarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

No bigger mortgage app law breaker than the current president.

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jcstarbuck.bsky.social @jcstarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

Why aren't local law enforcement jumping in to stop it? Seems like Governors and Mayors should demand that local police enforce the laws.

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jcstarbuck.bsky.social @jcstarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

The other thing about poor folks is that they are the ones who are ready to help and to give.

It's illogical, but the more most people get, the less charitable they are.

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jcstarbuck.bsky.social @jcstarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

Pure Gestapo Goon Squad.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

jcstarbuck.bsky.social @jcstarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

With an obviously struggling Trump, mentally and physically, now might be the right time for the mainstream media to ask who is making decisions in the White House?

How about Congress subpoenaing White House staffers? I mean the future of the world is at stake.

jcstarbuck.bsky.social @jcstarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

Give the slimy little bastard credit. He is slippery.

jcstarbuck.bsky.social @jcstarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

That headline has it reversed. Trump is the front guy for the takeover of America by radicals, starting with John Roberts.

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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 1d

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online

Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.

www.oregonlive.com

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jcstarbuck.bsky.social @jcstarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of institutions, not just academic institutions, should operate under the obvious idea that for one of a variety of reasons, Trump will not be around for much longer than the near future...his health and age to cite a couple.

The institutions, however, hope to be.

jcstarbuck.bsky.social @jcstarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

Interpretation: "Ooh, there are a lot of black people on the streets of Chicago. Be afraid!": Fox News, the White Cocoon for Middle America.

jcstarbuck.bsky.social @jcstarbuck.bsky.social · 2d

Big difference: The Supreme Court is now an adjunct of the Trump White House.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

One thing we've learned from the American judicial system: The first 34 felonies are on the house*.

*Terms and conditions may apply. See prosecutors for details if you're not white. Or rich.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

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