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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 8h

🐀 Mike Johnson caught lying using the receipts he directed us to use. Jen Psaki for the 🎯

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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Jeffrey Lebowski🏴‍☠️🍺💙 @jeffreylebowski420.bsky.social · 1h

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Our Lady of Perpetual Disappointment @rkfatheree.bsky.social · 15h

Has anyone asked the “private donors” why they choose to spend money on a ballroom for the few instead of reducing the national debt for all?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

#MedicareForAll

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Wiley Miller @wileymiller.bsky.social · 17h

Via WaPo:
"The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed last week that the president’s crackdown is cutting off agriculture’s labor supply and threatening “the stability of domestic food production.”

Golly, who could have possibly foreseen THAT repercussion?

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spooky•girl•cassiopeia @sadgirlcassi.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina got $20 billion this week.

the Argentinian public healthcare system is free for residents and tourists, funded through taxes.

America First, though, amirite??

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13h

The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.

The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity

In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.

www.levernews.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10h

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 13h

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

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CC Gene @ccgene.bsky.social · 13h

“Books with sexual content”…like the Bible?

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12h

The hush money payoff to Stormy Daniels cost more than house Leticia James bought for her grand niece.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

Page One in Boston.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15h

Federal employees across the government are now receiving layoff notices, a devastating outcome of Trump’s political games. It’s outrageous that he would use people’s livelihoods as pawns to “score political points”.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13h

Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c

Tweet from Fred Wellman: “Weird. I was told it’s a war zone.”
Below is a Time Out Chicago post showing a scenic city skyline at sunset with the text: “Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth consecutive year.”

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

If a pharmaceutical company could mass produce whatever compassion pills Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to have been taking lately, we could save the world

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

Children that were kidnapped by invading Russian barbarians, not displaced.

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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · 13h

CONSISTENT IN HER ARROGANCE: Gov. Sanders disenfranchises 30,000 people in N. Little Rock/Sherwood by holding open vacant House seat until June, ignoring clear deadline in state law. She's also holding open Senate seat in River Valley to help push through her Franklin Co. prison.
#Arkansas

Governor again ignores state law, schedules special election for House vacancy 100 days past deadline - Arkansas Times

The special election to fill Rep. Carlton Wing's seat in the state House of Representatives will take place on June 9, 2026.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“I got out of my car and tried to explain that I was a U.S. citizen and an Army veteran just trying to get to my job. They didn’t care.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

I’m a U.S. citizen who was wrongly arrested and held by ICE. Here’s why you could be next

OPINION: “No matter your race, background or beliefs — none of us should have to fear being silenced, detained or dehumanized by the very government meant to protect us.”

www.sfchronicle.com

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