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SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 14h

I do not believe anything ICE says. If this reporter says she didn’t obstruct, she didn’t. ICE is arresting reporters in Chicago now

ICE Pins Chicago TV News Producer to the Ground, Hauls Her Off in Unmarked Van | Common Dreams

WGN producer Debbie Brockman forcefully arrested by ICE agents in Chicago. Video shows aggressive tactics used in the arrest.

www.commondreams.org

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Jun 12

Wow. California Sen. Alex Padilla is wrestled and detained by federal officers after showing up to DHS Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference in LA. (video from Bill Melugin of Fox News)

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John R. Platt @johnrplatt.bsky.social · 14h

Study: Commercial Lion Farming in South Africa Could Be Harming, Not Helping, Wild Lions @therevelator.org @bloodlions.bsky.social @worldanimalprotection.org.uk
therevelator.org/lion-farming...

Study: Commercial Lion Farming in South Africa Could Be Harming, Not Helping, Wild Lions • The Revelator

As we’ve seen with tigers and other threatened species, captive lion breeding may stimulate consumer demand and put additional pressure on wild populations across African home ranges.

therevelator.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 16h

as a journalist it's hard to understand why every single publication in the country isn't leading with this - news orgs either band together now or this will very soon be the norm

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 18h

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.

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New York Working Families Party @nywfp.bsky.social · 20h

HANDS OFF TISH JAMES.

TODAY. 5:30. FOLEY SQUARE.

www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event...

Solidarity Rally
Hands Off Tish James
Friday 10/10
Foley Square at 5:30

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18h

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Rep. Veronica Escobar @repescobar.bsky.social · 18h

If federal employees aren’t getting paid, Members of Congress shouldn’t either.

I’m withholding my own pay until all 18,000 federal employees in El Paso and all service members at Fort Bliss are paid.

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melissagaskill.bsky.social @melissagaskill.bsky.social · 17h

I'd get one of those for myself, but it's still in the 90s here. Nobody wants to see a melting frog...

Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 18h

Feeling froggy 💚🐸💚

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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 2d

Urgent new statement from the Pentagon Press Association, on Pete Hegseth’s new, forthcoming media restrictions:

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AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 1d

#Pinks #ProudBlue
This is the enemies list. Presidents cannot use government resources to go after their political enemies. It is an impeachable offense. This post is enough to get cases brought against any of these people thrown out. Like AG Letitia James said Faith over Fear.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h

Seems like a bad idea to fire air traffic controllers when there's already a shortage but what do I know

Sean Duffy Threatens to Fire Air Traffic Controllers as 10% Call Out Sick During Shutdown

gizmodo.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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melissagaskill.bsky.social @melissagaskill.bsky.social · 20h

Huzzah for the Swedes!

Keys for Liberty @demskeys.bsky.social · 1d

There are some things Billionaires can't buy...
The integrity of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Trump blows up Venezuelan boats while María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan democratic opposition leader, "who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness," wins the award.

melissagaskill.bsky.social @melissagaskill.bsky.social · 1d

We'll run out of National Guard soldiers at this rate!

Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 1d

US President Donald Trump has instructed United States Central Command to establish a command and control center for all security coordination in the Gaza Strip.

t.co/Zc9nQkOohL

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-869994

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Thou shalt not shoot pastors in the head with smoke bombs. I shouldn’t have to say this.

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melissagaskill.bsky.social @melissagaskill.bsky.social · 1d

Turn off the algorithms!

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

AOC: "It is hard for folks to understand the broader landscape of public opinion. Because some people are living in a MAGA universe online, their algorithms feed that to them... that no one else really has differing opinions. That happens as well in progressive algorithms."

AOC says people are being 'algorithmically polarized' by social media

"There are people that are living in a MAGA universe online," Ocasio-Cortez said. "And that happens as well in progressive content and algorithms."

www.businessinsider.com

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melissagaskill.bsky.social @melissagaskill.bsky.social · 1d

"No one could do what that man is doing today" because most of it is batsh** crazy and illegal.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rollins: "We had an amazing cabinet meeting. President Trump walked in before the cameras were there. We all stood up & gave him a two minute standing ovation. There's so much love in that room & respect & just appreciation for him. No one could do what that man is doing today. So I was so grateful"

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melissagaskill.bsky.social @melissagaskill.bsky.social · 1d

And it needs to be pointed out that Americans are buying this cocaine. No demand, no supply.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Approximately 8% of US cocaine comes through the eastern Caribbean (and virtually none of it involves fentanyl). Conversely, about 74% of US cocaine comes up the Pacific coast from Ecuador and Colombia. Trump’s objectives in Venezuela aren’t about drugs.

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs (Gift Article)

President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50!

#FightFireWithFire

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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 1d

The Trump administration wants to mine at the doorstep of the Boundary Waters. Twin Metals, owned by a Chilean mining company, wants to build a copper-nickel sulfide-ore mine immediately upstream of the Boundary Waters.

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melissagaskill.bsky.social @melissagaskill.bsky.social · 1d

Where can I donate to her defense fund?

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

NEWS: New York Attorney General Letitia James has been indicted by a federal grand jury in a case brought by Trump’s former personal lawyer-turned-prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, following Donald Trump’s demands.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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melissagaskill.bsky.social @melissagaskill.bsky.social · 1d

I get you, guy. I'm still mad at Nancy being voted most likely to succeed in high school instead of me.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Obama got a prize for doing nothing. Obama got a prize, he didn't even know what he got it -- he got elected and they gave it to Obama for doing absolutely nothing but destroying our country. He was not a good president."

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