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mfa08.bsky.social @mfa08.bsky.social · 2d

#ICE is showing that they are #sociopaths.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

mfa08.bsky.social @mfa08.bsky.social · 2d

OMG: Marjorie Taylor Greene (#MTG) is becoming the #saneRepublican

Zacharydideas @zacharygg.bsky.social · 2d

She is looking to occupy the Manchin-Cinema area in the middle to rake in money. While the house is so close she will make MILLIONS selling her vote… She grifts…. She is about to become mega wealthy

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2d

When the GOP loses the crazies. 😳

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

For the first time in history renewable energy sources are now generating more power than coal worldwide.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Annette ☮️ (annettebeebe.bsky.social) 💙 @annettebeebe.bsky.social · 2d

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Clay Nobles @claynobles.bsky.social · 2d

When I was born, Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States.
The Convict now in the White House is the 47th one. That means in my lifetime only 12 people have served. But I have Never been as ashamed of my government as I am today.
This wanna be dictator is about to enact martial law

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Nirvana @nirvana1978.bsky.social · 2d

Trump callously says that "some people" don't deserve back pay during the government shutdown. Those "people" are DEMOCRATS and they DO deserve pay whether you agree with them or not!! They did a job, they deserve to be paid! #StiffUpperLipOfHiltler

#Pinks

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

President Trump says some furloughed federal workers ‘don’t deserve’ back pay

President Donald Trump said some furloughed federal workers “don’t deserve” to receive back pay when the federal government shutdown is over.

www.usatoday.com

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Colleen Paige @colleenpaige.bsky.social · 2d

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Rayfield: When Trump learned that this was a judge who was appointed by him, he said he wasn’t served well.

To have any president or any politician in America say a judge is not serving them—words can’t even describe how backwards that is.

Phang: He’s not the king. He’s the court jester.

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Cody @cody32.bsky.social · 3d

Once again Antifa is short for Anti-Fascist/Fascism if you aren't Antifa you are Profa which makes you Pro-Fascist/Fascism. Stephen Miller needs to fuck off. Fuck Fascists. Fuck Fascism.

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canada-keith.bsky.social @canada-keith.bsky.social · 2d

Keith’s Breaking News: two of Canada’s Trucking Convoy to block roads were Sentenced today. They were funded by Their Biggest donor, Thomas Siebel a Billionaire Right Wing Republican extremist who illegally funded Convicted Criminals in Canada 🇨🇦. Rand Paul & Ted Cruz, Republicans support the Convoy

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Donald (not a Facist) - Shame on US 🇨🇦Friendly @dn-ny-mtl.bsky.social · 2d

On the January 6th insurrection at the Capital to steal the election for trump, funded by "dark money" they hid under their desks in fear of their lives.
Now it's like it never happened. (There's video guys.)
They fear & support their cult leader who wanted them dead & who pardoned violent felons.

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mfa08.bsky.social @mfa08.bsky.social · 5d

Geoffrey Hinton, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize for neural network research, warns that it is more than 50% likely that AI will kill us. Bet ICE will beat Ai to it. theberkshireedge.com/book-review-...

BOOK REVIEW: 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies' — When the AI engineers are in over their heads - The Berkshire Edge

The fulcrum of this book is simple: AI engineers are in over their heads.

theberkshireedge.com

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mfa08.bsky.social @mfa08.bsky.social · 4d

I DARE YOU TO WATCH THIS...YOU CAN USE THE SLIDER TO BYPASS THE COMMERCIAL. youtu.be/r28jpYG-Ki4?...

🚨Trump CAUGHT ON TAPE as INVASION Spins OUT OF CONTROL

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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mfa08.bsky.social @mfa08.bsky.social · 2d

Just so we're clear

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Jay @pescado70.bsky.social · 3d

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mfa08.bsky.social @mfa08.bsky.social · 4d

I DARE YOU TO WATCH THIS...YOU CAN USE THE SLIDER TO BYPASS THE COMMERCIAL. youtu.be/r28jpYG-Ki4?...

🚨Trump CAUGHT ON TAPE as INVASION Spins OUT OF CONTROL

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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mfa08.bsky.social @mfa08.bsky.social · 5d

Geoffrey Hinton, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize for neural network research, warns that it is more than 50% likely that AI will kill us. Bet ICE will beat Ai to it. theberkshireedge.com/book-review-...

BOOK REVIEW: 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies' — When the AI engineers are in over their heads - The Berkshire Edge

The fulcrum of this book is simple: AI engineers are in over their heads.

theberkshireedge.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 5d

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

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Jesse💙💙💙💙 @journeyled.bsky.social · 5d

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Criminals do things without good reasons. 47 doesn’t have any good reasons. That is why he is a rapist and a felon. His administration is the same. Going to democrat led cities with soldiers to quell peaceful areas. Nothing makes sense. Follow and keep protesting.

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mfa08.bsky.social @mfa08.bsky.social · 5d

OK, MAGA.This is YOUR AMERICA. About 1AM Tues,ARMED FED AGENTS RAPPELLED FROM HELICOPTERS ONTO the ROOF of a 5-storey CHICAGO RESIDENTIAL BLDG. Others worked from the bottom, KICKING DOWN DOORS,THROWING FLASH BANG GRENADES, ZIP-TYING ADULTS & SCREAMING CHILDREN.
www.aol.com/articles/mil...

'Military-Style' ICE Raid In Chicago Shows Escalation in Tactics

Witnesses said children were taken from their homes unclothed and separated from their parents during the raid.

www.aol.com

mfa08.bsky.social @mfa08.bsky.social · 5d

Americans should know three things about the shutdown www.threads.com/@pool5978/po...

Arthur Salvador Aguirre (@pool5978) on Threads

Yup 👍🏽 .. truth spoken. Trump is literally this right our country right before our eyes 👀 🥺😳

www.threads.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13d

🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court RULES that election officials violated voter’s rights by rejecting mail-in ballots with technical errors without notifying voters. Voters must be given notice their ballots won’t count so they can challenge the disqualification or cast a provisional ballot.

🚨 Center for Coalfield Justice v. Washington County Board of Elections

Learn more.

www.democracydocket.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9d

How a warming planet has made home insurance increasingly unaffordable

How a warming planet has made home Insurance increasingly unaffordable

Years of underestimating climate risk has left the industry in turmoil.

www.motherjones.com

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 9d

FYI. If the Govt shuts down, everyone stays in town including the president but you’re just bored with nothing to do because it’s all messaging and negotiations.

GREAT TIME TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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