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Hawkeye8 @hawkeye8.bsky.social · 1d

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

It's been 37 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.

Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 1d

🚨Wow - this will be huge if it bears out. Exit polls show the pro-EU D66 party has WON the Dutch election.

The far-right PVV party of Geeet Wildsrs has lost 12 seats, according to exit polls.

Huge if true.

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Midi @midionbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Because you are the only person who knows that.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

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Midi @midionbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

I encourage those who don't want to vote for the 'lesser of 2 evils' to run for office themselves.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

www.durangoherald.com/articles/imm...

Mother of children taken by ICE feels like she is ‘drowning,’ ‘choking’ after arrests

A 15-year-old boy and his father were “beaten, handcuffed and forced to sign documents” after being arrested Monday in Durango by federal immigration officers, the boy’s mother told an immigrant servi...

www.durangoherald.com

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Summer Oakes- the Witch on the Hill 🇨🇦 @summeroakes.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, look here. When those big companies say they had a loss because their revenue is down so much from this same time last year, they didn’t have a loss, they made lots of money this year, just not as much as their greedy board of directors wanted them to.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 2d

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was beaten, choked, and subjected to racial slurs by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Houston, who did not identify themselves before tackling him and his father to the ground.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

The federal government keeps labeling everyone they go after as cartel members — and it keeps being proven false. These are the same people we’re supposed to trust when they execute people at sea under that very justification?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:

$100 billion

Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:

$100 billion

One is decried as "welfare." One is not.

Why?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

They must expect a lot of people all over the country to be really upset about something next year. I wonder what that could be?

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Killing people on the open seas without a declaration of war is mass murder.

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Midi @midionbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

He needs to go now. Impeach, 25th, whatever.

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 1d

Trump directs Pentagon to ‘immediately’ start testing US nuclear weapons

www.theguardian.com

Trump directs Pentagon to ‘immediately’ start testing US nuclear weapons

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The Moscow Times @themoscowtimes.com · 2d

At least two Russian oil refineries and a major petrochemical producer were targeted in overnight Ukrainian drone strikes, according to media reports and government officials Wednesday.

Ukrainian Drones Target 3 Russian Industrial Sites, 13 Airports Closed Overnight - The Moscow Times

At least two Russian oil refineries and a major petrochemical producer were targeted in overnight Ukrainian drone strikes, according to media reports and government officials Wednesday.

www.themoscowtimes.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

The closing ad for Proposition 50. The future of our democracy could depend on this passing on Tuesday.

Yes On Prop 50: You Have The Power

YouTube video by Yes on 50

youtube.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Neguse: "Does anyone here not believe that with one phone call from Speaker Johnson -- one phone call to the president or the secretary of ag -- that those funds would be released tomorrow? And that families wouldn't go starving by the weekend?"

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

Ireland pays artists a living wage. The United States impregnates its children and lets them starve. — First world country my ass.

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 2d

Filing this one under “totally normal product defects” 😬

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@kevinroose.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2d

"To any governors or state legislators out there... if you are in a position where you have the power to redraw your maps... if you have the ability to meet this moment with the urgency that it deserves, I'm calling on you to do exactly what we're doing in California and to fight fire with fire."

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Midi @midionbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

...and they don't even have the pandemic as an excuse.

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

The U.S. is experiencing its highest wave of layoffs since 2020, with close to a million workers losing their jobs this year.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

The U.S. is experiencing its highest wave of layoffs since 2020, with close to a million workers losing their jobs this year.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's support among young voters is in free fall.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d

Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.

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