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@mila425.bsky.social

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PNW houseplant hoarder. Lifelong Democrat. 💙#Resister 💙 Cat and dog mom. Lover of animals, ocean life, trees, flowers, plants, music, art, architecture, antiques, books, farmers markets. 🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ I block MAGA, Racists, Creeps, Crypto and Fascists! 🚫PORN🚫MAGA

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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 1h

This is so fucked up‼️Military families are having to go to food banks because #TrumpShutUSDown We bailed out Argentina to the tune of $20 billion and Qatar is getting a Air Force base in Idaho, but our military personnel have to resort to this. Republicans can’t govern‼️

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

How many billions of $ did Qatar give to Trump in exchange for allowing them to build an air force base on US soil?

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Carl Ott, Author @bubba687.bsky.social · 1h

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 5h

If you want to understand why the ICE facility in Portland is such a hotbed of protest, this story is all the context you need...

Sean Woods @seanwoods.bsky.social · 6h

"They disappeared her." This story from @timdickinson.bsky.social is so upsetting. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

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Rainforest @pitbullmtkerr.bsky.social · 1h

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

Healthcare cuts are a funding mechanism for Trump to reward tech oligarchs and other billionaires. Slashing the safety net and consolidating power go together for him.

@mcbride.house.gov joins @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social from this week's D.C. live show!

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Rainforest @pitbullmtkerr.bsky.social · 1h

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h

Now that the deal is sealed, what will Paramount get for its money? Does the actual record of the Free Press show fidelity to the principles David Ellison and Bari Weiss proclaim?

If you have to ask, you know the answer.

NEW long-read from @cathyyoung63.bsky.social:

Bari Weiss, CBS News, and the Triumph of Faux Balance

The record of the Free Press shows her journey from independent to MAGA fellow traveler.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1h

He cannot admit he played himself and American consumers.

As Trump likes to say “you don’t have the cards.”
China has moved on.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

More tariff policy evolution — via one man’s whim.

$SPX $FXI

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2h

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1h

Weird random meme-y shit (laudatory) like this is how it might eventually be called The Great Frog Resistance, where everyone wears a frog pin, & remembrance events in 50 years begin with reverent croaks. Just from some dude's choice of a frog for a costume. Humans are weird.

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 4h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Joe Morelle @morelle.house.gov · 1d

Day 9 of the Republican shutdown, and there's been no call by House Republicans to come back to Washington and negotiate.

We won't stop fighting until we get the resolution we need for American families.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 2h

I know Mike Johnson says there is nothing for the House to do but there is.

You see by law a budget was supposed to be in place by Sept 30th, but Rs haven’t passed one. The reason? There isn’t a GOP budget. They haven’t even started working on one. This is what the House should be doing FFS!

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4h

Ugh, time to share what's behind it based on my sources. See you at 5pm for the off the record briefing. For obvious reasons, I won't share this here.

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Shai Hulud 🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇮🇳 @sardarji.bsky.social · 1h

You know they're going to try to pin this on liberals/antifa/woke/illegal immigrants/TDA...

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3h

Deaths Are Reported in Explosion at Tennessee Munitions Plant

At least 19 people were missing after a “devastating blast” at Accurate Energetic Systems, about 60 miles southwest of Nashville, officials said.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17h

And PROOF OF COLLUSION came well over two years after I started reporting on the dangers Donald Trump poses to America.

I have been warning about this man for a long, long, *long* time.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 3h

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2h

These federal firings have nothing whatsoever to do with the government shutdown, and if that is not the lede of every report discussing them, and if you are the author of any such report, quit your job and learn to surf or something instead

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2h

Masks. Armed. No insignia. No names. No warrants. But they will come up to an American citizen on the street and threaten him with arrest for peacefully exercising basic American rights.

I'd challenge historians of the American Revolution to articulate how things were worse than this in April 1775.

In a Chicagoland Suburb, Berwyn, IL, multiple ICE agents and a cameraman surround a resident who blew his horn and walked down the street in his own neighborhood. They demand his ID and they threatene...

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2h

No but seriously, Portland has some pretty mean streets

At any moment someone who just bought a new needle for their vinyl record player could come up and deflate your giant shark costume by accident

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2h

Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2h

These aren't random lies—they're part of the relatively short runway the Trump administration will use to illegally invoke the Insurrection Act and soon after declare martial law and end our democracy

I'm unsure if we have days or weeks left, but I suspect it's one of those two rather than months

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."