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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Lea Zengage @leazengage.bsky.social · 1d

"BREAKING: A librarian fired by in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves just got the last laugh – a $700,000 settlement for violating her first amendment rights. 👏 May this be a warning across the nation.
"-op unknown

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Michele @mischef.bsky.social · 13h

Israel bought his last election. whats new.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 17h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15h

Are American citizens being disappeared? Yes.

Are American citizens who are veterans of the US Armed Forces being disappeared? Yes.

Without warrant or probable cause—solely based on skin color—Trump goons captured and caged a citizen veteran for days.

This is a fascist regime.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Robynne @haddagutful.bsky.social · 14h

AUKUS: The $368 Billion Absurdist Drama Where Everyone is Waiting for Godot urbanwronski.com/2025/10/09/a...

AUKUS: The $368 Billion Absurdist Drama Where Everyone is Waiting for Godot

Australia’s $368 billion AUKUS pact is a strategic delusion, a modern “Waiting for Godot” where we await nuclear submarines we can’t crew, built on infrastructure we don&#82…

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jimaxon66.bsky.social @jimaxon66.bsky.social · 17h

Empirical evidence

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Wild Colonial Girl wants war criminals out of Canberra. @colonialgirl.bsky.social · 18h

'Our' ABC pushing billionaire-friendly opinion as fact in a headline.

Fuck these clowns.

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Michele @mischef.bsky.social · 18h

Don’t most of us carry our own warning in our phones.
Our criticism of Trump would make us ineligible.
A Proud fact

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22h

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20h

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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Linda Brown @lindabrownoz.bsky.social · 1d

🤬🤬🤬🤮

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast.

But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.

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Salty Blue 🌊 @saltydavid.bsky.social · 2d

ICE = Gestapo

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

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Independent Australia @independentaus.bsky.social · 1d

Hastie la vista, baby...
CARTOONS: Libs are leaving the Opposition front bench in droves!
~ Mark David Cartoons

CARTOONS: Libs are leaving the Opposition front bench in droves!

Hastie la vista, baby.

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Greed Apocalypse @juanmunoz.bsky.social · 2d

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TRUMPFIAN MAGA GRIFT GALORE.

How a Tiny, Inexperienced Firm Landed a $1.3 Billion Detention Deal | Flipboard

motherjones.com - For our November+December issue, we investigated the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump’s immigration police state: the surge in funding and …

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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 1d

THIS IS FASCISM

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Denise Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 1d

Have the 11,000 Palestinian 'prisoners' held by the Israeli Govt had due process?

If not - why are they continually referred to as 'prisoners'? #auspol

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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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💧 Johny Miller @jmil4000.bsky.social · 1d

If you really believe that peace is at hand between Israel and Palestine, then I’ve got a 40km parcel of sea front property in the eastern Mediterranean to sell you, straight off the plan.

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Michele @mischef.bsky.social · 1d

For God botherers they tend to forget who created the things they are destroying, and “he’s “ not working his magic anymore.

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