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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 12h

The cruelty is the point.

CDFIs help low-income and rural communities get access to capital to start small businesses – a broadly bipartisan priority.

This administration wants to make it impossible for low- and middle-income Americans to get ahead.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 22h

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Natalie Colleen Gates @nataliecgates.bsky.social · 1d

😂😂😂

Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 1d

I just found out that Pastor James Manning threw his hat into the ring as a 'write-in' candidate for NYC Mayor.

Yes, THAT Pastor Manning- famous for his flaming butthole sermon.

"Ahh lightning bug!"🤣

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceUnited
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

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Pastor Manning's Flaming, Cancerous Butthole

YouTube video by Ethan Parmet

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

some folks really need to ask themselves if it's more important

1) for other people to know they've been right for a very long time
or
2) to save the country

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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 1d

No Kid Rock or Carrie Underwood?

What about the Rich Men North of Richmond guy?

It's October... BOO, BITCHES! @alyssonfergison.com · 1d

It's gonna be Vanilla Ice and Lee Greenwood.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

Just announced: Turning Point USA will present an alternative “All-American” halftime show (performers TBA) for those who don’t want to watch that Puerto Rican.

www.americanhalftimeshow.com

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that still folks don’t get that the debasement of non whites is their fallback is making me aggy

Left of center folks think the Republicans commitment to racism is as flimsy as their commitment to racial justice

And it’s not

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Natalie Colleen Gates @nataliecgates.bsky.social · 1d

No they won’t.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Sean for Congress (VA-01) @subletteweather.com · 1d

Do not lecture me about text messages from 3 years ago when you know damn well that Miyares would welcome this to Richmond, Petersburg, Norfolk, and Portsmouth.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Natalie Colleen Gates @nataliecgates.bsky.social · 1d

Is antifa hiring?

Natalie Colleen Gates @nataliecgates.bsky.social · 1d

Forcing myself to work to mostly just pay bills when I’m not sure that my healthcare will be functionally legal in a year is becoming increasingly difficult.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Most frustrating is so much of this shit is on the shadow docket with no explanation so there's no precedent set that will make them look even more corrupt when they abandon it during a Dem administration

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

I would vote without question for anyone with the fucking stones to do this while refusing to 1) throw trans people under the bus and 2) fund Israel's genocide

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

With SCOTUS set to legalize conversion therapy, I think it's important for states to get around this decision by implementing new legislation applying private rights of action to practitioners of conversion therapy by their victims with large damages and long statutes of limitations.

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Parker @parkersewell.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t wait for the Supreme Court to say that it’s legal to ban gender supportive care on the basis that it’s harmful but it’s *illegal* to ban conversion therapy by medical professionals because that’s “just free speech”

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday: Trump bragged, "We took the freedom of speech away."

Today: New reporting on Trump's plans to go after opposition groups.

In 9 days: We mount the largest peaceful protest in modern history to say, loud and clear, that America has no king.

nokings.org

USA Today: 'We took the freedom of speech away:' Trump on flag burning protection, First Amendment

Reuters: Trump's war on the left: inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

I should have paid better attention in CCD

Page Six @pagesix.com · 2d

Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ’ sequel to star new Jesus, cast

Gibson's long-gestating sequel will start shooting in Rome, but with a completely new cast, an insider told Page Six.

pagesix.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

The worst part about the AI bubble popping is how many average people will be affected by the economic fallout. People will lose their job, kids will go hungry, and families will lose their homes. Yet these billionaire bastards won't feel a thing other than a decline in their net worth.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

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amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 2d

Can't wait to buy all of those cheap goods I wouldn't be able to afford after AI destroys my job

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe if the Cubs go all the way, another passage will open in the wormhole we fell into back in 2016.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2d

Cubs win! Cubs win! Holy cow, Cubs win!

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ALT: a close up of a blue letter w on a white surface .

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Natalie Colleen Gates @nataliecgates.bsky.social · 2d

Wicamico

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

In some ways this is the government now

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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

I wonder what was going on then that the antifascist movement was responding to. So weird I can't figure it out

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 2d

The “most transparent administration in history!” just furloughed the ICE office tasked with ensuring that people in immigration detention are kept safe.

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 3d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 3d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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