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Patrick McColery
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ATL theatre artist + defender of democracy 🏳️‍🌈 #BLM he/him BIDEN🇺🇸HARRIS WARNOCK🍑OSSOFF #JohnLewis H.R. 4 #resist ✊
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Patrick McColery @patrickmccolery.bsky.social · 1d
Wanda’s Hair Barn had a sale on bleached out hair extensions.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d
The group chat pings around school drop-off and dismissal time. “All quiet at [Elementary School X],” one message says, or “smooth sailing at [Middle School Y].” Neighbors are on heightened alert because a federal government helicopter has been doing laps over our communities…
meredithshiner.com Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2d
On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back
Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.
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Patrick McColery @patrickmccolery.bsky.social · 1d
Happy Halloween, BlueSky 🎃👻🥂
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.
khrisnin.bsky.social KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 2d
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4d
This story is insane. A man who posted a meme of Trump saying “we have to get over it” in a discussion about the CK shooting has been in jail for 2 months with a $2M bond. Meanwhile, the man who actually threatened to kill Hakeem Jeffries is out on bail.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d
Complete disregard for human life
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Patrick McColery @patrickmccolery.bsky.social · 6d
Peepaw’s hopped up on adderall again.
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Patrick McColery @patrickmccolery.bsky.social · 6d
It only took him 10 years to get here, but, you know what? I’ll take anyone sounding the alarm at this point. Better late than never.
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6d
This is the guy who lied on the stand at a trial in LA, telling the jury he witnessed the defendant assault the ICE officer, when the video showed the ICE officer assault the defendant. The jury took an hour to acquit. He's referred to immigrants as "filth, trash, and scum."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d
Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
thomaszimmer.bsky.social Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 6d
Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 7d
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.
As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7d
This is what the Democrats have been raising hell about.
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7d
Well, Fam, just found out our health insurance is jumping from $1700 to over $3000 a month. And we still have to wait till Nov 1 to see more options—when the site will probably crash because everyone will be freaking out at the same time.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7d
Communities are being gassed despite having a restraining order
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Patrick McColery @patrickmccolery.bsky.social · 7d
As a gay kid in the 70s I lived for the reruns of “Lost in Space” they played on Sunday mornings. I worshipped June Lockhart. She revealed that intelligence, grace, and humor, were the ultimate traits that made a beautiful woman sexy. Like Cher. Rest well, June. 🙏🏻🕯️🦋
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 8d
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 9d
From the people that pretend to be Christian, they hit a clergyman directly while protesting.

They’ve gone from attacking marginalized communities to attacking the community in general. Now they are openly attacking religious institutions.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9d
Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9d
The old rulebook is gone. It's not coming back and we all need to accept that. The DOJ is weaponized. the GOP is rigging elections. Trump is literally bulldozing the White House.

Democrats need to operate under this new reality, fight hard, and play by the same rules.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10d
It started with Reagan and has accelerated under Trump.
A tweet from Melat Kiros for Congress reads: “I’m sure it’ll trickle down any day now.” It quotes John Fugelsang’s tweet, which says: “The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickle-down economics began, it was 31.”
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Patrick McColery @patrickmccolery.bsky.social · 10d
But tariffs, amirite?
pbsnews.org PBS News @pbsnews.org · 10d
In the midst of a federal government shutdown, the U.S. government’s gross national debt surpassed $38 trillion Wednesday, a record number that highlights the accelerating accumulation of debt on America’s balance sheet. https://to.pbs.org/3Wksib6
U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic
This rapid debt accumulation is the fastest outside of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the debt having reached $37 trillion in August.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10d
Drake logo - he hates the Cracker Barrel logo change but loves bulldozing the White House
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10d
Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.
aozorasf.bsky.social Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 12d
This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10d
“.. It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.”

@politico.com
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10d
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.
Anti-science bills hit statehouses, attacking longstanding public health protections
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.
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