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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 5h

If all the traits I loathe, bad faith negotiating is the one I hate the most

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Alfred Poor @alfredpoor.bsky.social · 5h

Why would anyone trust a promise by any Congressional Republican leader? They have proven that they don't honor their deals.

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puckchuck19.bsky.social @puckchuck19.bsky.social · 6h

lying trump chaos chaos chaos bullshit

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Zacharydideas @zacharygg.bsky.social · 5h

If the democrats give in, the republicans will say they ended the ACA in a bi partisan fashion. It’s the only reason the republicans haven’t gone nuclear to pass the CR. They don’t want to own ending the ACA on their own.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

Translation: If Dems vote for the CR, Thune will allow a vote on extending ACA subsidies then Mike Johnson will kill that in the House.

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Star Wars Explained @starwarsexplained.com · 1d

When you think of iconic movie posters, you think of his work. RIP Drew Struzan, you will always be the gold standard.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 2h

"I might bankrupt a casino or two, but I'll do it one well-played hand at a time. Not like some tangerine hack who has to file Chapter 11 time and again."

From this moment forward, he's BlackJack Pritzker. On campaign lit, lapel pins and bumper stickers. Shit, it worked well enough for Pershing.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h

🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1h

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”

@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

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PJ @pjvelez.bsky.social · 56m

AVPR: ALIENS VS PREDATOR - REQUIEM (2007) Movie Reaction! | First Time Watch!

YouTube video by CinePals

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PJ @pjvelez.bsky.social · 1h

#southamerica

🌄🌿Energía de los Andes y la Amazonía | Música Instrumental para Levantar el Animo 🌿🌄

YouTube video by Ecos de los Andes

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 2h

Contrary to popular belief, white supremacy is not extra-strength racism. And, according to a thing called a dictionary, white supremacists and white nationalists are as different as alligators & crocodiles

Let me explain.

Subscribe to ContrabandCamp.com and get the Wake-up Call in your inbox!

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PJ @pjvelez.bsky.social · 2h

#mcu

Everything we learned from NYCC and more! | The Headlines Show

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19h

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

"It is borderline hysterical. It would be funny if it wasn’t so f**king serious to think that this is in fact a war zone needing federal intervention, much less federal troops prepared to use all force." — @timdickinson.bsky.social

Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection

"It would be funny if it wasn’t so f**king serious," Tim Dickinson says.

www.publicnotice.co

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PJ @pjvelez.bsky.social · 2h

#nazis

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 2h

Trump ICE regime troops terrorizing American civilians out shopping, knowing fully well they are US citizens. The regime thugs are violently chasing people, especially nonwhites, they don't show them ID.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 2h

But mr tucker, putin is not a girl

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 4h

Did this mf really call putin to ask “what are your thoughts on tomahawk deliveries”

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 5h

"House slave."
Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19h

😡😡😡😡

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

Yup. Notably, neither Tom Homan nor anybody else in the Trump admin has outright denied that he took and kept the $50,000 in taxpayer money given to him by the FBI in their bribery scheme.

Every time they’re asked, they either pivot or attack the questioner. But they don’t deny it.

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 4h

To @DaveWeigel.bsky.social’s point, it’s never once been “no,” and everyone in Trump’s government is refusing to answer what happened to the $50,000 in taxpayer money that Homan never denied taking inside a paper bag.