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Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 25m

Entirely accurate.

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2h

Let’s be clear:

Republicans are 💯 responsible for the government shutdown. They don’t need a single vote from Democrats to reopen.

Republicans are 💯 responsible for firing thousands of federal workers. They don’t need a single layoff to offset the shutdown. It’s their Project 2025 playbook.

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Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 27m

This.

Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 5h

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 5h

Given crypto bros have gotten their wish on being a regulations free zone, no federal agency is ever going to investigate this massive level of insider trading which impacted over 1.6 million crypto traders.

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Rep. Steven Woodrow @woodrowforco.bsky.social · 7h

Investigative journalism is dead.

Though many will claim otherwise, an honest autopsy will show it was suicide.

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Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 6h

💯

Micah @rincewind.run · 19h

the list of things that needs to be done to repair this country is extensive but high up on it is breaking the power of the tech lords

they are convinced they are untouchable feudal barons whose money allows them to dictate everyone else's life and they must be disabused of that notion

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 21h

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 6h

They are actively recruiting with targeted ads and paying large signing bonuses to these exact people.

Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 6h

"Cheating is part of our process and I don't see why anyone has a problem with that."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 7h

I feel like this is your fault

Screenshot of Google search results showing that people also search for dill and dingler Portland menu PDF

Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 7h

This won't be tolerated if you don't show up we're going to not pay you even harder

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Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 7h

This is exactly why one of the first acts was to neuter the Press pool.

Nurse RoRo @nurseroro.bsky.social · 17h

Dear WH Press Corp
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Start demanding answers. Portland isn’t on fire. Chicago isn’t at war. Seattle isn’t thanking him.
ANTIFA isn’t assaulting ICE agents
Hold him accountable for the lies.
Refuse to ask anything else until he answers these.
Demand the proof

Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 7h

👇💯🇺🇸👏💪

Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 8h

Folks, how much more excessive force and brutality against women and citizens do we have to witness before we do something?

Fire NOEM and Homan, defund ICE and shut this Gestapo $hitshow down NOW.

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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

My grandfather who stormed Omaha beach would be listed as an enemy of the state by the Regime.

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Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 7h

More.

Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 7h

I'm sure this will have no negative impact on major crime that the FBI typically investigates

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19h

Law and order www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nearly half of FBI agents in major offices reassigned to immigration enforcement

Data shows stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns

www.theguardian.com

Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 7h

Concerning.

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𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 1d

💥 WATCH 💥

Federation of Federal Employees President Randy Erwin.

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Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 13h

Or any footage whatsoever of the conditions that they claim brought them there.

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 20h

It’s wild the agents who have videographers following them never seem to have footage of what they claim those they are arresting did

Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 13h

Wild.

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 20h

It’s wild the agents who have videographers following them never seem to have footage of what they claim those they are arresting did

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

ICE in Portland is coming off like Gargamel getting repeatedly rolled by the Smurfs

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Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 13h

We're lucky there's any agencies left to cite them I'm not holding my breath for enforcement

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 1d

Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas

Violations include digging without permits and dumping wastewater into storm drains.

arstechnica.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

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 · 1d

"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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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 23h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Plucky P @pluckypurcell.bsky.social · 13h

Literally accurate which should really concern more people than it seems to be concerning.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 21h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 17h

Illegally firing the CDC experts while he gets the latest COVID vaccine is really beyond the pale.
Marie Antoinette level of vibes.

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