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Robert Fischoff
@rfischoff.bsky.social
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This crazy, sad, beautiful world will break your heart. A young person who isn't an anarchist has no brains; an older person who isn't a socialist has no heart. "There's no success like failure, but failure is no success at all." - Bob Dylan.
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Robert Fischoff @rfischoff.bsky.social · Jul 20
I wouldn’t believe anything that comes from the Trump Regime. It’s all lies, propaganda, misinformation and more lies. Always.
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Robert Fischoff @rfischoff.bsky.social · 42m
Government of the oligarchs, by the oligarchs, for the oligarchs.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 48m
Trump is giving another taxpayer-funded bailout to billionaires, and working class MAGA cultists won’t say a peep.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1h
The prosecution of Tish James is the product of a broken system that allows lawless billionaires to rule alongside corrupt politicians.

It’s as much a story of New York City as Washington, D.C.

But it's here in New York where a new era of politics will be born.
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h
Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20h
Masks. Armed. No insignia. No names. No warrants. But they will come up to an American citizen on the street and threaten him with arrest for peacefully exercising basic American rights.

I'd challenge historians of the American Revolution to articulate how things were worse than this in April 1775.
In a Chicagoland Suburb, Berwyn, IL, multiple ICE agents and a cameraman surround a resident who blew his horn and walked down the street in his own neighborhood. They demand his ID and they threatene...
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1h
BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

Market dumped.

The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours.

Unusual.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h
Imagine that
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 13h
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 2h
🇺🇸🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: I had a call with US President Donald Trump—a very positive and productive one. I congratulated POTUS on his success and the Middle East deal he was able to secure, which is an outstanding achievement.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 4h
Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.
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Robert Fischoff @rfischoff.bsky.social · 2h
Authoritarians and oligarchs throughout the world are uniting and working together. This is a new and dangerous situation, very different from the previous incarnations of fascism in the past when nationalist tendencies ruled. Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes about that in her books.
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h
Children that were kidnapped by invading Russian barbarians, not displaced.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 2h
This kind of rhetoric by the Trump administration, echoed by the Machado camp, has helped legally justify actual military operations on both American and foreign soil.
Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup
​The opposition’s proposed total economic surrender to US corporate interests would doom Venezuela to the same conditions that led to Chavez’s rise to power.
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Robert Fischoff @rfischoff.bsky.social · 2h
I’ll be there on October 18th as well. Don’t commit crimes. Never been arrested. Pay my taxes. Vote every election. Registered as an independent. Not a member of any political groups. Don’t know George Soros. No one is paying me anything for attending or exercising my rights.
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h
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Robert Fischoff @rfischoff.bsky.social · 11h
Well of course. The United States is rapidly becoming the most corrupt, immoral, unethical, criminal nation in the history of humanity.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h
Donald Trump is weaponizing the DOJ against his political opponents.

Meanwhile, he's gutting the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section which assists U.S. attorneys’ offices around the country with investigating crooked government officials.

"Drain the swamp."
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 21h
Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism ... you don't say www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 22h
And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 12h
Hey hey, Sen Cassidy - how many people did you kill today?
Screenshot from Senator Cassidy’s website saying. “Feb 4, 2025 - Cassidy Delivers Floor Speech in Support of RFK Jr. To Be HHS Secretary"
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Robert Fischoff @rfischoff.bsky.social · 12h
For now, judges will throw out cases like this. For now. They’ll find a way to “clean house” and then there will be show trials just like in other fully authoritarian regimes.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 12h
Trump told AG Pam Bondi to prosecute Letitia James-calling her “guilty as hell”

When the US Attorney wouldn’t do it, he replaced that lawyer with his personal attorney

And despite the fact that career prosecutors refused go forward

The DOJ got an indictment anyway

THIS
IS
VINDICTIVE
PROSECUTION
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Robert Fischoff @rfischoff.bsky.social · 12h
No regulation of prescription or nonprescription drugs. No reporting of disease outbreaks. No more workplace safety. No minimum wage. No unemployment or disability payments. No more Medicaid or Medicare. No more US Postal Service. Social security completely privatized. For starters.
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