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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 9h

When Turning Point says it wants its own "Christian" halftime show, they mean "white"

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h

ICE racially profiles an elderly man and takes him into custody. They realize their mistake and release him. They also intimidate witnesses. This incident occurred in Long Beach, California.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 41m

Bro, Christian hate is exhausting.

📌 Turning Point USA “All-American halftime show” counter programming because Bad Bunny, an American citizen, isn’t American enough.

I can’t wait to see the ratings side by side.

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Roan @rmbloom.bsky.social · 30m

No conservative government has run a surplus in Canada. They’ve all been crooked accounting. People didn’t get the money from their programs. Programs were cut. When they magically find money it’s never magic.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 4h

Jason Pugh
Harper inherited a $13.7 Billion surplus, which he quickly blew through. Then ran a decade of deficits. He then had a fake "balanced" budget ahead of the 2015 elxn by selling off GM stock at a $3.5B loss, taking $2B from the contingency fund, and underfunding Veterans Affairs. #cdnpoli 👇

Roan @rmbloom.bsky.social · 33m

Gretzky isn’t even proudly Canadian. The wine certainly isn’t.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 1h

Proudly Canadian? WTF. I think not. #cdnpoli

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 20h

Men claim women talk too much, but boy if you get that man on a panel, he will over talk every woman present in the room.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 46m

“I am just one person…this is an achievement of a whole society.”

María Corina Machado joins a long line of Nobel Peace Prize laureates who were awakened in the middle of the night to learn that the Nobel Committee was just minutes away from announcing their award.

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Roan @rmbloom.bsky.social · 40m

BAHAHAHAHA! This is gold.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 3h

“This is JB Pritzker, reporting from war-torn Chicago. It’s quite disturbing. The Milwaukee Brewers have come in to attack our Chicago Cubs. We’ve seen people being forced to eat hot dogs with ketchup on them.”
THIS is how you do it. #cdnpoli

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1h

According to the thinktank UK in a Changing Europe, most industries just cannot wait. They are struggling to keep open markets, and if necessary realign themselves with the EU by the back door. The chemicals industry exports more than 60% of its output to the EU. Brexiteers boasted it would be liberated from EU regulation, but setting up the UK’s own regulator cost £2bn and has not worked. According to the Chemical Industries Association, output has fallen by 35-40% since 2021. Between 2021 and 2023, British exports to the EU fell by a serious 27%. Brexiteers boasted that leaving the EU would be worth hundreds of billions a year. Cambridge Econometrics estimates that over the next decade Britain’s economy will be £300bn smaller than if we had not left the EU. This is self-harm on a heroic scale.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 12h

This is Manolo. His family invited strangers to spend time with him on his last day. His mom said, "This was such a perfect way to celebrate the life of a dog who truly loved spending time with people and their dogs. Run free and fast forever, Manolo. I will never stop missing you." 14/10 for all

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Roan @rmbloom.bsky.social · 50m

What I’ve always known about them. They’re superstitious children who never got told no and never had to grow up. None of them are self made.

Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 19h

What if the world’s most influential investors quietly believed they were fighting the Antichrist? The apocalyptic worldview shaping our future...and your freedom.👇

www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Roan @rmbloom.bsky.social · 51m

She only cares because her career is in danger. She’ll screw you over again.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 5h

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 22h

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Andy Beshear @andybeshearky.bsky.social · 19h

A President threatening to jail a sitting Governor is unacceptable and is the opposite of what this country stands for and was founded on. I stand with Gov. Pritzker and for the rights of each state across our great nation.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1h

Was told today about Indigenous people in Brazil who were desperate to vote against Bolsonaro. There were no polling booths in their villages so they got buses to the city, and when the military blocked their buses many miles from the city they got off and walked there. Fight for your vote, always.

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Roan @rmbloom.bsky.social · 7h

And don’t forget!! You’ll have to curtail your water usage so the fake AI feedlots can steal people’s work. Enjoy!

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

BlackRock is seeking to buy Aligned Data Centers, a data center construction company.

It’s also going to buy AES, one of the major power providers for Big Tech data centers.

While these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16h

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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Roan @rmbloom.bsky.social · 7h

Oh like the government cares. They make decisions by throwing darts ffs.

Politico @politico.com · 17h

The longer Congress is stuck in a shutdown, the greater the chances the government won’t have the data to provide updates on where the economy stands.

‘Right up against it’: Economic data blackout leaves Wall Street in the dark

The quality of Labor Department reports guides everything from investment decisions around the globe to Federal Reserve deliberations on interest rates.

www.politico.com

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 10h

You know what fascism looks like? Attorney General Letitia James getting criminally indicted on literal trumped-up charges by the criminal who she fought to hold accountable for the actual crimes he committed and is now using the full power of the US govt to seek vengeance.

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Roan @rmbloom.bsky.social · 7h

Let it burn.

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 20h

Head of largest US bank warns of risk of American stock market crash #USA

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Head of largest US bank warns of risk of American stock market crash

Jamie Dimon, chair of JPMorgan Chase, said he was ‘far more worried than others’ about serious market correction

www.theguardian.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Roan @rmbloom.bsky.social · 7h

So. The American military are fascists now? Because if they’re fighting antifa…

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

So the argument for sending US troops into cities to be used against Americans is that Antifa has apparently taken over our cities and the troops have to battle them.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

TOP: Prem shares a clip of Noem saying “we’re going to take the same approach with Antifa” as they did with the boats they bombed (without evidence)

BOTTOM: Ingraham’s latest segment saying “they’re all Antifa now”🤔

BOTTOM LINE: We are over the cliff here, folks

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