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NetworkforDemocracy @simple-truth.bsky.social · 17h

Other Super Bowl Halftime performers:
U2: Not American citizen
Paul McCartney: Not American citizen
Rolling Stones: Not American citizens
Phil Collins: Not American citizen
Shakira: Not American citizen
Rihanna: Not American citizen
Sting: Not American citizen

Bad Bunny: Actual American citizen

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 2h

I feel sorry for the poor Smith cat, left behind to fend with Trump alone.

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 2h

Guy who actually committed crimes compares himself to a woman who is being falsely accused.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3h

One week from right now, millions of Americans will gather in every state for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history. Join your local No Kings Day event to make it clear that We The People won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 3h

When the history of this era is written there will be long chapter on the cowardice, cupidity, and selfishness of America’s billionaires. Time to eat them.

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 5h

Interesting use of the word "heroic." Interesting that Reuters describes a sculpture of men fighting to keep African-Americans ENSLAVED as a "heroic image." So so many more apposite adjectives in the world and you pick this one. Hmm.

Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

Battle lines drawn over Confederate tribute at Georgia's Stone Mountain reut.rs/3J94XpP

Battle lines drawn over Confederate tribute at Georgia's Stone Mountain

The heroic images of three Confederate leaders carved into the granite face of Georgia's Stone Mountain have towered over the countryside outside Atlanta since the 1970s, paying silent homage to the Southern cause in the U.S. Civil War.

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 5h

Interesting that Reuters thinks that men fighting to keep African-Americans ENSLAVED are "heroic." Care to explain yourselves Reuters?

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 6h

Right. More lies from Trump’s doctor. As if swollen ankles and blood bruises on the hand are indicators of someone who has a youthful heart and circulatory system.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 16h

I love this image.

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 6h

SLIPPING INTO MADNESS IS GOOD FOR THE SAKE OF COMPARISON

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bepis jr. @bepisjr.bsky.social · 16h

Tweet from “Thing Bad” username @Merman_Melville
“Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it’s probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day”
4:03 AM Jan 25, 2019
101 replies, 7.9K retweets, 33K likes, 1K saves

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 14h

We took the freedom of speech away

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 14h

The cowardice and perfidy of America’s billionaires will never be forgotten or forgiven. I can’t wait until we eat them all.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 15h

The once was a store in Astoria, Washington (an old logging town on the coast) that was called "Guns, Fudge & Shackles," and sold exactly those things.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16h

Trump’s second term reads like a list of the Founders’ worst fears. trib.al/NrmI87J

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 16h

When the history of our time is written, people will marvel at the astounding cowardice of America's billionaires and their willingness to betray their fellow citizens and their country.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 16h

See more job postings from ICE, courtesy of New Yorker Humor: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/UDJPAZ

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 16h

DHS lies every time they arrest someone.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Robert Cameron @robertcameron.bsky.social · 17h

And it would take just a handful of Republican legislators in each house to save us. Yet we find nothing but cowards in Congress.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 17h

The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works

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Reuters @reuters.com · 17h

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Chicago TV producer detained by border patrol agents

A producer for WGN-TV, a Chicago television station, was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents on Friday in a residential area of the city, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said.

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