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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 11h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 10h

What a 🤡🤡🤡 show!

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Margot Roth @sarjen.bsky.social · 4h

#SilverioVillegasGonzalez

Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 19h

Say his name.

#SilverioVillegasGonzalez

How do you tell the innocent children that their only father will never come home?

#USDemocracy

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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 9h

ICE is shooting and murdering people. With real bullets. From real guns. If you think they only use rubber bullets or paintballs, no—they are using real guns with real bullets #DefundICE #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue

Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 19h

Say his name.

#SilverioVillegasGonzalez

How do you tell the innocent children that their only father will never come home?

#USDemocracy

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 9h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7h

Kamala is all out of f*cks and I’m here for it 🔥

We see you, @codepink.bsky.social

Your paid performative agitators pop up on her book tour like they think we don’t know the VP’s job.

The VP doesn’t set Middle East policy, the President does. The VP’s role is to support the President, period.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 7h

tell me more about republicans being the pro-business party.

www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 11h

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 1d

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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 14h

"How can I decide whether or not to send the National Guard to Portland, when there are so many interesting Mercury articles to read?"

Get caught up on all the great Mercury stories you may have missed this week with our SUNDAY READING LIST! 🗞️☕

YOUR SUNDAY READING LIST: City Attorney Lashes Out at Feds, Heathcare Workers Gear Up for Strike, and ICE Barbie Visits the Portland Dreamhouse

GOOD MORNING, SUNDAY! It's the perfect time to catch up on some of the great reporting and stories the Mercury churned out this week! (PRO TIP: If you despise being "the last to know," then be one of ...

www.portlandmercury.com

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 17h

I’d like to know too. Has all this insane bullshit made anyone’s life better?

Answer: NO - HELL NO.

#Pinks
#WorstPresidentEver #25thAmendmentNow

i want to check in with trump voters. i have one very genuine question: it's been 250 days. now that immigrants have been violently torn from their families and communities have been destroyed, now that trans people have been blamed for virtually everything and live in fear, now that free speech is on the brink of collapse for us all - has your life gotten better? have your groceries gotten cheaper? has your health insurance premium gone down? has your work/life balance improved? can you take a vacation yet? are you happier? has the widespread suffering of others paid off for you in the way he promised it would, or are you still waiting?

- Ariana Grande

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16h

She called it. Kamala Harris laid out Trump’s vengeance agenda before it even happened.

One line that stuck with me most from 107 Days was when she wrote that during the debate, Trump was “unburdened by the truth.”

He’s also unburdened by threat of accountability, thanks to the Supreme Court.

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 1d

They laid down their lives not for Ukraine and Europe!

RIP - Oleksandr Khvala (40), Oleh Klubov (54), Oleksii Bielov (28), Peruvian fighter Wilber Panuera Flore

Rest, comrades, rest and sleep!
The thoughts of men shall be
As sentinels to keep
Your rest from danger free.

Eternal Memory!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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Jeff Merkley @jeff-merkley.bsky.social · 1d

Uncle Sam joined me for the Race to Save the Senate! Trump’s attempts to tighten his authoritarian grip on our cities is just plain un-American. Let’s save our republic.

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Margot Roth @sarjen.bsky.social · 1d

Not being shown at PDX.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

Thread 🧵

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about the Roberts Court is they're not evil geniuses, because they're not geniuses.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Wow.

Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 1d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 1d

#AlexAlott was charged with allegedly assaulting a federal officer with an umbrella. Yesterday, she was exonerated because VIDEO disproved the accusation. But Daniel, who attended the trial to support her, was detained the same day that the trial finished.

THIS IS FASCISM. FILM EVERYTHING.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Angus: Who else are you going to give military bases to? When’s Vladimir Putin getting his rocket bases in the United States?

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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