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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 3h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

After signing up for self-deportation, Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved to an unfinished basement. But DHS never sent them the promised plane tickets.

Now they worry about surviving winter. Weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to pay rent.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4ohnDm6

Article excerpt: Emily said she made clear the family didn’t have Venezuelan passports but was told that wouldn’t be a problem; the U.S. government would procure any necessary documents for them. They said the operator gave them an Aug. 1 departure date and told them to expect their plane tickets by email.

Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved with their children to Columbus, Ohio, where Deybis’ nephew let them stay in his unfinished basement apartment until their departure. The plane tickets never came.

Then the nephew was detained in a traffic stop and deported. Panicked, Emily and Deybis said they called the toll-free number again and again, leaving messages that went unanswered. Emily submitted a new application and sent more emails.

Article excerpt: ...They found travel agencies that offer to procure travel documents at a cost but said they were told the Venezuelan government requires an arrival date and proof that plane tickets have been purchased. Emily and Deybis can’t afford them.

“Thank you so much for your patience and we understand your frustration,” they heard back in another email. “Wait for new instructions from DHS.”

As they wait, they worry about how they’ll survive when winter comes. Most days, Deybis visits local food pantries and looks for discarded items in alleys and on street corners that they can resell. A few weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to help pay the rent.

“We’d rather be in Venezuela with our family than suffer here,” he said.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2h

whoa hitler stuff in the young republican chats?? no way.

EXCLUSIVE: 'Yeah that was too far': Private Facebook chats for Gavin Wax's Liberty Conservative littered with racial slurs, Holocaust jokes

Wax previously called out a DeSantis supporter for his old, offensive conversations.

www.dailydot.com

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 6h

In 2016 Trump used Cambridge Analytica and Russian FSB to stand up 10K fake FB accounts flooding every targeted American voter with hundreds of "I Hate Hillary because ..." posts every day.

The result was a credible 5% of expected Black voters failing to vote.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1h

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Shannon 🦇💩🤪 GOOD TROUBLE 💙💙💙 @shannonmaebreen.bsky.social · 7h

Wow! These kiddie diddlers just keep coming out of the woodwork!

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 6h

Every time!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h

How MAGA sees things.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 7h

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 9h

In early Feb to @randybillings.bsky.social from @pressherald.com:

“If there are impoundments, I believe it will end up in court, and my hope is the court will rule in favor of the 1974 Impoundment and Budget Control Act,” Collins told the Press Herald this week
www.pressherald.com?p=7422649&uu...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h

Major airports are refusing to air Kristi Noem’s propaganda video blaming Democrats for the shutdown, and there’s a reason: it violates the Hatch Act

You can’t use taxpayer resources for partisan attacks. Period.

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mi @mee-ny.bsky.social · 10h

It’s the exact face you’d see behind these orders.

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SteveDemetriou @sdemetri.bsky.social · 11h

Kristi Noem is a very ugly American. South Park captured very well just how ugly she is…

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 11h

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa! This came after! 👏🏼

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Fight 4 Democracy Continues @politically.bsky.social · 1d

Netanyahu is still a war criminal.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

In case you got lost in the steaming pile of bullshit Speaker Johnson’s been shoveling, the shutdown fight Democrats are holding the line on is about healthcare for hard-working Americans.

Leader Jeffries isn’t flinching, isn’t wobbling; he’s been consistent and hasn’t wavered on this issue.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

The vice president of the United States is a clownish dipshit, Exhibit 64,532

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just rejected Alex Jones' appeal and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him by the Sandy Hook Elementary School families

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Note that Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are doing _exactly_ what Trump falsely accuses George Soros of doing. They fund and finance the operations of terrorist groups in the UK and Germany among other countries. Soros is strictly involved in bona fide philanthropy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

She's plainly repulsed by him, understandably so.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ITALIAN PM GIORGIA MELONI COULDN'T GET AWAY FAST ENOUGH.

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Political Warrior @revolution2dot0.bsky.social · 11h

Their "mission" is to create insecurity. Coward Trump wants others to create fear. Fuck the Texas National Guard and little Greg Abbott. Red states want to send their Goonies to Blue states but would have a shit-fit if the tide was turned. They prove over and over that Republicans must be crushed!

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