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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 14h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 14h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 36m

Congratulations to this year's cohort of Packard Fellows! @packardfdn.bsky.social

Such a great program, especially needed in these times.

www.packard.org/insights/new...

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Announces the 2025 Class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering • The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation announced today the recipients of the 2025 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering. This year’s class features 20 innovative early-career scientists and...

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✊Larry Colvin✊ @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 1d

SHARE if you stand with Letitia James! Because I do!

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17h

Tom Homan is as crooked as they come. He must resign.

A tweet by George Conway says, “There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.” It quotes Armand Domalewski, who wrote, “There is absolutely zero chance JD would describe a Biden administration official accepting a $50,000 cash bribe in a paper bag as ‘fake scandal.’”

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Bart Simpson @skiingmike.bsky.social · 16h

Exactly!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h

First there was the Opium Wars. Now we have the Cooking Oil War.

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Bart Simpson @skiingmike.bsky.social · 16h

Pay up buttercup

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Himes: You know, it's the Pete Hegseth insecurity that requires a constant marination in testosterone and fraternity-boy macho bullshit that, at the end of the day, would be funny if it weren't both lethal and counterproductive to actually dealing with the nation's drug problem.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22h

I'm not afraid. Come and get me, Donald.

I will stand up for the law and the Constitution. That’s what we do in the State of Illinois.

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 1d

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Bart Simpson @skiingmike.bsky.social · 20h

OMG and his stupid base will eat this up all while Trump picks their pocket.

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Blue Woman Voting 📎 @bluewomanvoting123.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings' Day protesting is as American as apple pie.

What's not American is bailing out Argentina with 20 billion dollars while military members wait in line at food banks.

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ALT: a close up of a man with a beard and mustache making a funny face .

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Bart Simpson @skiingmike.bsky.social · 20h

The world is rewriting trade policy and the US is being left out. Trump is a moron and it will take decades, if at all possible, to fix the damage he’s done. Even Canadian steel is being repurposed and setting trade networks with Europe. Later US.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1d

When you think you can't love Cher more, she goes and does this:

"Music is the real language...and Bad Bunny speaks it fluently."

- Cher

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Bart Simpson @skiingmike.bsky.social · 23h

Johnson taking a beating from Fox. He is doomed.

Bart Simpson @skiingmike.bsky.social · 23h

Complete fiction.

Bart Simpson @skiingmike.bsky.social · 23h

Hegseth is a clown.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

It looks like every media company in American that covers the Pentagon except OAN is refusing to sign Hegseth’s ultimatum.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Meloni looks like she wants off the planet during Trump's speech 😆

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Bart Simpson @skiingmike.bsky.social · 23h

Johnson is in deep shite. Trump has left him him out in the wind. MTG read the tea leaves and I think many other GOP will too.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson does a gigantic eye roll in response to Fox News pressing him on the Epstein coverup

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Breadman @breadmanbrian.bsky.social · 1d

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Bart Simpson @skiingmike.bsky.social · 23h

These sales taxes (aka tariffs) are paying for tax cuts for the very few ultra wealthy. For fun, ask your favorite AI for the impact of billionaires paying same tax rate as the middle class.

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