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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 6h

I had a call today with someone in OR who was talking about the need for more “agitation theater” in street protests to humiliate ICE and make people laugh.

Well done Portland chicken and Portland frog.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · 13h

Day #262

Bring the Epstein Files out into the open.

I invoke the 1st amendment. Freedom of speech.

I do not promote violence. I do not promote hatred. I promote honesty, transparency and a shared humanity in difference.

Pam Bondi. Type Epsteinand it will trigger seal team 6

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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 12h

This is the same failed actor Fox News always rolls out to pretend he is a gang member or terrorist. This time Fox hired him to play a “Member of ANTIFA”. Trump declared ANTIFA a terrorist organization. Will Fox revel his real identity so Noem's Gestapo can arrest him? FOX is busted. #ProudBlue

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11h

Indicting your political enemies because they’re your enemies, not because they’ve committed crimes, is unAmerican.

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 14h

We’re watching an entire political party actively protect the single most infamous sex-trafficking operation of our time.

This isn’t just silence—it’s complicity at the highest level.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 8h

Johnson is lying and he knows it.His claim of “illegal aliens” receiving Medicare and Medicade is simply not true. It is true that hospitals are required to treat any patient that presents in an ER but they do not recieve Medicade. Johnson would love to see sick people die by the millions #ProudBlue

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 13h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 8h

These “protests” are fun, family outings to them..

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 10h

Omg

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 11h

BREAKING: NY State AG Letitia James indicted by federal grand jury in Virginia www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

Letitia James indicted by federal grand jury in Virginia

State Attorney General Letitia James has reportedly been indicted for alleged mortgage fraud.

www.cityandstateny.com

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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 8h

The targeting of Attorney General James is a deliberate act of vengeance from a corrupt regime. Look no further for their hypocrisy than their refusal to answer questions about border czar Tom Homan, who was caught ON CAMERA taking a $50k bribe.

AG Bondi deflects questions about Tom Homan, Epstein files in Senate hearing

Attorney General Pam Bondi is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. MSNBC Senior Investigative Correspondent Carol Leonnig, former Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Catherine Chr...

www.msnbc.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 10h

Firing workers in order to fly private. Our modern economy.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

DOJ prosecutors in Virginia under Erik Seibert didn't believe they gathered enough evidence to charge Letitia James.

So Trump pressured Seibert to resign and replaced him with a loyalist (and former personal attorney) who would.

Even Nixon made efforts to hide his corruption.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

This is the guy who looked in the mirror and called himself “David Duke without the baggage”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Scalise: "When a good day for you is defined by how much suffering you can impose on other people, maybe you need to look in the mirror and check yourself at the door and wonder what it is you're up here trying to accomplish."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

The guy who seems to be setting the GOP shutdown position, Russ Vought, promised to put federal employees in trauma, and to use the shutdown to fire them and block their backpay.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Scalise: "When a good day for you is defined by how much suffering you can impose on other people, maybe you need to look in the mirror and check yourself at the door and wonder what it is you're up here trying to accomplish."

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17h

Kash Patel's FBI just fired special agents who worked on Jack Smith's investigation of Trump.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

FBI fires special agents who worked on Jack Smith's probe into Trump

The agents were fired after Kash Patel disclosed that Smith's team obtained phone records of members of Congress, which the Smith report itself referred to.

www.nbcnews.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

the latest effort to try to find the switch to turn off liberalism (also these people hate the idea of a free society)

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 20h

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

www.reuters.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 17h

Remember, Posobiec co-wrote a book that declared progressives were "unhumans" and that praised Franco and Pinochet for their murderous war on leftists. That is, the guy who promoted Pizzagate essentially endorsed political violence. I wrote about that here:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 17h

Kristi Noem should never have been confirmed after this. It ended up being a perfect representation of what she would do.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 17h

It’s never about healthcare. It’s about insurance plans.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17h

Trump promised a health care plan TEN YEARS AGO and has never come up with one. Unless you consider it a "health care plan" when you cut health care and use the savings to give rich people a tax cut.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1d

Kimmel referred to Miller as a “sick, bald individual,” among other things.

Jimmy Kimmel Compares Stephen Miller to a Sex Toy After Bizarre Interview

Kimmel referred to Miller as a “sick, bald individual,” among other things.

trib.al

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

Also fuck you Texas for doing this, invading another state with armed troops; lone star Republic my ass

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