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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 9h

NSFW warning

Perfectly valid crashout as usual from @pearlmania500.bsky.social

I think this covers lots of us.

But lets dig into whats being said.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 18h

ICYMI, Dominion Voting has been acquired by Scott Leinendecker, a former GOP election official from Missouri. Leindendecker is also the CEO of electronic poll book supplier Knowink whose product manager, Mitch Millville, was Ed Martin’s campaign IT director in Missouri in 2011. This Ed Martin. 1/

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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 12h

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 1d

The ballroom addition/destruction of the White House is expressly illegal and would stand as independent grounds for impeachment and removal if we had a functioning government.

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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 4d

George Santos is the 10th GOP Congressman to get a pardon or clemency from President Trump. The other nine were also all convicted of various criminal charges:

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 6d

In a stunning development, Donald Trump and JD Vance have allowed ICE to start targeting Catholic parishes during Mass.

In Anti-Catholic Crusade, Trump's ICE Targets Holy Mass in Chicago

Worshippers fled in fear as immigration agents appeared outside St. Jerome’s — part of Trump’s new campaign against Catholic parishes nationwide.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 8d

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Terry Wellman @terrywellman.bsky.social · 10d

We still got further than the Cardinals.

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Diesel Bug Has An Irrational Amount Of Freedom @dieselbug1137.bsky.social · 11d

If the only thing that's fully funded by the government is the police. Then you live in a police state. That's just how numbers work. It's fair to judge a society by how it chooses to allocate resources.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 11d

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11d

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15d

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 15d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 15d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 16d

Ominous is one word for this
Another is foreshadowing.

The government is gearing up for massive violence against the population.

Homeland Security
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RECAPTURE OUR NATIONAL IDENTITY!
This week, we arrested hundreds of criminal illegal aliens, terrorists, and terrorist sympathizers across our country in Portland in Chicago.
Now, we need your help. Block communists, terrorists, and globalists from ever entering our country.
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Lisa @5gooddogs.bsky.social · 16d

He told the Navy cadets today that “we just have to get rid of this little gnat on our shoulder called the democrats”.

But the right wants us to tone down the rhetoric.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16d

Bonta: Just minutes before the hearing, we got word that the Texas National Guard has been federalized.

We asked the judge to issue a broad order — one that applies to every National Guard unit in every state — stating that none of them can be deployed to Oregon.

She issued that order

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 21d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 17d

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

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

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 17d

Absolutely heinous.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17d

Even if you support massive deportation operations, under no circumstances should ANYONE be ok with US citizens being forcibly removed from their homes and detained without explanation.

This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 17d

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military.

They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 17d

Remaining feds left the scene in a large caravan, deploying more tear gas straight into the crowd - and right at my feet - as they left.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 17d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Doug Profitt @doug-profitt.bsky.social · 17d

It has been made VERY clear, with ZERO doubt, that when Trump sends troops of ANY kind into a city to supposedly “restore order,” those troops are there specifically to CAUSE disorder, inflict pain, and START violence. Thereby pretending to justify them being there.

Trump needs to GO.
Fucking NOW!

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 17d

All legal nonsense aside about the supposed state of armed conflict between the U.S. and Venezuelan gangs, what "I wish to emphasize is that there is a word for killings outside of armed conflict for which there is no domestic legal authority. That word is murder." [@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org]

The Situation: Murder She Wrote

There's a word for what they're doing.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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