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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4h

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

This was today, and these guys knew they were going to fire their own employees because, says Trump, they are "Democrat oriented." bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 4h

Amazing thing about this isn’t even that none of it is true (none of it is), but that on Sunday morning, every news show will have Republicans on to soft-pedal some similar fiction to cover for the fact that ICE is literally kidnapping people in the streets and Republicans shutdown the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 3h

I’m not 40, I’m 21 with 19 years of experience.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 3h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3h

🚨 Do ICE have MRE provisions? Oh, no. That’s a damn shame. All that income and no place to buy a meal. Hey, I know what they can eat… 1/2

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4h

Arguably the writing was on the wall as soon as they switched to cable and became for all practical purposes an entertainment product

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 3h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3h

No, Speaker Johnson: The No Kings Rally on October 18 is not a “hate America” rally. Quite the contrary. It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 2h

Anti-vax onstage, Pfizer backstage.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2h

The sheer joy of sports BlueSky right now is making me smile. This is what social media is supposed to be.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2h

I am deceased

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 7h

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 5h

What old footage will Fox show Trump during the next No Kings day to convince him it’s a coast to coast inferno?

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 5h

Talk about plenary authority some more Steve.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 9h

Cruel and stupid is really the chocolate and peanut butter of authoritarian regimes.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 5h

You’d think just once a Trump doctor might issue a medical report that sounds like it wasn’t written by a publicist.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 5h

If an entire large city was on fire I’d think the president would be expected to go there to tour the damage.

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 5h

If you are a member of the National Guard and aren't called on duty on October 18, can I encourage you to join the No Kings protest?

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 5h

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 5h

Pam Bondi gets uglier with every clip of her I see. People lying...when everyone knows they are lying...yet they do it anyway...they're the most repulsive thing you can ever see. That feeling of being repulsed...and what you are looking at...when you feel that way...fuse... permanently.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5h

Inventive People of Portland Dressing as Animals:

Please don't dress as dogs. Your life will not be safe with psychopath Kristi Noem on the rooftops.

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 16h

This is awesome.

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