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Uninvited_112806 @resistersister2.bsky.social · 11h

Government web pages, every single one begins by blaming “the radical left” for government shutdown.

This crooked administration is the absolute worst. Cringy, crybabies with power.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 14h

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 22h

Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money!

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Kathy McCarty @kmtberry.bsky.social · 14h

What the fuck is this bullshit

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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John Marsh @velvetkelvin.bsky.social · 1d

Life in this world is scary right now but it’s also absurd.
Maybe we can disarm these fascists by demonstrating how absurd their fucking actions are.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 1d

I agree with the 76% of Americans with common sense who believe trump does NOT deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

How about YOU? 🤚

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Kathy McCarty @kmtberry.bsky.social · 1d

FUCK THESE ASSHOLES

I HAVE HAD *ENOUGH* OF THEIR BULLSHIT LIES

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "There's no other way to create that kind of love and enthusiasm than with your leadership, sir. And it is an honor to work with Pam and Kristi in these cities across the country to make sure American citizens and law enforcement are protected with our National Guard. That's a core mission"

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JESSE ⁺ཐི⋆♱⋆ཋྀ⁺ @c0ldhand5.bsky.social · 2d

hey so can someone remind the entire u.s. military that they took an oath to the constitution and not the president therefore they have a right to refuse orders from the president if it goes against the constitution

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John Marsh @velvetkelvin.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck this guy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We have the best economy we've ever had."

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John Marsh @velvetkelvin.bsky.social · 1d

I hope it goes to Greta.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

The Norwegian committee will announce the Nobel Peace Prize winner on Friday.

On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his renewed endorsement to President Donald Trump to win the award as the end of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza comes into view.

As Trump awaits Nobel Peace Prize verdict, Netanyahu backs him

“He deserves it,” the Israeli prime minister says the day before the winner is announced.

www.politico.eu

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

McGovern: Republicans love to advocate for more work requirements for poor people… Let's have a work requirement for Republicans to show up to congress and do your god damn job.

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Without provocation, masked federal agents indiscriminately shoot peaceful protesters with rubber bullets from the rooftop of the Portland ICE facility.

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapping a child walking home from school

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats should just start insisting that they saw very real videos of people rioting at Mar-a-Lago -- overturning golf carts, setting fire to the brunch buffet, stabbing busboys with carving knives, whatever -- and calling on Trump to send the Illinois National Guard there to restore order.

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 3d

Former South Carolina State Rep. Robert John “RJ” May III was arrested for distributing over 220 files of child sexual abuse material using the username “joebidennnn69.” He resigned and later pleaded guilty to five counts.
(Source: WYFF4)

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Jewish Council for Public Affairs @thejcpa.bsky.social · 4d

This Sukkot, we reflect on all those - including immigrants and refugees - seeking shelter. Our safety as Jews is intertwined with theirs. Jewish values call us to reject exclusion and build an America of justice, dignity, and welcome—where every community can thrive.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

NO FARMER BAILOUT

Farmers keep voting for their own destruction & my tax dollars shouldn’t be used to fund it. Trump’s expected to announce a new bailout. He wrecked them w/tariffs, then acts like a hero by bailing them out w/our money.

They’ll cash the check, then vote to burn it all down again.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 6d

Memphis writer Dan Conaway, who helped found the @dailymemphian.bsky.social & comes from a century of local journalism, has just been censored by his own publication.

Here’s the column they wouldn't run.

Please consider writing:
[email protected]
[email protected]

Stand with Dan.

"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city – then your state, then your region, then your country."
My father was explaining to me when I was 11 or 12 why he went to war when he didn't have to. He was driving me to Boy Scout camp, and we had some time to talk. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he was an engineer, and his company had government contracts that could keep him here. At almost 33, he was also getting long in the tooth for war. My mother would also have me tell you he also had two small children, my brothers, one eight months, and the other five.
He joined the Navy a week after Pearl Harbor.
"Those are the priorities in the order of priority," he continued. "But if your country is threatened, really threatened, everything flips. If your country, this country, falls, everything in that lineup falls, everything in that lineup is at mortal risk."
"So, I'll know when it's country first?"
"You'll know," he answered.
Last week, I shared the mayor's plan for peacefully enduring, if not gaining, from the National Guard presence in our city.
That was last week.
This week changed everything.
This week, the president called an extraordinary meeting. He and the secretary of defense addressed a room of some 800 generals and admirals called from their command posts around the world to hear the president's words in Virginia.
He told our country's top brass their attention would soon be turned inward. That they would be commanding military operations in our cities against the "enemy within." Further, he said that they should hold military training exercises in our cities.
Never mind what Secretary Hegseth told them. His message was as empty as his suit. He basically told them they had to shave and lose weight.
The Commander in Chief told them their enemies are Americans, and that their field of battle would be Democratic cities. The great power and might of America's military would be turned toward its own.

Toward here, people. Not here in general terms, here in very specific terms. Memphis is an official battlefield.
"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city ..."
As the rest of the world rages, the president told his top military leaders that we will disengage from the protection of our interests and those of our allies and attack the political enemies of our president, root out the "radical left," crush "the woke," seal our borders against mighty Venezuela, and reduce blue cities and states to whimpering vassals of the federal government.
The president who would be king.
Before this week, he commanded the justice department to intimidate and threaten, even indite, his political enemies including a former director of the FBI, and DA's in Georgia and New York.
A president can't do that. Not just because it's blatantly personal and political. Not just because it's abuse of power, petty, and childish.
Because most if not all of what he's doing is straight-up, in-your-face, unconstitutional. It is, in fact, just the latest additions to the long list of unconstitutional that defines the dangerous actions of this man.
You know this is wrong. No what-about this or that. You know this is wrong. No bemoaning the awful state of something or somewhere. You know this is wrong.
Nothing excuses this. Nothing.
Now, he has openly told the military that anyone in America that challenges him is the enemy, and where they live the new front.
The National Guard deployed here will be unarmed and have no power to arrest. They are a camo-covered smokescreen, eye candy for the cameras disguising what will really be going on, click bait for the internet.
We now know that Trump and his minions are sending hundreds of ICE agents and FBI agents to Memphis, not to mention a small army of Justice Department prosecutors and investigators. The mission is to arrest, prosecute, incarcerate/deport as many people as possible.

Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, was here this week to tell us that, along with Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, and Stephen Miller, Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff. Not to mention, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, looking very much like he was waiting to be told wat to do, bless his heart.
Here, ready to rumble.
Who wasn't here or invited was Steve Cohen, the duly elected Democratic representative in Congress of all the people who will be in that rumble.
Republicans should be every bit as alarmed as Democrats – every American should – because every time Trump stomps on the Constitution, he leaves that boot print on every one of us.
Or, as the very first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, famously put it, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Due process and habeas corpus are becoming quaint reminders of a once proud nation of constitutional laws and justice.
What happened in that room in Virginia this week, and what happened out at Shelby Farms give us more than a hint of what could follow the National Guard to Memphis.
"So, I'll know when it's country first?"
"You'll know," he answered.

One man has put 340 million people at risk of losing this democracy. Just as surely as he's made the Oval Office look like a bad imitation of royal chambers at Versailles, just as surely as he's made the majority of both house of Congress look like lackeys waiting to empty the king's chamber pot, just as surely as he's turning the Constitution into a Mara-a-Lago doormat, just as surely, he's coming for us.
You're right, Dad. I know.
I'm a Memphian, soon under siege.
(Lt. Frank E. Conaway Sr., 1943)

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 6d

New Jersey, the choice is clear!
#VoteNJ

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 7d

If Joe Biden’s “spiritual advisor” had pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 12 year old girl, Fox would be playing that shit on a loop 24/7.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d

"We murdered four guys in international waters, but it's OK* because they definitely absolutely were 'narco-terrorists'"

* Even then, it's not OK. It's a crime.

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 7d

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 7d

Timeline cleanse.

Newspaper clipping, 1906.

A newspaper clipping from 1906 that reads: "Noisy, Hungry Frogs Sadden Farmer's Life. They scare his cattle and they also eat his flannel shirt."

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 7d

THIS. IS. THE. WAY. DEMOCRATS. ↘️

🗣️ "The more corrupt and lawless he gets, the stiffer my spine gets. Because at this point, if I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics, which are blatantly corrupt, then it just normalizes it all"
- @chrismurphyct.bsky.social w/ @gregsargent.bsky.social

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7d

I asked Chris Murphy if he privately talks to Dem colleagues about why they don't sound the alarm loudly. His answers were depressing. Dems tell him they don't want to be "alarmist" or that "democracy" didn't work in 2024, so they want to stick to health care. 5/

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 7d

Damn. Liz ain't having it. 😮

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 7d

when it hits the fan youre going to hear people saying “there was no way to see this coming” and its important to remember those people will be lying to you

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”

@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

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