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Brian Galle @bdgesq.bsky.social · 6m

I have a book-length exploration of the economic and tax policy implications of this fact coming next month with @rooseveltinstitute.org : "How to Tax the Rich." You're going to like the retail price (it starts with 0 and ends with 0). Have your download fingers ready.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 4h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Democracy Matters! @democracymatters.bsky.social · 5m

That equates to around 5 falsehoods per day since his inauguration.

#TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #AmericanFascistParty #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

Analysis | President Trump has made 1,318 false or misleading claims over 263 days

An update on The Fact Checker's year-long project analyzing, categorizing and tracking every false or misleading claim by President Trump.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Democracy Matters! @democracymatters.bsky.social · 5m

#EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

October 10, 2017 – According to fact-checkers at the Washington Post, Donald Trump made 1,318 false claims in his first 263 days as president (back when The Post was a newspaper!).

Analysis | President Trump has made 1,318 false or misleading claims over 263 days

An update on The Fact Checker's year-long project analyzing, categorizing and tracking every false or misleading claim by President Trump.

www.washingtonpost.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 10h

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 10h

🚨 Today in Portland, large groups peacefully gathered to unite against hate and oppression. 1/2

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zipdog @zipdog.bsky.social · 10m

Palo Duro Canyon....blue. Where I live.

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Union Gang HQ @usarmyoverlord.bsky.social · 23h

The only Stolen Valor I see is in the Felon's White House and Cabinet!

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zipdog @zipdog.bsky.social · 31m

It is wonderful that a deserving person was awarded the honor; not some fly-by-night con man. 👍

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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key unifying figure in the opposition, advocating for free elections and...

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zipdog @zipdog.bsky.social · 33m

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Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, chaplain for the men’s basketball team at Loyola Chicago who became a beloved international celebrity, has died, the university announced Thursday night. She was 106. She was a saint! ✝️

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago's beloved chaplain, dies at 106

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the beloved chaplain for Loyola Chicago's men's basketball team, has died at 106. The university announced her death on Thursday night.

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Bob says: GOP == CRIME @yd52.bsky.social · 1d

THIS
is a continuation of the GOP CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE implementing all of the changes and PURGES that they documented in the Project 2025 PLAN!

It is not a conspiracy ONLY because it is NOT SECRET!
It is the GOP's documented PLAN & it is being implemented, IN PUBLIC!
#usdemocracy

Bob says: GOP == CRIME @yd52.bsky.social · 1d

#usdemocracy
Ask MS Copilot: Where is the YouTube video in which Stephen Miller repeated the GOP cabal's proposition: trump's power is "plenary"? i.e., a fancy/coded way of saying trump is ALL-POWERFUL, e.g., as in DICTATORIAL POWERS!

It should point you to the CNN video:
youtu.be/vWudXaj60rU

Stephen Miller Says Trump Has 'Plenary Authority'

YouTube video by HuffPost

youtu.be

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1h

He had been begging for it like a dog meidasnews.com/news/trump-f...

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Erin Burnett OutFront @outfrontcnn.bsky.social · 10h

“We could hear them laughing.”

Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility.

#OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago

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PeriwinkleRose 💙🇺🇦 @periwinklerose.bsky.social · 19h

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Darlene Ryan 🇨🇦 @darleneryan.bsky.social · 15h

First time ever and under #Fascisttrump’s watch ‼️😡🤬
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U.S. Added to Global Human Rights Watchlist Over Declining Civil Liberties

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U.S. Is Added to Human Rights Watchlist

The United States was added Sunday to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, due to declining civil liberties.

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VegasJake @vegasjake1.bsky.social · 1d

Meal Team Six from Texas has touched down in Illinois in what is basically the federalization of the state. I guess all that States Rights talk the Republicans preached for decades was just bullshit.

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Cathy 🖤 💀 🧡 @coco.sheshed.rocks · 19h

We all know #Trump is provoking, hoping to call martial law.

#ICE are the foot soldiers doing this MFs dirty work.

#SheShed

"I CO-WROTE TRUMP'S FIRST ANTITERRORISM PLAN IN 2017-18.
HE'S NOT TRYING TO STOP 'LEFT-WING' TERRORISM.
HE IS STAGING IT.
HIS TROOP DEPLOYMENTS ARE A FALSE FLAG - MEANT TO PROVOKE A RESPONSE IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY HARSH CRACKDOWNS.
THIS IS NOW VERY OBVIOUS!"
MILES TAYLOR
FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF AT TRUMP'S DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

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zipdog @zipdog.bsky.social · 9h

No.

Christopher Mootham @chrismootham.bsky.social · 10h

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zipdog @zipdog.bsky.social · 9h

I cannot wait until future politicos impeach and remove ALL of these monsters. Republicans...conservatives...and, now. fascists.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

"The Supreme Court has made clear that it will allow Trump to violate every constitutional prohibition, removing any obstacle in his way, and crediting the most farcical legal argument."

Trump is the insurrection

And the Supreme Court's conservatives are his shock troops.

www.publicnotice.co

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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 9h

www.democracynow.org/2025/10/9/tr...
“Two plus two equals five.” That this is false would be apparent to most first graders. Yet this is, in effect, what President Donald Trump wants us to believe when he tells us that the United States is in the midst of an “insurrection” and that there

Trump’s Orwellian Militarization of American Cities

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan By the end of “1984,” Winston is brutalized into accepting the lies. This need not be our fate. Trump’s attempt to send troops into American cities can and must be resi...

www.democracynow.org

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BIG D GRANDROYAL @bigdgrandroyal.bsky.social · 12h

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

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zipdog @zipdog.bsky.social · 10h

The Late Show is spoofing this right. Traitor Trump really **IS** that stupid...and, senile.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7d

Trump recently posted—then deleted—an AI-generated video touting “medbeds,” a nonexistent healing tech that people falsely believe will miraculously cure all maladies.

It's just one of the outright fake health technologies that Truth Social promotes to an audience that skews older.

How Truth Social’s bogus medical claims fool Trump fans

It's not just "medbeds."

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 1d

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