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Rob Benson 🦋 @robnellie.bsky.social · 13h

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AllanJenkins21 @allanjenkins21.bsky.social · 11h

Doh!

Republicans R Evil 👿 @republicansrevil.bsky.social · 11h

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14h

This you, Kristi?

A screenshot of a post from X (formerly Twitter). The top tweet is from user @covie_93 with the caption: “This tweet aged like Stephen Miller…..”. Below it is a tweet from Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) that reads:
“If Joe Biden federalizes the National Guard, that would be a direct attack on states' rights.
Over the last several years, we've seen Democrats try to take away our Freedoms of religion, assembly, and speech. We can't let them take away our right to defend ourselves, too.
South Dakota defends the Constitution.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

SCHIFF: Was it true when the White House press secretary denied that Homan took the money?

BONDI: I was not in office, I was not confirmed, when that was handled

SCHIFF: Did he take the money?

BONDI: That happened prior to my confirmation

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AllanJenkins21 @allanjenkins21.bsky.social · 15h

Yikes

LittleSis @mapthepower.bsky.social · 14d

Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are worth a combined $1.343 trillion.

We are truly living under an oligarchy dominated by billionaire power.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 7d

Swear her in.

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Choozy Bunz @choozybunz.bsky.social · 15h

ICE agents aimed for his head with projectiles. He’s lucky he wasn’t blinded or killed. For this administration, Christianity isn’t a belief system; it’s a costume.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 19h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts 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.

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Little Miss FAFO @nofuxgiven.bsky.social · 1d

NEVER FORGET 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 16h

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Chicago Latina Shot by Border Patrol Survives, Lawyers Up

“La Maggie” Martinez survived a federal shooting in Chicago. Now her attorney says body-cam footage shows the agents provoked it. The public deserves to see the tape.

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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 1d

The War Room

Follow my work on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

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AllanJenkins21 @allanjenkins21.bsky.social · 19h

this

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22h

It's properly unconscionable that the Home Office has created this situation. It should never have been allowed to happen and once it did happen it should have been immediately reversed.

The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 22h

🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest

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AllanJenkins21 @allanjenkins21.bsky.social · 19h

seems likely at least

PhillipUSA @phillipusa.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks Pam Bondi for clarification.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Greg Abbott sends the elite Meal Team 6 from the Texas National Guard into Illinois.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Today marks yet another day that Speaker Mike Johnson has denied Adelita Grijalva her right to govern.

She won her special election on Sept 23rd but has yet to be sworn in.

Why? Because she will become the 218th vote needed to discharge the release of the Epstein files.

Say her name.

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AllanJenkins21 @allanjenkins21.bsky.social · 19h

mood

richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 1d

Detail from House Wall on the River Edge by Egon Schiele, Leopold Museum, Vienna
#WindowsOnWednesday

AllanJenkins21 @allanjenkins21.bsky.social · 19h

this

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 19h

I wrote about Robert Jenrick's embrace of blood and soil nationalism for @bylinetimes.bsky.social

"The British right is adopting an increasingly extreme form of ethnic identity politics, while failing to explain what the rest of us are supposed to be worried about"

bylinetimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

But what about “ethnic change”? Yes, the proportion of Islington’s population who are (like me) white British has dropped from perhaps 85% to about 40%. This change is indeed visible. For West, it is “far beyond what any group would find tolerable.” What he doesn’t and can’t say is why exactly I’m supposed to find it intolerable. Why should I, or my neighbours, be more concerned about what race or ethnicity the kids are at the local school than the quality or financing of local services, or whether the council is successfully balancing the need for more housing with the interests of long-standing residents?

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[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social · 19h

🚨Trump has once again threatened to invoke a law authorizing the president to deploy military forces on US soil, as a means to control the mobilization of the national guard.

But can he do that, and what does it mean? Here’s what to know about the centuries-old #InsurrectionAct:

What is the Insurrection Act, and can Trump use it?

President has threatened to invoke 19th-century law as a means to control mobilization of national guard troops

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22h

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

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.

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The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 1d

CBS reports ICE agents have repeatedly made fake 911 calls. Each time, police found no threat. In Illinois, that’s a felony.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

But don't accuse them of racial profiling.

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

When US citizen Leo Garcia Venegas tried to prove his identity by showing federal agents his REAL ID, they dismissed it as a fake and kept him detained, releasing him only after they bothered to run his Social Security number.

Just a few weeks later, they detained him again:

Mass Deportation Is A Threat To Us All

Aided by the Supreme Court and the insidious "Kavanaugh stop," the administration's chaotic mass deportation operations are sweeping up Americans – including children and U.S. military veterans.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19h

Listen to “The Headlines,” which brings you the biggest stories of the day from the New York Times reporters who are covering them, all in about 10 minutes.

Comey Goes to Court, and Gold Prices Hit Record High

Plus, how job applicants are tricking A.I.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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