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Helen Bailey @blackbirdsing.bsky.social · 5m

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 33m

Editorial cartoonist John Deering mocks Trump’s Herculean effort to inflate the danger of Antifa as a pretext to send troops into Democratic-run cities.

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Helen Bailey @blackbirdsing.bsky.social · 40m

Taken after a disagreement over the canine hierarchy and a small toy pig

Three little dogs looking post fight face
Black pug old grey chin red collar
Emily the Victorian haunted dog black and white scruff
Small unrepentant Daschund tan white to rear on colourful blankets

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 13h

One thing people should know is that Choe works for Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk's group, and was at the WH on behalf of that group

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 16h

just talked to Gov. Pritzker who dared President Trump to “come and get me” after POTUS threatened him with arrest. But Pritzker said he thinks Trump will chicken out.

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 22h

Jimmy Kimmel put together an amazing compilation of Donald Trump saying all the words from the birthday letter he wrote to his best friend Jeffrey Epstein

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 2h

The word 'earned' doesn't feel quite right here. Wonder when he's planning on holding his first surgery for constituents or setting up a local office? Could use his 900k Frinton pool house!

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2h

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 11h

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 11h

"Chicago isn't licking boots!

No hate no fear. Immigrants are welcome here. All power to the people.

No human is illegal.
No raids. No deportation. Down with the occupation!"

#HandsOffChicago #AbolishICE

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15h

it’s all just a grift

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Geneva 🇨🇦 @geneva1111.bsky.social · 1d

Portland residents are winning Tiktok.

They are an absolute pleasure.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Racism Knows No Bounds

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 4h

Problem we have in Europe/UK is that none of this crazy fashy stuff is really being reported, outside of the usual circles... so the whole thing is gradually being normalised, which has big benefits for fellow fash in European countries.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14h

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Beatles Archive @beatlesarchive.bsky.social · 3h

Remembering #JohnLennon

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3h

"Stupid people are dangerous and damaging because reasonable people find it difficult to imagine and understand unreasonable behaviour. A stupid person is thus the most dangerous type of person."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Helen Bailey @blackbirdsing.bsky.social · 3h

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a man in a suit and tie is standing next to a woman in a black dress .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing next to a woman in a black dress .

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 14h

kinda wild how we're leaping straight to late Ceausescu

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 23h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 12h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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