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Shosh🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇧 WokeAF💥GreenAF💚 Powered by Fury,Disbelief&Determination @shoshanade.bsky.social · 18h

This 👇🏻 is an actual tweet from Marjorie Taylor Greene over on the hellsite.

I don’t know what happened but just like I had to agree with her supporting, even signing the reopening of the House vote on the Epstein files, I now find myself agreeing with her on the real culprits of the shutdown😳

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Brian Ruhf @brianruhf.bsky.social · 6h

October 8, 2025
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October 8, 2025

Yesterday, journalists observed members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S.

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Brian Ruhf @brianruhf.bsky.social · 6h

Democrats Are Done With Vanity Candidates
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Democrats Are Done With Vanity Candidates

Party insiders worry about running long-shots or no-shots who’ll drain money and energy.

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Brian Ruhf @brianruhf.bsky.social · 13h

Stephen Miller is the Poster Boy for the Rabid MAGA Movement
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Stephen Miller is the Poster Boy for the Rabid MAGA Movement

The more voters see of him, the more repulsed they’ll be

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 22h

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Brian Ruhf @brianruhf.bsky.social · 13h

Pamnesia Pam can’t remember shit about Dear Leader’s dead pedo bestie
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Pamnesia Pam can’t remember shit about Dear Leader’s dead pedo bestie

the heartbreak of pamnesia — won’t you please help find a cure?

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Brian Ruhf @brianruhf.bsky.social · 13h

Bondi to Congress: 🖕
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Bondi to Congress: 🖕

The attorney general came to the Hill to deliver a message to Democrats: Your ‘oversight’ couldn't matter to us less.

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Brian Ruhf @brianruhf.bsky.social · 14h

October 7, 2025
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October 7, 2025

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved.

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Brian Ruhf @brianruhf.bsky.social · 1d

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next
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Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

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evangeline63.bsky.social @evangeline63.bsky.social · 1d

ICE AINT NOTHING BUT THE FUCKINGGGG KLAN.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Brian Ruhf @brianruhf.bsky.social · 1d

“Legal Orders” and Trump’s Military
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“Legal Orders” and Trump’s Military

Authoritarians don’t take power by openly flouting the law. They look for pretexts and legal theories.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This strikes me as pretty bad

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Brian Ruhf @brianruhf.bsky.social · 1d

a shutdown, but with morons
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a shutdown, but with morons

and grifters and crackpots, too, oh my!

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Brian Ruhf @brianruhf.bsky.social · 1d

When in Doubt, Blame the Immigrants
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When in Doubt, Blame the Immigrants

No. You’re not experiencing déjà vu. The current Republican government shutdown talking point is the same one they’ve trotted out before.

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Brian Ruhf @brianruhf.bsky.social · 1d

October 6, 2025
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October 6, 2025

If White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is at the head of the administration’s deployment of federal agents against undocumented immigrants, it appears that Office of Management and Budget...

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Brian Ruhf @brianruhf.bsky.social · 2d

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

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Lizzy For Democracy @lizzy2016.bsky.social · 3d

Flood the Zone with Truth and Facts...

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Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 2d

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Brian Ruhf @brianruhf.bsky.social · 2d

The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future.
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The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future.

We drink their milkshake.

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Brian Ruhf @brianruhf.bsky.social · 2d

elderly golfer big mad because he can’t do a fascism in Portland
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elderly golfer big mad because he can’t do a fascism in Portland

boo fucking hoo, Donny

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Brian Ruhf @brianruhf.bsky.social · 2d

The Rule of Law vs. The Rule of Trump
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The Rule of Law vs. The Rule of Trump

A crisis moment in the defining debate of our time.

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Brian Ruhf @brianruhf.bsky.social · 2d

October 5, 2025
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October 5, 2025

On Friday the Minnesota Star Tribune reported a conversation on the messaging app Signal between one of Stephen Miller’s top deputies, Anthony Salisbury, and a senior advisor to Secretary of Defense P...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

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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Devin⚓️ @devinrea.bsky.social · Mar 26

Kendall Brown, Oklahoma constituent fighting for her husband (active duty soldier currently in Yemen), fighting for herself and her country…

Great video showing how it’s done!
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