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Beema 🇨🇦 @cindyouellette-57.bsky.social · 2h

#NeverPoiLIEvre

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Mbsolheim @mbsolheim.bsky.social · 51m

So so tired of them ( Bondi, Kennedy, Patel et., ) all lying through their teeth
while under oath

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 19h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 4h

If Republicans let ACA tax credits expire, premiums will skyrocket. In West Virginia, Wyoming, Alaska, Tennessee, and Mississippi, they’d more than quadruple. In Texas, South Carolina, and Alabama, they’d triple.

Millions would lose affordable care overnight.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2h

Fascists are desperate for violent disruption they can use an excuse for state violence and power grabs.

They have trouble with mockery, goofiness, and fun.

That holds across just about every type of authoritarianism. They like being feared for cruelty. They hate being laughed at and humiliated.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 14h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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brownsheila565.bsky.social @brownsheila565.bsky.social · 19m

But nowhere near the concerns you will have if Canadians fail to stay strong and stick together and we end up annexed by the U.S.

Anik 🇨🇦 @anik1968.bsky.social · 50m

Exactly he was the best choice for the moment but I have concerns ..

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h

The Justice Department had 36 attorneys assigned full-time to investigate corrupt politicians when Trump took office in January.

Today it has two.

See how this works?

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 3h

1. On Monday, Trump delivered a $70 million windfall to his billionaire buddy, John Paulson.

Paulson hosted the biggest fundraiser of Trump's 2024 campaign, raising over $50 million.

This week, Trump returned the favor.

Follow along for details.

Trump approves mining road, delivers $70 million windfall to MAGA billionaire

On April 6, 2024, a procession of Range Rovers, Aston Martins, and Bentleys rolled up to the Palm Beach mansion of billionaire John Paulson. The occasion was a glitzy fundraiser for Donald Trump’s…

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 1d

Thank goodness for @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com & the small handful of others who deliver honest analysis.
If you ever needed more evidence of what a self-interested feckless enabler @jaketapper.bsky.social is, look no further than this abomination from @cnn.com.

#DementiaDon #WeekendAtBernie’s

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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 2h

...The Attorney General of the US; our supposed guardian of the law, calls senators “liars,” “failed lawyers,” and “antifa sympathizers” rather than answering questions about bribery investigations, the Epstein files, and corruption... open.substack.com/pub/therealm...

"Bondi Torches Justice For Trump"

Pam Bondi didn’t testify; she detonated. Oversight collapsed into insults, lies, and theater, while Republicans clapped like seals and democracy sank one more rung into the abyss.

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 53m

Bannon claimed John Bolton, Andrew McCabe, John Brennan, James Comey, and Jim Clapper were “going to spend many, many, many years in a federal prison”

Steve Bannon claims Trump administration is working on "massive indictments" of several former top government officials

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 8h

I don't understand why I see things so differently. I see a health insurance industry that thinks it's entitled to charge people 1/3rd of their income for healthcare. That industry shouldn't be "fixed." It should be burned to the ground and its ashes pissed on.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 54m

One of the Trump Administration's most openly fascist moments and CNN edits it out.

Tells you everything you need to know about a news network that has a firm policy against telling you everything you need to know.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 13h

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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🎀FANCY🎀 @fancysplace.bsky.social · 49m

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Wally Kibler🇨🇦 @wallykibler.bsky.social · 49m

What does antifa look like? ⤵️

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 22h

I get fed a lot of ads re Ontario place (Ontario taxpayer $). I hadn’t seen this rendering of the amphitheater before. Wild - a total rebuild? Note the spa doesn’t exist in background. Anyway, bookmark this image.

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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 1d

Ryan Walters used his job to push Christian Nationalism, punish teachers, and turn public schools into culture war battlegrounds.

Now he’s gone—and Oklahoma is racing to undo his damage.

The reckoning has begun. 👇

www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahoma-h...

Oklahoma has already started erasing Ryan Walters’ disastrous legacy

The Christian Nationalist superintendent’s resignation has sparked a statewide effort to undo his damage

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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 49m

Carney’s Caught in a Bad Gangster Movie

“Wish the PM could win a faster deal with Trump? Don’t forget how mob bosses work.”

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Carney’s Caught in a Bad Gangster Movie | The Tyee

Wish the PM could win a faster deal with Trump? Don’t forget how mob bosses work.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

I’m shocked.

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brownsheila565.bsky.social @brownsheila565.bsky.social · 13h

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Former Ontario hospital exec and construction company president guilty of fraud tied to $300M project | CBC News

Former hospital CAO Vas Georgiou and one-time construction magnate John Aquino have each been found guilty of fraud for skewing the procurement process for a major renovation to a downtown Toronto hos...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 17h

Here’s video of the incident

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brownsheila565.bsky.social @brownsheila565.bsky.social · 15h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...
Gift article. How Canada’s armed forces can increase their # of recruits.

This Program Rescued Army Recruiting

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 16h

So Well Done @schumer.senate.gov !

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 18h

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Patricia Campbell @patriciacampbell.bsky.social · 18h

They'll do it again....watch and see👇

X Solitude ∞ 🍁🇨🇦 EH! @solitudex.bsky.social · 1d

WTAF?? 12 mnths only?
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Freedom Convoy leaders Chris Barber, Tamara Lich given conditional sentences | CBC News

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two major figures of the 2022 "Freedom Convoy," have been handed conditional sentences and spared further jail time.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16h

How can you tell Democrats have the upper hand in the week-old shutdown fight? Marjorie Taylor Greene just endorsed their key demand.
From the great @citizencohn.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

Democrats Are Winning the Shutdown Fight

Turns out Republicans still haven’t figured out the politics of health care.

www.thebulwark.com

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