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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h

McGovern: Republicans love to advocate for more work requirements for poor people… Let's have a work requirement for Republicans to show up to congress and do your god damn job.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

I couldn't imagine a more perfectly poetic example of saying the quiet part out loud than "we took the freedom of speech away"

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 11h

Wondering who’s at fault for the shutdown dragging on?

Take a look at who’s in DC and who’s not.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 8h

The Dude has spoken:

"ICE? Let's get ICE off our streets and into our beverages. This aggression will not stand. Let's just abide together"

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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Stickman @stickman007.bsky.social · 10h

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared,” Anne Frank wrote in her diary on January 13, 1943.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused 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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Shannon 🦇💩🤪 GOOD TROUBLE 💙💙💙 @shannonmaebreen.bsky.social · 16h

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 1d

Nicolle Wallace reacts to Attorney General Bondi's day of testimony.

WATCH HERE:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrNG...

'Brazen' 'Shameless' 'Verifiably false': Nicolle SMASHES Pam Bondi's testimony

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn’t advise anyone in Portland to walk your dog near this building.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

Way to go, Chicago, more of this! Kristi Noem is upset that ICE agents in Chicago are being “denied entry” to restrooms and lunch spots.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 11h

there is a government shutdown with no end in sight and it’s not even really the lead story rn because the president can’t stop invading American cities for no reason other than spite

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 1d

Immigration is by far the most important political issue of the century for the simple reason that it has the same origins and effects, the same scope of impact, and arouses the same passions with the same moral urgency as the issue of slavery did in 1850s America

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."