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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13h

Why even have congress? Also funding WIC is good

George Pearkes @peark.es · 15h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Phang: How are these Epstein victims supposed to feel about closure when you see Blanche meeting with Maxwell and then giving her a minimum-security camp move?

And now, conversations allegedly that Trump is going to have with the DOJ about pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell. It is an abomination

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

I know we're all used to the president talking like Livia Soprano all the time, but this is a goddamn outrage

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

“.. we’re going to take care of our people,” Trump added. “There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of. And we’ll take care of them in a different way.”

@thehill.com
thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 17h

My kid dressed up as Bob Ross for Halloween a few years ago (he was 10 or 11). His idea, not mine. Grew out his curly hair and everything.

I hope Ross's paintings sell for astronomical prices, because I can't imagine a better cause to benefit from his wonderful body of work.

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in...

www.ctvnews.ca

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California.

I urge anyone in the state to vote yes.

This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-should-do-when-red

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 7h

Agree. Agree. Agree.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 1h

📌 The tide is slowly shifting
Souls are fighting back ⤵️🐥

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lyndapole @lyndapole.bsky.social · 12h

Wishing everyone a peaceful evening as we continue to fight for our democracy.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 8h

All these headlines saying “Bondi Goes on the Attack.” Really? She wasn’t in the octagon, she’s a public servant who was at an oversight hearing. Her job was to answer questions. She refused to do her job. Stop glamorizing and whitewashing this moronic, performative bullshit.

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Nagarjuna's Middle Finger | VarnVlog @varnvlog.bsky.social · 1d

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10h

The condescension of two-bit Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi today underscores that the only thing this administration excels at is a complete lack of self-awareness.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14h

The subhed here is a master class in corporate journalism rewarding malfeasance via semantics

Bondi didn't valiantly fend something off, she refused to answer legitimate questions before Congress because the answers would be horrifying and politically inconvenient

And that's a profile in cowardice

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 12h

Pam Bondi’s defensive attacks against Senate Democrats questioning her was not the flex she thinks it was. All it did was vividly point out how she has abandoned Justice Dept. independence to serve the desires of her authoritarian boss.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 11h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 10h

I hope John Fetterman watched the Pam Bondi hearing today and felt good about his vote to confirm her.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 13h

I forget-- who controls the White House, Senate, and House?

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15h

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 13h

Brutal.

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Gary @gsulli6873.bsky.social · 1d

I live in Chicago. ICE and its various manifestations is a reckless, inhuman way to "produce content." I'm a 75-year-old white guy who says get the hell out of here. www.economist.com/united-state...

What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism

The worst excesses seem designed to produce content

www.economist.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks, New Yorker

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 17h

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMBjgegX/

A Charlie Kirk fan is accused of murdering two girls because of what they posted,

and 4 white Charlie Kirk fans are potentially involved in the lynching of Trey Reed in MS.

Kirk was racist asshole and stochastic terrorist. I am still not over 98 members of my party

17-year-old Vincent Ballaro is accused of killing best friends, Maria Netis, and Isabella Salas after running them over with his car. Maria had taken out a restraining order against Vincent and he pre...

TikTok video by Franchesca Ramsey

www.tiktok.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15h

Notice how they’re now calling everyone else an “insurrectionist.” Pure projection.

A screenshot of an X.com post by House Homeland Security Committee (@HouseHomelandSecCo) stating, "We're drawing a blank, let us get back to you," with an image of a crowd storming a government building, featuring individuals in red caps and carrying flags. Below, a reply from @Acyn
, Acyn, posted 5 hours earlier, quotes Stephen Miller asking, "when in our history have we tolerated unlawful, riotous assemblies around government buildings," accompanied by a video thumbnail of Miller speaking on a news program, labeled "OANN 0:13" with text identifying him as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy.

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Midgecat @midgecat.bsky.social · 1d

which one had the experience to do their job?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18h

When people are hired, not for their honesty or competency, but for their ability to be snarling trolls on TV for the delight of their immature and unpleasant boss, you get an AG like Pamela Jo Bondi.

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