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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 15h

🚨 This is protecting the American people. “Full force” is not defined by the military. More of this!

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Hannibal's Lectern @chasenmytail.bsky.social · 8h

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 9h

“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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Hannibal's Lectern @chasenmytail.bsky.social · 9h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

Wow — Harvard Crimson student newspaper busts Hegseth for having written a long policy brief touting diversity before he joined Trump’s war on DEI.

With receipts. Bravo, Crimson.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

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."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
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.

apnews.com

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 10h

It's been over 9 months since the Palisades and Eaton Fires tore through Los Angeles. We asked for federal support, but we haven’t heard a word from the White House.

Not a single offer.

Is this what leadership looks like? Abandoning the American people when they call for help?

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Freya 💙 @freyalux.bsky.social · 9h

🚨Happening Now in Chicago! Huge turn out with a 24 hr notice! Way to go Chicago! Thank you! 🫶🏼
The People have had ENOUGH! 💪📢

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10h

BREAKING: Hamas will release all 20 living hostages this weekend, AP sources say, as Israelis will withdraw from majority of Gaza.

Israel, Hamas agree to 'first phase' of plan to end fighting, release hostages, Trump says

President Donald Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first Phase” of his peace plan to pause fighting and release at least some hostages and prisoners.

bit.ly

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10h

"The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote"

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine to limit absentee voting & impose voter ID requirements.

Important reporting from Zeteo's new political reporter @andrewperez.bsky.social

The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine that would limit absentee voting and impose voter ID requirements.

zeteo.com

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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 13h

Rand Paul railing against the strikes on alleged drug boats off coast of Venezuela. He's going to vote for the Kaine/Schiff resolution tonight

"Since we're blowing them to smithereens ... Maybe someone should take the time to explain the evidence of their terrorism?"

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💋SassyAss💋Sister🔥🔱ValkyrieQueen🔱❤️‍🔥🥷Resistance Fighter👊 📎 @sassysister27.bsky.social · 1d

‼️ High Risk ‼️

❤️ Foster Needed! ❤️

Meet my sweet girl Kanga!
She’s only 2yrs old and you can tell by looking at her sweet face that she’s had it rough. She’s scared & alone.
@nycacc.bsky.social has given
her a death sentence
Heroes needed to Repost her & help find her foster!
❤️ Plz Repost for Kanga🙏

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Hannibal's Lectern @chasenmytail.bsky.social · 9h

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

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.

Hannibal's Lectern @chasenmytail.bsky.social · 10h

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10h

🚨BREAKING: A right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Right-Wing Group Asks SCOTUS to Turn Pro-Voting Law Into Tool for Voter Purges

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10h

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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Hannibal's Lectern @chasenmytail.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not down with body shaming, but poetry is poetry👇

Judy Weston @westonjk.bsky.social · 1d

The elite Meal Team who hid while children were massacred at school in Uvalde, TX.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Greg Abbott sends the elite Meal Team 6 from the Texas National Guard into Illinois.

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Hannibal's Lectern @chasenmytail.bsky.social · 10h

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 14h

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 12h

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11h

“This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” said @govpritzker.illinois.gov. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head … He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.”

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

Democratic governor’s comments came as he continues to oppose President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago area for deportation efforts.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12h

Am I reading this right? Did Trump say he took freedom of speech away?

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12h

Flagging Trump this afternoon:

"We took the freedom of speech away. Because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech — but what has happened is, when they burn a flag it, agitates and irritates crowds."

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 3d

Republicans like to claim they aren't actually cutting Medicaid.

Which is an easily disproven lie.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

I can never see mention of carbon offsets without thinking of when the VP of Facilities at Georgetown described them as "buying indulgences" at a Sustainability Advisory Committee meeting.

She wasn't wrong...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen “reggaepaparazzi” Cooper @stephenacooper.bsky.social · 18h

In 15 days, Alabama will torture a 7th man to death with nitrogen gas. Weird how the social media outrage hasn’t extended to repetitively torturing people with nitrogen gas.

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