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Common Sense Good Government @commonsensegoodgov.bsky.social · 9m

Iraq and Afghanistan will welcome us as liberators

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 17m

Caller: Hearing you say that everyone is smiling in the cities where troops and the National Guard have been deployed feels dystopian and insane

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 17m

Caller: Hearing you say that everyone is smiling in the cities where troops and the National Guard have been deployed feels dystopian and insane

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16m

Marjorie Taylor Greene more honest than the NYT and WaPo when it comes to who is responsible for the shutdown.

Imagine being a newspaper that's less trustworthy and honest than a sitting Republican and one of Trump's closest allies. Truly wild shit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21m

Marjorie Taylor Greene on polls showing Republicans are getting blamed for the shutdown: "I'm not putting the blame on the president. I'm actually putting the the blame on the Speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate. This should not be happening ... we control the House & Senate & have the WH."

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 34m

JUST IN: DOJ says it shouldn't have to turn over any US government communications about Abrego Garcia that might reflect desire for selective or vindictive prosecution, if the acting US attorney handling the case wasn't aware or party to them. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 19m

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 33m

The lies & little tricks are going to become so egregious that the no-bill trend is going to extend to juries & judges. They'll be so skeptical of DoJ/Gov statements that convictions & findings for the govt are going to become exceedingly difficult.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1h

Chief Judge Kendall's statement comes as last night an Army commander told a federal court that DHS had so far made two requests for National Guard deployments in the Chicago area: (1) at the Broadview ICE facility, (2) at the Dirksen Courthouse on Friday. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Common Sense Good Government @commonsensegoodgov.bsky.social · 24m

I am the president of Antifa

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I see bread people @wordloaf.org · 34m

Same: I'm the head baker at Antifa HQ

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 12h

making getting assaulted by armed agents of the state into a funny meme is like unironically how we get critical masses of dumb white boys in the streets, Portland frog is a hero and a patriot

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders.

Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 34m

the latest effort to try to find the switch to turn off liberalism (also these people hate the idea of a free society)

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 3h

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Common Sense Good Government @commonsensegoodgov.bsky.social · 28m

What was the message of the AI video where Russ Vought is the grim reaper?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 44m

Scalise: "When a good day for you is defined by how much suffering you can impose on other people, maybe you need to look in the mirror and check yourself at the door and wonder what it is you're up here trying to accomplish."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 32m

Yeah I agree, he should listen to the president and his advisers speak everyone once in a while, they have made it very clear that's their whole thing bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 44m

Scalise: "When a good day for you is defined by how much suffering you can impose on other people, maybe you need to look in the mirror and check yourself at the door and wonder what it is you're up here trying to accomplish."

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Common Sense Good Government @commonsensegoodgov.bsky.social · 29m

Flailing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 32m

Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 34m

I went ahead and did the starting work for someone who wants to chase this angle. Most right-wing influencers who participated in the "Antifa" roundtable at the White House yesterday have easily provable ties to TPUSA (8 of 12). The other four need a closer look I don't have time for right now.

right-wing influencers standing for a photo together at the white house

(Left to Right)

Jack Posobiec - TPUSA employee
Seamus Bruner - Government Accountability Institute (GAI)
James Klug - TPUSA Ambassador
Jonathan Cho - TPUSA employee
Nick Sortor - Influencer
Julio Rosas - Former TPUSA, Blaze Media
Nick Shirley - Influencer
Andy Ngo - Human Events Media Group*
Brandi Kruse - Influencer
Savannah Hernandez - TPUSA employee
Katie Daviscourt - Former TPUSA, Human Events Media Group*
Cam Higby - TPUSA employee

(Human Events Media Group is closely tied to TPUSA. https://humanevents.com/about-human-events )

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 59m

If the judiciary doesn't want soldiers "protecting" them in their building and the executive insists ... is that protection, or interference?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Common Sense Good Government @commonsensegoodgov.bsky.social · 34m

Mike is too ineffective to get a deal done

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Republican C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "As a Republican, I'm very disappointed in my party,and I'm very disappointed in you, because you have the power to call the House back. You refuse to do that just for a show."

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 56m

“The judge, a Reagan appointee, compared immigration agents to ‘cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan’ and declared that federal efforts to deport outspoken protesters amounted to a ‘full-throated assault’ on freedom of speech.”

Charles Smith @profsmithsask.bsky.social · 1h

“ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence"

Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

www.nytimes.com

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 55m

Ten years, more than ten-tupled.

Bar chart depicting India’s solar electricity generation increasing exponentially from 2014 to 2024.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 54m

Huge, huge swathes of *Trump voters* will effectively have no health care available except for emergency ER.

It is simultaneously a) the worst way to maintain public health and b) the most *expensive* way to do it.

Idiocy from moral degenerates. That's our country now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1h

Chief Judge Kendall's statement comes as last night an Army commander told a federal court that DHS had so far made two requests for National Guard deployments in the Chicago area: (1) at the Broadview ICE facility, (2) at the Dirksen Courthouse on Friday. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Common Sense Good Government @commonsensegoodgov.bsky.social · 49m

The “slavery is allowed per the Bible” discourse taking place in the fucking New York Times

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 54m

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 53m

Context matters

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1h

Chicago federal court chief judge says she has not requested National Guard for courthouse

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