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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10h

If we’re lucky America may recover from the damage of the Trump administration in a few decades. But more likely, we’ll simply never recover.

Reagan caused damage that’s so permanent that people can’t imagine it being otherwise, let alone recovering from them. Such as top tax rates from 70% -> 28%.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

I’m shocked.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10h

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Status Quo Slayer @elev8humanity.bsky.social · 10h

Is God giving them this direction?

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Status Quo Slayer @elev8humanity.bsky.social · 10h

ICE are the terrorizers but somehow we’re being gaslit as an excuse to jail leaders he doesn’t like. He said he’d be a dictator on Day 1 and 77 million were ok with that.

Status Quo Slayer @elev8humanity.bsky.social · 12h

President Trump, upon taking office in January, backed away from consent decrees in place in Minneapolis and Louisville, Ky., as his Justice Department shifted its focus toward legal actions against Ivy League universities and liberal cities.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

This City Was Forced to Overhaul Its Police Department. Crime Plummeted.

www.nytimes.com

Status Quo Slayer @elev8humanity.bsky.social · 19h

And these camera crews are costing us money. This is real life, not a Fox reality show!

Status Quo Slayer @elev8humanity.bsky.social · 19h

All wasting taxpayer money and they don’t care. All the lawsuits, etc are the real waste, fraud and abuse.

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Status Quo Slayer @elev8humanity.bsky.social · 19h

What are they trying to show with this filming? Don’t think it’s creating the nationwide outrage they hoped for…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Broadview police are investigating.

The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 1d

CBS reports ICE agents have repeatedly made fake 911 calls. Each time, police found no threat. In Illinois, that’s a felony.

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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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Status Quo Slayer @elev8humanity.bsky.social · 2d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Status Quo Slayer @elev8humanity.bsky.social · 2d

What’s most hilarious about this clip is he is in better shape than someone 15 years younger who at that time was in his 40s. At 79 he’s on better shape than a 47-50-year-old? Ok…

Status Quo Slayer @elev8humanity.bsky.social · 2d

Does she know Puerto Ricans are US Citizens but she’s demonizing them anyway. So it was never about their immigration status and purely about their ethnicity!

thehill.com/blogs/in-the...

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Status Quo Slayer @elev8humanity.bsky.social · 2d

It is wild… Yet somehow they’ll claim they’re different, it’s only the “illegal aliens” who are the problem. However, only difference is access.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

A new poll shows 75% of Americans believe Trump has not focused enough on lowering prices. Trump responds to that by just lying about prices. Don’t believe your lying eyes or empty wallets - believe a serial liar making billions in the Middle East!

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 3d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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Status Quo Slayer @elev8humanity.bsky.social · 2d

This is some sick stuff. I mean the brazen, brazen lying and then referencing God all in the same sentence. If the SCOTUS doesn’t stop this all judges should immediately call them an embarrassment. At least the judges with any moral courage…

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

That’s because he considers his birthday as the most important day in American history. Military parade this year, UFC fight and more next year, his face on US currency. Expect more Trump birthday stuff, including a push to make it a national holiday.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents shot a U.S. citizen Saturday on Chicago’s South Side
They are creating chaos
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Federal agents shoot woman in Chicago neighborhood after allegedly being rammed, boxed in by cars, DHS says

The woman, as well as a man whom authorities say was involved in the chaos, were facing charges Sunday morning.

www.cbsnews.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2d

Once upon a time, if a president head lied this brazenly, it would be considered a disgrace by both political parties

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.

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Status Quo Slayer @elev8humanity.bsky.social · 2d

Texans, note your Governor is ok with fellow Texans leaving their homes to fight completely fabricated issues. Utah folks, note that too!

Catherine Zoltan @catherinezoltan.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans should note. Governor Greg Abbott of Texas and Senator Mike Lee of Utah have endorsed Federal Occupation of States. These are both elected officials speaking on behalf of Texas and Utah. Valuable information! Please share! #Utah #Texas #FederalOccupation

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Status Quo Slayer @elev8humanity.bsky.social · 2d

Uh oh…he’s about to get it…

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3d

Ford CEO on tariffs: “I mean, it's frustrating 'cause we're the most American auto company, and we export the most, and yet, we have this $2 billion headwind, which prevents me from investing even more in the US.”

finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-ce...

Ford CEO says $2 billion in tariff costs prevents more US investments

Ford CEO Jim Farley says tariffs on imported parts are driving up costs on the company's cars.

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