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Resist Oligarchy @nokingsordoge.bsky.social · 17h

duh

#FAFO

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Fox News employees privately admit their content has made the country 'a worse place' - NewsBreak

Private communications between rank-and-file employees at Fox News show that the conservative news network has a significant image problem — even among its

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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Bluegal Fran Langum #NoKings @bluegal.bsky.social · 17h

OF COURSE all of Pam Bondi's ire yesterday was SCRIPTED www.thedailybeast.com/pam-bondi-ac...

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · 40m

Good fucking Lord
#DementiaDon

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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You Know @realturkana.bsky.social · 8h

Wins the internet, today.

Tyrone @thetyrone.bsky.social · 18h

This is one of the rare times in Illinois politics when you could call for the governor to be jailed and be incorrect.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 22h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 11h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

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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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 27d

open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... Paul Krugman replies to Scott Bessent’s diatribe against the Fed.

Scott Bessent, Sleazy Smearer

About the Treasury secretary’s vile, dishonest slander of the Fed

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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · 2h

My mom texted me yesterday that gold is up to $4000/ounce, which I verified and is an insane price. I agree it's going up because of the instability in the US.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Ingots We Trust

Are soaring gold prices telling us something important?

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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · 2h

Still, most Rethugs are cowards and not willing to rein in these insanely illegal extrajudicial killings

Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 10h

BREAKING: I just forced a vote with Senator Kaine to block the unauthorized boat strikes in the Caribbean.

In an important step forward, the vote was bipartisan, even if it fell two votes short.

Bipartisan measure to restrict Trump’s war powers fails in Senate

A bipartisan Senate resolution to restrain Trump’s ability to wage war against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers failed in a 48-51 vote.

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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 10h

Mob Boss Politics 101. Take a look inside Trump’s playbook of extortion, corruption, intimidation, and violence.

In this shutdown, I’m standing up to the bullies and mob bosses. Americans deserve a government that works for, not against, them.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 9h

A reporter asked me what my conversations have been like with GOP WA Reps Newhouse and Baumgartner.

Nonexistent—they've been on vacation.

But if they WERE here, I'd say it's YOUR constituents that are most at risk. You need to talk to Speaker Johnson about protecting health care.

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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · 2h

Are they arguing that Trump is one of the "good people"???

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14h

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 13h

Coming around to the theory that they're Truman Showing him

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

Good lord.

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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · 10h

a man wearing a baseball cap is making a funny face .

ALT: a man wearing a baseball cap is making a funny face .

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 15h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 1d

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 21h

Canada vs. America

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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · 12h

We can only hope that the economic crash really FINALLY wakes the rightwing up about the massive fraud they've been supporting in trump and the GOP and they get serious about really fixing the problems the country faces along with the left.

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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · 12h

and he only projects strength by acting like a bully. He's super unpopular and he's losing this govt shutdown fight.

The biggest thing that is going to happen and change everything is the economy crashing, and that is coming sooner or later, for sure in the next year.

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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · 12h

The idea that the president can send the US military to fight local crime problems in our cities, go after gang violence and random murders is just laughable, ridiculous, stupid and importantly it's illegal.

Ultimately Trump is weak. He is incredibly weak, mentally and physically,

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