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garyg @gjgold.bsky.social · 9h

But are you with the Antifa People’s Front or those wankers the People’s Front of Antifa?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused 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.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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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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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 3d

I have been talking about US autocracy but @dhnexon.bsky.social lays it out more clearly-- the American system has failed. The checks and balances didn't work, so we will need a new constitution and new institutions once the regime is eventually toppled www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 6d

Here is a list of what experts say are the greatest threats to democracy in Trump's second term www.gelliottmorris.com/p/experts-no...

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garyg @gjgold.bsky.social · 5d

Mike Luekovich cartoon of Trump setting fire to health care while directing a voter’s attention away and saying “Look, someone’s burning a flag.”

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garyg @gjgold.bsky.social · 5d

We don’t see the administration murdering the real funders of “narco-terrorism“ - all the American buyers of drugs.

Just like the administration does not go after the funders of illegal immigration - American businesses hiring undocumented workers.

Blame the outsider, always.

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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 5d

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance.

"If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6d

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick.

Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 7d

For context, as Texas Tribune reported, “Beto O’Rourke, who set a new standard for Democratic fundraising in his 2018 run against Cruz, needed nine months to raise that same amount.”

The Barbed Wire @thebarbedwire.com · 7d

If political fundraising is supposed to be a marathon, U.S. Senate hopeful James Talarico just showed up, sprinted past fellow Democrat Colin Allred, and then jogged a victory lap while counting $100 bills.

U.S. Senate Hopeful James Talarico Raised Millions More in 3 Weeks Than Colin Allred Did in 3 Months

Joe Rogan and The New York Times are swooning, the money is pouring in, and Allred is starting to look like yesterday’s casserole.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8d

So Trump is defunding the police.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 8d

Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11d

While Stephen Miller claims that Democrats calling him a fascist constitutes incitement, there are hundreds of examples of Miller publicly calling Democrats fascists.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11d

It looks like Trump's hand picked Supreme Court isn't going to stop him from rescinding money that Congress already agreed to use.

How can Democrats agree to a Republican budget that lets Trump delete the parts of it he doesn't like?

Supreme Court allows Trump to cut $4B in foreign aid in 'pocket rescission'

The Supreme Court on Friday moved to allow the Trump administration to effectively cut $4 billion of foreign aid previously enacted by Congress.

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Joshua Conrad Jackson @joshcjackson.bsky.social · 12d

Check out the whole paper for many more findings, robustness checks, and to see the work of a rising 💫 @hongkai1.bsky.social

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16d

I guess Trump and RFK Jr weren’t happy with the studies that said sperm from older men significantly raises the risk of autism.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16d

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The Justice Department Had 36 Lawyers Fighting Corruption Full-Time. Under Trump, It’s Down to Two.

The Public Integrity Section is the latest casualty in the administration’s attacks on Nixon-era good-government reforms.

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garyg @gjgold.bsky.social · 18d

Je suis Jimmy.

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garyg @gjgold.bsky.social · 18d

A scene from the TV show “The Prisoner” (1967-68). Number Six (actor Patrick McGoohan) is telling a fellow inmate of The Village how they were being trained to submit to authority: “Yes, you were intimidated without force.”

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Russ @pappyparki.bsky.social · 18d

Take a bow, America. Pressure & collective outrage made Sinclair flinch. After promising the regime, it would air a "special remembrance of Charlie Kirk," on Friday in Kimmel's timeslot they canceled it & ran ABC programming. Putting it online instead. Be relentless
www.theblaze.com/news/sinclai...

Sinclair backs out of airing Charlie Kirk on its ABC stations — here's what it did instead | Blaze Media

The tribute was supposed to have filled the time slot vacated by Jimmy Kimmel's late night show.

www.theblaze.com

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 18d

The fact that these people are this upset over chalk drawings tells you how easily they’ll cave when faced with actual mass resistance. Bullies fold when you stand up to them. www.arlnow.com/2025/09/19/c...

Chalk messages at Arlington home of top White House official strike a nerve with GOP heavyweights | ARLnow.com

A sidewalk chalk protest at the North Arlington home of a top Trump administration official became a talking point for powerful Republican voices this week. The Sunday demonstration around the home of...

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 20d

The person being quoted is shitty but he is not wrong; I did not work in tv for 45 years, but I’ve worked news/mag advertising and/or digital marketing for 25 or so - and if you want to grab a media company’s attention by the short hairs, yes: bitch to their advertisers, not their inboxes.

The Weeping Somnambulist @pigeon75.bsky.social · 20d

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 20d

“I know it’s scary and I know that there’s a lot of doubt, but now is the time for us to find our heroism.”

@markruffalo.bsky.social hopes to see you in the streets on October 18: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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garyg @gjgold.bsky.social · 20d

May 1935, shutting down two Berlin cabarets “because they emphasized the funny side of life in the totalitarian state.”

New York Times article from May 11, 1935: Headline, “Nazis Ban Satire”. Reports two Berlin cabarets shut down.

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