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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 7h

Congratulations, you played yourself

Charlie Kirk memorial at the Yankees jumbotron

Trump shaking hands with the Yankee players in their locker room

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 7h

To understand the Trump administration’s vision for American education, @megomatz.bsky.social and I studied dozens of hours of political appointees’ speeches and podcasts and essays. What emerged is a desire to dismantle the nation’s system of public schools.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Jeffries: "Mike Johnson and this group continue to cover up for the pedophiles. That's crazy."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

It’s so funny that we finally got confirmation it was an accident and even funnier that we didn’t know for sure because he tweets such crazy, criminal shit all the time

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 9h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 10h

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.house.gov · 12h

Oversight Democrats have one message for Speaker Johnson: Stop the Shutdown, Release the Files!

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guz1980.bsky.social @guz1980.bsky.social · 10h

I don’t even really know what this “second decision” stuff is but JJ telling the media he hates them should certainly win them over.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Notorious SA G @mac11187.bsky.social · 15h

When the military is being used against civilians, the moral imperative to "support the troops" is lost.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 16h

Dolly Posting.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 15h

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 16h

My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games

If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.

www.msnbc.com

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 16h

this has got to be the stupidest and most blatantly "unamerican" group of rulers this country has ever had. if you can't win against "goons in the streets, rotting food in the fields, orang is 90 dollars now" then i dont know what to say

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18h

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then this guy speaks again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18h

I'm about to vote on the SAME Republican budget proposal for the 6th time.

Why?

Instead of working with Democrats to lower health care costs, Republicans are forcing us to vote over and over again on a budget that would let 15 million Americans lose their coverage.

youtube.com/shorts/FoV3B...

I'm about to vote on the SAME Republican budget proposal for the 6th time.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

youtube.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "This president is unstable, unhinged, a double-minded individual that quite frankly is a threat to our democracy. It's certainly not the first time that Donald Trump has called for the arresting of a Black man unjustly."

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18h

For the record, he has a JD, was a constitutional lawyer for the ADF (rightwing group behind 303 Creative, the Colorado gay cake case, and current conversion therapy one), and was even dean of a law school that never opened (shady).

But also? Claims to have no idea how laws or constitutions work.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 1d

Thugs

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23h

NEW: Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools.

It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

www.propublica.org

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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guz1980.bsky.social @guz1980.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like @nocontextrffs.bsky.social needs to know about this.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

as a kid growing up right-wing i regularly heard people express their desire for "a government so small I can drown it in the bathtub". imagine my surprise growing up to realize i was the only one who actually believed that.

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