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jameshmclaren.bsky.social @jameshmclaren.bsky.social · 4h

This is from The Onion right? Please tell me this is from the Onion.

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Carolyn Salter MD @salterfortexas.bsky.social · 4h

I have lived in Portland. Worked in Portland. Still visit Portland. Have friends in Portland. This is a LIE.

Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 5h

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 4h

I just have to share
Fact check ...true

His cousin, Alisa Kasmer said
"He had become the face of evil "

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jameshmclaren.bsky.social @jameshmclaren.bsky.social · 4h

She doesn't know what habeas corpus means either.

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Dr Lisa 🇰🇳🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈❤️🥳🧘🏽‍♀️🎸🏝💃🏽🛸 @xitter-refugee.bsky.social · 4h

We are living in the strangest time.

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jameshmclaren.bsky.social @jameshmclaren.bsky.social · 5h

They spelled heinous wrong.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

A window into how policy is made in this White House

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Are you going to work with your administration to designate antifa a foreign terror organization?

TRUMP: You mean anti-terror?

Q: Antifa

TRUMP: Antifa?

Q: A foreign terror organization

TRUMP: Would you like to see it done? I'd be glad to do it. Does everybody agree? It sounds good to me

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Are you going to work with your administration to designate antifa a foreign terror organization?

TRUMP: You mean anti-terror?

Q: Antifa

TRUMP: Antifa?

Q: A foreign terror organization

TRUMP: Would you like to see it done? I'd be glad to do it. Does everybody agree? It sounds good to me

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 16h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, New Yorker

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jameshmclaren.bsky.social @jameshmclaren.bsky.social · 19h

This is videoed from the roof so i guess it's something Noem actually wished to be recorded and broadcast. She purposely caused herself to be made to look a massive idiot?

jameshmclaren.bsky.social @jameshmclaren.bsky.social · 20h

Imagine being an actual diplomat and you have to waste your time paying lip service to these jackasses.

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jameshmclaren.bsky.social @jameshmclaren.bsky.social · 20h

Too full of herself and too stupid.

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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 20h

Imagine being so weak you mobilised the national guard because you got heckled by a chicken.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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jameshmclaren.bsky.social @jameshmclaren.bsky.social · 20h

Oh look. Trump's bringing out the tiny, tiny guns for this project. www.bbc.com/news/article...

US special envoy and Trump's son-in-law to join Gaza peace talks in Egypt

The arrival of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner comes as a second day of talks ended without tangible results, a Palestinian official tells the BBC.

www.bbc.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Mike Johnson says he'll swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social as soon as she wants. Okay, so how about today?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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taco.cat @taco.cat · 1d

God they’re such weird edgelord losers.

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 1d

Johnson says Bad Bunny 'terrible decision' for Super Bowl, suggests Lee Greenwood

thehill.com

Johnson says Bad Bunny ‘terrible decision’ for Super Bowl, suggests Lee Greenwood

twp.ai

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jameshmclaren.bsky.social @jameshmclaren.bsky.social · 1d

This is an Onion story right? Please tell me this is from the Onion.

jameshmclaren.bsky.social @jameshmclaren.bsky.social · 1d

This is quite the tale of corruption.

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Keys for Liberty @demskeys.bsky.social · 1d

Along with fast-tracking the money, Noem flew to Naples on a government plane to tour the pier herself. She then stayed for the weekend and got dinner with the donor, local cardiologist Sinan Gursoy, at the French restaurant Bleu Provence.

www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened

The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noe...

www.propublica.org

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jameshmclaren.bsky.social @jameshmclaren.bsky.social · 2d

They're ghosts. How could you prove whether they did or not?

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 2d

The man is obsessed with ratings, we will know how much actual news he is getting exposed to based on if he has a meltdown over Kimmel’s ratings or not.

Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sure he'll take this normally.

Jimmy Kimmel more popular than Trump after show suspension, poll finds

Economist and YouGov poll finds president had a 16-point deficit in terms of popularity compared with late-night host

www.theguardian.com

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