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Taryn Anwar, Jersey Jedi

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Taryn Anwar, Jersey Jedi @jersey-jedi.bsky.social · 7h

Under His Eye

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 8h

Like everyone, I hope this is a lasting peace deal.

That said, it's pretty disgusting to watch some political journalists trip over each other in competition to muse about a Nobel Peace Prize for a president who is currently deploying troops against American cities, violently weaponizing an apparently unaccountable police force against American citizens, suppressing freedom of the press, shutting down free speech for corporations and campuses to leverage bribery deals, openly threatening and cajoling federal judges, cutting many billions in foreign aid that will lead to millions of deaths globally, engaging in the extrajudicial murder of foreign citizens, placating dictatorial regimes with widely documented human rights abuses, and undermining global stability with third-rate mafia tactics.

It's tragic to witness how quickly informed journalists are folding to the fascism materializing in front of us because they don't want to be targeted next.

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Taryn Anwar, Jersey Jedi @jersey-jedi.bsky.social · 7h

Doesn't he hang out with Rubios "adopted son"??

two men are dancing in a room with a bunk bed in the background

ALT: two men are dancing in a room with a bunk bed in the background

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 9h

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

These are scary times, and it’s okay to feel afraid. The challenge is learning how to respond instead of retreating. This piece offers insight into managing that fear and transforming it into courage, understanding, and tangible steps forward.

The Fear Factor

The right and the left both use fear to drive politics, but the difference in how is striking

thinkbigpicture.substack.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

This is NOT making Chicago safer. And this must NOT be what America is.👇

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 1d

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Taryn Anwar, Jersey Jedi @jersey-jedi.bsky.social · 1d

enuffsaysv.bsky.social @enuffsaysv.bsky.social · 1d

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Taryn Anwar, Jersey Jedi @jersey-jedi.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes!!

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

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nlwa.bsky.social @nlwa.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if she’ll go down with the Titanic or she’ll jump ship before the Iceberg (Epstein files) hits…..where is a whistleblower when you need one

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Sickening.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Taryn Anwar, Jersey Jedi @jersey-jedi.bsky.social · 1d

Smdh

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This strikes me as pretty bad

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 2d

Why didn't Democratic Senators ask Pam Bondi why she didn't prosecute Jeffrey Epstein when she was Florida's Attorney General from 2011 to 2019 at the very time he was running his child sex ring in Florida?!!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Whitehouse: "The supposed contribution made to me by some Epstein person is actually not true. It's false. So, weird when an AG of the US comes to the Judiciary Committee & makes false allegations about a senator - demonstrably false - rather than answer a simple Q: Is there a picture, or no?"

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Woman shot by ICE has been released from custody, body cam footage revealed an agent saying
"do something bitch" while holding his rifle at her

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

www.wbez.org

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Cheri @cheri5902.bsky.social · 2d

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

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