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JT Compton 🌊 fighting tyranny @jtcompton.bsky.social · Nov 12

The problem was never the Harris campaign or her strategy. For 25+ yrs our information space has been steadily co-opted by greedy fascist oligarchs who use lies to sell fear, hatred & division for profit. Limbaugh, Smith, Murdoch, Musk etc. There's NO left-wing analog because facts are boring. 1/2

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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 1h

It's reported that Trump took at least 6 flights on Epstein's private jet. His office confirmed he flew on the jet to Epstein’s private island in the late '90s/early 2000s.

He pretends no involvement with Epstein’s illicit activities. Release the files!

Support our campaign to oppose MAGA extremists

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 2h

Word

Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 17h

Gotta say--dressing up in costumes is the kind of creatively brilliant resistance we all need. It brings joy and humor to things while vividly painting the authoritarian as foolish and absurd. Hats off Portlanders! @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org I think this counts as the sprite of mischief.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1h

Interesting. Byrne chooses to default rather than be interviewed or go through discovery.

Two tweets:

Karen Piper
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This story is nuts. Patrick Byrne has been on the run from Hunter Biden since 2023. “Defendant is a billionaire who ignores court orders while concealing his assets overseas or in cryptocurrencies specifically created to evade governmental authority."

Josh Gerstein
@joshgerstein
JUST IN: Overstock founder Patrick Byrne formally defaulted by court in libel suit Hunter Biden brought against him. Biden lawyers to propose size of default judgment in coming weeks. Earlier:

Hunter Biden seeks arrest of former Overstock CEO in defamation case.

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JT Compton 🌊 fighting tyranny @jtcompton.bsky.social · 19h

The #RepublicanShutdown is so politically toxic that Marjorie Taylor Green is turning against the GOP. Everybody knows Republicans are about to screw millions of Americans out of affordable healthcare--to give billionaires bigger tax breaks--and they're pissed at the GOP.

Keep pressing.

#FDT #ETTD

Trump's off-script comments cause shutdown headaches for GOP

President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are straining to project a united front against Democrats.

www.politico.com

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JT Compton 🌊 fighting tyranny @jtcompton.bsky.social · 5h

Trump has never been president for ALL Americans.

Instead, he's been the worst president in our history.

Imagine if he ends FEMA and forces each state to do its own disaster relief.

America deserves so much better.

#FDT #ETTD #ResistDictatorship

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 7h

It's been over 9 months since the Palisades and Eaton Fires tore through Los Angeles. We asked for federal support, but we haven’t heard a word from the White House.

Not a single offer.

Is this what leadership looks like? Abandoning the American people when they call for help?

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 7h

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6h

When is the round table on the tooth fairy?

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 6h

Remember that "Pam: I have reviewed ..." TruthSocial post from Trump, the one that looked a lot like a private message?

Yes, it was supposed to be a private message.

Trump "was surprised to learn it was public."

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

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JT Compton 🌊 fighting tyranny @jtcompton.bsky.social · 7h

Nothing says "Nobel Peace Prize" like waging war on your own citizens.

Seven wars? LOL

#FDT #ResistDictatorship

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: Do you think you will win a Nobel Prize?

TRUMP: I settled seven wars. But perhaps they'll find a reason not to give it to me

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

As a reminder, when Jack Posobiec was in the US Navy, they assessed his full capabilities and concluded that he was best suited to collecting samples for urinalysis

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 7h

“I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop ‘left-wing’ terrorism. He is staging it,” Taylor wrote. “His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns. This is now very obvious.”

Former Trump Official: Trump Isn’t Stopping Terrorism, He’s ‘Staging It’

Trump's military incursion into American cities is designed to provoke a reaction.

open.substack.com

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 10h

Families in GA paying $699 for a healthcare plan from Kaiser could pay as much as $2763 a month if Trump & Republicans let the Affordable Care Act tax credits expire. If Trump truly wants to lower prices as promised, he has to extend those tax credits. democraticleader.house.gov/media/press-...

LEADER JEFFRIES: "HEALTHCARE PREMIUMS, CO-PAYS AND DEDUCTIBLES ARE ABOUT TO SKYROCKET"

Today, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries held a press conference where he emphasized that Democrats are ready to negotiate an end to the government shutdown that lowers healthcare costs at any time, but Republicans are nowhere to be found.

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JT Compton 🌊 fighting tyranny @jtcompton.bsky.social · 10h

The guy who lied about bone spurs, lied about his college grades, lied about his height and weight, lied about his bank account, lied about the size of his apartment, lied about sex with a porn star, has a combover, puts makeup on his hand and paints his face bronze...called someone a LIAR!?

#FDT

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 12h

Let's talk about the Texas National Guard in Chicago.

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Elbows Up, eh 🇨🇦 @abunchofmalarkey.bsky.social · 11h

Voldemiller!

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JT Compton 🌊 fighting tyranny @jtcompton.bsky.social · 11h

Voldemiller wants to replace democracy with dictatorship...

Text meme: "'Plenary Authority' is a fancy term for DICTATORSHIP."

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Jason Bassler @ @JasonBassler1 writes:

During his recent lecture, Peter Thiel called Greta Thunberg the "Antichrist"—which is wild, because she was just detained on a flotilla delivering aid to the starving people of Gaza, while he sells software used to facilitate a genocide.

I'll let you decide which one is worse.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 13h

Republicans are fighting to ensure that Americans in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and a raft of other red states pay DOUBLE what they paid before for healthcare.

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 13h

Republicans have spent the last few days claiming, with varying degrees of hysteria, that the Biden-era FBI was caught “spying” on GOP members and “tapping” their phones.

In reality, that's really not what happened. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

The latest Republican conspiracy theory about the FBI and Jan. 6 starts to unravel

Republicans are claiming that the FBI was caught “spying” on congressional Republicans and “tapping” their phones. That’s really not what happened.

www.msnbc.com

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14h

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 13h

Polls on the shutdown show voters blame Republicans more than Democrats, want health care funding restored www.gelliottmorris.com/p/all-the-po...

All the polls on the government shutdown so far | Weekly roundup for October 5, 2025

Also this week: Dems lead in Virginia election polling; economic sentiment is down; people are turning against sports betting; + more!

www.gelliottmorris.com

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#BlueStormComin1🌪️👊🔥🇺🇸 @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social · 2d

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a person is walking barefoot on a wooden floor while a cat looks on .

ALT: a person is walking barefoot on a wooden floor while a cat looks on .

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13h

So long as the House stays out of session, he’ll keep refusing to seat Rep. Grijalva—the 218th vote on the Epstein files discharge petition. See how desperate they are?

Tweet from Aaron Rupar:
“Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he’ll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away.”
Attached image shows a C-SPAN split-screen of the U.S. Senate and House chambers. Text on the left reads:
“U.S. Senate – Waiting for a Senator to Speak. Today: Votes Possible on Gov’t Funding Packages.”
The right side caption reads: “U.S. Capitol – House Speaker Mike Johnson Remarks on Day 7 of Gov’t Shutdown.”

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Jesse : 💙💙💙 @journeyled1.bsky.social · 19h

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Religions are not made the same. Christian nationalism is a white supremest cult. The KKK were that. Hate and take away rights are their primary goal. We have too many GOP who are in it. ICE are that. Killing innocent people are that. Follow and speak up.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 14h

MAGA Requirements:
1. Loud, pious, extremely public devotion to Jesus
2. Blinding hatred for everything Jesus actually taught.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17h

ICE GOONS shot an unarmed priest in the eye with a pepper ball, despite him and those around him posing no threat at all.

Source: John Pfaff.

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