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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 22h

Look at how this MAGA propagandist, Benny Johnson, spins this scene: “army of Antifa.”

It’s a small group of people and a guy in chicken suit.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds similar to the Aurora, CO slumlord who helped create the “Venezurlan gangs have taken over entire apartment complexes” talking point in 2024.

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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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Goons Detain Maintenance Worker Trying To Take Out Trash 🚮
Chicago

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 23h

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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jacksimon.bsky.social @jacksimon.bsky.social · 19h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Donald Trump: “We’re going after the worst of the worst.”

ICE arrests two men at a Chicago area bakery. Workers, not criminals. And this is why they need the National Guard?

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20h

THIS is the energy we’ve been waiting for. Credit where credit is due.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 20h

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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

282 Ex DOJ officials open letter: “We believe it’s our duty to sound the alarm about this administration’s degradation of DoJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it”

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 20h

A leaked White House draft memo suggests that the Trump administration is actively considering stiffing as many as 750,000 federal workers by denying them compensation while furloughed amid the ongoing government shutdown.

How to win friends and influence people.

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Leaked memo shows Trump plans to stiff 750k shutdown workers

A leaked White House draft memo suggests that the Trump administration is actively considering stiffing as many as 750,000 federal workers and denying them compensation while furloughed amid the ongoi...

www.rawstory.com

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

Trump breaking the law to stiff federal workers on back pay would be popular with… which constituency, exactly? 🤔

#TrumpShutdown

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MeidasE @ericpere.bsky.social · 1d

This is NOT an Atty Gen., it is a criminal who engaged in a criminal conspiracy with stop the steal. She should be disbarred and serving prison time. Instead she is the first felons’ flunky. She has nothing but contempt for the rule of law and democracy. Extremely concerning. #WeThePeople

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"You cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming" says man who once hid and escaped when justice was coming.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home to avoid being served with subpoena, court record says
In an affidavit, a process server said that the state’s top attorney tried to evade him as he attempted to deliver a subpoena from an abortion fund’s lawsuit against the state.

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 20h

AOC mocked Stephen Miller's height, and Fox News primetime lineup spent the whole night defending Miller's manhood. It got them completely off message on the government shutdown. We're right not to fear these losers.

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Lumpy, Beanpole & Shooz @hamshooz.ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.ooo · 20h

i just really love how portland is handling the occupation of their city. you weirdos are gonna end up saving the rest of us

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Carlyle estimates that just 17,000 jobs were created, among the weakest results since the US economy emerged from the 2020 recession.”

@bloomberg.com $CG
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · 19h

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Speaker Mike Johnson’s press conference was cut off the air by MSNBC, after he once again lied about Obamacare subsidies. Host Ana set the record straight: “Just to make sure we don’t offer misleading information ... There is no access for undocumented immigrants to get Obamacare....”

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 19h

The House Speaker continues to spread falsehoods about the government shutdown. trib.al/2b8VnZs

In reality, the GOP's plan to “fix health care” leaves millions without it—the plan is projected to cut $1.1T from the Medicaid and ACA marketplace by 2034, as well as impose higher work requirements.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

500 hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics are at risk of closing because of the Trump-Republican big, ugly bill. Many are in rural areas.

Meanwhile, Republican-held US House districts and states Trump won in 2024 rely more on ACA coverage.

They're selling out their own voters.

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

Markwayne Mullin -- an idiot who once challenged a Senate witness to a fistfight, a dishonest broker who repeatedly claimed Democrats wanted to give health insurance to undocumented immigrants, a partisan hack who *today* said Democrats are "supporting violence" -- is their point man here?

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23h

lol, lmao, sure, okay

The person close to the White House said the administration has informally deputized Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma to serve as a conduit to Democrats. Asked about the arrangement, Mullin said, “I don’t have a badge,” and otherwise declined to discuss whether he was briefing the administration on bipartisan Senate talks.

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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 1d

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 22h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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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LexiandSkyeCats @ellensartandpets.bsky.social · 1d

It's been suggested to me that a good model is ACTUP. One interesting thing they did was forego direct conflict with government and looked to the institutions that supported the government policies that harmed them. This could translate into protests of lying media, boycotts of MAGA businesses etc.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 19h

"These mf are crazy" - VP Kamala Harris LMFAOOOOOOOO

🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 20h

Kamala Harris: “These Motherfuckers Are CRAZY” 😂💀

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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 2d

So we’re supposed to believe the same White House that fired hundreds of air traffic controllers a few months ago is now deeply concerned about their wellbeing?

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