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Mandy Willis @kalimarising.bsky.social · 11h

I feel seen.

Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 1d

I’m enjoying the far-too-accurate meme pages since being diagnosed with ADHD.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

oh no, i just realized who pam bondi sounds like: parker posey

i am sorry to inflict this on you

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Mandy Willis @kalimarising.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!

Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 1d

Regime Collapse 🧵: Let's talk about how boyish methods of bullying & intimidation work to an extent & then you need other methods of control.

They're trying the same tactic over & over & it's beginning not to work on us.

Once you get dominoes falling, silly bluster won't put us back in our place 🧵

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 5d

If we’re okay with what went down in Chicago 2 nights ago, armed federal agents smashing down the doors of American citizens, throwing citizens into the streets & detaining them for hours, then we deserve to live in tyranny. Today’s show, have a listen.👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

If We’re Ok With What Happened In Chicago The Other Night, Then We Deserve Tyranny

Podcast Episode · The Social Contract with Joe Walsh · 10/03/2025 · 30m

podcasts.apple.com

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Mandy Willis @kalimarising.bsky.social · 5d

This is the way!!!!

Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych @nick-carmody.bsky.social · 5d

New podcast featuring one of the wisest, most rational, most knowledgable people that I'm honored to call a friend: @mherskovitz.bsky.social

Please follow and listen.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4pR...

The BOMBSHELL Plan To SAVE Democracy

YouTube video by The Dangerous Ones

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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nypapajoe.bsky.social @nypapajoe.bsky.social · 7d

Indisputable spoken facts WTFU 🇺🇸!
www.instagram.com/reel/DPPuUip...

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 7d

Can you follow? So many people hand wring about what will we do. Well, nothing, unless people learn to follow. True power is based on how many people will follow direction. If I said to flex our muscle and spend NOTHING for a week how many of you millions of people would follow?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

great piece from the always-great @pastpunditry.bsky.social and a welcome antidote to vacuous commentators whose historical memories seem to go back no further than the first iron man movie

Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left

www.nytimes.com

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Mandy Willis @kalimarising.bsky.social · 9d

Holding onto an idealized past and claiming that as your destination and totality of your ideology is admitting that you are and only ever will be....a child. We are supposed to grow up and put away childish things.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 9d

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 9d

Nostalgia is key to the reactionary political project and always has been youtu.be/y8D0y6HmiS4?...

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9d

It’s Monday, the gyre is widening, and I am once again asking for your support. My Republican opponents have loaned themselves $50k and $100k respectively, trying to make it look like they have large support.

I believe a candidate should be for the people.

www.efundraisingconnections.com/c/Kluwe/

Donate to Chris Kluwe

Show your support with a contribution.

secure.actblue.com

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Mandy Willis @kalimarising.bsky.social · 12d

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 12d

Recent reporting alleges that civilian men are impersonating ICE agents to kidnap and sexually assault immigrant women, with cases in North Carolina and New York.

Unmasking ICE agents is important, but it’s a Band-Aid on a broader, systemic crisis. Read @kylietcheung.bsky.social's full Op-Ed ⤵️

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women

"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

www.teenvogue.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14d

The full 28-minute Jimmy Kimmel monologue. Please share.

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

www.youtube.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14d

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube.

It would be a shame for you to share it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

www.youtube.com

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 19d

Monte Mader
@montemader.bsky.social

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20d

His Book on Charlie Kirk Was About to Come Out. Then His Subject Was Murdered.

Matthew Boedy reveals Turning Point’s deep connections to a shadowy Christian nationalist movement.

His book on Charlie Kirk was about to come out. Then his subject was murdered.

Turning Point is "built to last" and "now has a martyr to honor."

www.motherjones.com

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Mandy Willis @kalimarising.bsky.social · 24d

What they resist persists.

Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 24d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26d

🔥 MICHIGAN — Senate candidate Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “Someone always gets paid… we have to become resistant to the games they play when they say the words ‘WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE.”

This part👇🏽

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 26d

ALIENS: Bring us to your leader!

ME: No. You'll make fun of us.

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Chris Ahuja for Congress @chrisahuja.bsky.social · Sep 3

Now BlackRock trolls me online. Imagine: the world’s biggest asset manager trying to intimidate a Valley dad running for Congress. That’s not debate—that’s fear. Wall Street knows we’ll fight back for working people. Unlike Brad ‘Wall Street’s Intern’ Sherman.

#AhujaCongress2026

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Sep 4

Caroline Kennedy warned us about her cousin #RFKJr, "a predator" presiding over "perverse scenes" of "despair and violence." His youth was the origin story of a new American Psycho. Now he is the position to inflict pain and suffering on millions. He has to go now. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

RFK Jr., American Psycho

He needs to go. Now.

www.thenation.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 29

🔥 @airborne1970.bsky.social : “When you get rid of SNAP benefits— what’s a poor family gonna do? The middle class has carried this country since Reagan said ‘trickle-down economics’. Time for the billionaires to carry this country. That’s how 🇺🇸 will get great. But not under this regime.”

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · Aug 28

We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Aug 22

Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong.

Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:

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Rebecca E ❌👑 @spoutiblegirl.bsky.social · Aug 22

CA folks - A MUST WATCH 2 min 🔥Alert from CA Consumer Watchdog. A call to your Assemblymember could mean the difference between CA energy independence and ceding power in energy decisions to coal/gas/oil interests. @indivisiblegreen.bsky.social @buffywicks.bsky.social
youtu.be/RbYvfsx3lMY?...

Consumer Alert: 11th Hour Push To Deregulate Electricity In California, Raise Rates

YouTube video by ConsumerWatchdog

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