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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20h

Interesting dynamic in NYC where Zohran Mamdani is blunting opposition from patrol officers by taking their poor job conditions seriously. Bob Kuttner has this one:
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

Mamdani Courts the Cops

He is doing a lot better than you might think.

prospect.org

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KMurr @kmurr78.bsky.social · 18h

Why is the most authoritarian group allowed to call themselves “conservative” unchecked? Nothing conservative about kidnapping certain ethnic groups and stomping on every citizens rights.

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KMurr @kmurr78.bsky.social · 18h

New America where the president alone has authority to write or rewrite laws. Trump isn’t alone on this and everyone responsible needs to be cataloged and brought to justice

Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨

The White House Office of Management and Budget has deleted a reference to a 2019 law on paying government workers after a shutdown from its FAQ on the current impasse.

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 1d

is this poor pupper existing too freely for his human's liking? some folks should not be dog parents

cc: @melissjpeltier.bsky.social
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That’s the News @thatsthenews.bsky.social · 1d

Political commentator, Hasan Piker, shocks his dog for moving. Cancel this piece of shit now. #twitch #hasan #animalcruelty

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

Remember this as Trump goes on about being "tough on crime."

@publiccitizen.bsky.social

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19h

Oh this is not great

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 19h

For no reason, just remembered this explicitly antifascist version of Chicken Little that Disney made in 1943. It's about the danger of following leaders who tell big lies. youtu.be/p_GaYdae4j0?...

Chicken Little

YouTube video by Mousefiles

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KMurr @kmurr78.bsky.social · 19h

Because nobody in front of him is telling him it’s bullshit and most Americans know it’s bullshit.

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KMurr @kmurr78.bsky.social · 20h

Basically saying that all of our grandparents were the bad guys during ww2. Nice 1

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20h

Donald Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away..."

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KMurr @kmurr78.bsky.social · 1d

Faux outrage from career criminals. I hope when we become a serious country again we have someone with a spine who will investigate EVERYTHING being done and get these scum locked up in a pound you in the ass prison asap.

KMurr @kmurr78.bsky.social · 1d

Notice the video playing in the middle. They are playing an association game with the Trump footage. Your ears are hearing how dangerous the left is and are playing selective clips and pics to keep your eyes seeing a patriotic facade. This was forced in a clockwork orange!

a close up of a person 's face with a device on their head with the hashtag #judem visible

ALT: a close up of a person 's face with a device on their head with the hashtag #judem visible

media.tenor.com

KMurr @kmurr78.bsky.social · 1d

Then why support the administration that’s doing it Rand Paul?

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murderedbybluesky.bsky.social @murderedbybluesky.bsky.social · 1d

"Speaker Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House may have more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records."

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Mike Johnson is holding Congress out of session for two reasons: number one, so that way there are no negotiations; and number two, to cover for all the pedophiles on Epstein's list...They're covering for pedophiles and dropping your healthcare coverage."

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KMurr @kmurr78.bsky.social · 2d

Can this stupid AI bubble just burst already?

KMurr @kmurr78.bsky.social · 3d

Please Kevin stop creepily smiling so much as you continuously dry fuck us all in the ass.

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KMurr @kmurr78.bsky.social · 3d

Why is it whenever the Republicans have been talking about this it’s always about the “young men”? Is the rolling back of America going to again lock women out of the working outside of home? Making women have to rely on men for everything?

KMurr @kmurr78.bsky.social · 4d

To me this seems fully the fault of Stephen Miller, Susie Wiles, JD Vance, Russ Vought, and others. Clearly Trump lost touch with reality years ago and will believe any lie told to him and he goes full asshole since not much going on upstairs.

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Facts Central @stilldelvingh.bsky.social · 4d

Guys looks like there’s a revolution unfolding in Georgia (no, not that Georgia - the country 🇬🇪)
#AllEyesOnGeorgia

Hello?
World, hello?

From @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social (probably too busy to multipost)

BREAKING: the grand rally, transformed into the National Convention, declared:

1. The people are the power;
2. Since last year’s rigged October Parliamentary elections, the authorities are unconstitutional and thus their authority is terminated;
3. Peaceful transitional power that assumes all institutions, resumes the EU integration, and provides the security of Georgia.

Paata Burchuladze, the opera singer who announced the plan, called on all Ministry of Internal Affairs employees that, from this very moment, serving the regime is serving a junta.

In addition, Burchuladze called for the immediate imprisonment of GD officials Irakli Kobakhidze, Shalva Papuashvili, Anzor Chubinidze, Mamuka Mdinaradze, Tea Tsulukiani and Bidzina Ivanishvili.

IN ADDITION, Murtaz Zodelava announced that MEN must immediately form a force and “assume the keys” of the Presidential Palace as the first step.

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KMurr @kmurr78.bsky.social · 5d

Dickhead made a living out of the phrase “you’re fired” so pretty sure there is someone who is happy to fire people.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 5d

This was taken two nights ago outside Portland’s ICE facility. According to the Trump administration a guy in a chicken suit counts as a reign of terror.

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KMurr @kmurr78.bsky.social · 5d

There hasn’t been even 1 day yet into the 2nd term that we haven’t collectible said “what a fucking idiot”

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KMurr @kmurr78.bsky.social · 5d

Mike Johnson is always in a hurry to leave. Like he’s got a hot Grindr date to get to.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

New in PN: Lessons from a Red Scare

"As Emma Goldman hoped, and Louis Post later demonstrated, the American people are capable of turning the tide against repression — even if that effort feels hopeless in the moment."

Lessons from a Red Scare

The American people are capable of turning the tide against repression.

www.publicnotice.co

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