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Roxine King @roxineking.bsky.social · 7h

Ocasio-Cortez tells it like it is.....

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 11h

Republicans are scapegoating immigrants. | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Republicans are grasping at straws to make you angry at immigrants because they have nothing else.
youtu.be/rdJKJHgfsp8?...

Republicans are scapegoating immigrants. | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

YouTube video by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6h

Though I'm a Musk biographer, I can't make the following claim with certainty—only contend that it's informed speculation.

I don't think Musk thinks *we're* in a simulation.

I think Musk thinks *he's* in a simulation.

Take a moment to process what that means about the value of human life to Musk.

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Kavi (Kavita) @brittexkavi.bsky.social · 3d

“The SPLC found there have been at least 8 suspected hangings of Black men and teens since 2000, and like Reed’s case, authorities have ruled that these deaths were self inflicted..”

This pattern has been escalating. In taking one’s life, methodology is often chosen to inflict less harm, not more.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed

According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

www.blackenterprise.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Rob Evans @robe87.bsky.social · 6h

CNN quit protecting Trump and this dumb ass administration

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

I am not a constitutional scholar but I am pretty sure “the president my personally levy taxes and choose what they fund” is not in fact what the founders intended

George Pearkes @peark.es · 18h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think he was teasing…

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 13h

Tomorrow the Epstein survivors will storm Capitol Hill to demand release of the files. I hope new Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva is sworn in at their press conference by another judge or official who is authorized to do so (doesn’t have to be the Speaker).

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Claire💚AKA InkedMum💚#FBPE#FuckDeform#KTTO 🚫NO maga 🚫 @inkedmum7377.bsky.social · 6h

#MyListOfShame keeps growing, I will add names as they are leaked.
Here is who we have on my list so far……..

#Epstein
#PedoPrez
#Paulson
#Musk
#Theil
#Bannon
#Maxwell
#Mandelson
#RandyAndy
#Fergie

#RelaeseTheDamnFiles and #ListenToTheWomen who survived the abuses by these powerful people.

It’s Still Me! @itsstillme1.bsky.social · 16h

Hey guys! You made the list!😂

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

In the last few weeks we’ve watched ICE:

Pepper spray the Portland frog
Tear gas members of Chicago PD
Zip tie children
Grab Chicagoans from their beds in dead of the night
Open fire on a civilian in her car

Yet they say immigrants are the threat.

Protesters are the threat.

We know better.

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NPR @npr.org · 18h

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul says the only "chaos" on Chicago's streets is coming from federal immigration agents carrying our aggressive enforcement.

Deploying troops to Chicago is not legally justified, says Illinois attorney general

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul says the only "chaos" on Chicago's streets is coming from federal immigration agents carrying our aggressive enforcement.

n.pr

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Shannon (she/her) @ravenlenore.bsky.social · 14h

www.newsweek.com/ice-tear-gas...

It’s almost like they don’t know what they’re doing

ICE accidentally tear gases Chicago police during clash with protesters

Several officers could be seen rubbing their eyes, squinting, and struggling to remain standing on October 4.

www.newsweek.com

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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 13h

Those who claim to be Christian seem to be facing a cross roads. You cannot believe that Jesus Christ himself would be on the side of the masked thugs of ICE.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 14h

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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John Paul @johnpaulhi.bsky.social · 7h

Antifa meeting tonight in Portland 🔥🔥🔥

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 10h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Jul 4

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Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 15h

He froze because he realized, in real time, that what he’d just said carried serious constitutional implications. Which now will be used against the Trump administration in court. He invoked “plenary authority.” That phrase means complete authority, basically the president has dictatorial powers.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

CNN: Does the administration still plan to abide by that court ruling?

STEPHEN MILLER: The administration filed an appeal this morning ... ... ...

CNN: Stephen? Stephen? Can you hear me?

MILLER: ... ... ...

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Amy Young @ayoung.bsky.social · 6d

Who wants to call a Congress Member?
Want to call EVERY Congress Member?
the U.S. Capitol Switchboard is (202) 224-3121
Stuck in traffic? Call a Congress member.
Waiting in the school car line or for soccer practice to end?
Call them.

Don’t forget to remind them to release the Epstein files.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

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ksp2pdx.bsky.social @ksp2pdx.bsky.social · 1d

A better understanding of the Trump administration…
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.

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🦋~Bindi~🦋 @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 1d

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

We covered this on today's @dailybeanspod.com. Extremely dangerous and these ICE agents should be charged with felonies.

Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 1d

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Stephen Miller—both Trump Administration capo and de facto head of DHS, ICE, and DOJ, has just declared that peaceful protesters are "street terrorists." Under an executive order signed by Trump just days ago, that means he is saying that all protesters in America can be arrested on sight.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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