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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 3h

This is the kind of stuff St. Peter will ask MAGA about. About how they celebrated this.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6h

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 4h

There is that

Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 4h

Totally!! He has glorious hair.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 2d

We elected the most soulless, self-absorbed empty suit we could possibly scrape from the gutters of late-stage capitalist grift. Twice.

This is on us as much as on him. As a country, we showed ourselves as infantile rubes and slack-jawed marks. As a people, we asked for this. Twice.

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 12h

This is NOT making Chicago safer. And this must NOT be what America is.👇

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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 4h

I think Trump hates JB Pritzker because he has Mankiewicz level hair.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 7h

Came here to say exactly that!

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Nancy @plaintanjane.bsky.social · 1d

The sitting US Attorney General came to the oversight hearing with a notebook filled w/ Russian internet propaganda.

GOP Chairman Chuck Grassley allowed Bondi to slander his colleagues with insinuations and downright lies. @judiciarydems.senate.gov

Original image of Pam Bondi’s hands and notebook — cropped & turned for reading purposes.

Zoomed-in photo of Attorney General Pam Bondi's notes while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 7, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst REFILE -
QUALITY REPEAT

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland

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Sparky MD/PhD @neurospark.bsky.social · 11h

The price of coffee is an insurrection

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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 11h

It was great when they fostered puppies!!! Then they fostered Kell and he was the foster fail.

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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 11h

Gorgeous

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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 14h

Republicans will say he’s just joking. Media will say it’s just Trump. But if it was any other President, we’d taking him seriously, and we should here too.

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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 14h

I thought she was dead too!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 14h

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Joan Bennett Kennedy, former wife of Senator Ted Kennedy, dies - The Boston Globe

“I will always admire my mother for the way that she faced up to her challenges with grace, courage, humility, and honesty,” her son, Ted Kennedy Jr., said in a statement.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 15h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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"How" @myoneandonlykat.bsky.social · 14h

👁️👁️

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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