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Mama bear who runs on caffeine & gangsta rap. Fluent in sarcasm. Crafty AF. Science is my religion. Mental health warrior. FUCK CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM! #MeidasMighty Founding Member #BluntPolitics Chaos Coordinator 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 GetDemShirts.myshopify.com

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🅼🅴🅻 @meidasmel.bsky.social · Jul 7

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🅼🅴🅻 @meidasmel.bsky.social · 34m

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 4h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 5h

⚡️Pro-Trump US lawmaker to meet with Putin's envoy this month.

Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna said on Oct. 8 that she will meet with Kirill Dmitriev to discuss "peace" and "trade." Luna opposes all U.S. aid to Ukraine.

Pro-Trump US lawmaker to meet with Putin's envoy this month

Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna said on Oct. 8 that she will meet with Kirill Dmitriev later this month. Luna opposes all U.S. aid to Ukraine and co-sponsored the "Ukraine Fatigue Resoluti...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5h

Still waiting on that health care plan, Donald.

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🅼🅴🅻 @meidasmel.bsky.social · 4h

🚨LIVE NOW!

Blunt Politics Podcast- Gestapo Violence Increases, Ukraine HAMMERS Russia & Candice Breaks MAGA..

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🚨Blunt Politics Podcast- The Insurrectionist Threatens Insurrection Act to Prevent Insurrection?

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 1d

New Episode of Pours and Perspectives out now, with my good friend Brian J. Karem as we delve into the govt shutdown and all things politics. Thanks for joining me Brian. @briankarem.bsky.social

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🅼🅴🅻 @meidasmel.bsky.social · 11h

Love the new graphic!

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 12h

We can't become desensitized to this.

The President of the United States is baselessly calling for the jailing of two Dem leaders on the same day a former FBI Director was arraigned for an indictment the president personally directed. This is un-American authoritarian insanity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!

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🅼🅴🅻 @meidasmel.bsky.social · 12h

A 29-year-old man accused of starting a New Year's Day brush fire that eventually became the deadly Palisades Fire a few days later has been arrested in Florida, authorities announced Wednesday.

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🅼🅴🅻 @meidasmel.bsky.social · 13h

Arrest made in Palisades Fire investigation, multiple law enforcement sources say

An arrest has been made in the Palisades Fire investigation, multiple law enforcement sources tell NBC News.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16h

So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t.

And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks.

Did I get that right?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

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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Ty Ross @cooltxchick.bsky.social · 1d

Great reporting!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

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

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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.

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🅼🅴🅻 @meidasmel.bsky.social · 1d

JFC!!

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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🅼🅴🅻 @meidasmel.bsky.social · 1d

Employee of the fucking month!

🅼🅴🅻 @meidasmel.bsky.social · 1d

Out of touch AF!!

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Mike Johnson isn't happy that Bad Bunny is performing at the Super Bowl: It sounds like he's not someone who appeals to a broader audience. There's so many eyes on it. A lot of young, impressionable children. In my view, you would have Lee Greenwood or role models doing that. Not somebody like this.

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🅼🅴🅻 @meidasmel.bsky.social · 1d

Blunt Politics- ICE Violence Erupts, GRETA Blasts ISRAEL, Ukraine News & Farmers Suffer Under Trump!

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 1d

REPORTER: Should furloughed federal workers get back pay when the government shutdown ends?

TRUMP: It depends on who we’re talking about. Some people don’t deserve to be taken care of.

[The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 mandates that furloughed federal workers receive back pay.]

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🇺🇸Boston Brian🇺🇦 @bostonbrian.com · 1d

Trumps Reckless Military Strikes Bring Us To The Brink Of War..

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Trump RECKLESS MILITARY STRIKES Bring Us to BRINK OF WAR

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Rayfield: When Trump learned that this was a judge who was appointed by him, he said he wasn’t served well.

To have any president or any politician in America say a judge is not serving them—words can’t even describe how backwards that is.

Phang: He’s not the king. He’s the court jester.

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🅼🅴🅻 @meidasmel.bsky.social · 3d

Has to be!

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FOR REAL!! I didn’t believe it so I looked it up 🤣

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3d

They still haven’t found all the missing children from the floods. Why are they more worried about Illinois than about the children in Texas?

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