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Cowboy “Most Popular Poster” Socialist @mpavictoria.bsky.social · 37m

Such bullshit my friend ❤️

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1h

when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying

She has no real way of explaining the danger of their situation to her son, who is 17 years old but cognitively closer to a toddler. And as a single mother too weak to forage, she has no real way of ensuring their survival. She also is too old to benefit from a recent policy change the Thai government made in a bid to prevent mass starvation, granting work rights to some of the 107,000 Myanmar refugees who, like her, live in Thailand’s border camps.

Her son never learned to speak, and needs her help with everything from getting dressed to using the toilet. Since the funding cuts, their survival has hinged on the charity of her Christian church, whose members occasionally give her handfuls of their rice.

She suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and begins to sweat and grow dizzy when her hunger is at its fiercest. Some days, she eats nothing.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1h

You cannot buy this kind of publicity, the ruling party thinks your upcoming televised mini concert is sexually demonic liberalism and keeps telling the media about why

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 2h

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Cowboy “Most Popular Poster” Socialist @mpavictoria.bsky.social · 1h

Call me a dirty Socialist but I feel like taxing Billionaires should come ahead of Taxing people for choosing not to have kids that are all gonna die horribly in the Climate Wars.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2h

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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Cowboy “Most Popular Poster” Socialist @mpavictoria.bsky.social · 1h

I kinda agree with Emmett here but then i remember that it is too late and we are doomed anyway so maybe policy should be aimed at reducing suffering in the time we have left 🤔

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 23h

Let's be clear tho: Carney abandoned climate change policy as a cynical means to get elected, not because there are other crises.

Carl Meyer @meyer.bsky.social · 1d

A decade ago, Mark Carney gave a speech pointing out how biz and political leaders had no day-to-day incentive to address climate change, yet it was up to governments. Today, Carney is leading one, but finds himself consumed with responding to the many crises of the day thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 3h

They’re just gonna do a little lite slavery.

In addition, the new rule allows farm employers to charge H-2A workers for their housing, which was not allowed before. "It's a way for employers to continue to house workers and also charge them, and bring down effective wages," said Marcos Lopez of the Labor and Community Center at the University of California, Davis.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1h

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

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2h

Affidavit from Cook County Public Defender (yay!) Sharone Mitchell Jr, testifying that his clients are being deprived of their due process rights by ICE/CBP.

For example, during the first three weeks of September 2025, ICE agents have

entered courthouses in at least four separate court locations: the Daley Center, the Leighton

Criminal Court Building, the Domestic Violence Courthouse, and the branch courts at 111th Street.

ICE agents have arrested people attempting to attend their civil or criminal court hearings. ICE

agents have been observed at multiple Cook County courthouses in a single day. Employees of our

office have witnessed the following ICE actions in Cook County courts in recent months:

a. On July 24, 2025, at the suburban Maywood courthouse, a man was taken

into custody by plainclothes ICE agents inside the courthouse after he left his court hearing.

The agents never showed a warrant or identified themselves during the arrest.

b. On September 2, 2025, at the Domestic Violence court located at 555 W.

Harrison in Chicago, a man was detained and arrested outside of the courthouse building

after attending his court hearing.

c. On September 3, 2025, at the Domestic Violence court located at 555 W.

Harrison in Chicago, a woman attempting to attend her misdemeanor court case was

stopped inside the court building by ICE agents. ICE agents arrested her, and she missed

her court hearing, during which her misdemeanor case was subsequently dismissed.

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Monica @jolemamels.bsky.social · 1h

Good morning *sigh* let’s…let’s get this bread and get ready for Game 3

Homer Simpson and Marge Simpson standing at the garbage can. Homer is holding an old moldy sandwich and looks pale and sick while Marge glares at him. Homer is labeled me and wearing a Phillies hat; the sandwich is labeled Hopes, dreams, mental health. The garbage can is labeled Phillies offense. Marge is labeled friends, family, coworkers, strangers, non-sports fans, betting sites, and sports media

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 6h

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 6h

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 2h

We are definitely in an era where a disturbing portion of our news sounds like deranged, satirical Mad Libs.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 3h

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Gay Virginia Republican plagued by Nazi porn scandal brags running mate is ‘100% against’ marriage equality

It's a statewide political ticket of extremes.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3h

His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street.

Separating children from their parents.

Creating fear.

Taking people for “how they look.”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3h

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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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3h

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?

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 2h

It’s an embarrassment to the press corps every time they don’t ask follow up questions about this bullshit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Bring a Trailer @bringatrailer.bsky.social · 3h

9k-Mile 2006 Jaguar X-Type Sportwagon

Bid for the chance to own a 9k-Mile 2006 Jaguar X-Type Sportwagon at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #214,944.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3h

you'd think Democrats would realize that effective messaging can shift public opinion and electoral outcomes after watching Republicans wage relentless and super-effective propaganda warfare on the nation's dim electorate for going on five fucking decades

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3h

Weird. It’s almost like making accusations generates friction which generates news which rallies your supporters.

2 Key Democrats Come Out And Say It: Trump Has 'Some Kind Of Dementia'

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

this was really hard to read. my son is almost exactly the same age as the kid in here that Trump and Musk deliberately starved to death apnews.com/article/myan...

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.

apnews.com

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Representative Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 5h

Republicans won’t come back to work because we can now force a vote on releasing the Epstein Files.

Meanwhile, folks' insurance is skyrocketing because they refuse to extend healthcare tax credits.

They’re putting Pedophiles before the American People.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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The Magical Buffet @magicalbuffet.bsky.social · 3h

Your daily Coffee Rorschach Test brought to you by Cowboy.

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Scott in Montreal🇨🇦 @scottinmontreal.ca · 4h

<snip>“We call it the ‘Deport and Replace’ strategy,” De Loera-Brust said, “which is defined above all to make it easier for corporate agribusiness to exploit its workers, whether terrified undocumented residents or an unlimited pool of cheap foreign guest workers.</snip>

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 4h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Cowboy “Most Popular Poster” Socialist @mpavictoria.bsky.social · 3h

A Hot Air Balloon Drifting over 19th Century Paris

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