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Bob Lawrence 💙 @trumpluvsobama.bsky.social · 9h

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 9h

Just wanted to share this graphic from KFF, the green sliver in this pie chart indicates the amount of Medicaid Spending for Emergency Medicaid in 2023. It's (0.4%) of the total Medicaid budget. Undocumented immigrants sometimes receive Emergency Medicaid.

A mostly blue pie graph with a sliver of green to indicate the amount of money spent on Emergency Medicaid - it is only 0.4% out of $860 billion.

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 10h

i’ve wondered whether the traditional tactic of peaceful resistance to shock the conscience of observers who see nonviolence met with force is still possible in a media environment where only novelty can get the attention of the people you need to be shocked, and portland seems to have an answer

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 12h

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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Flemming Erik Carlson @flemmingcarlson.bsky.social · 16h

Call your local country radio station and request it! In fact, call any music radio station! Get it to hit number one!

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

👂LISTEN — (U.S. Navy veteran) country Singer Zach Bryan’s lyrics about ICE that triggered the White House

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Nina Jo Smith @njsmith.bsky.social · 10h

Pic of the day.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 15h

Don’t get comfortable. GOTV!

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Nina Jo Smith @njsmith.bsky.social · 10h

Good job, sir.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 11h

this is an extremely high priority.

“Murdoch Fox” and “Ellison CBS” should be said by every Democratic politician at least once per day.

Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 1d

It's incumbent upon the Democratic Party to educate the public on why CBS news is not to be trusted anymore.

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 12h

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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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 12h

Seriously, this feels like the political comms equivalent of a successful Queer Eye makeover.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13h

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 14h

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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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 13h

Oooops

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 16h

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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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 13h

exactly...

Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 1d

As one veteran CBS News journalist put it: “She has the gall to write her 10 commandments of journalism and share them with us? She is not a journalist, never has been.”

Must read from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social in @signal.org
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Weiss and Shine

The Bari Weiss era has begun at CBS News, and David Ellison’s push to reshape the storied network has staffers holding their breath about the future of the outlet—especially as the mogul's talking poi...

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 14h

Justice Dept has 10 days left to respond to civil lawsuit filed by Jan 6 police responders who are seeking court order to require display of Jan 6 law enforcement honorary plaque at US Capitol

Plaque was required to be hung by 2023 under federal law

It hasn’t been hung

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 14h

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

They are not “going after illegals,” they are targeting brown people, because it’s not about immigration, it’s about white nationalism.

This isn’t “law and order” — it’s fascism.

Don’t let them pretend that what they’re doing is normal, legal, or moral.
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How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens

Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.

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WatchYourRepsSC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 23h

I was trying to watch this hearing but it's clear Bondi refuses to answer questions truthfully and is allowed by Chairman Grassley to be rude to the Senators who ask direct, concise questions. Thanks @thetnholler.bsky.social for keeping us informed.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

SEN. HIRONO: “Did you approve shutting down the bribery investigation into Homan?”

BONDI: “Are you Antifa?” 🤡

(That’s a yes)

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Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 14h

Sending wishes for a speedy recovery to Dolly Parton. If she dies during this administration and does not lay in state in the US Capitol, as any American saint should, may the giants slumbering beneath the Appalachians rise up with force and level the Washington monument with a blow.

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Nina Jo Smith @njsmith.bsky.social · 14h

If we learned anything from Reconstruction it should be this.

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Dan Vock @danvock.bsky.social · 14h

And Illinois never tried to secede

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h

Aside from shattering core state sovereignty, it's saying one state's Guard (TX) is somehow more loyal to the national authority than another's (IL). It's treating the latter as something bordering on hostile, or at least alien. One part of the country and its soldiers are more America than another.

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Nina Jo Smith @njsmith.bsky.social · 16h

NG isn’t as problematic as ICE and CBP psychopaths.

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Nina Jo Smith @njsmith.bsky.social · 16h

Some of them are going to shoot their own femoral artery.

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Nina Jo Smith @njsmith.bsky.social · 16h

Oh, shit. Let us pray.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 16h

Big thank you to the great @murray.senate.gov for joining Meidas Health today with my great friend and physician leader @drkavitapatel.bsky.social to break down the terrible impacts of rhe government shutdown on our nations health.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Murray: I talked to a family that’s paying about $300 a month for their health insurance. It’s going to jump to over $1,800 per month.

Many people will turn away and not pay for it—obviously, they’ll lose their health insurance. The fewer people who have insurance, the more everybody pays.

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