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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 15h

Turns out, reckless posting has consequences.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 15h

Trump isn’t just attacking immigrants — he’s going after the very system that defends them.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 15h

Trump isn’t just attacking immigrants — he’s going after the very system that defends them.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 15h

Stop blaming windmills — it’s AI. No, literally: AI is why our power bills are up.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 16h

Trump said he’d consider pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell after the Supreme Court declined to hear her appeal. What does she know?

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 16h

Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, was recorded accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents in a 2024 bribery sting, allegedly promising government immigration contracts in exchange. The Trump DOJ later ended the investigation, citing insufficient evidence for charges.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 16h

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 16h

A 14-year-old has to face a masked ICE agent threatening them with deportation — that’s the reality under this administration.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 17h

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) and Sen. Chuck Schumer actually agree on one thing — health care in this country is too expensive. Democrats should keep fighting to prevent ACA subsidies from expiring — which would raise costs for 22 million more Americans.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 17h

This Epstein story isn't going away.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 18h

Trump wants his face on the $1 coin. That’s illegal — federal law bars living people from U.S. currency.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 19h

How did someone who had harassed a young woman for months, with online proof of it all, escalate to the point where now that young woman and her friend are dead?

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 20h

Republicans don’t know how to govern — they know how to shut down the government. That’s what they’re good at.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 21h

White supremacist Stephen Miller had to work hard to keep a straight face.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 21h

A turning point for the planet.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 22h

Dehumanization and cruelty is the point.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 1d

Note: Trump still hasn’t ruled out a presidential pardon.

In the meantime, Ghislaine Maxwell’s 20-year conviction in the Epstein case remains intact.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 1d

Fox News viewers are being forced to accept the truth about the shutdown — health care costs are increasing, and Republicans won’t do anything about it.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 1d

It goes deeper than not wanting a bearded military: this is yet another racist dog whistle from the Trump administration — and from the guy Trump wants to put ‘in charge’ of our literal military — Pete Hegseth.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s base is going to hate this answer — no matter how hard he tries, the Jeffrey Epstein story isn’t going away.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 1d

This is what fascism looks like.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 1d

Mario Guevara, an independent journalist best known for reporting on ICE raids in the U.S., has been deported to El Salvador. His letter from detention is a must-read.

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