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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 12m

I did subsequently see Kelly and Gallegos question Speaker Liar for Jesus.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 12h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Pamela Parkington @bigdogmomthree.bsky.social · 19h

This how you do it, give them no quarter.

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 12h

Yes! That one too. She’s out for her and only her, and her campaign should be DOA after that disaster today.

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That Preppy Black Girl @tmwillia.bsky.social · 13h

Stay strong, Chicago

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 13h

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 12h

Awesome!

www.inc.com/chris-morris...

Source: Inc

MacKenzie Scott Just Donated $42 Million to This Education Nonprofit

MacKenzie Scott made a large gift to 10,000 Degrees, a Bay Area organization that provides college scholarships to low-income students.

www.inc.com

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks!

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks!

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 12h

She is not known to be intersectional or collaborative but, IIRC, she tried to do an end run around Maxine Waters as the Chair of the House Finance committee, it failed, she whined about it blah blah.

For me personally, she’s another performative pick me.

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 12h

So no reporter has questioned Mike Johnson about swearing in Randy Fine and Jim Patronis in April when the House wasn’t in session, also
after they won special elections?

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 14h

He thinks it’s an immigrant to deport.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 14h

If it doesn’t come from Dolly, I don’t trust it!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

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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Nonofyur Darnbusiness @ladyasrai.bsky.social · 23h

Noticed an unusual number of people in the last few days telling me to "stay on topic", "you need to speak more clearly" "rephrase that, I don't understand you" and a number of other odd requests when I discuss nuanced topics

Soo I looked up how chatbots asks for clarification.

Lo and behold...

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 22h

Now this mutherfucker wants to arrest a Governor and a Mayor. A President turning on his own people for nothing.

😡😡😡

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 23h

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
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 15h

Thread.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller believes that if he supercharges the debate over Trump's abuses of power with enough propaganda, he can polarize it and force low-info voters to embrace authoritarianism. Pritzker/Newsom have accepted that this requires an information war in response.

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 15h

She no doubt thinks there’s a clubhouse and secret handshake.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 15h

Trump asks MAGA influencers to serve up names for prosecution: 'Give 'em to Kash or Pam' - Raw Story

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Trump asks MAGA influencers to serve up names for prosecution: 'Give 'em to Kash or Pam' — Raw Story

President Donald Trump on Wednesday told MAGA influencers to turn over names of people they're investigating to FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi for prosecution. Trump's comments...

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 15h

Lee Greenwood? 🤣😂🤣

Republican Leader Mike Johnson's 'Role Model' Pick to Replace 'Terrible' Bad Bunny at Super Bowl Is Exactly Who You'd Expect - People

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Republican Leader Mike Johnson's 'Role Model' Pick to Replace 'Terrible' Bad Bunny at Super Bowl Is Exactly Who You'd Expect — People

“I didn’t even know who Bad Bunny was. But it sounds like a terrible decision,” Johnson said

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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 16h

The best part about this is that no matter how they try to come across as brave? They end up looking like paranoid loons that are scared to death…in this case, by a guy in a chicken suit.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 20h

Kristi Noem praised for ‘staring down’ Antifa. It was a dozen reporters and a guy in a chicken suit

Kristi Noem ‘stares down’ Antifa. It was reporters and a guy in a chicken costume

www.independent.co.uk

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 16h

Thread!

Brosephus @brosephus.bsky.social · 22h

Wanna know why this isn't breaking news or being broadcast from coast to coast? Police violence in urban settings is as commonplace as the sun rising in the east every morning.

Every urban uprising (riot) since the 60s has been sparked by police violence against residents.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23h

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 17h

U.S. law enforcement have always treated Black and Brown Americans exactly the way I.C.E. is treating the folks we’re all witnessing around the country, being terrorized, rounded up, and caged without due process—for whatever reason pops into these “deputized” doofuses’ ever-masked heads.

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