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Ramon Escarfullet Sr @raoces.bsky.social · 3h

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Jon Cooper (@counterpoint_politics) on Threads

I'm genuinely worried that Trump isn't lying when he says he is seeing "fires all over the place" in Portland I think it's very possible that Miller and/or Vought are showing him AI generated videos...

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 21h

Welcome to Day 8 of the Government Is Shut Down Because We Have a Certifiable Madman in the White House Who Would Rather Burn the Country to the Ground Than Allow the Release of the Epstein Files

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 6h

Some cases take on outsized importance, with issues that transcend the decision the parties ask the courts to make. This is one of those cases. The stakes are high: the integrity of the Justice Department and the ability of a president to corrupt the rule of law. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Slow Death Facing The Comey Prosecution

This morning at 10 a.m., former FBI Director Jim Comey was arraigned in federal court.

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EDEN GATEKEEPER @edengk.bsky.social · 3h

FIRE DRUNK DREG NAZI MORON MF WHISKEYLEAKS PETE NOW

Hegseth BUSTED As Harvard Evidence Blows Up His Disastrous Military Announcement

YouTube video by The Damage Report

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 6h

The least cool people in the country are very mad they can't force people to think they're cool, and start imitating their "coolness."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

"There's truth underneath all this fake outrage. Conservatives really are at a disadvantage in pop culture because most creative people are liberals, which has always been true & probably always will be. While MAGA has had some success building a culture machine, what it produces is mostly banal."

Whiny MAGA freaks out over Super Bowl halftime show

Songs in Spanish? In America?

www.publicnotice.co

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QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 7h

Lee Smith, I was not aware of your game. Tip of the cap to this friend of the working class.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 8h

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said his government believed one of the boats recently bombed by the United States in its campaign against alleged drug traffickers had been carrying Colombian citizens, not drug traffickers.

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brownchubbybear @brownchubbybear.bsky.social · 23h

Navy vet and country singer Zach Bryan leaks a minute of his new song “Bad News” with criticisms of #ICE raids. Some of his fan base is not happy. #chicago #portland

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Linda Lombard @heavensgone.bsky.social · 1d

10 families bask in a staggering combined wealth of £24.7bn, eclipsing the £24.5bn owned by #Scotland’s poorest 28 per cent — more than 1.5m people

While £7.7bn, along with 220,000 acres of land is owned by one man

Best #VoteGreen

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tax-...

Tax on richest 10 families could lift 30,000 kids out of poverty

A WEALTH tax on Scotland’s 10 richest families could raise 30,000 children out of poverty at a stroke, according to a new report.In analysis for Tax Justice Scotland, an alliance of trade unions, comm...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6h

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 5h

YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏

Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

#Oregon #Portland #50501Movement

@WinterPolitics1
The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

And a photo of the Oregon National Guard General

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DREALDEAL 💙⚾️ Heere’s Johnny! @drealdeal.bsky.social · 15h

#25thAmendmentNow #ArrestThemAll

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Paul van der Meer @paulvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

Three words: F*ck Pam Bondi.
Two more: Impeach Bondi.

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Chasing Oz @chasingoz.bsky.social · 18h

Gooooood morning

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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 15h

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 19h

Federal prosecutors are dropping charges against the Chicago couple who lawfully carried guns outside Broadview's ICE facility last month.

A defense attorney tells @chicago.suntimes.com a grand jury refused to indict: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds dropping charges against couple who lawfully carried guns outside ICE facility

A defense attorney says a grand jury refused to indict in the high-profile case.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

🤞 @ericswalwell.bsky.social

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𝐿𝑒𝒻𝓉 𝒞𝑜𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝐿𝑒𝓈𝓁𝒾𝑒 ⚾️📚 @bayareafan19.bsky.social · 3h

Please consider donating. Due to the ICE Gestapo, law-abiding people are losing their livelihoods. Link below.

Donate to Chicago Street Vendor Relief Fund, organized by Street Vendors Association of Chicago

Support Chicago’s Street Vendors We are the Street Vendor… Street Vendors Association of Chicago needs your support for Chicago Street Vendor Relief Fund

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 4h

Right?🤷‍♀️

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 5h

Kind of wonder what the media reaction would have been if Biden accidentally publicly ordered Garland to prosecute his enemies.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 4h

It's unacceptable to teach kids about racism.

“And so the work that I do is trying to come up with creative policy ideas to stop that, to turn back the tide, to figure out ways that conservatives can protect these institutions or build new institutions.”

They want to take us backwards.

Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 6h

To understand the Trump administration’s vision for American education, @megomatz.bsky.social and I studied dozens of hours of political appointees’ speeches and podcasts and essays. What emerged is a desire to dismantle the nation’s system of public schools.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 3h

"But Weiss didn’t test well with audiences, who didn’t understand her centrist-right contrarian politics. In fact, her focus group scores were so low that she wasn’t invited back to guest host, according to insiders."

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4h

“She plays to an audience of 200 people,” one Hollywood executive with ties to Weiss told Variety. “It just happens to be that audience is made up of people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman." www.rawstory.com/bari-weiss-2...

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," acco...

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 5h

The Antifa capitol of the world ... funded by George Soros and probably some other bad people with money. Everyone should be very very afraid.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5h

Trump: “I don’t know what could be worse than Portland. They don’t even have stores anymore”.

Portland: Busts out the inflatable frog, raccoon, bear and unicorn for a late night dance party.

This isn’t a city of dangerous criminals.

It’s a city of artists. Of writers. Of weirdos. Of resisters.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 5h

Trump doesn't care about details. He just wants something he can brag about.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 8h

Is there a “second” phase of the “peace plan”? And if there isn’t, why is it not just reported as a temporary ceasefire?

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