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@rarelightmare.com @rarelightmare.com · 39m

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The world’s largest what? #duet #maga #ads #google #trump #gay #cruise #bennyjohnson #targeted

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aliciablackgirl.bsky.social @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 15h

Sounds like the rich take away from taxpayers and then blame immigrants.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 4h

ICE has bought access to an “all-in-one” surveillance tool that gives it updated location data from hundreds of millions of phones, putting us all at risk of being tracked.

The government can’t be allowed to surveil us simply for having a cell phone.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

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Lyn Hertle @lynhertle66.bsky.social · 1h

Hmmmm…🧐🧐

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Just seems awfully convenient that the gangs always live together in buildings new investors want to

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@rarelightmare.com @rarelightmare.com · 1h

As they fawn on about how much they loooove the military.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h

Remember this as Trump goes on about being "tough on crime."

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 1h

When one person kills, we call it murder – but when corporations decide who lives and who dies – it's capitalism.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

I don't want to call the president unreliable, but there *seem* to be store windows still intact here

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@rarelightmare.com @rarelightmare.com · 2h

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Dear 11th Great Granddaughter, I Grieve For Our Country

Dear Ann,

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@rarelightmare.com @rarelightmare.com · 2h

I guess Turd is looking to win the Guinness Book of World records for lying.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3h

"The Federal Protective Service reports — which are prepared each day for law enforcement partners — offered no indication of a dangerous escalation of tensions, or unusual levels of protest activity that would prompt the level of alarm expressed by Trump..."

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Before Trump Ordered In Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’

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@rarelightmare.com @rarelightmare.com · 2h

Matthew 23:27, where Jesus criticizes religious leaders: "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean."

Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 2h

Hey Bible boy:

"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me."

Matthew 25:35-36

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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@rarelightmare.com @rarelightmare.com · 2h

What did we call these women in 80’s? Jewish American Princesses

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11h

Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | Margaret Sullivan

When Weiss was named editor-in-chief, it was the latest turn in the network’s confounding departure from its roots

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@rarelightmare.com @rarelightmare.com · 2h

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10h

“They sponsor this? Fuck them. No, really. Fuck them—I mean it. And you can quote me on that.”

How the Border Patrol uses rodeos to recruit

How the Border Patrol uses rodeos to recruit

At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.

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@rarelightmare.com @rarelightmare.com · 2h

I think they’re called Gravy Seals

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h

This morning, Trump declared that the mayor of Chicago, Democrat Brandon Johnson, “should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers!”

“Governor Pritzker also!” Trump added.

If you think these threats are just bluster, consider that Comey was arraigned today—a longtime dream of Trump’s.

As troops invade Chicago, Trump threatens to jail the mayor and governor

"What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?"

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@rarelightmare.com @rarelightmare.com · 2h

The woman is a pest.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 6h

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

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JFC

ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

1,000+ people currently imprisoned in Louisiana were convicted by split juries — ruled unconstitutional in 2020.

Yet the state Supreme Court has declined to grant new trials, and lawmakers have repeatedly denied a reexamination of their cases.

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An Unconstitutional “Jim Crow Jury” Sent Him to Prison for Life. A New Law Aims to Keep Him There.

Five years ago, the Supreme Court decided that nonunanimous jury verdicts are unconstitutional. But for this Louisiana prisoner — and hundreds of others — “tough on crime” state leaders have ensured t...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h

Oil companies in Texas requested permission to burn off or release more than 195 billion cubic feet of natural gas per year — enough to power more than 3 million homes and generate millions in tax revenue had the gas been captured.

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Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells.

The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere.

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404 Media @404media.co · 3h

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5h

A practice that would have been unthinkable under past administrations is becoming normalized: Sending ICE detainees, without due process, to far-flung prisons.

@nlanard.bsky.social takes us inside the "legal black hole" in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini where Trump is sending detainees.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 8h

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.

If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 4h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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@rarelightmare.com @rarelightmare.com · 3h

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The Victimhood Grift: How Weak Leaders Con Us With Fake Strength

….and Why This Con is Destroying Real Accountability

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