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Patty Read Project 2025 @handi817.bsky.social · 7m

"Fear is contagious; but so is courage." Protestor outside Comey arraignment.

Good job Jim, Olivia, Miles and Glen!!

Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 2h

Morning folks! We will have live coverage of the targeted prosecution of former FBI director @jamescomey.bsky.social starting at approx. 9am ET. Experts on hand to discuss including @oliviaoftroye.com @milestaylor.bsky.social and @glennkirschner.bsky.social - live on Substack and YouTube.

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🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 56m

You know things are bad for Kevin Costner when he has to turn to Saudi Arabia to fund the sequels to Horizon, and even they're not fully willing to provide the amounts of money he's seeking.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 8h

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 1d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16m

"For instance, CNBC found that one Microsoft data center in Illinois received more than $38 million in data center sales tax exemptions but created just 20 permanent jobs."

www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/t...

In race to attract data centers, states can forfeit hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to tech companies

Amazon, Meta and Google are among the beneficiaries of state tax exemptions for data centers that help power AI.

www.cnbc.com

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 22m

Canada vs. America

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 15m

www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Dems must say: No troops, or no shutdown deal | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, billionaire saved by Penn wants to wreck it.

www.inquirer.com

Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 21m

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

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

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 37m

Classic big tech. It’s not enough to destroy the planet, everyone else has to subsidize it too.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 38m

37 states have passed legislation specifically granting sales tax exemptions for data centers.

Among the beneficiaries of these exemptions are Amazon, Meta and Google, all companies worth over $1 trillion.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 35m

If you are a power expert please tell me how long it would take to build “1GW, 345kV substation with five main power transformers” and how much it might cost

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Jackie Hovey @jellenhovey.bsky.social · 34m

Mike knows that a certain dementia patient is concerned that the Democrats will drag us all behind Kruschev's Iron Curtain.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 47m

Johnson on nuking the filibuster: "Is it wise? A lot of people would tell you it's not. I mean, on the Republican side, I would be deeply concerned if the Democrats had a bare majority in the Senate right now of Marxist ideology taking over the Democrat Party...turning us into a communist country"

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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 43m

This is a good way to hit back at Trump's deranged statements and calls to jail Democrats.

Media needs to focus on his mental decline. Democrats must force media to do it.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

In a scathing critique of President Donald Trump, Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican president of deploying National Guard troops to the Democratic cities of Chicago and Portland based...

www.yahoo.com

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 35m

Just look at this sorry excuse for a man, dead behind the eyes, seeking desperately for the approving nod of one or two reporters in the scrum as he pulls out some hateful bullshit to justify his feckless nonsense in the midst of a disastrous government shutdown that HE and his party enabled

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 44m

Coming out of the same monstrous mouth that crowed for the passage of a bill that disproportionately affected married women

Sit the fuck down, Mike

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 53m

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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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 37m

Pathetic Pamela Jo

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1h

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

trib.al

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 1h

It's Great Chicago Fire day. Learn more about the conflagration in this terrific @robertloerzel.bsky.social article published during the Fire's 150th anniversary a few years back.

www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...

The Great Chicago Fire, As Told By Those Who Lived Through It

As the city marks the 150th anniversary of the defining event, ROBERT LOERZEL mines the archival record to offer a compelling portrait of what it was like to live through those disastrous days.

www.chicagomag.com

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4h

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 31m

I am so tired of our media letting weaselly little shits like Mike Johnson slide on these evasions.

Why *aren’t* you aware of blatant violations of the Constitution, Mike?! What makes you at all capable of holding this job?? Why should anyone believe a word coming out of your shitty little mouth??

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 55m

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 37m

It's almost as if a movement that began with lusty chants of "lock her up" in regard to the opposition party's candidate for President in 2016...combined with a refusal to honor the results of the election...has morphed into a cult of unaccountable, authoritarian power.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 55m

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1h

I love when Andy Ngo does one of his David Attenborough-style posts about Antifa and highlights some kid who took a bong rip and waddled into the protest dressed like a giant muppet.

My favorite flavor of his commentary by far.

Andy Ngo wants to draw your attention to Barney the dinosaur

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Anne Caprara @annecaprara.bsky.social · 39m

The Speaker of the House of Representatives is an unAmerican coward. I don’t ever want to hear single member of the modern GOP lecture me about the Constitution or love of country again. You abandoned the US when she needed you the most.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 55m

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 39m

The new economics of media is the old economics of media. Affiliate marketing links to Prime Day and related seasonal sales events generates a not-insignificant revenue for these companies. Something I first encountered hawking my debut novel. Which I thought for sure had to be illegal in some way.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 39m

The sign holder with the beard in this photo has been doing it for years and is one of the best at getting his (usually excellent) message in an uncroppable part of the frame

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 42m

NEWS: James Comey pleaded not guilty to criminal charges that followed President Trump’s demand to prosecute.

The judge set a Jan. 5 trial date — but Comey is expected to try to kill the case before it starts, including by disqualifying Lindsey Halligan

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 51m

Not prosecuting every last person involved in January 6th, from Trump to his co-conspirators in Congress, has cost us dearly as a nation.

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