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rhondan10.bsky.social @rhondan10.bsky.social · 4h

Wasn’t there something recently about waste, fraud, and abuse?

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 9h

Squeaker of the House Mike Johnson is a spineless, mealy-mouthed lapdog.

Seat Adelita, loser!
Do your job or lose your job!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

🤞 @ericswalwell.bsky.social

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enuffsaysv.bsky.social @enuffsaysv.bsky.social · 4h

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatens to cut funding to cities with rainbow crosswalks
'He's wasting time twiddling with unhinged stunts and obsessing about paint colors,' one critic fired back at Abbott.
Read in San Antonio Current: apple.news/ABNn_tjQfSca...
👉anything to hurt anybody, pathetic👈

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatens to cut funding to cities with rainbow crosswalks — San Antonio Current

'He's wasting time twiddling with unhinged stunts and obsessing about paint colors,' one critic fired back at Abbott.

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 7h

making getting assaulted by armed agents of the state into a funny meme is like unironically how we get critical masses of dumb white boys in the streets, Portland frog is a hero and a patriot

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 13h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Don Comer @doncomer.bsky.social · 1d

Texans,
Do you really approve
of your governor sending
the Texas National Guard
to harass & occupy
cities in other American
states where they are
not invited? And the
reasons given are bullshit?
I don't see other states'
governors doing that
to you. Tell him to
stand down.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 22h

Russell Vought seems to be aiming to end all of US science.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 23h

Banning “dangerous gain-of-function” pathogen research is actually just banning pathogen research. TB causes chronic disease, the supposed cornerstone of the MAHA movement. Hard to see ending TB research on treatments as anything but another targeted attack on science in service of destroying it.

Rock Lab @rocklabtb.bsky.social · 1d

Ditto. Thanks for this Sarah. www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g...

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

Agree. Agree. Agree.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 15h

The “most transparent administration in history!” just furloughed the ICE office tasked with ensuring that people in immigration detention are kept safe.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

The fucking hypocrisy of the Trump administration.

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a hockey preview for you! It's concise, comprehensive, and objectifies a lot of men. defector.com/whos-hot-and...

Who's Hot And Who's Not? A 2025–26 NHL Preview | Defector

[Ear-shaking siren noise] It’s time for the NHL season preview! Drop the needle on Stompin’ Tom. You probably get how most of this works by now, but I’ve got a new method of organizing the teams. I’m ...

defector.com

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 1d

“I will not let that fear drive me to hide or stay silent. I will not allow myself to remain mute… I will stand up and speak out — and, even more importantly, I will encourage others to do the same.”

By @marcelias.bsky.social

www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You?

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 2d

It’s amusing to see the Democratic leadership wake up to the fact that if you stand up to a bully you surprise him. They’re all like, “Wait. You mean we might have a bit of power & we don’t have to reach across the aisle & play nice with authoritarianism?”

AFTER EIGHT & A HALF DAMNED MONTHS. 🤦🏾‍♀️

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Democrats Are Winning the Shutdown Fight

Turns out Republicans still haven’t figured out the politics of health care.

open.substack.com

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg has more courage & moral clarity than any world leader I have ever seen.

Bar none.

Period.

That tiny 22 year old is often accused of being annoying, but what she is, is unyielding to moral ambiguity. If it’s wrong, she says so until someone listens.

She deserves the Nobel Prize

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"My mind always goes back to Loretta Lynch getting on the plane with Bill Clinton, who wasn't even president at the time, and this becoming the most world-shattering scandal." Bondi has dinner with Trump the night before the Comey indictment? Eh.

@samsteindc.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

In the last few weeks we’ve watched ICE:

Pepper spray the Portland frog
Tear gas members of Chicago PD
Zip tie children
Grab Chicagoans from their beds in dead of the night
Open fire on a civilian in her car

Yet they say immigrants are the threat.

Protesters are the threat.

We know better.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. told federal prosecutors investigating James Comey that he was unable to uncover evidence that would support false statements or obstruction charges against the former FBI director ..”

abcnews.go.com/US/special-c...

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Sara Spector @miriam2626.bsky.social · 1d

Greg Abbott used Texas taxpayer money to fly undocumented immigrants to Chicago and now he's using Texas taxpayer money to send our troops there to clean up a phony crisis he created.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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