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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 11h

Go Portland go! Good time to hold a block party in protest! Love the costumes.

Go away ICE.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13h

Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 11h

Cut back to no purchasing for the season at all.

I don't want to be a part of FDTs messed up oligarchy. No rewarding the thiefs!

NPR @npr.org · 12h

Is this the season of cutbacks or splurges? As we prepare to cover holiday shopping and deals, NPR wants to hear from you, whatever your plans may be. n.pr/42wf92g

What are your holiday shopping plans? NPR wants to hear from you

Is this the season of cutbacks or splurges? As we prepare to cover holiday shopping and deals, NPR wants to hear from you, whatever your plans may be.

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 15h

Eric Swallwell (D-CA) says it’s coming to an end and House Republicans are privately breaking, that a “jailbreak” is brewing the moment the Epstein files hit the floor, and that Trump’s aura of fear is finally cracking.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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SWALWELL’S BOMBSHELL EPSTEIN TWEET: "The Epstein Files Are Coming And The GOP Are Getting Ready To Abandon Trump"

218 or chaos: Inside the House moment that could shatter Trump’s grip

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 11h

Pretty sure most of the US is ok with laying off the IRS workforce.

Wow no taxes! No one to rake them. Keep it up FDT!

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 15h

What an abuse of our troops. Waste of money and time. Boo hiss!

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

500 National Guard troops arrive in Chicago area amid resistance from Illinois governor

The troops, composed of units from Texas and Illinois, are based at an Army Reserve station about an hour southwest of Chicago.

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 20h

Go Portland protesting frog!!! This is what we need right now. Protest in suits. Make fools of the gestapo.

ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 🌊 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 20h

🐸✊🇺🇸🇲🇽

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Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion @nateturner.bsky.social · 20h

Trump raped children. Stay focused #Epstein

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

IN HONOR OF FRIENDSHIP MONTH:

djt: "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey."

Epstein: "Yes we do, come to think of it."

djt: "A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday- and may every day be another wonderful secret."

And by "wonderful secret", he means raping children.

#PedoPrez

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 1d

Where is the frog? I see the chicken. Lol. Resist Portlanders! Keep Portland weird!

Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 1d

Don't blame them. ATC gets abused constantly and that is one of the hardest jobs there is.

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 1d

Can you say...Illegal?
I mean was a butthead. Is there any criminal activity that FDT won't try?

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White House looks for a loophole in the law that ensures federal workers get paid after a shutdown

The memo suggests furloughed workers aren't entitled to back pay, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed.

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 1d

This is because FDT is a cruel jackoff. Why threaten to punish those not in charge of the pay at all.

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White House threatens no back pay for furloughed federal workers

The Trump administration has drafted a memo arguing that furloughed federal workers will not be entitled to back pay when the government shutdown ends. NBC News' Melanie Zanona reports on how Democrat...

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 2d

Fool!

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Trump floats invoking the Insurrection Act

The 1807 law, which allows the military to conduct civilian law enforcement activities under certain circumstances, hasn’t been used since the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 2d

Take the gloves off!

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 3d

Hee hee 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Colbert Shows JD Vance Having Relations With A Couch

"Come on, it's a joke! We're having a good time! It's funny!"

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 3d

This has to be illegal. One states National Guard being used against another state.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom says Trump administration has deployed California National Guard troops to Oregon

The move comes one day after a federal judge blocked the president's plan to deploy Oregon National Guard troops in Portland.

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 5d

There is also a naked bike ride being planned.

Keep Portland weird.

😝😝😝😝

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 5d

@isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social traveled to Portland and spent time at the demonstration that Donald Trump wants to crush. What he found is an atmosphere that is more like a carnival than combat. https://theatln.tc/mNL5JGAe

📸: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland / Getty

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 5d

This is creepy like war crimes, illegal. No evidence just blowing people up on the whim of a guy that the media is listing as mentally unwell.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

Breaking News: The U.S. struck another boat in the Caribbean, the U.S. defense secretary said, killing four men he accused of drug running, without offering evidence. He said he directed the strike on President Trump’s orders.

U.S. Military Attacked Boat Off Venezuela, Killing Four Men, Hegseth Says

It was the fourth strike in the Trump administration’s legally disputed campaign targeting suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea.

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 5d

There is no way I will be using these. FDT encouraged an issurection among everything else We could have had a coin about the country but no...it is only about him.

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Treasury touts 'first drafts' of Trump dollar coin planned for next year

The design features President Donald Trump's face on one side and an image of him raising his fist on the other.

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 5d

FDT is an idiot.
There are no Republican or Democrat departments or agencies. Just the United States Federal Goverment..

Threatening to ax Democrat departments is stupid!

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Trump and Democrats dig in as federal workers face furloughs

Follow the latest government shutdown news as congressional leaders stand firm on their respective funding bills. Trump administration officials are putting heavy blame on Democrats for the delay.

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 5d

Incoming cuts!

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UnitedHealth to exit Medicare Advantage plans in 16 US counties

UnitedHealth said it will stop offering Medicare Advantage plans in 16 U.S. counties in 2026, impacting 180,000 members, as the company balances higher costs with reimbursement pressure in the insurance program.

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 5d

After FDT speeches at the UN and the generals at the Pentagon were coo coo for cocoa puffs.

More leaders are saying he is unwell. The mainstream media too. He looks horrible and cannot hold a thought. His mind is fragmented.

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Is Trump 'unwell?' New questions emerge after 'striking low-energy and rambling' military speech

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 6d

Sure wish MAGA would pay attention to this but far to many of them are blind to following a leader that is bent on taking their healthcare away or making it to expensive to afford.

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Mike Nellis (@mikenellis)

This is the best messaging I’ve seen from any Democrats on the shutdown. Kudos to AOC, Bernie, and their teams for putting this out there.

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 6d

This is what we know.
FDT took a wrecking ball via DOGE to fed jobs.

This shutdown is no different so why are they trying to make it leverage?

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Government shutdown live updates: Trump and Democrats dig in as federal workers face furloughs

Follow the latest government shutdown news as congressional leaders stand firm on their respective funding bills. Trump administration officials are putting heavy blame on Democrats for the delay.

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 6d

This is a good read.

Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 7d

The low-energy bluster on display yesterday should not distract us from this fundamental redline moment: The Commander-in-Chief wants to create a MAGA-fied military unrestrained by moral legal rules of conduct that he can send to a war on America itself.
charliesykes.substack.com/p/yesterday-...

Yesterday Was Not as Bad as You Thought

It was much worse. Don't sanewash this

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Our Tattered Stars and Stripes @tatteredoldglory.bsky.social · 6d

This administration won't stop trying to find ways to insert the military into civilian life. Suggesting enemies are in cities, or that the troops should train there.

We must continue to reject attempts, loudly. FDT is wrong. Freedoms and civil American life depend on us.

NPR @npr.org · 7d

The Trump administration has deployed or threatened to deploy National Guard troops in more than half a dozen American cities that it says are crime ridden.

Where things stand with Trump's National Guard deployments

The Trump administration has deployed or threatened to deploy National Guard troops in more than half a dozen American cities that it says are crime ridden.

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