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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1h

This is absolutely enraging. They can and will beat and detain US citizens for the crime of being Hispanic and then they’ll dump them unceremoniously hours later with no recompense.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 1h

portland frog you smoke too tough. your swag too different. your rubber suit is too bad. they’ll kill you portland frog

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

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 3h

seriously though. their forum buds.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 8h

I think if it took you to October 5th, 2025 to realize that maybe this 1/6/21 business was maybe a big deal I think you shouldn't be allowed to comment on politics

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 3h

i do not think this administration appreciates that they're doing all the hard work necessary to make it possible for the bottom to fall out on them (and all of us). its like drifting on the edge of the cliff, sure it might work, but you can't predict when or if the cliff will give way

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 4h

kinda wild how we're leaping straight to late Ceausescu

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 3h

A bunch of people there who wouldn’t be allowed within 100 miles of a remotely sane White House

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 4h

The existence of even one Catholic convert dismantles the central lie of religion, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

See I can make bullshit, nonsense arguments too, Heritage Foundation.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 5h

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 4h

Why did Indianans conspire to kill Charlie Kirk, a nation asks

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4h

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

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 8h

this has got to be the stupidest and most blatantly "unamerican" group of rulers this country has ever had. if you can't win against "goons in the streets, rotting food in the fields, orang is 90 dollars now" then i dont know what to say

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 13h

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 · 14h

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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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 8h

some of these tradwife TikToks make me want to airdrop the Feminine Mystique on the Utah suburbs

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 9h

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 10h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 8h

great khan defend your horde!!

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9h

FBI agents assigned to Musk concluded he was systematically avoiding conduct standards imposed on those holding high-level clearances. FBI management concluded it could do nothing about this because of Musk's ties to Trump and the GOP.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 9h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 13h

Add it to the tally.

Seems like we’re getting up to 20+ grand jury no true bills just from what I’ve seen. Absolutely remarkable.

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 22h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

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Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 10h

You cannot buy this kind of publicity, the ruling party thinks your upcoming televised mini concert is sexually demonic liberalism and keeps telling the media about why

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 10h

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 10h

yday, when an attorney said 'conversion therapy' falls below professional standards, Justice Alito was like 'but can we trust those standards? the medical consensus used to be pro-eugenics'

like....bruh that injustice is not a license for more injustice, actually
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The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

ballsandstrikes.org

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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 10h

Oh Faine I’m so angry. So many innocent babies dead because of these hideous gutter sociopaths.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 10h

Last year the Secretary of Defense was a black general and now the Secretary of Defense is a washed up National Guard major who the military considered a white supremacist insider threat and said white supremacist is also an alcoholic accused of spousal abuse.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 10h

I will grant that there were always bad things. I will grant that not dealing with the bad things allowed them to get worse. But I refuse to believe everything was always *this* bad, because I remember them being relatively better.

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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 10h

I do feel like this stuff is going to lead to serious changes in some of these states. The wholesale destruction of ag is just so existential

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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 10h

your glutes go dormant

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

spanberger gonna ring in assad numbers

ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1d

I encourage you to push this talking point, buddy

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

US House Speaker Johnson: Some legal analysts don't believe in shutdown backpay.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

we are going to beat these people, eventually, and we are going to make a better world out of it.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

i love this fucking city, i have been here ten years and if i am lucky, i will get at least another ten or twenty, but, today, this city made a fucking fool of the entire department of homeland security.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 20h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

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