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More messaging like this please

05.10.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 20699    πŸ” 8126    πŸ’¬ 567    πŸ“Œ 303

Referring to the abuse visited upon over a thousand girls as a β€œred herring” is nasty work, you asshole.

05.10.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 14201    πŸ” 4569    πŸ’¬ 1026    πŸ“Œ 248
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Elizabeth Warren: "The president said 'I am going to impose a lot more pain on my fellow American citizens. I'm going to impose a lot more pain on people in NY who need to use those tunnels so I can get my way politically.' To me, that is a place to stop & say, then we're ready to fight about this"

02.10.2025 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 18990    πŸ” 5677    πŸ’¬ 547    πŸ“Œ 225
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MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

02.10.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 35926    πŸ” 10723    πŸ’¬ 3555    πŸ“Œ 1814
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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

"Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours.

'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"

02.10.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2350    πŸ” 928    πŸ’¬ 81    πŸ“Œ 61
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How is this sustainable?

01.10.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 11302    πŸ” 3877    πŸ’¬ 621    πŸ“Œ 208
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β€œTo us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

30.09.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 26603    πŸ” 7987    πŸ’¬ 363    πŸ“Œ 249

The government is officially shut down. Make no mistake: Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. This is THEIR shutdown. They had every tool to govern and chose chaos instead. The American people are the ones paying the price.

01.10.2025 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6106    πŸ” 1788    πŸ’¬ 181    πŸ“Œ 57
A post on X (formerly Twitter) from user *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) with a profile picture of a man in a dark shirt against a light background. The post reads: β€œADP REPORT: NUMBER OF JOBS CREATED IN AUGUST WAS REVISED TO -3,000 FROM 54,000.” The timestamp shows 5:20 AM on October 1, 2025, with 50K views.

A post on X (formerly Twitter) from user *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) with a profile picture of a man in a dark shirt against a light background. The post reads: β€œADP REPORT: NUMBER OF JOBS CREATED IN AUGUST WAS REVISED TO -3,000 FROM 54,000.” The timestamp shows 5:20 AM on October 1, 2025, with 50K views.

This is very, very bad.

01.10.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 17757    πŸ” 5996    πŸ’¬ 871    πŸ“Œ 433
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Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans | TechCrunch The Texas senator blocked a bill that would have prevented data brokers from selling personal data on anyone in the United States, and not just federal lawmakers and government officials.

@wyden.senate.gov this week tried to pass new laws that would extend the privacy protections government officials enjoy to the entire public, but Ted Cruz scuttled the effort by lying about how the updates would have stopped sex offender registries from existing

01.10.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 538    πŸ” 218    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 14
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Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plazaβ€”this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

30.09.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 15482    πŸ” 7052    πŸ’¬ 772    πŸ“Œ 458

Trump demands release of hostages in front of the UN, as his regime captures and disappears 1800 detainees.

23.09.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 346    πŸ” 116    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3
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ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

It’s likely that this happened to them, in which case, again, this should be much bigger news. We can’t just disappear thousands of people without notifying anyone

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

23.09.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2785    πŸ” 1068    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 41
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

23.09.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 31554    πŸ” 19103    πŸ’¬ 1200    πŸ“Œ 1752
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Legal experts say pulling Jimmy Kimmel from air may amount to illegal 'jawboning' Free speech scholars say ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely represents "jawboning," when government officials pressure private companies to suppress speech.

In 2020, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr called political satire one of "the oldest and most important forms of free speech."

He might have forgotten his words, but we haven't.

19.09.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 778    πŸ” 223    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 3
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Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening.

It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

19.09.2025 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 37622    πŸ” 10296    πŸ’¬ 829    πŸ“Œ 426
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Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Moscow Exchange Sergey Shvetsov said that Russia will have to live with a military budget for another 5-8 years.

According to him, even after the war ends, Russia will replenish its stockpiles and rearm. No plans for peace.

19.09.2025 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 634    πŸ” 237    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 10
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β€œWith an autocrat, you cannot give an inch,” Colbert said. β€œIf ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive.”

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

19.09.2025 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 9414    πŸ” 2578    πŸ’¬ 255    πŸ“Œ 66
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1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC.

If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

18.09.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 6581    πŸ” 2453    πŸ’¬ 218    πŸ“Œ 267
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Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"

17.09.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 34858    πŸ” 8354    πŸ’¬ 794    πŸ“Œ 391
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You have GOT TO SEE THIS. When asked by the Senate Judiciary Committee about white supremacist Dylan Roof and his horrific antisemitic mass murder, Kash Patel, the head of the FBI, had no clue who that was saying: β€œI’m sorry, Dylan Ruth?”

Patel is completely in over his head and it shows.

17.09.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 668    πŸ” 225    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 27
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NEWS: Gov. Kathy Hochul has endorsed Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor

"We’ve had our disagreements. But in our conversations, I heard a leader who shares my commitment to a New York where children can grow up safe in their neighborhoods and where opportunity is within reach for every family."

14.09.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 25428    πŸ” 4834    πŸ’¬ 582    πŸ“Œ 308
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A brick barracks for prisoners at Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. Inside, there were 60 brick partitions, each with three levels of bunks, creating in total 180 bunks. Usually, four people slept on each bunk, but when the camp was overcrowded, this number increased.
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Video: instagraom.com/sofimatte

15.09.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 269    πŸ” 81    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.

15.09.2025 01:31 β€” πŸ‘ 19973    πŸ” 6682    πŸ’¬ 860    πŸ“Œ 364
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JUST IN: 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' wins the Emmy for Best Talk Series

15.09.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 19602    πŸ” 3439    πŸ’¬ 487    πŸ“Œ 241
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TOMORROW: James Talarico is on a mission to turn Texas blue with his unique take on what it means to be a Democrat. Catch it on our YouTube tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLincolnProject

15.09.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1058    πŸ” 217    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 11
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The Washington Post Fired Me β€” But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America β€” and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

15.09.2025 11:07 β€” πŸ‘ 45503    πŸ” 15897    πŸ’¬ 2523    πŸ“Œ 2183

This is not some kumbaya β€œgo high” shit. It’s me telling you when I’ve had a gun pointed at meβ€”literally, not figurativelyβ€”it wasn’t the time to posture. Fascism’s guns are at the ready. Think before you spout off. Winning the struggle against fascism is what matters.

10.09.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1885    πŸ” 245    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 11

Rufo calling for mass arrests, Blake Masters & Cernovich calling for RICO against Dem & left funders, and a whole lot of everyday people begging for martial law, or, even worse, "gloves off." 99.9% of whom are just spouting off, but today if anything teaches us the damage that one .1% fool can do.

10.09.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2207    πŸ” 402    πŸ’¬ 120    πŸ“Œ 89

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