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Trump also just released the guy who lied to the FBI about the Bidens taking bribes.

He has ties to Russian intelligence — and Trump’s businesses.

Again: The law does not apply to them.
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The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me.

He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits…

…while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.

Why is Apple, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Blackstone, Google, OpenAI, Amazon and others financing the destruction of the WH and desecration of the grounds, something that is infuriating to huge chunk of the American population? Do you hate your customers that much?

@indivisible.org

@nicolefoy.bsky.social is the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

She did it because the government isn’t.

This is what she found.

People in Northern Michigan showed up yesterday! So proud of my friends and neighbors! #NoKings

Imagine thinking they ever cared about debt, fraud, waste, abuse, or anything of the sort. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Michigan Avenue right now.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Image of an X post screenshot. The post from @CBotTh ... (C-Bo the Eggman) reads, "Banning words should do the trick," posted 20 hours ago. Below it, a Politico post from @politico (1 day ago) states, "Energy Dept. adds 'climate change' and 'emissions' to banned words list," with the Politico logo. The image includes profile pictures and timestamps.

Censorship is the mark of a weak regime.

Greta Thunberg is being tortured in Israeli captivity, as revealed by fellow activists:

“They dragged little Greta by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others”

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Birds and Tigers September 30

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The most corrupt administration we have ever seen. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

THIS is just more verification that, though GOP Republicans are wholly corrupt, and offer nothing to the American people - other than Trump & Mar a Lago Billionaire class - they all are nonetheless very good at "pushing the narrative", "spin", Media manipulation of "talking points" necessary to win

@slotkin.senate.gov @nicollewallace.bsky.social Senator Slotkin- thank you for supporting the middle class on Deadline Whitehouse today. My family is really feeling the economic downturn and the threat to our democracy. Thanks for having her on, Nicolle!

Be Like Cliffy and Norm The Great Cliff Drysdale Retires From ESPN

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Difficult Times Help Fight Gun Violence

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Tell Congress: Ban Assault Weapons! These weapons of war have no place in our communities.

I just sent a message urging my Congressional lawmakers to support the GOSAFE Act, which would regulate deadly assault weapons. There's no more time for inaction. Join me in urging your lawmakers to pass this life-saving bill: etwn.us/4j3bsqQ @Everytown

A coal-fired plant in Michigan was to close. But Trump forced it to keep running at $1m a day A town had big plans for the facility site, until the Trump administration ordered it to stay open, a move it extended this week

Do you like higher energy bills? Toxins in your air and water? Well then we've got good news for you! Thanks to Donald Trump, this dirty coal plant will keep polluting West Michigan and it's so inefficient that running it will make energy prices go up! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Some things keeping me sane this summer: @tigers.bsky.social @mariners.com Wow- Cal Raleigh!

Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war.

She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
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Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about “safety.” They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.

I am literally begging anyone who does any kind of journalism to spend an hour in an eviction courtroom every week for a month. Please.

The eviction crisis in this country is downplayed at best and ignored at worst. It's racialized state violence that hearkens back to the worst of Jim Crow,

📌Let me tell you how this shit gets normalized. This from the NYT teasing a story:

"President Trump's attacks on museums are an effort to redefine why they exist"

Here comes a deep dive into a racist, cultural moron's distaste of art, and ignorance of history that is called a "redefinition."

OK.

Don't Kid Yourself: It's Racism Attack on History and our Museums

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