@firedrakelucky.bsky.social
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Wow, Mike Johnson is apparently aware of the emails the House Democrats have released. That means this must be huge.
Mike Johnson is really committed to covering up for Trump and Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Wow, Mike Johnson is apparently aware of the emails the House Democrats have released. That means this must be huge.
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Why. Were. So. Many. Men. Regularly. Emailing. Jeff. Epstein. After. He. Was. A. Known. Pedophile?
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Why. Were. So. Many. Men. Regularly. Emailing. Jeff. Epstein. After. He. Was. A. Known. Pedophile?
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there's some discussion today about how there's space for new journalism platforms
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November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
there's some discussion today about how there's space for new journalism platforms
a reminder to support the ones you already have if you enjoy them, and if you have the ability!
a reminder to support the ones you already have if you enjoy them, and if you have the ability!
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"is the president of the united states currently being blackmailed by pedophiles" is a legitimate question with supporting evidence that needs to be investigated
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"is the president of the united states currently being blackmailed by pedophiles" is a legitimate question with supporting evidence that needs to be investigated
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A veteran's powerful truth: "Donald Trump is the biggest threat to veterans alive today." We fully agree. He's betrayed their service, slashing earned benefits & dignity. Unacceptable! #VeteransDay
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
A veteran's powerful truth: "Donald Trump is the biggest threat to veterans alive today." We fully agree. He's betrayed their service, slashing earned benefits & dignity. Unacceptable! #VeteransDay
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The opposite has happened at Mother Jones/CIR — as Trump has escalated his war on the media, we’ve expanded our team of skilled investigative journalists and producers, and our audience is growing at a record pace. Support our work here! 👉🏻 secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The opposite has happened at Mother Jones/CIR — as Trump has escalated his war on the media, we’ve expanded our team of skilled investigative journalists and producers, and our audience is growing at a record pace. Support our work here! 👉🏻 secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/...
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🔥 @RepJoeNeguse: “Most of 🇺🇸 will find this REPUGNANT. These senators are guaranteeing themselves million-dollar paydays.”
Bipartisan horror at @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn’s greedy money grab snuck inside the funding bill— rewarding themselves for getting investigated.
Bipartisan horror at @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn’s greedy money grab snuck inside the funding bill— rewarding themselves for getting investigated.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
🔥 @RepJoeNeguse: “Most of 🇺🇸 will find this REPUGNANT. These senators are guaranteeing themselves million-dollar paydays.”
Bipartisan horror at @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn’s greedy money grab snuck inside the funding bill— rewarding themselves for getting investigated.
Bipartisan horror at @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn’s greedy money grab snuck inside the funding bill— rewarding themselves for getting investigated.
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#AOC: “What makes the leadership of this moment so crucial, is about trust and cooperation — we will need to work together and as a team in order to usher our country through this very dark time.”
AOC laying the groundwork for her Senate run — time to put #Schumer out to pasture
AOC laying the groundwork for her Senate run — time to put #Schumer out to pasture
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Saying you inadvertently backed the US into a “National Security Event” isn’t the flex he thinks it is.
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Saying you inadvertently backed the US into a “National Security Event” isn’t the flex he thinks it is.
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The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.
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@glennkirschner.bsky.social @weissmann.substack.com @tribelaw.bsky.social
This opens the door for Jack Smith to challenge Trump’s INVALID PARDON
Present the case of Insurrection in the
Supreme Court.
He cannot pardon his co-conspirators or himself.
This opens the door for Jack Smith to challenge Trump’s INVALID PARDON
Present the case of Insurrection in the
Supreme Court.
He cannot pardon his co-conspirators or himself.
November 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
@glennkirschner.bsky.social @weissmann.substack.com @tribelaw.bsky.social
This opens the door for Jack Smith to challenge Trump’s INVALID PARDON
Present the case of Insurrection in the
Supreme Court.
He cannot pardon his co-conspirators or himself.
This opens the door for Jack Smith to challenge Trump’s INVALID PARDON
Present the case of Insurrection in the
Supreme Court.
He cannot pardon his co-conspirators or himself.
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Now an example of overt state-sponsored white supremacy.
Indiana University removed a Lecturer from her "Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice" course after a student filed a complaint about a graphic the instructor showed in class, which included "Make America Great Again" as an example of "Covert White Supremacy."
www.wfyi.org/news/article...
www.wfyi.org/news/article...
IU lecturer removed from class during intellectual diversity investigation
A lecturer in the Indiana University School of Social Work has been removed from teaching one of her classes Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice while the university investigates a complaint...
www.wfyi.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Now an example of overt state-sponsored white supremacy.
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feel like not nearly enough people are talking about this — apparently the democratic “yes” votes have effectively agreed to having the u.s. government write 6 republican senators $500k checks?
Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
feel like not nearly enough people are talking about this — apparently the democratic “yes” votes have effectively agreed to having the u.s. government write 6 republican senators $500k checks?
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On a happier note, JB is such a badass and would make a fantastic POTUS. His vision of American democracy is closer to FDR's than anyone else on the political scene & he's proven that he knows exactly how to stand up to bully billionaires. We need a good class traitor in the White House again.
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
On a happier note, JB is such a badass and would make a fantastic POTUS. His vision of American democracy is closer to FDR's than anyone else on the political scene & he's proven that he knows exactly how to stand up to bully billionaires. We need a good class traitor in the White House again.
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🚨BREAKING: In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah court struck down the GOP-controlled legislature’s congressional gerrymander and a companion law designed to entrench partisan power — restoring a fair map for the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Utah Judge Strikes Down GOP Gerrymander, Restores Voter-Approved Fair Map
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🚨BREAKING: In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah court struck down the GOP-controlled legislature’s congressional gerrymander and a companion law designed to entrench partisan power — restoring a fair map for the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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If you are in politics, you should help people even if you get NO CREDIT FOR IT. OK? Stop being fucking ghoulish.
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If you are in politics, you should help people even if you get NO CREDIT FOR IT. OK? Stop being fucking ghoulish.
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Big Tech is plotting a $100M lobbying and campaign spending blitz to block AI regulation at the state and federal level.
We must stop this takeover before it's too late.
We must stop this takeover before it's too late.
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Big Tech is plotting a $100M lobbying and campaign spending blitz to block AI regulation at the state and federal level.
We must stop this takeover before it's too late.
We must stop this takeover before it's too late.
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Hey, voters rule. But I want to say a special thanks to everyone who put their time, money, and heart into a campaign this year! Thanks for using your freedom to fight for everyone else's.
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hey, voters rule. But I want to say a special thanks to everyone who put their time, money, and heart into a campaign this year! Thanks for using your freedom to fight for everyone else's.
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The CFPB was created. The Trump administration is seeking to eliminate it, despite the fact that Congress has passed no law enabling it to do so.
US consumer watchdog says it is legally blocked from accessing funds reut.rs/4p5bX6x
US consumer watchdog says it is legally blocked from accessing funds
The top U.S. consumer watchdog said on Monday it was legally prohibited from drawing cash from the Federal Reserve to support continuing operations, but that its current funding should last through the end of this year "at least."
reut.rs
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 AM
The CFPB was created. The Trump administration is seeking to eliminate it, despite the fact that Congress has passed no law enabling it to do so.
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damn
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
damn
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The only thing special about us is our uniquely bad electoral & legislative institutions. We could be just like every other normal actual democracy. Sure, we'd have all their problems. Every one of them would be vastly better than "the fascists have governing majorities/control of every institution"
If we were an actual democracy, our politics would look ~like 👇: the center-left at ~1/3 of the vote, the center-right ~1/3, the fascists <1/5 (& with no chance of the exec/majorities), & a few small parties. Yes, we’d have tons of problems (see 🇩🇪), but none of them would be “will democracy end?”
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The only thing special about us is our uniquely bad electoral & legislative institutions. We could be just like every other normal actual democracy. Sure, we'd have all their problems. Every one of them would be vastly better than "the fascists have governing majorities/control of every institution"
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Trump’s sham Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin, announced a mass pardon of at least 77 people involved in efforts to overthrow the 2020 election results. This is another unprecedented and extremely dangerous use of the pardon power. Please watch and share. youtube.com/shorts/cHkqw...
Trump’s mass pardon of election deniers
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Trump’s sham Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin, announced a mass pardon of at least 77 people involved in efforts to overthrow the 2020 election results. This is another unprecedented and extremely dangerous use of the pardon power. Please watch and share. youtube.com/shorts/cHkqw...
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I know there are columns to write, news shows to fill and election consultants who need
to justify hourly billing rates. But as someone who attended the scavenger hunt, canvassed on election day and lived in NYC since 2016, affordability is a huge issue and it was nice to feel joy in politics again
to justify hourly billing rates. But as someone who attended the scavenger hunt, canvassed on election day and lived in NYC since 2016, affordability is a huge issue and it was nice to feel joy in politics again
November 11, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I know there are columns to write, news shows to fill and election consultants who need
to justify hourly billing rates. But as someone who attended the scavenger hunt, canvassed on election day and lived in NYC since 2016, affordability is a huge issue and it was nice to feel joy in politics again
to justify hourly billing rates. But as someone who attended the scavenger hunt, canvassed on election day and lived in NYC since 2016, affordability is a huge issue and it was nice to feel joy in politics again
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there’s this really dumb idea among the brain dead liberal punditocracy that you shouldn’t even mention ICE but nah this guy ran aggressively against them in a purple center/center-right county and won.
NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs.
So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.
Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.
Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
there’s this really dumb idea among the brain dead liberal punditocracy that you shouldn’t even mention ICE but nah this guy ran aggressively against them in a purple center/center-right county and won.