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Mitch
@mitchapalooza.bsky.social
· Mar 13
Schumer needs to go. Jeffries needs to go. Both weak, useless and not up to the task of leading opposition to an increasingly fascist Republican Party. Every one of these congressmen who capitulate need to be primaried.
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I think when the left says "you can't elect these appeasing centrist losers, all they have ever historically succeeded at is paving the way for a massive shift to the right" people take it as like, cynical politicking rather than the only sane people in politics saying a true thing
🚨 #GE2029 | Reform lead by 15pts
➡️ REF: 33% (+3)
🔵 CON: 18% (=)
🟢 GRN: 17% (-1)
🔴 LAB: 14% (=)
🟠 LD: 11% (-1)
Via @FindoutnowUK, 18 Dec (+/- vs 10 Dec)
➡️ REF: 33% (+3)
🔵 CON: 18% (=)
🟢 GRN: 17% (-1)
🔴 LAB: 14% (=)
🟠 LD: 11% (-1)
Via @FindoutnowUK, 18 Dec (+/- vs 10 Dec)
December 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I think when the left says "you can't elect these appeasing centrist losers, all they have ever historically succeeded at is paving the way for a massive shift to the right" people take it as like, cynical politicking rather than the only sane people in politics saying a true thing
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New: Trump’s ICE Has A Troubling Target: At-Risk Teenagers
In recent months, federal agents have arrested dozens of teenagers who at one point were in government custody as unaccompanied children. Some were arrested on their 18th birthdays– at government shelters.
www.huffpost.com/entry/immigr...
In recent months, federal agents have arrested dozens of teenagers who at one point were in government custody as unaccompanied children. Some were arrested on their 18th birthdays– at government shelters.
www.huffpost.com/entry/immigr...
Trump’s ICE Has A Troubling New Target
The teens spent time in government-contracted shelters. Now, the feds are putting some of them behind bars.
www.huffpost.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
New: Trump’s ICE Has A Troubling Target: At-Risk Teenagers
In recent months, federal agents have arrested dozens of teenagers who at one point were in government custody as unaccompanied children. Some were arrested on their 18th birthdays– at government shelters.
www.huffpost.com/entry/immigr...
In recent months, federal agents have arrested dozens of teenagers who at one point were in government custody as unaccompanied children. Some were arrested on their 18th birthdays– at government shelters.
www.huffpost.com/entry/immigr...
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
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it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
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what if they ran someone who had his own party's trust and didn't bank everything on winning a bunch of nonexistent swing votes
December 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
what if they ran someone who had his own party's trust and didn't bank everything on winning a bunch of nonexistent swing votes
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Every time I see headlines like this, I replace “Trump voters” with “Confederates” and it tells me everything I need to know about the official and the author of the profile
Josh Shapiro believes he is uniquely suited to win over Trump voters—but he’ll need to overcome distrust among some in his own party first, Tim Alberta reports: theatln.tc/mR9AHSG4
December 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Every time I see headlines like this, I replace “Trump voters” with “Confederates” and it tells me everything I need to know about the official and the author of the profile
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we actually life in hell
December 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
we actually life in hell
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
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Gaza: Israeli strike kills five, including two children, says civil defence agency
Gaza: Israeli strike kills five, including two children, says civil defence agency
Agency says missile struck citizens in Khan Younis, as Israel reports targeting ‘Hamas terrorist’ after clash with militants
An Israeli strike on Palestinian territory has killed five people including two children, Gaza’s civil defence agency told AFP on Wednesday.
“Five citizens, including two children, killed and others injured, some seriously, as a result of an Israeli missile strike” in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, civil defence spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told AFP. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Gaza: Israeli strike kills five, including two children, says civil defence agency
We need more small, economic cars on the roads instead of all these $60,000 10ft tall kid crusher 2500s that you see everywhere nowadays.
Trump made an odd pivot to economical cars, saying that he actually wanted to see more of them.
Trump Wants To Make ‘Very Small, Really Cute’ Cars In The U.S.
www.huffpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
We need more small, economic cars on the roads instead of all these $60,000 10ft tall kid crusher 2500s that you see everywhere nowadays.
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"Red states are full of working people who are getting screwed by Republican policies yet vote Republican anyhow because they loathe the [Dems]...Those people can be won back by working class candidates who campaign on pro-worker issues, and are not Democrats."
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
How to Win Red States With a Labor Party
We can take political power without asking Democrats for it.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"Red states are full of working people who are getting screwed by Republican policies yet vote Republican anyhow because they loathe the [Dems]...Those people can be won back by working class candidates who campaign on pro-worker issues, and are not Democrats."
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
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Israeli forces on Thursday killed a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they appeared to surrender, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed "in cold blood." n.pr/44yxUms
Israeli forces kill Palestinian men in West Bank after they appear to surrender
Israeli forces on Thursday killed a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they appeared to surrender, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed "in cold blood."
n.pr
November 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Israeli forces on Thursday killed a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they appeared to surrender, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed "in cold blood." n.pr/44yxUms
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You'll be visited by three spirits.
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
You'll be visited by three spirits.
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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Across the country, voters support many of Zohran Mamdani's ideas, including:
-Increasing taxes on the rich
-Universal childcare
-Freezing rent
-Raising the minimum wage
Everything Democrats do must focus on enacting popular policies that help working people.
That is the path forward.
-Increasing taxes on the rich
-Universal childcare
-Freezing rent
-Raising the minimum wage
Everything Democrats do must focus on enacting popular policies that help working people.
That is the path forward.
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Across the country, voters support many of Zohran Mamdani's ideas, including:
-Increasing taxes on the rich
-Universal childcare
-Freezing rent
-Raising the minimum wage
Everything Democrats do must focus on enacting popular policies that help working people.
That is the path forward.
-Increasing taxes on the rich
-Universal childcare
-Freezing rent
-Raising the minimum wage
Everything Democrats do must focus on enacting popular policies that help working people.
That is the path forward.
Comedy is legal again. 🇺🇸
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Comedy is legal again. 🇺🇸
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“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
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Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.
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An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??
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I’m already seeing people insist that even with this capitulation the Democrats will still sweep 2026 because Trump is that bad. It was precisely that attitude that gave us 2024.
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I’m already seeing people insist that even with this capitulation the Democrats will still sweep 2026 because Trump is that bad. It was precisely that attitude that gave us 2024.
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Every single Dem that caved and agreed to this deal needs to be primaried and voted out. They are cowards who wasted the last month for a half baked promise vote a month from now.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Every single Dem that caved and agreed to this deal needs to be primaried and voted out. They are cowards who wasted the last month for a half baked promise vote a month from now.
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It's over. It'll take a few days (due to Rand Paul) but the Democrats gave away the whole thing for a wink and a nod.
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
It's over. It'll take a few days (due to Rand Paul) but the Democrats gave away the whole thing for a wink and a nod.
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Schumer caves like the weakling he is.
BREAKING: Deal to end government shutdown in reach
Deal to end government shutdown in reach
At least 10 Senate Democrats are expected to support a key procedural motion.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Schumer caves like the weakling he is.