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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
Holy shit:
jackjenkins.me Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · Oct 7
NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago
(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...
religionnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.
October 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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bannerite.bsky.social
Nobody likes a cheater.
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Aug 11
Every news broadcast should run the facts split-screen in real time while Trump spews his lies.

Nice work, @msnbc.com — every network had time to prepare because they knew what was coming.
August 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Holy shit, indeed.

Jon Karl doesn’t just ask a smart question, he repeatedly refuses to take dodges for an answer and just keeps demanding a direct response and doesn’t let it go.

I think I vaguely remember this. It was called … journasomething?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 13
Holy shit -- Kevin Hassett completely bombs on ABC when pressed by Jon Karl to explain how Trump can possibly justify 50% tariffs on Brazil even though the country has a trade *deficit* with the US
July 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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pattonoswalt.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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rotterdamvvg.bsky.social
Less than two weeks after Pope Francis's passing, the man who is the poster child for the Seven Deadly Sins posted a picture of himself depicting him as the Pope.

This is not only offensive to millions of Catholics but is a stark insight into the mind of a deeply disturbed individual.

Appalling.
May 3, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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demcast.com
🇺🇦 Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine on Day 1 of his presidency.

Three months later, he still hasn’t found a solution.

Bombs continue to rain down and now the administration is threatening to abandon them.

America is weaker and less safe since January.
April 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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lincolnproject.us
The Dow Jones is on pace for its worst April since 1932. Are we feeling great yet?
April 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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meidastouch.com
DOGE is shaping up to be the biggest failure of all time. All pain. No gain. Shrouded in secrecy, lies, and false projections. A scam on the American people.
April 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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johnhtran.bsky.social
A whistleblower just dropped the most explosive DOGE story yet—
Russian logins using newly created U.S. government credentials.
Starlink allegedly used to funnel data straight to the Kremlin.
This isn’t just a breach. It’s a national security meltdown with Musk’s name all over it.
April 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“Sickening and heartbreaking”

Someone who was at the Marge Greene town hall where folks who dissented were arrested/targeted/tased by police — who has voted for both parties — writes about what she saw 👇🏽
April 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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phillipanderson.bsky.social
There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
The new revelations about DOGE's activities at the labor agency come from a whistleblower in the IT department of the NLRB, who disclosed his concerns to Congress and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel in a detailed report that was then provided to NPR. Meanwhile, his attempts to raise concerns internally within the NLRB preceded someone "physically taping a threatening note" to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone, according to a cover letter attached to his disclosure filed by his attorney, Andrew Bakaj of the nonprofit Whistleblower Aid.
April 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks
We've watched women dragged out of MAGA town halls across the country by cops.

We've watched men escorted out of MAGA town halls.

We've watched Vets be taken out of MAGA town halls.

Now we've watched a man be tazed at a MAGA town hall.

MTGs town hall last night.

#SheShed #Voices4Victory
April 16, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems.

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data The IT team met to discuss insider threats - namely, the DOGE engineers, whose activities it had little insight into or control over. "We had no idea what they did," he explained. Those conversations are reflected in his official disclosure. They eventually launched a formal breach investigation, according to the disclosure, and prepared a request for assistance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). However, those efforts were disrupted without an explanation, Berulis said. That was deeply troubling to Berulis, who felt he needed help to try to get to the bottom of what happened and determine what new vulnerabilities might be exploited as a result. In the days after Berulis and his colleagues prepared a request for CISAs help investigating the breach, Berulis found a printed letter in an envelope taped to his door, which included threatening language, sensitive personal information and overhead pictures of him walking his dog, according to the cover letter attached to his official disclosure. It's unclear who sent it, but the letter made specific reference to his decision to report the breach. Law enforcement is investigating the letter. While investigating the data taken from the agency, Berulis tried to determine its ultimate destination. But whoever had exfiltrated it had disguised its destination too, according to the disclosure. DOGE staffers had permission to access the system, but removing data is another matter. Berulis says someone appeared to be doing something called DNS tunneling to prevent the data exfiltration from being detected. He came to that conclusion, outlined in his disclosure, after he saw a traffic spike in DNS requests parallel to the data being exfiltrated, a spike 1,000 times the normal number of requests. When someone uses this kind of technique, they set up a domain name that pings the target system with questions or queries. But they configure the compromised server so that it answers those DNS queries by sending out packets of data, allowing the attacker to steal information that has been broken down into smaller chunks. "We've seen Russian threat actors do things like this on U.S. government systems," said one threat intelligence researcher who requested anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly by their employer. That analyst, who has extensive experience hunting nation-state-sponsored hackers, reviewed the whistleblower's technical claims. Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts - and the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis. While it's possible the user was disguising their location, it's highly unlikely they'd appear to be coming from Russia if they wanted to avoid suspicion, cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR explained. On their own, a few failed login attempts from a Russian IP address aren't a smoking gun, those cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR said. But given the overall picture of activity, it's a concerning sign that foreign adversaries may already be searching for ways into government systems that DOGE engineers may have left exposed. "When you move fast and break stuff, the opportunity to ride the coattails of authorized access is ridiculously easy to achieve," said Handorf. What he means is that if DOGE engineers left access points to the network open, it would be very easy for spies or criminals to break in and steal data behind DOGE. He said he could also see foreign adversaries trying to recruit or pay DOGE team members for access to sensitive data. "It would not surprise me if DOGE is accidentally compromised."
April 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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rosegarden54.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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atrupar.com
Murphy: "The vast majority of Republicans, their number one priority is Trump seizing power, and the Trump family and the MAGA universe holding power forever ... with the exception of maybe 20 Republicans in the Senate, the GOP inside Congress is done with democracy."
April 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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ndrew.bsky.social
“please let donald trump destroy your future for reasons that we’re going to keep secret until an undisclosed future date”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 4
Rep. Jeff Van Drew on the Dow being down another 900 points this morning: "You gotta give the administration a little bit of room here. A few months ... it's just the beginning."
April 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
What if you’re so outrageously incompetent you get it done in a matter of minutes?
April 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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nothoodlum.bsky.social
Over $2.8 trillion in value wiped from US stock market today alone.
April 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Congratulations to all the people who voted for Trump because they thought he’d be good for the economy
newseye.bsky.social News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Apr 3
22 weeks apart.
Two front pages of the Economist. The first is dated October 25, 2024 and says “The Envy of the Workd” and has dollars bill rocketing into the sky in celebration of the US economy. The second front page is dated this week April 5th. It’s headline is “Ruination Day” and pictures Trump sawing a hole in the group the shape of the US.
April 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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jemmaforte.bsky.social
The man who thought transgenic mice were transgender and that injecting bleach was a good idea ‘does’ economics.

What could possibly go wrong?
April 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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economist.com
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
April 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
CNBC ANCHOR: “The market reaction after hours — I’ve never seen anything like it. Worse than the worst-case scenario.”
April 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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nothoodlum.bsky.social
No tariffs on Russia. Weird.
April 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM