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Bill Taggard

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026
eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it
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Gwen Róisín @meowthrandir.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think Trump likes Natalie Harp because she Pampers him
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Bill Taggard @billtaggard.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This gives him too much credit and not enough. It’s just dementia-related confabulation.
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poop @dude3000.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A Freeman scoring on Juneteenth
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Guy Venables @guyvenables.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
One of my cartoons for Monday's Metro
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
José Gutierrez is not a name remembered by most Americans, but it should be. The Marine Corps. Lance corporal—believed to have been the second US service member to have been killed in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom—grew up an orphan on the streets of Guatemala and arrived here w/out papers:
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Immigrant Service Members Made the Ultimate Sacrifice For the Land They Loved – America
One 2019 study from the Migration Policy Institute found that between 2001 and 2013, almost 300 foreign-born soldiers died in service of their adoptive country.
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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 02/04/2026
right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
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Ellsworth Green @greenellsworth.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Albino Badguy @albinobadguy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Most honest reporting in the past few weeks.
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Bill Taggard @billtaggard.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
ICE making a real difference at TSA checkpoints, separating passengers into color coded lines for efficiency. The white line moves people rather quickly toward their gates. The brown line moves even faster, but through a side door at the security checkpoint.
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Bill Taggard @billtaggard.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
BREAKING: the GOP, when asked if they have a plan for handling Trump’s increasingly erratic behavior, they responded:
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
No one asks if the tech bros and Davos types will in the future get the news they need to make good decisions, even if the economy of the newspaper and network collapse— leaving us with the influencers and the Semafors. What we don't know is: will broad publics have access to quality information?
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 21/02/2026
Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025. Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...
So you get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don't think it's prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism and the karaoke menu of things that you go through to do it. You could list them from the show, or you could list them from the newspaper.
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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Spoiler alert: When top officials have to start saying in an agency’s defense “no, no, no, that’s a totally legitimate law enforcement agency,” they have already lost and it is, in fact, no longer a legitimate law enforcement agency.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/02/2026
NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise. BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Downtown Atlanta: 1919 versus 2022. Ouch!
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L. Louise Lucas (mirror bot) @senlouiselucas.bluesky.bot · 07/02/2026
You all started it and we fucking finished it.
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Ted Cruz (@tedcruz)
A brazen abuse of power & an insult to democracy. 47% of VA voted Trump. They will now get just 9% of the seats. 52% of VA voters voted Harris. Now they get 91% of the seats. (By comparison, in TX, 56% voted Trump; GOP gets 79% of the seats.)
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
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Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.
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POSIWID 🇵🇸🏴 @posiwidowmaker.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Find the answer by using the @kenwhite.bsky.social principle. Works with most things but it was literally made for this moment.
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If we don’t create our dreams, who will? @newlife2024.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
BREAKING: 8 more U.S. Attorneys in MN resign from Trump’s DOJ in protest as backlash grows. This isn’t normal; isn’t routine reshuffling. It’s a rebellion. Last month, 6 veteran prosecutors quit in protest. Normal staffing for the MN DOJ’s office is around 50 attorneys. They’re down to just 9.
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Black Hart of Saint Paul @blackhartstp.com · 28/01/2026
You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
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sydder @sydder.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We had 50K people downtown yesterday, no ICE and zero incidents. ICE is the fucking problem.
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LeCaffeinated @thetirednurse.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.
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Ashley Miller @amreports.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.
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Jamie Schwesnedl @schwesbomb.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Our city has been over-run by Nazi ghouls kidnapping people to traffic them to concentration camps and other countries. Did you ever think you'd see the day when masked gunmen jump out of moving vehicles and chase families down the street in your own neighborhood? FUCK ICE forever and ever.
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Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org · 19/01/2026
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Bro, they are closing schools because teachers need time to make virtual options for non-white students because lawless federal paramilitaries are terrorizing them.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.
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FREE THEM ALL!! 🇵🇸 @djmuel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
lmao
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
This comment from the Auschwitz Maemorial FB page is VERY important to read today in America.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Make it viral.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/01/2026
Colombian President Petro commenting on the US; “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."
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Bill Taggard @billtaggard.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Trump tryna add his name to something for every time his name gets redacted from the Epstein files.
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nelle @nelle.observer · 21/12/2025
just found out that ■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■■■ is in the epstein files, im heartbroken
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khwalz @khwalz.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"And, thanks to you guys, I wound up with the tallest building in Lower Manhattan!"
Traitor Trump with MBS, who certainly knew about plans for 9/11 and ordered the murder of journalist Khashoggi.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Updating my LEGO White House
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2025
Faith Family Academy is one of eight Texas charter school districts on track to be shut down at the end of the year after receiving an “F” rating. Board members paid its superintendent a peak annual compensation of $560,000 in recent years. By @emsimani.bsky.social & Lexi Churchill
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These Charter Superintendents Are Some of the Highest Paid in Texas. Their Districts Are Among the Lowest Performing.
Three charter school districts in Texas underreported the compensation paid to their top leaders. The same three districts have also had failing or near-failing performance ratings in recent years.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Prominent folks: Millions stay on Twitter because that's where they hear from you. That includes reporters. YOU are giving Twitter viability and credibility. If YOU leave, the people who want to hear from you will go where you are. YOU are making the choice to keep others on Twitter.
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
What this hearing demonstrates, more than anything else I think, is that RFK and co. don't actually have the popular support for their agenda they're claiming, because they have to constantly hedge and side step and claim that they're not doing what they're doing.
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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I made a graph showing all my past relationships. There's and ex-axis and a why-axis.
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I threw the sandwich but I did not kill the deputy
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 16/08/2025
This is owned by a LANlord
An apartment block where the windows and Juliet balconies look like network ports
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member. RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
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