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Ian in the upper left

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Ian in the upper left @coldwaterpnw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Remember Melania, like....the current first lady?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
43-time Club Champion.
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landon @nodnal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
this is actually what we need. there is no left in US politics until we purge conservatives from the democratic party
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning
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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 01/07/2026
If I was a politician with depression I would simply stop enacting policies that destroy people's lives and thus rot my own soul as karmic retribution but I guess I'm just built different
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I guess what gets me about this sort of thing is that people keep writing these sorts of things like we’re still in Peak Woke when we are in year 10 of the entire world revolving around the king of rapists.
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Ian in the upper left @coldwaterpnw.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
What the fuck?
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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.
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Ian in the upper left @coldwaterpnw.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
open.spotify.com/episode/4tRV... Whole lotta effort just to both sides the issue, minimize the whole fascism, and that "political violence doesn't work". Tone deaf work y'all
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What Drives Political Violence in America
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026
as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
not sure if gets more Empire In Decline than a disastrously unpopular mentally decayed president — who different people of notably different political stripes keep trying to murder — as he is badly losing a horrifying foreign war he started on a pack of lies, won’t stop obsessing over a “ballroom”
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The good news is, there are a lot of experienced, trained professionals on hand who can quickly gather all the appropriate facts and tell us exactly how this is bad news for the Democrats in the midterms.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Journalists have unmasked Satoshi and Banksy, but we still have no idea who Trump sent to murder Epstein. 😢
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Ian in the upper left @coldwaterpnw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"TWO WEEKS" the man cannot figure out a different time frame.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 01/04/2026
"We need a 5% wealth tax on America’s 938 billionaires. Over a ten-year period, this bill would raise much-needed $4.4tn for public coffers," writes @sanders.senate.gov. "Let’s choose democracy over oligarchy."
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Yes, the rich must start paying their fair share of taxes | Bernie Sanders
We need a 5% wealth tax on America’s 938 billionaires. Over a 10-year period, this bill would raise much-needed $4.4tn for public coffers
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Thank you to everyone who supported this campaign. Together we were able to do things never seen in American politics, to set a new standard from what we should expect from the people who try to represent us. What we built matters, regardless of the outcome. And the work isn’t over.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Reminder: DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August. He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA. The grift continues.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
So....the Fourth Reich?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it. Seems kinda bad?
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At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files
The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.
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PizzaMonk @pizzatraveler.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Can we see trumps tax returns?
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
They’re screaming “fuck ice” at wrestling matches and Chuck Schumer managed to use this leverage to negotiate against himself until the demand is “ here’s a bunch more money, can you guys please promise to not wear masks unless you really need to?”
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tante @tante.cc · 03/02/2026
With the currently released things about Bill Gates in the Epstein files (he had sex with the women and girls Epstein provided and asked Epstein for antibiotics to secretly give to his then-wife to treat the STI he gave her) how are we feeling about the Gates Foundation funding ... anything?
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Ian in the upper left @coldwaterpnw.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
All of the octogenarians who run our country had wealth created by and for them via a much higher marginal tax rate and then they shut the door behind them. Pretty funny to see older folks forget or ignore this in favor of "no new taxes" type bullshit.
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Ian in the upper left @coldwaterpnw.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov "If you are powerful but never use your power, you are not powerful" Just a solid tip ya
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 04/02/2026
I wrote about Minnesota and ICE and how average Americans are reclaiming the power that the administration is abusing. www.pbump.net/o/this-is-wh...
What's been weird to learn is that other leaders of institutions act the same way. Some of them hoard and protect their influence like it's money because they, too, are rich. You don't get rich by giving your money away and (they seem to believe) you don't get powerful by exercising your power. But, in fact, that is often how power works: using power can help build power. At the very least, power holds no value unless it is exercised, which alone is a valid reason to exercise it. If you are powerful but never use your power, you are not powerful.
I'm talking here primarily about the huge, obvious loci of power — the centers of power that exist in part to serve as checks on other centers of power.
Congress vis-a-vis the presidency. The media relative to the government. Higher education in contrast to misinformation. But they often aren't serving as checks on what's unfolding, or are obviously and bizarrely using their power only sparingly, garden hoses aimed at protecting their own homes from the wildfire.
So it's left to individuals, who have stepped up where institutions have not.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Quick round up: - the government is covering up evidence the president is a pedophile - he’s openly taking bribes from foreign governments - his masked agents are shooting citizens in the streets - the FBI is helping him steal the election - he’s threatening war against multiple allies 👍👍👍
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
If many people hold a left-wing opinion they are a mob and should be ignored; if few people hold a left wing opinion they are fringe and should be ignored. The substance or correctness of the opinion is irrelevant. This is the reactionary centrist credo bsky.app/profile/eliv...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2026
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
In theater. So they think they’re at war.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
If I sent a letter saying I would continue to inflict violence and murder on a community unless that community made legal concessions to me, I would go to prison. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read Bondi’s Letter to Minnesota’s Governor
Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota on Saturday that blamed him and other Democratic officials for allowing “lawlessness” in the state. It was not immediately clear ...
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/01/2026
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
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John Drake @johndrake.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/01/2026
This is ok tho
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Ian in the upper left @coldwaterpnw.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Not sure why this isn't a thing during these protests, but if ICE has masks and are recording people to put on domestic terrorist lists, ALSO MASK THE EFF UP. Cover lower half of your face and head and hair. Wear sunglasses if you have to. Bring a GoPro not a cell phone if you can.
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Ian in the upper left @coldwaterpnw.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
If the fourth amendment doesn't apply anymore, does the fifth? Just asking considering Eric Trump pleaded the 5th over 500 times in a single deposition.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
When the federal government wages war on an American city I’m confused as to what winning would look like.
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Izzie @summerbreeze0102.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Is this a fuckin Bari Weiss thing again? What on Earth.
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Schmidt Happens @trawna.ca · 16/01/2026
He can’t really just accept a 747 for his personal use or use the presidency to promote his meme coin or bomb boats or invade Venezuela or sell their oil and put the money in Qatari bank accounts or take over a state’s National Guard or knock down the East Wing or weaponize the DOJ against his polit
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Alex @nobrakes.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Since, ICE are clearly proud of being (accurately) called Nazis, I'm going to propose a change in rhetoric: ICE are Redcoats. Let me explain 🧵
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
He has…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
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