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James @jamesriverside.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

My first iOS app was just published on the App Store. Fans of the LA Kings, Ontario Reign, and/or the Greenville Swamp Rabbits might find it fun and useful. #GKG #ReignTrain #SwampRabbits #hockey Download LA Hockey here: apps.apple.com/us/app/la-ho...

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‎LA Hockey

‎Are you a fan of the Kings, Reign, and/or Swamp Rabbits? Well this app is just for you! LA Hockey is a one-stop-shopping mall for all things related to the Kings hockey organization pipeline, includi...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Military documents confirm that the LA operation today was a “show of presence” intended to send a message to LA residents about the power of the federal government. After staging with armed soldiers and Border Patrol agents on horse, they packed up and left after a short walk.

Per the briefing:
"On order, 1-18th Cavalry Squadron provides static interagency site protection, mounted mobile security, and Joint Force Land Component Command UFLCC) Reserve support to Customs and Border Patrol (CRP) and supporting federal agencies, whose intent at MacArthur Park is to demonstrate, through a show of presence, the capacity and freedom of maneuver or federal law enforcement within the Los Angeles Joint Operations Area (JOA)."

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Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

That last line hits hard

@MichellCClark:
they made healthcare a commodity, education a debt trap, and housing a speculation market-then told you that poverty is a personal failing. they privatized survival and called it freedom.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/07/2025

really interesting that the vice president cites as a key intellectual influence a guy who thinks black people are natural slaves

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Finally billionaires will have the resources to do the stuff they couldn't afford to do before those tax cuts!!

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

3. Corporations that publicly endorsed Trump's megabill: 3M Altria AT&T Charter Communications Chevron Cisco Comcast Delta Airlines Door Dash Great Clips Hair Cuttery T-Mobile Uber United Airlines UPS Verizon

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

1. Trump's megabill will slash nutrition assistance for poor families, cause 17 million people to lose their health insurance, and add over $3 trillion to the deficit -- all to finance tax cuts for the rich. IN THIS THREAD, I WILL LIST THE COMPANIES THAT PUBLICLY SUPPORTED THIS BILL.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Today proves that Republicans were serious about one promise: to cut taxes for the wealthy. All the rest was bullshit.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Celebrating our nation’s independence by embracing a dictator just like the forefathers intended.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The fiscal conservatives in the GOP just added $4 trillion to the deficit to give the wealthiest people on earth a tax cut. The pro-family party just took healthcare away from 17 million Americans to give ICE a bigger budget than Brazil’s military. The single most inhumane bill ever passed.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This is Nick Begich (R-Alaska). If he votes for the bill, 37,000 of his constituents lose access to their healthcare. 27,000 of his constituents lose access to their food assistance. 578 energy jobs in his district will disappear.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/06/2025

Chris Murphy: "This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress."

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.

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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/06/2025

Breaking News: The sprawling tax and health care bill that Senate Republicans are trying to pass would add at least $3.3 trillion to the national debt over a decade, the Congressional Budget Office estimated.

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Senate Bill Would Add at Least $3.3 Trillion to Debt, Budget Office Says

A new analysis showing the legislation would be far more expensive than the House version could complicate its chances of final passage in that chamber, where fiscal hawks have said the cost must not grow.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 29/06/2025

Update: Latest estimate confirms between Medicaid cuts and ACA rollback, total health care cuts in the Republican budget bill are now OVER $1 trillion.

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Mitch Jackson ⚖️ @mitch.social · 27/06/2025

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson? Harvard undergrad, Harvard Law, magna cum laude, cum laude, and editor of the Harvard Law Review. That’s what elite talent looks like. Charlie Kirk? Dropped out of community college. Game. Set. Match.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/06/2025

Chris Murphy: "Trump & the Republicans are trying to engineer the most massive transfer of wealth from the poor & middle class to the wealthy in history of the country...that's super unpopular. So how do you pass it? You can only pass it if you also destroy democracy & the means of accountability"

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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

"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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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Just a reminder going forward... (cartoon from 2003)

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Our current Director of National Intelligence:

Tulsi Gabbard tweet from 2019: Trump says he doesn't want war with Iran, but that's exactly what he wants, because that's exactly what Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu, al-Qaeda, Bolton, Haley, and other NeoCons/NeoLibs want. That’s what he put first--not America.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

REMINDERS: - Americans opposing bombing Iran outnumber warmongers by a margin of 20% (45-25) - ONLY 25% of Americans support airstrikes against Iran at this time.

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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @repyassansari.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Donald Trump illegally took military action against Iran—without congressional authorization—risking dragging us into another endless war. I am calling for an immediate emergency session of Congress to vote on the War Powers Resolution.

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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

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Janessa Goldbeck @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Conservative protests are always treated as an organic cry of anger that manifests the distress of the unjustly ignored American heartland; protests from the center-left are always written off as noise from inside the bubble.

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Windsor Mann @windsormann.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

George Orwell wrote in 1941:

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

To those who still somehow say you’re overreacting to say we are far past the point of historic crisis, go back to summer 2024 and say that in less than a year the president of the United States would be deploying the literal Marines on American soil to deal with and intimidate his political enemies

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

If you're heading to a protest tomorrow, it's important to know your rights. Consult this information from the ACLU. Be peaceful. Be safe. Be careful. Be strong.

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Undocumented immigrants contribute nearly $100 billion in taxes every year. Meanwhile, the wealthiest 1% dodge $163 billion in taxes annually. The real drain on America isn’t coming from the border — it’s coming from the boardroom.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Find one near you: www.nokings.org#map

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

This strikes me as highly highly HIGHLY impeachable, no? Surrounding yourself with politically-vetted soldiers? I have to think that every official who did this vetting should be fired, and clearly this is yet another impeachable act by Trump, but gotta be near the top.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 11/06/2025

Terry Moran worked at ABC for 28 years. Now, for calling Stephen Miller “hateful,” (which he 💯 is per his own family), ABC fired him to appease an authoritarian hypocrite who ran on “free speech.” This will have a chilling effect on all journalists. Fourth Estate fails. Authoritarianism advances.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office posts a video of Emperor Palpatine reciting Donald Trump’s Truth Social post about L.A. via @swholocron.bsky.social

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 09/06/2025

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

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RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/06/2025

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

💯 this. We live here. The local news is covering the Pride Festival, because the protests are not a big enough deal to cover in anything more than “in other news-“ The whole thing is attempted Reichstag Fire bullshit to justify throwing the military at California.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Stefan Zweig wrote in The World of Yesterday that he knew everything was over in 1930s Germany when squads of young uniformed thugs began to jump out of trucks to beat up protesters. Someone organized, trained, provided uniforms, and provided trucks. Someone let them legally terrorize society.

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Today: Tanks are being moved en masse into DC. Trump is deploying a state national guard over a governor’s objection to police protests. Trump threatened a major donor with “severe consequences” if they support his political opponents. If you’re still wondering what time it is, read this again

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