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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
“LET US OUT!” women & children scream for help inside a detention camp in TEXAS, where private prisons like core civic make billions of taxpayer dollars holding them while abusing, neglecting them, refusing them health care, feeding them dirty food & water, etc. In our name🇺🇸
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MakeWinesNotWar @michael-j-phillips.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Is this the #winning y’all wanted? www.ft.com/content/2c10...
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US long-term unemployment hits four-year high
Many jobseekers spend months finding work, as cooling jobs market sparks worries that consumer spending will slow
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MakeWinesNotWar @michael-j-phillips.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Should a court even have to order our federal government not to destroy or alter evidence in a murder investigation?? #americannazis #corruptregime #trump #chickentaco #minneappolis ground.news/article/judg...
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Judge blocks Trump admin from 'destroying or altering' evidence in deadly Minneapolis shooting
A federal judge in Minnesota has blocked the Trump administration from "destroying or altering evidence" related to a deadly shooting involving a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis on Saturday.
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MakeWinesNotWar @michael-j-phillips.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Yesterday a 37 year old white woman, an American citizen, was murdered in cold blood by an untrained, masked trump thug. WE cannot be ok with this. You need the sound ON when you play the video to really understand. www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...
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Videos show ICE shooting in Minneapolis
Witnesses are heard screaming at the agents, saying, "What did you do?" and "Shame!"
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MakeWinesNotWar @michael-j-phillips.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This IS what fighting looks like. #bemorelikegcn #tacomustgo
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MakeWinesNotWar @michael-j-phillips.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
ABOUT TIME 🤯 apnews.com/article/cali...
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Judge orders Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops, arrests in California
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in Southern California.
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MakeWinesNotWar @michael-j-phillips.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
And so it begins: ground.news/article/iran...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
"Mobilizing military forces into cities is going to be seen as an overreach, and it's going to be now met with peaceful, boisterous moms, dads, grandmas. kids and their dogs and families showing up, saying, 'we're not going to put up with this authoritarianism..." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Planned ‘No Kings’ protests grow in number after LA militarization: What organizers expect
'The numbers have skyrocketed': protest organizers expect massive crowds nationwide on June 14, including up to 250,000 in Los Angeles.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
“As a veteran my oath was to uphold the constitution,” he said. “That’s what I’m here to do... "If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. You need to come out. A silent voice is just as bad as no voice at all.” www.wave3.com/2025/06/10/t...
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‘They belong here’: Demonstrators in Louisville voice frustrations with I.C.E.
Signs read “Abolish I.C.E.,” “NO I.C.E.,” and “Louisville stands against I.C.E.,” just to list a few.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”
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MakeWinesNotWar @michael-j-phillips.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
There has not been any looting, yet. The fire (white car burning) that was all over the news was started by ICE.
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MakeWinesNotWar @michael-j-phillips.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
DVIDS - Video - U.S. Army tanks, vehicles arrive in Washington D.C. for parade www.dvidshub.net/video/965769...
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U.S. Army tanks, vehicles arrive in Washington D.C. for parade
U.S. Army tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles, Paladin howitzers, and other equipment arrives to Washington D.C. to take part in the upcoming parade commemorating the 250th birthday of the United States ...
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MakeWinesNotWar @michael-j-phillips.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Right now, rail cars rolling into OUR nation’s capital! Massive amounts of military hardware, wasting tens of millions of dollars for trumps #vanityparade. DVIDS - Video - U.S. Army tanks, vehicles arrive in Washington D.C. for parade
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We the North @toguy99.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Over 70 legal experts have sent the Florida Bar an ethics complaint calling for an investigation and "appropriate sanctions" against U.S. AG Bondi, accusing her of engaging in "serious professional misconduct that threatens the rule of law and the administration of justice."
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Share this far and wide. It will only get worse.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
"Veterans know the layoffs aren’t about saving money. They’re about weakening the institution and ultimately privatizing and gutting VA disability funding, as spelled out in Project 2025." share.google/pz6mLWSzZIYC...
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MakeWinesNotWar @michael-j-phillips.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
THIS is what is needed everywhere these mercenaries wannabes show up. These are supposedly “ice”? Where are the badges? Their id? Where on their costumes (clearly not real uniforms, way too bulky and overdone) does it say ice? They turn their backs to a crowd?? Wearing sneakers? #deportice
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Susan 🇨🇦 @susanluvssoaps.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The now 30 year old teenagers are back for the holiday season. #StrangerThings
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MakeWinesNotWar @michael-j-phillips.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Don’t even pretend President musk is gone, no way he’s leaving #taco on his own.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
This is the whole point of what Stephen Miller is doing with Harvard & other schools. It’s not about protests, anti-semitism or anything else. It is their plan, many years in the making, to dismantle the US university system. Schools must unite & fight together, not individually.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/05/2025
The way Biden flipped the script on Republicans last time they tried to come for Medicare and Social Security. A masterclass.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2025
ZELDIN: I understand you're an aspiring fiction writer. I see why. SCHIFF: I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won't affect people's health or their water or their air. That to me is a big fiction ... you could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes
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MakeWinesNotWar @michael-j-phillips.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Now it’s our turn #8647
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Reducing funding for schools will not make America great. Tax cuts for the rich will not make America great. Tariffs will not make America great. Republicans will make us sicker, poorer, and less educated.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Kicking millions of people off Medicaid will not make America great. Cutting SNAP benefits which feed kids will not make America great. Canceling funding for health research will not make America great.
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🇺🇦 Ukraine will not withdraw troops from its own territory and will not give in to ultimatums from Russia, - Zelensky ▪️We are considering the possibility of another meeting of all teams. ▪️I asked Trump not to make any decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine. ▪️We are waiting for the Russian proposal.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/05/2025
Whoa! New polling shows that a majority of voters in EVERY SINGLE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT oppose cuts to Medicaid. Members of Congress should take note. ☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121. Defend Medicaid! Defeat Cancer!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 14/05/2025
It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid. While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️ x.com/i/broadcasts...
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HAPPENING NOW: Republicans are putting health care on the chopping block / X
HAPPENING NOW: Republicans are putting health care on the chopping block
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Gosh, I wonder why? 🤨
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/05/2025
DeLAURO: Are you planning to break the law by impounding appropriated funds? RFK Jr: If you appropriate the funds, I'm going to spend them D: We have! You're cutting the NIH by $18b. Congress appropriated those funds. How can you justify cutting billions from the biomedical research budget?
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?
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MakeWinesNotWar @michael-j-phillips.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This is a big deal… www.npr.org/2025/05/05/n...
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Former Palantir workers condemn company's work with Trump administration
In a rare rebuke, more than a dozen former workers of the powerful data-mining and surveillance company say the firm's work with the Trump administration violates the company's founding principles.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Reporter: I was watching your face during the meeting.. what was going through your mind when the President talked about erasing the border.. Carney: I’m glad that you couldn’t tell what was going through my mind Reporter: Oh I could
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/05/2025
UNDERWOOD: Do you believe that the US government has the authority to deport American citizens NOEM: No, and we are not deporting US citizens UNDERWOOD: Several American citizens have been deported
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MakeWinesNotWar @michael-j-phillips.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Pay our teachers!
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 03/05/2025
At a time of massive inequality, Trump's budget is breathtaking in its degree of cruelty. It slashes funding for health care, housing & education that the working class desperately needs in order to pay for more tax breaks for billionaires & the Pentagon. That is morally obscene.
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MakeWinesNotWar @michael-j-phillips.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
In addition, as of today, trump has made crystal clear he intends to impose #martiallaw in 90 days.
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 29/04/2025
Overnight, the russian army attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region. A drone hit a residential building, killing a 12-year-old girl, while injuring a 6-year-old child and 2 adults. russia continues to deliberately target Ukrainian civilians.
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MakeWinesNotWar @michael-j-phillips.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This should go REALLY well with #standyourground #comeonin #americangestapo
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MakeWinesNotWar @michael-j-phillips.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Breaking records again! #worstpresidentever #magat #resist #first100days
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/04/2025
Trump desperately wants to hide why everything is suddenly getting way more expensive. This administration is as incompetent as it gets.
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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/04/2025
they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
BREAKING: we won! A federal judge has enjoined the administration's shut down of Voice of America Another success for the Constitution and for us @sddaction.bsky.social & our many wonderful partners & clients More details to follow--stay tuned!
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MakeWinesNotWar @michael-j-phillips.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This is how fascists control the people. We are “the people”. Go ahead, try to find actual NEWS, I dare you. When will someone stand and fight instead of resigning? #cbs60minutes #cbs #60minutes #fascism #freepress #nonewsforyou www.axios.com/2025/04/22/6...
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"60 Minutes" executive producer Bill Owens resigns amid Trump lawsuit
Owens' exit comes as CBS' parent Paramount considers settling a $20 billion lawsuit from President Trump over a segment on the show.
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