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MsBifyouplease

@msbifuplease.bsky.social
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Old mountain mama. Happily married since 1982 to a California curmudgeon, mom to two adults and a cat named Icarus. Trying to find hope that we’re not doomed.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10m
Official data shows tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers have been sent to countries they have no ties to.
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Trump ramps up third-country US deportations despite global rights outcry
Official data shows tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers have been sent to countries they have no ties to.
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Curb Your Malthusiasm @manuclearb0mb.bsky.social · 8h
Cory Booker’s statement didn’t even *name* Ilhan Omar. So why do I think they will jail the Trump admin when they won’t even tepidly defend their own
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No president should be able to weaponize the federal government against political enemies and we cannot grow numb to this. Donald Trump has a clear record of doing exactly this.
We are days before the election, and everyone should be deeply suspicious of President Trump's justice department and their actions against any sitting member of congress.
Moreover, Trump himself continues to prove how detached he is from the most pressing concerns Americans are facing, and why his agenda of cruelty, chaos and corruption must be checked.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 3h
War crimes prosecutor Reed Brody calls the International Criminal Court's arrest warrants issued against Yoav Gallant and Benjamin Netanyahu in 2024 "a watershed in international justice" — and the inciting incident for "when the United States moved to strangle this court."
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4h
so many of us saw this coming (Radley included), from January 2025:
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The Laken Riley Act Spells Chaos for the Immigration System
The U.S. immigration system isn’t ready for the havoc and expense this bill could unleash. But the real pain will be felt by the immigrants the bill targets.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 4h
these are all serious crimes and the executives involved in this corruption scheme need to be prosecuted, not just the government officials. dems will need to decide whether we have rule of law or not. letting them go means we do not
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h
Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.
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A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew
BREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 5h
Folks were obsessed with this story because once again it hit the liberal ideal of politics: this isn’t our fault, our friends and neighbors aren’t actually Nazis with an ideology we have to consciously address, it’s just a building and if we blow it up we won Politics: the Video Game
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h
FWIW, I refer to this as "closing the hardball gap." It's the idea that asymmetric adherence to norms is itself destablizing, and that norm-breaking can/should be done in democracy's defense. This is a bit dated but it gets at the basic point:
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MsBifyouplease @msbifuplease.bsky.social · 5h
Hey I’m watching you right now. Hi!
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MsBifyouplease @msbifuplease.bsky.social · 6h
Isn’t this always the way. The bad guys (Trump admin and McConnell &his rubes) break the court by just doing it without any qualms, but to fix the court we must clutch every pearl in the world. So nothing changes. Great!
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K Jumbe @kjumbe.bsky.social · 6h
"Vance used a gun to force the teller to hand over all the $$$, an action some criticized as a bank robbery." It's dire that NYT can't clearly identify the plain meaning of events and utterances. Everything is an unproven mystery. Nothing is certain. Who's to say if a rising sun signals morning?
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Once again. Just like the Paramount Merger Gavin Newsom does what he always does. Sells out the working class people for the billionaires again and again. Not only that but endorses a bill that will make it impossible to tax the wealthy at all. www.commondreams.org/news/newsom-...
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Newsom Endorses Ballot Measure That Would Cancel Out Billionaire Tax—and Ban Future Wealth Taxes | Common Dreams
"He’d rather millions of children and families lose their healthcare than ask a couple hundred billionaires to finally pay their fair share."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18h
her colleagues are really gonna show their asses in the coming days.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 19h
read that sentence. it is a description of political persecution. anyone giving this the time of day as a serious legal case is a fool.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h
Authoritarian regime grabs electronic communication devices of prominent opposition member. Since it’s highly unlikely there is anything on her phone about immigration paperwork from 30 years ago we can assume this just became a fishing expedition.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 19h
“If there’s a ‘fraud’ that Trump and his cronies see in Omar, it might not be a literal immigration violation … The ‘fraud’ to them, is in Omar’s claim to the dignity of equal citizenship; in the idea that a woman, born in Somalia, might be as equally and powerfully American as they are.”
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 19h
Hey so I guess we’re gonna get a final word on which Dem leadership has a semblance of a spine, huh
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 21h
Feel free to correct me but I'm pretty sure he is the only politician in history where the actual words coming out of his mouth do not matter in the least to his supporters. Coherence is simply not a requirement.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22h
Forget Halloween -- this is the scariest thing you could see this October
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MsBifyouplease @msbifuplease.bsky.social · 22h
With this administration, stenography is complicity. Just pathetic
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Real wages are falling, and have been falling for months.
Line chart titled "Inflation adjusted hourly wages are falling" shows real hourly wages for private sector workers in January 2025 dollars from March 2024 to September 2026. Real wages climbed from $35.38 in March 2024 to a peak of $36.30 in November 2025, then fell to $35.86 by September 2026, eroding most of the inflation-adjusted gains workers had achieved over the prior 20 months.
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MsBifyouplease @msbifuplease.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Months of illegal murders you mean.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I'm sorry but the key priority for the next US SecDef has to be extracting Elon Musk from every single thing related to US military contracting. No Musk company should receive any government contract of any kind from any Dem executive.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The annual New York Arab American Comedy Festival is back: Oct 15 to 17 in NYC! This is the only place in the USA you can see more than 25 great Arab Americans in six big shows! To see the amazing line up and for tickets please visit: www.arabcomedy.com
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MsBifyouplease @msbifuplease.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It’s weird how they don’t wait until after the midterms? Or is it that they know they will lose and want to hurt as many people as possible while they have the power to do so. Like the psychopathic degenerates and grifters they are.
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MsBifyouplease @msbifuplease.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Guantanamo is where the Trump administration should go. All of them. And we should ask Cubans to be in charge of them.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
If the disruption really is some kind of political intervention, this is only further proof that Europeans—or anyone in the world—can’t rely on any of Musk’s products, as they will be at the whims of the technocrat that still finds himself at Trump’s beck and call. newrepublic.com/post/216600/...
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Ukraine Loses Starlink Access as Musk Says Zelenskiy Went “Too Far”
SpaceX suddenly throttled access to Starlink with no warning, Ukraine says.
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MsBifyouplease @msbifuplease.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I still would prefer to keep all religion out of our politics.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 14/10/2026
⚡️ 'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says. Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says
Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.
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Newsom Endorses Ballot Measure That Would Cancel Out Billionaire Tax—and Ban Future Wealth Taxes | Common Dreams
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
knifed in the back by newsom
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If we let republicans get away with this like we let them get away with throwing out Bush, democrats deserve their future losses
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "Trump has been fortunate to face an elite opposition that mostly believes in handing over their lunch money... He is not playing three-dimensional chess so much as just punching people, in the great assurance that they will not punch back." www.vanityfair.com/story/donald...
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How Donald Trump Made Himself Into The Dominant American Of Our Age
The 45th and 47th president has been called consequential, imaginative, influential—sometimes for better, mostly for worse. Ta-Nehisi Coates takes it one beat further in a bid to examine just how pivo...
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MsBifyouplease @msbifuplease.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
So is our press going to pretend that it’s just Guilfoyle who’s corrupt? It’s the entire Trump administration and the trumpublican party.
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Trump admin won. They cut down 500 cherry trees. The trees are dead and gone. The lesson is not to celebrate the court order that came after the trees were killed. The lesson is that we must create penalties for the liars in the Trump admin so the next time people will be afraid to do it.
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MsBifyouplease @msbifuplease.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Oh don’t forget Putins sugar mama Susie Wiles!!
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The anti-tax gang does the full crazy on vacant property taxes and CA's wealth tax cepr.net/publications...
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Crazy Lies from the Anti-Tax Gang
Claims that vacant property and wealth taxes threaten privacy or trigger stock market panic ignore the facts behind these proposals.
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MsBifyouplease @msbifuplease.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Trump administration has diminished the role of press secretary so much that it is just a waste of time. The press occasionally asks a good question and trumps press secretary’s spew propaganda. Ridiculous to even pay attention to them anymore.
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MsBifyouplease @msbifuplease.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Oh please they’re all even more corrupt. She’s just no longer in the inner circle.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The only requirements are: 1) happy to lie 2) believes completely insane stuff 3) looks like Ivanka
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If I were a Democrat in Congress I would say fifa paying Trump $4 million for an empty office “raises serious questions” but because I’m a normal American person I can just say FIFA is bribing the president of the United States
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Why don't reporters ask Trump, "Why do you promote racist hatred against ethnic groups?" Answer: Because the reporters' bosses and the owners of their news outlets don't want them to ask that question.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"raises serious questions" was *maybe* a feburary 2017 argument. this is a man who was twice impeached who led an armed insurrection against the us government. wake the hell up.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 12/10/2026
They're not looking for anything specific The entire point is to humiliate her and put fear in their opposition
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This strongly worded letter better not be the end of it from them
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong. Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Looking forward to the same scrutiny being impartially applied to Elon Musk and Melania Trump, whose immigration documents are much much worse than anything alleged about Omar's father
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
ok heres one democratic senator being clear and unambiguous about this. anyone else want to step up?
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 12/10/2026
I’m outraged by this attack on Representative Omar. Trump and his DOJ have a bizarre obsession with tearing down Minnesota, our leaders and our communities. This latest action, even as voting has already started in Minnesota, is a transparent attempt to interfere in our elections.
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