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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

To the “Christians” who condone every evil and sadistic action taken against immigrants because “they’re illegal,” here is what the Bible says about how foreigners should and should not be treated. You know, the Book you claim to believe in.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I don’t know how you could look at Donald Trump’s record to date and think it’s a good idea to give him more power to levy tariffs. But that’s exactly what the Senate is poised to do, on a bipartisan basis, in a bill coming up for a vote today www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-vot...

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Senate Voting to Give Trump a Tariff Nuke

A bill supposedly aimed at Russia is really an unprecedented new tariff power grab—yet prominent Democrats are backing it.

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Stephen Reed @stephenreed1131.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Elon Musk's wealth goal is $10 trillion

Tweet from Elon Musk that says $10T or bust

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Stephen Reed @stephenreed1131.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Ben Shapiro said in his interview with Ezra Klein that this statement by Obama was the moment that radicalized the right.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/04/2026

"[Ben] Shapiro is an intellectual imposter of the grandest sense. What a waste of mind and life."

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The Most Articulate Apologist

A Crisis Dispatch

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 08/03/2026

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

Tweet from Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun: "Ignorance like this cheapens the horror of the Holocaust. Anne Frank was in Amsterdam legally and abided by Dutch law. She was hauled off to a death camp because of her race and religion. Her story has nothing to do with the illegal immigration, fraud, and lawlessness plaguing Minnesota today.

Our brave law enforcement should be commended, not tarred with this historically illiterate and antisemitic comparison."

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

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Stephen Reed @stephenreed1131.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Not only was Kavanaugh laughably wrong, he also doesn't know basic immigration law. Individuals with pending asylum claims are lawfully in the United States, but the government may, at their discretion, detain them during the process. With this regime, they are almost never free to go.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

"A war of aggression, sometimes also war of conquest, is a military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense, usually for territorial gain and subjugation, in contrast with the concept of a just war." It was a key target of the Nuremberg Tribunal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_...

Outline of Greenland with superimposed design of flag of Denmark.

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AILA @aila.org · 23/12/2025

"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." bit.ly/3MMdJvz

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ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't

Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”

What is necessarily implied in this declaration of the Democratic Party? 1. That citizenship is not a birth-right, and from this it results that the majority may rightfully, in the several States of this Union, deprive the minority of all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States.
I submit that no greater political atrocity can possibly be committed by human agency.
Let the people accept this proposition and they will become the architects of their own ruin. Nothing can be clearer than this, that under the representative system of government the rights of the minority are as sacred and inviolable as the rights of the majority. If the majority may rightfully disfranchise the minority of citizens on account of race, color or former condition of servitude, they may, with equal propriety, disfranchise citizens for want of stature or property, or on account of nativity, thereby, presenting to teh world the miserable spectacle of a government wherein a mere majority subjects to the absolute despotism of their will a minority of their fellow citizens, almost equal in number to themselves, and per chance, greatly superior in all the attainments and virtues which adorn, or elevate, or ennoble human nature.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

From my Cato colleagues in February: "We find that all immigrants consumed 21 percent less welfare and entitlement benefits than native-born Americans on a per capita basis... Noncitizens were 7.3 percent of the population and consumed just 3.5 percent of all welfare and entitlement benefits."

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Immigrants Used Less Welfare than Native-Born Americans in 2022

Rather than reaching toward expensive mass deportations as a solution to fiscal issues, the more free-market, libertarian, and fiscally responsible solution is to build a higher wall around the welfar...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.

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Stephen Reed @stephenreed1131.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Hunter Biden encapsulates how we all feel about some in the Democrat establishment how we have to listen to Trump voters youtube.com/clip/UgkxS63...

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Key points from @thebulwark.com -ICE is about to go from being 25% of the FBI to 400%. -ICE employees are the least trained and educated of all law enforcement. -Consider who wants to work for ICE under an admin touting cruelty. Completely dystopian. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVXa...

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Trump's Police State Is Officially Here

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I hoped never to see concentration camps like the ones I grew up in appear again in this country. Reading this breaks my heart.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The mass psychology of MAGA is quite something: perpetual victimhood & grievances. Now they’re upset because Superman (who’s from another planet) is an immigrant who values kindness and just wants to use his powers for the good of humanity. This upsets them - telling. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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James Gunn, Nathan Fillion and More on MAGA Outrage Over Director Saying Superman Is an Immigrant: ‘I Don’t Have Anything to Say to Anybody’ Spreading Hate

James Gunn is responding to the backlash surrounding his comments about Superman being an immigrant.

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Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

THIS is the insane asylum...

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Stephen Reed @stephenreed1131.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Just a public service announcement. Before posting a picture or video, make sure the description is not the complete anthisis of reality. Leave that to MAGA or go join them if that is your level of standard. Blocking any account that spreads obvious disinformation. You are the enemy of truth.

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Stephen Reed @stephenreed1131.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

After reading the New Yorker profile of Curtis Yarvin, it is more clear to me than ever that we live in the age of fraud. The ultimate crisis we are experiencing is one of epistomology: a majority of people are unable to distinguish bullshit and propaganda from established science and fact 🧵

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Stephen Reed @stephenreed1131.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

NVDA showing almost no impact from the tariff disruptions. We could be entering a scenario where the economy booms and Trump becomes more popular than ever. The fourth reich.

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Stephen Reed @stephenreed1131.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

When you or I break the law, we get fined and/or jailed and face civil liability. When the fed government breaks the law, they just shrug their shoulders. These double standards are deeply corrupt/fascist and contribute greatly to lack of trust. Time to rewrite the constitution. End civil immunity.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 20/05/2025

The Marco Rubio who testified today is not the one I served with in the Senate. He has had a full MAGA lobotomy. Today I directly told him about the many ways he has betrayed American values and interests:

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Senator Van Hollen questions Secretary Marco Rubio in Senate Foreign Relations hearing

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

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Stephen Reed @stephenreed1131.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The "Joe Biden is in poor health and mentally unfit to serve" was the exact same thing they did to Hillary in 2016 using conspiracy theories to justify their delusions. With Joe Biden there is a kernel of truth to it due to his age but it is pumped by the same idiots. www.ajc.com/blog/jay-boo...

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The 'dying Hillary' meme is this year's version of birtherism

In an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Rudy Giuliani complained that the mainstream media is covering up evidence that Hillary Clinton suffers a severe and undisclosed medical condition that renders her...

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Stephen Reed @stephenreed1131.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The ever wonderful Seth Andrews gives an excellent talk about meeting the moment: dissent is our duty youtu.be/woPq_hRSFlE?...

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Seth Andrews: Dissent is our Duty

YouTube video by TheThinkingAtheist

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Trying to imagine if Trump told America, "Maybe you don't need 30 guns, maybe 2 guns."

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Stephen Reed @stephenreed1131.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

We really do live in a stupid, ignorant society. Just another example of many.

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Stephen Reed @stephenreed1131.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

"A Moscow-based disinformation network named “Pravda” is pursuing an ambitious strategy by deliberately infiltrating the retrieved data of artificial intelligence chatbots, publishing false claims and propaganda for the purpose of affecting the responses of AI models on topics in the news"

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A Well-funded Moscow-based Global ‘News’ Network has Infected Western Artificial Intelligence Tools Worldwide with Russian Propaganda

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Stephen Reed @stephenreed1131.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The claim by this regime that Biden let in 20 million illegal aliens is outrageous. This is a gross exaggeration. I complied the actual data, which was surprisingly very difficult to compile given the importance of this issue (outdated and imperfect estimates for some, and from different reports)

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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

My thoughts on implications of new @cato.org study showing immigrant crime rates (including illegal ones) much lower than natives, even after controlling for race/ethnicity. Among other things, immigration enforcement is poor anti-crime strategy by any metric: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

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More Evidence that Immigrants - Including Illegal Ones - Have Much Lower Crime Rates than Natives

Claims that illegal immigration is causing a crime wave are ubiquitous on the political right, and likely helped Trump win the 2024 election. But social

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Something has happened in the last three months that has led basically every economic forecaster to predict that inflation will be substantially higher than they previously thought.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Markets are down sharply, again. Extraordinary economic pessimism, entirely attributable to mismanagement.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/04/2025

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

With Alito and Thomas dissenting that they very much would like a king, so long as the king will hurt the people they hate.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Two full-on MAGA fascists on the Supreme Court: Alito and Thomas. Originalists, my ass.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 18/04/2025

Judge Boasberg: "I have to say the notice certainly seems problematic to me, without any indication of any of their rights."

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Erick Fernandez @erickfernandez.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Van Hollen showing a lot of bravery, heart and fight. Screw those politicians who were giving anonymous quotes to Axios and to Gavin Newsom for calling this a “distraction” You need to fight and if you can’t make the case that people shouldn’t just be disappeared get out of politics.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Today's ruling from Boasberg is a lawful order and sets a process in motion. Compliance is expected. Anything less than that is abnormal and must be treated as such — from the courts, from Congress, from other officials, and ultimately from the people. Don't say he won't comply. Say he must.

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