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Metro North Capital@metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 6d agoShe’s perfect.
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Metro North Capital@metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 6d ago
1/ For months, Republican operatives have been quietly filming every town hall, every interview, every livestream a Democratic candidate does. Not for research. For raw material. Here is what happens to that footage before it reaches your feed. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
When the Indiana Senate refused to do mid-decade gerrymandering, Trump posted about it nonstop & got directly involved in taking out the senators who voted against it. But when thousands of people in IN have been without power for 2 weeks, Trump posted nothing and doesn’t care.
🇦🇺 Australian healthcare workers stage powerful sit-in protest against Israel’s abduction of Palestinian medical staff from Gaza 🇵🇸🏥
Fact check: did Trump administration attempt to acquire, by contract, control over Canada’s trade relationships, cultural protections, official languages policy, auto industry, and provincial procurement, with a unilateral-enforcement whip attached share.gemini.google/EKsCsuEgNPaq
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The GOP’s debt alarm comes with a partisan mute button: loud under Democrats, silent under Republicans. At $40T, the bill keeps climbing either way. John Darkow skewers the selective fiscal panic. 🐘💸⛰️ #USPolitics #NationalDebt
Trump was reported to be visibly angry because the once deeply loyal Pirro would not lie for him this time. Pirro's office had said in a court filing that the damage resulted from shoddy construction, not vandalism. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Trump blasts Jeanine Pirro, says she 'choked' in dropping reflecting pool case
President Donald Trump sharply criticized U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro on Monday for dropping a case of alleged vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, saying she had "choked"...
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Article is gifted. The Trump administration last year delayed a $10 million grant that was supposed to help Minnesota thin out about 4,000 acres of dense, dry forest at high risk of burning. That work never got started, officials say, and now those areas are on fire. wapo.st/4fpWETW
‘We were shovel-ready’: A Minnesota forest hit by DOGE cuts is now ablaze
Officials said losing out on the ability to do vital prevention work at a perilous time for the region hindered them from being as prepared as they could have been.
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#ResistanceRoots Sophie Aberle was born on this day in 1896 in Schenectady, N.Y. She was an anthropologist, physician and nutritionist who merged those fields to serve the Pueblo people of New Mexico. She advocated for land rights so they could return to traditional agricultural practices. /1
They call it “proof.” But proof costs money, time, transportation, and access that many eligible voters do not have. A right with a price tag is no longer equal. It’s Jim Crow 2.0 in administrative clothing. #PayToVoteSaveAct
A couple times when I worked at the Strand I had to fulfill rich peoples' interior decorator requests, which would be like, "12 feet of old hardcover books with gray binding," and I was so disgusted that these mfers were never even gonna open them, but holy cow this is way worse
Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · last mo.companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
Pete Hegseth is not a serious person. And Ossoff is devastatingly good at this. But who else wanted him to shout out, “Just answer the f*cking question”?
"... because they have all done the dumbest thing you can do as a leader — surround yourself with sycophants — they have all blundered into dead-end wars from which they can extricate themselves today only by eating a banquet of crow." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/o...
Opinion | Trump, Netanyahu and Putin Have All Blundered Into Dead-End Wars (Gift Article)
The quick-fix fantasies of the world’s strongmen.
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From #MajorJasonWatson 's website GOAL For 12 million patriots to nonviolently occupy Washington DC until President Trump and his entire cabinet are impeached, convicted, and removed VISION With courage and compassion, we act every day to save our Republic defendersofourrepublic.org/services/goal/
JUST IN: US judge blocks Trump administration from stripping immigrants of work permits reut.rs/4vHK4V6
Trump will try to punish Brazil for the success of Pix, a hugely popular digital payment system that allows people to make payments in official currency on their phones. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
UTAH — man stabs Muslim mall worker 15x in broad daylight, tells police he targeted him because of his religion and "intends to kill Muslims” 👇🏽bystanders knocked the man out More: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... Video: www.instagram.com/reel/Daz7Hsz...
Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
Most Americans are waking up to headlines and social posts that say ICE is discontinuing traffic stops like the one that resulted in the killing of Joan Sebastian Durán Guerrero. Now Trump has flip flopped on that but its not likely that part of the story will get nearly as much coverage...
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2mo agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says ICE should continue traffic stops after recent fatal shootings, seeming to contradict new policy to halt them.
NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH, PART I: ICE’s Use of Force policy prohibits ICE officers from firing at a moving vehicle because it is unlikely to stop it safely and creates extreme risk to bystanders, passengers, and other officers. POLICY: www.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...
We all know this. But don't think I've ever heard an elected Democrat say this aloud?
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2mo agoOssoff: In my view, he's obsessed with Georgia because he can't get over the fact that it was black voters and black political power who were instrumental to his defeat in Georgia and in a number of crucial battleground states.
People are afraid to leave their homes. Parents are afraid to take their kids to school. Families are afraid go shopping. This cannot go on. We cannot allow this country to become a surveillance state. We must hold this Administration accountable.
Rep. Stansbury: We cannot allow the U.S. to become a surveillance state
YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury
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Article is gifted. Lawless ICE terrorism. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...
Videos Detail Moments Surrounding Fatal ICE Shooting in Biddeford, Maine (Gift Article)
Footage obtained by The New York Times shows ICE agents in the moments before and after the killing of Joan Sebastian Guerrero. The circumstances of the shooting remain unclear.
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Hochul: But why were they there in the first place? Is it just unsafe for people in this country to even be in their vehicles anymore—that you could get gunned down by rogue ICE agents? People have had enough.
