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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22h
"a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority"

The phrasing you're looking for is that he's suspending parts of the Constitution by decree.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22h
President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.
Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money
The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d
Border Patrol propagandists filming their operation yesterday

📸 @mkaplanphoto.bsky.social
Feds in camo with tear gas launcher, rifle One agent in olive has what looks like DSLR camera Nondescript man in black shirt red hat with matching gas mask filming with larger camera
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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 1d
Another reminder that this is a violation of the consent decree and a court order. They do not care.
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 2d
UPDATE — Multiple witness videos today show an older white federal agent straddling a young Black man on the ground outside of a Walgreens on Chicago’s Southeast Side.

This is a developing story.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d
Chuck Schumer should be focused on fighting Donald Trump and protecting healthcare for millions of Americans, not meddling in a Maine primary.

DC's choice has lost to Susan Collins five times in a row. We can't afford a sixth.
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bhahne.bsky.social
bhahne.bsky.social @bhahne.bsky.social · 2d
Also because Musk is now calling for federal troops to invade our cities: www.yahoo.com/news/article...
‘The only solution': Elon Musk backs call to deploy federal troops to San Francisco
The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.
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bhahne.bsky.social
bhahne.bsky.social @bhahne.bsky.social · 2d
The yellow shirt movement in Thailand was PRO-king and PRO-coup! Yellow is a bad choice.

Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%...
"The People's Alliance for Democracy (... commonly known as "Yellow Shirts") was a Thai reactionary, monarchist political movement and pressure group."
People's Alliance for Democracy - Wikipedia
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bhahne.bsky.social
bhahne.bsky.social @bhahne.bsky.social · 2d
FWIW here's my case for why yellow is a bad choice: bsky.app/profile/bhah...
bhahne.bsky.social
bhahne.bsky.social @bhahne.bsky.social · 2d
I suggest that yellow is a counterproductive color choice and that Indivisible should retract this recommendation. (Thread)
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d
"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d
Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.
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bhahne.bsky.social
bhahne.bsky.social @bhahne.bsky.social · 2d
5. The anti-autocracy movement in the US already has colors: red, white, and blue. We continue to need to reclaim the US flag and patriotism from the right. If No Kings wants to attempt to brand this movement with colors, use US patriotic colors please, not yellow.

#NoKings #NoYellow
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bhahne.bsky.social
bhahne.bsky.social @bhahne.bsky.social · 2d
4. Yellow is the official color of the Libertarian Party.
Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberta...

#NoKings #NoYellow
Libertarian Party (United States) - Wikipedia
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bhahne.bsky.social
bhahne.bsky.social @bhahne.bsky.social · 2d
"Multiple verbal and physical attacks perpetrated by yellow vests against journalists have been reported and documented throughout the movement. For example, in Rouen during the Acte IX, LCI, television reporters were attacked by a group of protesters, thrown to the ground and beaten."
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bhahne.bsky.social
bhahne.bsky.social @bhahne.bsky.social · 2d
3. The recent "yellow vest movement" in France is associated with many acts of violence, including attacking journalists.
Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_...

"The protests involved demonstrations and the blocking of roads and fuel depots, sometimes developing into major riots..."
Yellow vests protests - Wikipedia
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bhahne.bsky.social
bhahne.bsky.social @bhahne.bsky.social · 2d
From the BBC article:
"[Yellow is] A loose grouping of royalists, ultra-nationalists and the urban middle class..."
"The yellow-shirts... were the force behind the street protests that led to the 2006 coup."
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bhahne.bsky.social
bhahne.bsky.social @bhahne.bsky.social · 2d
2. Although yellow was indeed used by the pro-democracy movement in the Philippines back in the 1980's, that's now 40-year-old history. A much more recent use of yellow by a movement is to represent the PRO-coup, PRO-monarchy forces in Thailand.
Ref: www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

#NoKings #NoYellow
Profile: Thailand's reds and yellows
The BBC looks at the two opposing camps that usually drive protests in Thailand - the red-shirts and the yellow-shirts.
www.bbc.com
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bhahne.bsky.social
bhahne.bsky.social @bhahne.bsky.social · 2d
1. "Yellow" in American English of course means "cowardly". Adding yellow into the mix would result in an unforced error by our movement, inviting our opponents to call us "the yellow movement".
Ref: www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/20...
Why "Yellow" Can Mean "Cowardly"
Becky G. asks: Why are cowardly people called “yellow bellied”? The color of warning signals, smiley faces, rubber duckies and the Sun (at least from our perspective- in fact the Sun is white if viewe...
www.todayifoundout.com
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bhahne.bsky.social
bhahne.bsky.social @bhahne.bsky.social · 2d
I suggest that yellow is a counterproductive color choice and that Indivisible should retract this recommendation. (Thread)
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 4d
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 5d
Important piece by Prof. Kate Andrias. This is why treating SCOTUS as the only word on the Constitution gives away our power as citizens.

As I frequently say “we are founders and framers” of the next iteration of democracy in this country.
GIFT LINK
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court
www.nytimes.com
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d
Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 5d
More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 5d
The autocrat's toadies destroy functioning governance and launch crisis after crisis in order to create a nation that runs on patronage in which he's the only one able to do anything for anyone.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 5d
Stephen Miller’s final form if we don’t stop him
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bhahne.bsky.social
bhahne.bsky.social @bhahne.bsky.social · 5d
I'm reminded here of a Ming the Merciless slogan from the 1980 Flash Gordon movie: "All creatures will make merry, under pain of death."
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6d
JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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