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Jamaica B @brixbuilder.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, we must acknowledge it - because this darkness would not have prevailed if those institutions had been effective.

Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 5h

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 5h

Sam Alito is going to have to stop knitting his next flag to show up and save this man.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 6h

Supreme Court: "We have to give black people a sandwich"
Louisiana: "Fine. What about a Po Boy?"
Supreme Court: "Or, you know, we could drown black folks in the river."
Louisiana: "WE ARE ALL FOUR DROWNING BLACK FOLKS IN THE RIVER!"

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 6h

Kavanaugh looking to find the "end point" when the Court no longer has to worry about the intentional use of race to create black districts.
I'd say "WHEN WHITE FOLKS STOP INTENTIONALLY USING RACE TO DECREASE BLACK VOTING POWER" but he thinks white people doing that is cool.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20h

It must have been traumatic for Speaker Mike to see naughty bits without having to circumvent his porn filter first.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 21h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1d

Trump playing up his bullet dodging skills at the Charlie Kirk memorial is really beyond parody.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Jamaica B @brixbuilder.bsky.social · 2d

It’s so smarmy, it makes my skin crawl. Officials treating her like she is precious, entitled to special perks. The director threatening the other prisoners with transfers to more severe prisons if they basically don’t kiss her ass.

This smug fcking pedo.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 6d

FILE PHOTO: Stephen Miller explaining to Kaleigh McEnany what it’s like to go to sleep inside six larger Stephen Millers each night

FILE - White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and White House senior adviser Stephen Miller walk across the South Lawn before boarding Marine One with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, on Oct. 20, 2020, for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and then on to Erie, Pa. for a campaign rally.//Andrew Harnik, Associated Press

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Jamaica B @brixbuilder.bsky.social · 9d

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Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 10d

I want to know what he said right before this that had all these sailors clapping. The optics are horrible and fucking offensive as a Democrat and American. Do these sailors not also protect me? Or are they at war with me?

The military has some hard choices to make and they need to make them soon

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Jamaica B @brixbuilder.bsky.social · 10d

Our citizens are steeped in stupidity and willful ignorance.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Jamaica B @brixbuilder.bsky.social · 10d

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12d

The policy failures we’re living with didn’t begin with Donald Trump - and they very clearly won't end with him either.

My party has to offer a vision for how everyday life actually gets better under new and different leadership.

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NPR @npr.org · 14d

The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.

Hundreds of celebrities relaunch a McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech

The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.

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Jamaica B @brixbuilder.bsky.social · 14d

Unbelievable!! Every day this administration gets more and more outrageous!

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Jamaica B @brixbuilder.bsky.social · 14d

This is a particularly powerful point…

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Jamaica B @brixbuilder.bsky.social · 14d

This is so effective. But I want to know how and why they thought they could just drive up to his house and interrogate him about his Constitutionally-protected statements. What the actual f??

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 14d

🗣️THIS is the message!!

Brava, Congresswoman @aoc.bsky.social!!

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15d

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

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Jamaica B @brixbuilder.bsky.social · 14d

Court opinion, framed as a response to a posturing and threatening postcard, but is truly a work of art from a true patriot, which will have much historic gravity past this moment.

Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 15d

hi, federal judge expert here! this is not funny. conservative, Reagan-appointed district judges only use epistolary framing devices in their opinions when they are in extreme distress.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 15d

the postcard cited in judge young's ruling isn't just at the top, it's a framing device. the whole opinion is a letter to the postcard writer. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Jamaica B @brixbuilder.bsky.social · 15d

I feel like I’m losing my mind - how can this really be happening??

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 15d

I’m not really sure what to say, but if this unhinged lunatic is allowed to remain president after posting this, we are truly lost as a nation.

Not only is this video vile, racist and immature, it’s totally unpresidential. Having this clown as our POTUS is beyond EMBARRASSING.

FFS use the 25th!

Pic of the vile, racist video Trump posted on X and Truth Social of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15d

Donald Trump’s decision to invade Portland on the basis of video from five years ago raises new questions about Joe Biden’s mental state.

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Jamaica B @brixbuilder.bsky.social · 15d

They were never going to dismiss an officer who demonstrated such raw ambition to physically assault brown families.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15d

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