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Berry Ladder @celestenovice.bsky.social · 8h

It looks like a parasitical growth

Berry Ladder @celestenovice.bsky.social · 8h

Look it was either leading the Office of Special Counsel or sending racist texts, and a choice like that is no choice at all. I guess we can take solace in the fact that he's going to get to spend more time doing what he loves.

Berry Ladder @celestenovice.bsky.social · 9h

You should pay her

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Berry Ladder @celestenovice.bsky.social · 9h

Notice after the Nazi drew their weapon to threaten the civilians, after an initial moment of shock, none of them retreated from it. They were pushed back by physical shoving, not by fear. We aren't afraid of these thugs.

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Berry Ladder @celestenovice.bsky.social · 9h

He said the same thing about his ball room, that "he was paying for it". He keeps saying that he thinks the US treasury belongs to him, personally.

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Berry Ladder @celestenovice.bsky.social · 10h

I've been thinking about the labelling too. I'd rather have a king than a dictator.

My problem isn't unitary executive authority, although I think that's bad, but stealing it and lying to everybody about everything. He's more like a Mafia kingpin than a king. Kings usually have legitimacy.

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Berry Ladder @celestenovice.bsky.social · 11h

Jesse Singal down to #3 most blocked. By the end of the week he won't even be in the top 5 and soon no one will remember that he used to exist.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23h

good bit from the Guardian review of Giuffre's memoir; I have heard several people from the NGO world express the confusion and embarrassment they felt at billionaires showing up with very young women at events.

In respect of these people I’d like to ask: who the fuck did they think the 17-year-old at the table was? What did they think she was doing there? Only Melinda Gates, who met Epstein once and cited him as a factor in the breakdown of her marriage to Bill Gates, sensed what apparently none of these people could put their finger on

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Berry Ladder @celestenovice.bsky.social · 13h

I would also like $230 million if the treasury is just handing it out to people with no legal claim. Do you think they can send it over Paypal? I'll take a check though.

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 17h

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 19h

Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.

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Berry Ladder @celestenovice.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats say that praising Hitler in Republican group chats and doing the Sieg Hiel at Republican campaign rallies is antisemitic. But here's why Democrats on Bluesky are the real antisemites.

--CBS frontpage, byline Bari Weiss' sister

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Berry Ladder @celestenovice.bsky.social · 1d

If Comey wins this motion for vindictive prosecution then Trump should be imprisoned instead; it's only fair.

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Berry Ladder @celestenovice.bsky.social · 1d

I keep thinking of how Democrats allowed Mitch McConnel to steal a supreme court seat and then the court declared Trump a king immune from both the law and also all checks and balances from other branches

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

He murdered a Colombian citizen in violation of domestic and international law. He’s now promising to illegally impose tariffs on Colombia because its president had the temerity to publicly criticize him for murdering one of that country’s citizens.

Yes, we are the baddies.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump says he's imposing new tariffs on Colombia but won't say what the rate will be

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

This is what the Department of Transportation is tweeting out today.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly.

Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.

Stay safe out there.

This picture is from about 5 minutes after being hit. A visible bruise is forming on my right cheekbone and by my right eye.

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 3d

Leo Garcia Venegas was even accused of obstructing agents – after the video of his first detainment at an Alabama construction site went viral

A DHS spokesperson later said he “physically got in between agents” and his brother, whose arrest he was filming.

Watch for yourself:

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Berry Ladder @celestenovice.bsky.social · 4d

He's one of the most likely Democratic presidential contenders and he's done good work protecting trans people. I've been giving him a chance because at least he's much better than Newsom. By and large I support him, which is why this is really disappointing and troubling.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4d

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 4d

As ranking Dem and former chair of the House Armed Services Committee, he usually stays in his lane because you save your powder for the defense fights.

When he lays it out like this, we should listen /2

So that's the second thing that a president has:
Article II, the inherent right of self-defense. If somebody is about ready to launch missiles at the U.S. or launch an attack, the president does have the authority to strike those people.
Drug runners do not qualify for that. And I know
—drugs kill-and they do. They kill tens of thousands of people. But it is not the intention of the drug runners to kill people. They're selling drugs, and drugs are a major problem in this country. I happen to think it's as much of a demand problem as it is a supply problem-but it is not a direct attack to try and kill Americans or seize territory in America.
And it sure as hell isn't that on a boat off the coast of Venezuela that is thousands of miles from the U.S. And that's the other thing-they haven't presented a shred of evidence that those boats were even headed to the United States.

Smith: Yeah and also understand the other connection, as you've seen the stories about Trump authorizing CIA action in Venezuela. I have no independent confirmation of that other than what I've read in the media. And as you see the rhetoric from him ramp up about the Maduro regime in Venezuela, is this really about stopping drugs or is he engaged in a regime change effort in Venezuela, which certainly hasn't been approved of by Congress and certainly doesn't fall under the Article II designation. Trump has mused about how now maybe they may bo hitting targets on land within Venezuela. So he is asserting the unilateral right to start a war with Venezuela

Smith: I've not been briefed. I don't know if I'd go so far as, I expect war. But if we, as a country, don't stand up and say, no, President Trump, you do not have the unilateral power to override the Constitution and do whatever you want whenever you want whenever you want to do it-Trump's just going to keep expanding.
And look, I'll tie a little terrifying connection in for you here. You hear what's going on in Chicago—and it's going on in other cities as well—but in Chicago, most blatantly, they are literally stopping people on the street and demanding their papers. If they don't have them-frequently citizens, legal residents— are being detained by your United States federal government without any probable cause, articulable suspicion, or any measure, just because they showed up and they want to say it.
They are violating our rights individually, and then Trump is asserting his right to use the United States military in any way that he sees fit— certainly in the Caribbean, but also right here in the United States of America. He's trying to send them to Portland, trying to send them to Chicago.

How far are we away from President Trump deciding to use the U.S. military to do a kinetic strike on people within the U.S. because he sees them as a threat, by whatever definition he wants to throw out there?
I want to say-and I know there's a lot of people on the left and in the Democratic Party who are all over this— but I want to say to the rest of you who are not: come on.
I mean, you could not like the Democrats, you could not like a bunch of our policies. Hell, you can oppose the Affordable Care Act, you can oppose a bunch of other things.
If you are an American conservative, do you want the federal government to be able to have that type of power-to take away your liberty-whether it's Trump or anybody else?

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Berry Ladder @celestenovice.bsky.social · 4d

@jbpritzker.bsky.social Bad look. If you say anti authoritarian stuff but then your state violence patrol goes around beating up peaceful protesters and violating their constitutional rights, it makes me think maybe you're full of shit.

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Berry Ladder @celestenovice.bsky.social · 5d

1. Everybody hates my truck and I like that
2. Included in "everybody" was my ex-wife

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 5d

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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