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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 5h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2h

I hate to say this, and most of you probably already know, but be prepared for mysterious bad actors to show up to No Kings protests and start trouble. The right needs to make the protestors look bad, so they will send fake Antifas to start violence and destroy things. It's their standard playbook.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 2h

Insurance rates up $2000.

Food benefits cut off.

Farmers unable to sell their crops.

Skyrocketing national debt.

$40 billion to Argentina.

America First!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h

It's the worst thing watching resegregation happen in real time to please a bunch of white supremacist nazis in power.

www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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David Bailey @drgdave.bsky.social · 2h

I'm probably out of the loop on this, but this is disappointing bc NBC was the last hold-out, so far as I knew.

CBS is Bari-world now, and ABC is owned by Disney. I thought of NBC as the last real news org.

Oh well.

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Gay ISIS Brony @rainbowdaesh.bsky.social · 7h

Couple of things for people who are going to a protest for the first time.

1: Take public transit for the final leg of the trip there.

Parking where there is a much smaller chance of your car being damaged is the main point, but it also makes it harder to be tracked. And yes you will be tracked.

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David Bailey @drgdave.bsky.social · 2h

I can't tell you that won't happen. It's a real possibility. But as I've told others here, I've been to ~40 protests this year, including #NoKings in June, and have never seen any violence. And with more than 2,500 events planned, the probability of violence at any one event is quite low.

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David Bailey @drgdave.bsky.social · 2h

I've been to roughly 40 protests this year, including #NoKings in June, and have never witnessed any violence.

But as others have said --- there's no rules to this! Stay for as long as you're comfortable staying!

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David Bailey @drgdave.bsky.social · 2h

NGL --- I expect there will be some violence somewhere on Saturday. But I also think concerns about violence are overblown. We're talking about more than 2500 events, so the chances of something bad happening at any one event is quite small.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 4h

A 3,000-pound, 17-foot-long "DEMOCRACY" ice sculpture is melting away on the National Mall today, a statement from activists and artists on the weakened state of American democracy under the Trump administration.
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

A 3,000-Pound Ice Sculpture Of 1 Word Is Melting In Front Of The U.S. Capitol

“It's time for all of us to resist, speak up and save our democracy before it's too late,” artist Marshall Reese said of his 17-by-5-foot installation.

www.huffpost.com

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David Bailey @drgdave.bsky.social · 3h

Contrary to JD Vance's bad faith characterization, this asshole is *NOT* just some kid.

He's 48 years old, and was under consideration to be Attorney General under Trump.

It's not just kids, and it's not just a few bad apples.

It's the entire GOP.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 4h

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico).

In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 4h

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico).

In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

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SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 3h

If not Nazi then why Nazi shaped?

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 12h

“Footage, obtained by the outlet, captured the musician face-down in the mud, with her instrument about two feet to her left, struggling as what appears to be a federal agent straddled her backside. A police officer stood next to the pair.”
The Feds then jailed her across state lines. For music.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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David Bailey @drgdave.bsky.social · 3h

We have seen it in D.C., LA and Chicago:
When thugs are given free rein to act without probable cause or warrants, while having their faces covered, they indiscriminately commit egregious crimes against immigrants and citizens alike.

Why doesn't everyone oppose this kind of authoritarianism?

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3h

Jim Crow SCOTUS

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 4h

For generations, Americans have fought for fair representation.

This Court has chipped away at that progress & Republicans are doing everything they can to rig the maps.

We must pass the Voting Rights Advancement Act & Freedom to Vote Act to protect our democracy.

www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Justices lean toward rejecting race in redistricting, likely boosting GOP in 2026

The court's six conservatives sounded ready to rein in the historic Civil Rights Act in drawing congressional district lines. Such a ruling could bolster Republican efforts in the midterm elections.

www.latimes.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Trump also removed Dem members of the FLRA.

To simplify a bit, Congress created bipartisan judicial-like entities to decide on whether abuses of personnel laws were taking place.

Trump illegally fired Dems, SCOTUS said that was fine, and now DOJ says judges can't weigh on personnel abuses.

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David Bailey @drgdave.bsky.social · 4h

WTAF?

So --- it's not enough for these assholes to try to drive trans kids to suicide in their own states. They feel compelled to go fuck around in the business of OTHER states, that AREN'T governed by the shittiest people in the country?!?

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 4h

A coalition of mostly Republican-run states has filed a joint brief in support of an effort to immediately block transgender athletes in Minnesota from competing in girls sports.

Republican attorneys general unite to support blocking Minnesota’s transgender athlete policy

The coalition includes 19 states run almost exclusively by GOP governors.

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David Bailey @drgdave.bsky.social · 4h

I wondered whether the site outage was a DoS attack by the fascists --- and in a way it was, I guess.

But, in a good way!

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 5h

who among us hasn't talked about loving Hitler or worked tirelessly on behalf of a person we called "America's Hitler" or talked about sending our political opponents to gas chambers or incited a wave of hatred of immigrants with vicious lies

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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wendyweiser.bsky.social @wendyweiser.bsky.social · 5h

What SCOTUS has done to the Voting Rights Act is really a travesty and should be a huge scandal. Here is a useful primer we published today on Section 2 of the VRA: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act at the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is considering whether a key provision of the Voting Rights Act remains constitutional.

www.brennancenter.org

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House Agriculture Committee Democrats @houseagdems.bsky.social · 6h

We just heard that Republicans want to give Argentina $40 billion in American taxpayer dollars, instead of the original $20 billion.

They're leaving family farmers in the dust and it's egregious.

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David Bailey @drgdave.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, but I'm sure it's still true that Tim Pool doesn't care that they said that.

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