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goto636.bsky.social @goto636.bsky.social · 9h

Every service member took an oath to defend the Constitution. Those in charge of junior members should be ensuring that no one forgets that oath.

AFG Intel Wire (@afgintelwire)

Powerful. Well said. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Ax677s/

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goto636.bsky.social @goto636.bsky.social · 9h

All States should be working to prevent these illegal gerrymandering attempts by the GOP.

Missouri GOPers in ‘Full-Blown Tantrum’ Over Ballot Measure to Block GOP Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

goto636.bsky.social @goto636.bsky.social · 10h

ICE arrests a giraffe!

butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 1d

ICE Gestapo snatched @roadsteamer.bsky.social ! #robbyroadsteamer #iceout

goto636.bsky.social @goto636.bsky.social · 10h

SCOTUS is willfully ignorant of what they've allowed to happen.

“If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” [Justice] Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.”

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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goto636.bsky.social @goto636.bsky.social · 1d

Facebook has, again and again, capitulated to convicted felon Trump's orders. It won't be long before Facebook reports anyone who posts a non-flattering comment about the orange traitor.

Meta Removes Facebook Group That Shared Information on ICE Agents

www.nytimes.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

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Nikki Budzinski @budzinski.house.gov · 1d

We’re demanding that Secretary Collins stop weaponizing this shutdown. By ignoring our requests for casework assistance, you’re not hurting us – you’re hurting America’s veterans and their families.

Democratic lawmakers accuse VA Secretary Collins of ‘weaponizing’ the shutdown and ignoring requests to assist constituents

Democratic lawmakers accused VA leaders of “weaponizing” the shutdown by ignoring requests to assist veterans and their families in their districts.

www.stripes.com

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 1d

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 1d

Jacob Soboroff is doing a great job investigating and debunking the claims that ICE is making about their arrests targeted worst of the worst

Congress can help reign in ICE- IF we get a Democratic majority. That will be more likely if California passes Proposition 50. #YesOnProp50

[Image of Uncle Sam holding California oranges]

SAVE DEMOCRACY FROM GOP ELECTION RIGGING

CALIFORNIA

VOTE YES ON PROP 50

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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goto636.bsky.social @goto636.bsky.social · 1d

Convicted felon Trump's Gestapo will only get worse until ALL Americans fight back. Find a way, no matter how small, to stop or slow down this thug army.

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name

She even had her U.S. passport on her.

newrepublic.com

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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

Democrats would be in danger of losing around a dozen majority-minority districts across the South if the court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act.

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goto636.bsky.social @goto636.bsky.social · 1d

"...Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel have abandoned all pretense that they are interested in something so old-fashioned as the rule of law".

It’s Getting Worse.

The Trump administration’s assault on the rest of us is intensifying.

www.thebulwark.com

goto636.bsky.social @goto636.bsky.social · 1d

These people will stop at nothing to get their way. Firing anyone who disagrees with their authoritarian agenda.

Mystery Solved: Trump US Attorney Was Forced Out For Not Investigating the Investigators

INSIDE: Todd Gilbert ... Jack Smith ... Cory Mills

morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com

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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 1d

This is your daily reminder that the President of the United States is a convicted FELON ‼️

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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goto636.bsky.social @goto636.bsky.social · 1d

Just more GOP lies.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

NEW: Jim Jordan wants to question Jack Smith about his search of Mar-a-Lago, but Merrick Garland executed that search months before Jack Smith was even appointed. One of several lies in this letter demanding Jack Smith's testimony. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

goto636.bsky.social @goto636.bsky.social · 1d

These are the GOP leaders of the future. Still think the GOP isn't a white bread sexist and racist organization?

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 2d

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goto636.bsky.social @goto636.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, Stephen Miller let something slip again and went silent. He just stopped talking, no glitches, no technical issues, he just stopped. Maybe it's because he showed his hand and wanted to run.

Stephen Miller's radically bogus idea of "plenary authority"

This is not how the Constitution works.

www.publicnotice.co

goto636.bsky.social @goto636.bsky.social · 2d

I believe that the whole country knows what a charlatan RFK, Jr. really is, but MAGA-morons don't care. Doctors know he's an idiot.

Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 2d

RFK Jr. is pushing partisan politics and conspiracy theories over science and facts.

A bipartisan group of ACTUAL doctors and experts sounded the alarm on how dangerous it is to have RFK Jr. at the helm of the nation's health care system.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 2d

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

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