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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4h

The Trump regime’s constant onslaught of cruelty and mounting threats can be scary and demoralizing. That’s their intent.

But the people won’t bow down. On Saturday, we’re gonna speak out on a grander scale than Trump has ever seen. Find a peaceful protest: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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@DemocracyHere @democracyhere.bsky.social · 3h

💙💙💙

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Jeff Ash @jeffash26.bsky.social · 5m

Sadly, that'll play well throughout Red Rural Wisconsin. Democrats will need to work their asses off against this guy.

Spud Lovr @spudlovr.bsky.social · 3h

Tom Tiffany Snagging Support of Right-Wing Billionaires, Special Interests, and Ethically Challenged Political Operatives in Gubernatorial Bid

abetterwisconsin.org/tom-tiffany-... #wipolitics

Tom Tiffany Snagging Support of Right-Wing Billionaires, Special Interests, and Ethically Challenged Political Operatives in Gubernatorial Bid

Right-wing billionaires, special interests, and ethically challenged politicos seem to be coalescing around Tom Tiffany as their preferred Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate, based on the publicized li...

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Andrew O'Neill ❌👑 @andrew-oneill.bsky.social · 6h

I am not a terrorist

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Jeff Ash @jeffash26.bsky.social · 9m

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

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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 9h

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

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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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 2h

I’m old enough to remember when it was a scandal to say that a portion of your opponents were “deplorable.” This seems a lot worse?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Jeff Ash @jeffash26.bsky.social · 32m

"this Saturday, October 18th, millions of Americans will be peacefully exercising their First Amendment right to assemble in protest of the shitf*ckery that’s being inflicted on us by a convicted felon and his willing Republican accomplices."

Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 12h

here's today's post: "let’s talk about who really hates America" — the fascists and oligarchs are terrified of No Kings Day
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let’s talk about who really hates America

the fascists and oligarchs are terrified of No Kings Day

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12h

Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally.

Print it.

Put it in a frame.

Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy.

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Jeff Ash @jeffash26.bsky.social · 5h

Moon, Bonzo, John, Davy, Ace.

The first to go from famous rock foursomes.

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Jeff Ash @jeffash26.bsky.social · 5h

The first of the original four to go. A tremendous guitarist. Fortunate to have seen him with Kiss at the Summerfest main stage in Milwaukee 25 years ago and then solo at the Greenville Lions Park 13 years ago.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 5h

Ace Frehley, the wild Spaceman of Kiss who played guitar in the band throughout their Seventies heyday and again during the reunion period in the Nineties and inspired an entire generation of musicians, has died at age 74.

More on his life and legacy:
rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 6h

i mean, i guess these are basketball shoes, for people who want to be banned from ever playing basketball again

steel spike baseball shoes labeled as Adidas basketball shoes

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Jeff Ash @jeffash26.bsky.social · 6h

This week's mail brought this creased but still fine 1950 Bowman Hank Thompson card. Dig that!

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6h

The alleged security breaches by John Bolton remind me of security breaches by another ex-government official who kept classified records in his bathroom and evaded justice with the help of a corrupt MAGA judge in Florida.

Photo of records kept in Mar-a-Lago bathroom

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6h

If you're headed to a No Kings protest this Saturday, make sure you know your rights and others do too.

Download a Know Your Rights phone screen background, protest sign, and more.

Know Your Rights, Share Your Rights

Read the full Know Your Rights resource on protesters' rights here. If you're ready to share what you've learned, we've created graphics outlining your protest rights that you can download and share on social media.

www.aclu.org

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 11h

This is a huge scandal, one of the worst in modern law enforcement and something that is astoundingly unconstitutional and illegal.

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

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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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“Kids”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

The Republicans have in effect shut down the legislative branch of the U.S. government and handed those powers to the dictator in the White House. No one cleared this with the American people.

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Mer @merilann.bsky.social · 1d

He's mimicking Stalin, Hitler, Putin, et al.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

🚨The war on Antifa has begun, with the FBI canvassing informants for insights on the group, scrutinizing financial records and gathering intelligence on left-wing affinity groups, sources tell me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/inside-the...

Inside the War on Antifa

Feds target "affinity" groups, informant networks, the Tides Foundation, and more.

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

It should be a litmus test for Democratic presidential primary candidates whether they will restore the White House and DC public properties to exactly the way they were before the Palm Beach lounge lizard decided to turn it into Mar-a-Lago meets 1936 Nuremberg.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

“A diorama of power dynamics”?
The New York Times headline writers need to stop dropping acid during the workweek.

Oval Office becomes a diorama of power dynamics as Trump goes after rivals

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The propaganda spewing from Trump's departments and agencies blaming Democrats for the government shutdown is blatantly illegal. We have the Hatch Act for a reason. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trump-regime-is-wildly-violating

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