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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 1h

“Pritzker has positioned himself among the most visible and unflinching figures of the resistance. The mutual antagonism between him and Trump has escalated to a point rarely seen between a president and the governor of a large state.”
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 9h

Fox News analyst (👀) Jack Keane on new Pentagon press policy: “They want to spoon feed information to the journalists, and that will be their story. That's not journalism.”

Fox News analyst Jack Keane on new Pentagon press policy: "They want to spoon feed information to the journalists, and that will be their story. That's not journalism."

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 7h

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Michigan revives its WWII arsenal of democracy role - this time with drones.

Factory Towns Revive as Defense Tech Makers Arrive

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 1d

“On Oct. 4 Judge Karin Immergut of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon issued a temporary restraining order blocking Trump’s federalization and deployment of the Oregon National Guard to Portland. The opinion is a model of judicial clarity. Other federal courts should read it”

David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 3d

“Earlier this month, a federal judge appointed by President Trump in 2019, did the worst thing you can do to Trump in a court of law: She took him seriously. She read his words, found them disconnected from reality and acted accordingly.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

Opinion | How a Trump Judge Exposed the Trump Con

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 2d

How social media influencers are promoting National Guard troop deployment to Portland

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How social media influencers are promoting National Guard troop deployment to Portland

The Trump administration is working with right-wing influencers to shape the public's understanding of protests against ICE in Portland, Ore.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

Why has Dominion Voting Systems been settling defamation lawsuits with Trump allies who falsely claimed the company stole the 2020 election?

Because Dominion has just been bought by a company run by a former GOP election official.

Be warned.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 5d

MSNBC is reporting that the DOJ is seeking an indictment of John Bolton.

I can’t stand that guy, and still: THIS IS SO WRONG.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 6d

In a democracy based on freedom and the rule of law, we don’t jail public officials—or anyone—because of policy disagreements. We need everyone to repudiate this nonsense because a president cannot act as a prosecutor, judge, jury and dictator.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7d

NEW: Comey is going to file selective and vindictive prosecution motion to dismiss AND he will challenge the legality of Halligan’s appointment! There’s more, too… so glad @annabower.bsky.social is there to bring us the whole story! Thread below with details:

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7d

The judge also set an initial schedule for pre-trial motions.

The first set is expected by Oct. 12. Per Comey’s defense counsel, that batch will include motions to dismiss for selective and vindictive prosecution, as well as a motion challenging the legality of Halligan’s appointment as US attorney

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 7d

No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...
“We look at pictures and videos out of Portland and we don’t see “war-ravaged” anything. We look at news reports out of Chicago and see the principal violence coming from federal officers”
Gt Law Prof, Steve Vladeck

Opinion | No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8d

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7d

Cartoon by @christopherweyant1.bsky.social.

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 9d

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“But they detained everyone in the building, smashed their doors, zip-tied their children, and ransacked their homes.
This was a wildly disproportionate and illegal response, even if the raid had actually had anything to do with crime.”

State Terror, American Style

Forget about “soft autocracy”

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 10d

“As much as the White House is trying to blame this on Democrats, who have refused to give Republicans the eight votes they need in the Senate to reopen the government, a survey by The Washington Post showed that a large plurality of Americans are holding Trump and the Republicans responsible.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10d

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 12d

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 14d

U S Senator Mark Kelly added that the silence of the generals when Trump entered was telling - and that Trump’s speech was often “incoherent”.

Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 14d

Lawrence O’Donnell is noting multiple examples of Trump’s mental decline — just today.
Where is Bandy X Lee?

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 15d

“Haass described Trump’s latest statements on Ukraine as those of an “observer in chief. It was almost as if he were observing U.S. foreign policy, rather than making it.””

Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 17d

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 17d

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · Sep 12

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 12

There is no excuse for political violence in America. And no excuse for a U.S. president using a heinous killing as an occasion to treat his political opponents as accomplices to murder and threatening to use the full power of the government to attack them.

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · Sep 12

Trump failed W Bush 101 on Uniter vs Divider

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