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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 7h

Your late-night reminder that presidents are not kings.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19h

Whoa‼️ Dems could lose 19 seats due to GOP gerrymandering.

CA, UT & MD can’t fight fire with fire alone. Other blue states must step up, and every Democrat needs to vote. Don’t sit out any election.

Push your governors and legislators to act. Tell friends and family to vote. Help them. #YesOnProp50

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JoAnne @joakev.bsky.social · 7h

Yup but it IS THEM.

LA Blue Dot in GA @namwella1961.bsky.social · 16h

As a child who lived through the Cold War, I never imagined it would be the Republican Party & the Supreme Court who would undermine our democracy, our rules of law, and our Constitution.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

“Kids”

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JoAnne @joakev.bsky.social · 7h

30 year old kids?

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16h

Vance on public outrage over the "I love Hitler" group chat: "Grow up! Focus on the real issues. Don't focus on what kids say in group chats... The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do."

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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 13h

www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Woman who says she was abused by the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sued Bank of America and the Bank of New York Mellon on Wednesday, alleging the banks knowingly provided financial services that enabled his sex trafficking operation for years.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 15h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

Check it out!

From the vault: Mike Johnson said he’d take a blowtorch to the ACA.

Here’s the thing… 45% of marketplace enrollees are Republicans. Cool! So he’s threatening to burn the GOP’s own base. 🔥
#TrumpsShutdownDragsOn

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 7h

You can't win when the facts of the case include: POTUS "has publicly stated that the layoffs will be ‘a lot’ & that they ‘will be Democrat oriented, because we figure, you know, they started this thing, so they should be Democrat-oriented.’” open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 13h

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 18h

Good afternoon to everyone but especially Janai Nelson, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, who argued her heart out today in an effort to stop the Supreme Court from destroying the Voting Rights Act.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 21h

“There are only three good kings in America: Gayle, Stephen, and Burger.” #NoKings

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 12h

Today here in SDNY Federal court, Bank of America got sued for "participating in adn financially benefiting from Jeffrey Epstein's widespread and well-publicized sex-trafficking operation." Inner City Press on the case(s). Maximum Maxwell book: amazon.com/gp/product/B...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 7h

Donald Trump and JD Vance can find money to launch missiles over the I-5 during a government shutdown, but not a dime for Americans’ health care.

I-5 may be shut down due to concerns over live-fire military event at Camp Pendleton

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is weighing whether to close parts of Interstate 5 beginning Friday amid concerns over what it says is a White House-directed plan to use live ordnance during a military ann...

www.latimes.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7h

While Trump plays trade war like he’s holding all the cards, our executives are coming back from China terrified.

They’re walking through “dark factories” where robots run the show so efficiently the lights don’t even need to be on.

One exec saw a plant pumping out phones with zero human workers.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 9h

Can governors legally call up their own state's national guard to protect polling places on election day?

They need to keep ICE and the Feds far away from people voting.

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Justice Wanted! Justice Denied! Disgusted Forever @kathymary.bsky.social · 7h

We all know the Repubes shut down the govt. The continuous blatant Lies are so disgusting!

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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 9h

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h

Collins: Marjorie Taylor Greene—is she someone that you could see yourself working with?

AOC: On what? If she actually wants to support legislation and expanding healthcare… I'm more than open to doing that. But it's not just about talking the talk. We got to walk the walk.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

"We’ve been sending up well-tested people for decades, and the country is in worse straits than it’s ever been. It’s a mess right now, and it’s a mess that is, in my opinion, built specifically by the political class. And it’s time to do something different." - @grahamformaine.bsky.social

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Deborah Weeks @deborah-10.bsky.social · 11h

Gavin Newsom calls for congressional investigation into GOP chat messages - POLITICO

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 11h

Mike Johnson called us back from July 4 recess on 7/3 so he could gut Americans’ healthcare in the Big Ugly bill. Since then, he has only had the House in session for 19 of the subsequent 104 days. That’s how we ended up here.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

Mockler: I have spent all my formative years watching the President talk about the opposition party like they should not exist. His claim to fame in politics was saying that Obama was not born in America.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h

Trump has frozen or canceled $28B in funding for infrastructure projects in Democratic congressional districts.

Meanwhile, representatives of those districts are fighting to extend ACA subsidies — more than half of which go to people in GOP-held districts.

Remember this.

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