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JWS Hikes @jwshikes.bsky.social · 3h

Doing a great job FOTUS, keep up the effort breaking that record, being best at being worst is something to put into the history books

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 3h

Then again I suppose my voice in this doesn’t matter, because as an Asian American, once again, I do not exist in the context of polling and thus a primary metric shaping American political discourse

Poll Tracker 📊 @polltracker.bsky.social · 8h

Net job approval for Donald Trump at the start of his second term | now among...
White Americans +17 | +1
Hispanic Americans -5 | -42
Black Americans -31 | -74

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JWS Hikes @jwshikes.bsky.social · 3h

Just another reason to avoid all things META

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Carl Ott, Author @bubba687.bsky.social · Apr 3

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JWS Hikes @jwshikes.bsky.social · 3h

It was just a matter opf time, unfortunately I am sure there will be many more for that group committing more violence

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 3h

A man whose convictions for storming the U.S. Capitol were erased by President Donald Trump’s mass pardons has been arrested on a charge that he threatened to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. https://to.pbs.org/4nWzvKF

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries

A man whose convictions for storming the U.S. Capitol were erased by President Donald Trump’s mass pardons has been arrested on a charge he threatened to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 10h

Precisely!
The Real Reason For The Shutdown!

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TomTerrific @bestofthebest1.bsky.social · 5h

The wonderful wizard of Oz…

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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 4h

The Fascism is clear as day at this point!!

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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸💙🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 4h

Chicago Suburbs:
ICE has started patrolling Mount Prospect neighborhoods prompting community members to show up in response...

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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 4h

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h

"Republicans are finding themselves, stop me if you've heard this one before, in the middle of another ridiculous text message scandal."

@eggerdc.bsky.social breaks it all down in Morning Shots: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-golden...

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 7h

Good. Donald Trump should not be dictating what colleges teach.

And not a single university needs to cave to Trump's intimidation tactics. This is an important example for other institutions to follow.

There is power in standing up together against Trump's power grab.

White House hits roadblock in effort to get top colleges to agree to deal

Six of nine universities that were asked to sign an agreement in exchange for funding advantages have rejected the offer, two said they were open to more discussion

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 9h

This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.

Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week

A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.

www.cbsnews.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 6h

Horrifying.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7h

The man, who was one of nearly 1,600 individuals Donald Trump and Republicans let loose onto the streets, allegedly wrote in texts: "I cannot allow this terrorist to live" and "Even if I am hated, [Jeffries] must be eliminated, I will kill him for the future." 2/2

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 6h

We know most people are already following the @50501movement.bsky.social , but if you’re not, you should be. They did an incredible job this weekend organizing the No Kings protest. 💚✊

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 7h

The Republican Party’s efforts to entrench its power despite unpopular policies expose how deeply its strength depends on undemocratic institutions and on a brazen disregard for the very norms that sustain democracy itself.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7h

Breaking News: North Carolina state senators approved a new congressional map that could give Republicans an extra seat. The state House is expected to pass it.

North Carolina State Senate Approves New Congressional Map in Effort to Add a Seat

The Trump administration has pushed Republican leaders to redraw House district maps before the midterm elections next year.

nyti.ms

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6h

Military troops shouldn't be policing our communities.

Purple graphic reading ""Observers may be tempted to view the majority’s ruling, which accepts the government’s characterization of Portland as a war zone, as merely absurd. But today’s decision is not merely absurd. It erodes core constitutional principles, including sovereign States’ control over their States’ militias and the people’s First Amendment rights to assemble and to object to the government’s policies and actions." – Judge Susan P. Graber, dissenting in the decision to allow President Trump to deploy 200 Oregon National Guard members to Portland

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 8h

Is there literally anything Johnson knows?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Getting back to the Jeffries threat, this is one of a number of J6 pardons that's been rearrested. Did Trump make a mistake?

JOHNSON: I don't know any of the details. I'll tell you the violence on the left is far more prevalent than on the right. The rhetoric that you saw Saturday plays into it

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JWS Hikes @jwshikes.bsky.social · 8h

Lying spineless jellyfish...

JWS Hikes @jwshikes.bsky.social · 8h

You are useless, just resign. If the entire GOP congress resigned, we could save millions of tax payer dollars and actually get some work done.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 8h

What if every day Putin keeps the war in Ukraine going, he pays $2 billion to arm the people fighting him? The money already exists— frozen Russian assets. Let’s turn his stolen billions into Ukraines shield

open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

How to Make Putin Pay: The $2 Billion-a-Day Plan That Could End the War

By using Russia’s own frozen assets to arm Ukraine, the free world could force Putin to calculate every new day of war as another billion-dollar loss — in both money and men.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 8h

It’s day 21 of the shut down and we are all feeling it.

🍽️Too good to go app (surplus food from local eateries/stores at ⬇️ prices)

🗺️https://myfedbenefitshelp.com/shutdown-assistance-map/

If you’re a CDC worker needing help or an ally wanting to support CDC workers 👉 www.cdcresourceportal.org

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JWS Hikes @jwshikes.bsky.social · 8h

Huh, that must be some real potent coolaid, the MAGA CULT is drinking, if they actually did some work instead of watching fox entertainment or sitting by their phones waiting for FOTUS to post orders on truth social. Maybe just maybe the congress could get something useful done.

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JWS Hikes @jwshikes.bsky.social · 8h

Spineless jellyfish, is what he is!