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stricxl.bsky.social @stricxl.bsky.social · 3h

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Breaking: Russia’s Massive Night Assault on Ukraine — While Trump Privately Coordinates with Putin

As Ukraine burns under Russia’s bombs, Trump and his allies are moving in the shadows. What happens next affects every one of us.

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 3h

The majority maintain faith through famine, economic collapse, and policies that kill millions. The propaganda apparatus attributes disaster to enemies rather than leadership. The majority do not leave. They double down.

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History Says Most Trump Supporters Will Never Turn On Him. No Matter What.

I remember the moment in a psychology course when my professor described the Soviet famine of the 1930s with a detail that has never left me.

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stricxl.bsky.social @stricxl.bsky.social · 5h

Make sure you can vote on November 4th! Online voter registration deadlines are approaching in Connecticut, Nebraska, Alabama, California, Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania & Wyoming.
Register online & use @bluevoterguide.bsky.social as a resource to learn about lcandidates, ballot measures & elections.

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BlueVoterGuide.org @bluevoterguide.bsky.social · 8h

🗣️ Ready to vote on November 4th? Online voter registration deadlines are fast approaching—register now!
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stricxl.bsky.social @stricxl.bsky.social · 6h

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Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It

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stricxl.bsky.social @stricxl.bsky.social · 6h

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Supreme Court likely to further diminish — but not end — Voting Rights Act cases

A majority of the justices didn't appear willing to hold that all "race-based redistricting" is unconstitutional, as Louisiana wanted. But how they'll get there was unclear.

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stricxl.bsky.social @stricxl.bsky.social · 6h

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It sure looks like the Voting Rights Act is doomed

The Republican justices hunt for a reason to gut America’s most successful civil rights law.

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stricxl.bsky.social @stricxl.bsky.social · 6h

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In Supreme Court Land, Fixing Discrimination Against Black Voters Is The Real Racism

A central grievance motivating today’s conservative legal movement — and the Republican...

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stricxl.bsky.social @stricxl.bsky.social · 20h

Might want to work on the texts that the Young Republican in New York have been sending internally

Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 20h

State Department revokes visas of six foreigners, saying they celebrated Charlie Kirk’s killing

The agency said the U.S. “has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans” and said it is continuing to identify other visa holders.

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stricxl.bsky.social @stricxl.bsky.social · 20h

What member of the military, or their commanders, would see this as a legitimate order to carry out?!

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20h

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump may launch missiles from warships into California this Friday and Saturday as part of what is being described as a “vanity parade” and shut down portions of the I-5 during the No Kings protests meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

stricxl.bsky.social @stricxl.bsky.social · 20h

Good

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 20h

Brown University President Christina Paxson announces that she has formally rejected the Trump administration's compact. www.browndailyherald.com/arti...

Brown University rejects Trump administration compact

President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 said that the compact would “restrict academic freedom and undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance.”

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 23h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
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Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Lev Parnas @levparnas.bsky.social · 22h

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Putin’s Abduction and Brainwashing of Ukraine’s Children

An Analysis by Cult Expert Dr. Steven Hassan

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stricxl.bsky.social @stricxl.bsky.social · 23h

At $20 billion, this bailout was outrageous. How did it get to $40 billion?
Why are we bailing out Argentina when so many fundamental programs for Americans are being destroyed?

Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 23h

Republicans claim we can't afford Social Security and Medicare.

They're giving a $40,000,000,000 bailout to Argentina.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

🔥 ZOHRAN ON FOX: "I want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Adams who will call you to stay out of jail… a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election… I’ll be a mayor ready to speak at any time to lower the cost of living.“

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 23h

“The most patriotic thing that you can do is say no kings.”

Jean Smart is asking you to join us in the streets on Saturday. Let’s make No Kings Day the biggest and loudest peaceful protest in modern American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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stricxl.bsky.social @stricxl.bsky.social · 1d

Ummmm

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

They arrested a giraffe.

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

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

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stricxl.bsky.social @stricxl.bsky.social · 1d

Elise Stefanik has enabled this rhetoric and behavior

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Elise Stefanik is scrubbing photos of herself accepting awards from the vile Young Republicans caught in the Politico group chat. She supported every single one of them in New York State.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Leader Jeffries: Trump promised to cherish Medicaid. Instead, Republicans enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in history. That's unacceptable. Republicans falsely claim to be the party of health care. But their policies are closing hospitals, nursing homes, and health centers throughout the country

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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 1d

Republicans & Democrats in Congress are finding common ground on an urgent security challenge: supporting countries where instability fuels migration, empower malign actors, & open doors for US adversaries.

Peter J. Quaranto & Kevin Melton on the drive to revive the #GlobalFragilityAct:

Global Fragility Act 2.0? Amid a Possible Bipartisan Revival, a Chance to Make U.S. Peace Efforts More Effective

If the administration seizes this moment, GFA 2.0 could help the U.S. prevent costly wars and compete effectively with rivals abroad.

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 1d

Dumb Dumb Donnie is crashing out.

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stricxl.bsky.social @stricxl.bsky.social · 1d

PA people:

brpubs.bsky.social ❌👑 @brpubs.bsky.social · 1d

Please share this with PA folks. PA Repubs are posting very deceptive signs that try to align the No Kings movement with a no vote on retention -- the EXACT OPPOSITE of the truth. It seems Rs are so doubtful they can sell voters on the R position that they're trying to deceive them instead.

stricxl.bsky.social @stricxl.bsky.social · 1d

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stricxl.bsky.social @stricxl.bsky.social · 1d

Another bad idea

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Trump threatens removal of World Cup games from Boston, Olympics from LA

Blaming Boston street takeovers and LA wildfires, the US president said both global sporting events could be moved for supposed safety reasons

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stricxl.bsky.social @stricxl.bsky.social · 1d

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Senior prosecutor removed as Lindsey Halligan reshapes key US attorney’s office | CNN Politics

Maggie Cleary — the senior Justice Department prosecutor who briefly led the powerful US attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia last month before Trump ally Lindsey Halligan took over —...

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