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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell, 1984

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Oblio @williamwillyloman.bsky.social · Jul 25

Republicans have proven time and again they will stop at nothing!

As the 2nd term of the Trump regime comes to an end you will see the most heinous crimes yet!

Put a pin in it!!!

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 22h

I’m disgusted by the photos of Ttump’s demolition at the East Wing, but I’m even more sickened by the renderings of his mar-a-lago ballroom dwarfing our White House. Once we’re rid of this despicable man, that ballroom must also be removed.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

CNBC: Is importing beef from Argentina a possibility?

BROOKE ROLLINS: Yes, the president has said he's in discussions with Argentina. It will not be very much. Argentina is also facing a foot and mouth disease issue.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 15h

Hundreds of people protesting ICE in downtown manhattan right now. Reads and Broadway. NYPD cops in riot gear on scene.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 23h

"Frivolity and absurdity are kryptonite to authoritarians..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

Opinion | The Rise of the Inflatable Chicken Resistance

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14h

Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.

U.S. marshal and undocumented immigrant shot during ICE stop in Los Angeles, officials say

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 15h

ICE fired shots again, hitting a civilian and a U.S. marshal. DHS, once again, is claiming the man rammed ICE with his car. Let’s see how long before that version of events unravels. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Shooting by ICE officer in Los Angeles wounds motorist, U.S. marshal

Federal authorities said the driver had threatened officers with a vehicle while trying to flee an arrest.

www.washingtonpost.com

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 5h

Russian forces struck a kindergarten in Kharkiv with killer drones this morning, according to top Ukrainian officials.

Russia bombs kindergarten in Kharkiv, Ukraine says

“These strikes are Russia’s spit in the face of anyone who insists on a peaceful solution,” rages Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

www.politico.eu

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DFDerp @datfreakyderp.bsky.social · 1d

They've never found all the kids separated from their families during his first term.

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

CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15h

If I were ever elected president, the first thing I’d do is take a sledgehammer to that ballroom.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

America's Sleeping Giant roared when police attacked civil rights marchers.

And after tens of thousands of young Americans were killed in Vietnam.

And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate.

Today it roars once more — at the tyrant in the Oval Office.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 11h

Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 12h

When Truman renovated the White House, he “relied on congressional appropriation and formal oversight by the Commission of Fine Arts and NCPC.”
Trump claims unilateral executive authority to demolish the East Wing & build a ballroom that he alone wants.
#UnitaryExecutive

www.enr.com/articles/616...

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 11h

Whenever you hear someone invoke the unitary executive, remember the image below.

This was an inevitable result of the unitary executive theory:
Empowering a president to tyrannically destroy institutions that ensured our government reflects the rule of law rather than his personal whim.

Photograph showing ruins of the East Wing of the White House, with nearly the entire building destroyed.

(Photo obtained by Law Dork.)

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 11h

Turns out that our founders knew what they were doing when they gave Congress the purse strings.

It’s a shame that the Republican Justices who control the Supreme Court have so little regard for the safeguards the founders wrote in to the constitutional design.

This is what tyranny looks like:

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Oblio @williamwillyloman.bsky.social · 17h

He’s only asking for $230 million? What an amateur!

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Dan Weiner @danw329.bsky.social · 18h

On its face, the Constitution’s Domestic Emoluments Clause bars payments to the president from the federal government. This would seem to be exactly the kind of scenario the Framers worried about when they included this provision. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

The Emoluments Clauses, Explained

The framers wanted to insulate the president and federal officials from corrupting influences, but a new law is needed to ensure effective enforcement.

www.brennancenter.org

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Oblio @williamwillyloman.bsky.social · 17h

As someone once said: Elections have consequences.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 17h

Just when you thought your head had exploded so many times that there really wasn't enough left to explode yet again, kaboom.

Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 17h

Trump has already gotten off scot free from dozens of lawless actions.

And now he is demanding $230 million in taxpayer dollars as "compensation" for past investigations.

This wannabe dictator is drunk on power and no amount of money will ever be enough to satisfy him.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 21h

This is Trump’s Republican Party.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump nominee says MLK Jr. holiday belongs in ‘hell’ and that he has ‘Nazi streak,’ according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

“.. He’s not going to pass.”

@pbsnews.org
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 22h

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...

www.thecrimson.com

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Oblio @williamwillyloman.bsky.social · 20h

I may have missed the headline, but did Congress approve this?