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Bobert

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DMV lawyer; musician; lover of books, music, art, and film. Opinions my own and definitely not my employer’s.

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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 4h

Also randomly this was in my head the other day.

La la la la la la la… 🎶

When You're Hot, You're Hot

YouTube video by Jerry Reed - Topic

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 4h

Very much like the early Roman Empire… the trappings of the Republic are there, but imperium was held singularly in one person.

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 4h

Foreplay

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 4h

We’re all trying to find the guys who did this, etc etc

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

I don't think I'd be able to refund it though. It's a lot of money. I guess I'll continue to watch/play by ear.

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

You and me both!

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

Rich for him to say this when he was debate prepping Trvmp in 2020...

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

Got to bring those low-rise jeans back to compete 😂

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

Should I book a room on the overnight Friday Amtrak just in case ATCs strike, so I don't get stranded in FLORIDA? Am I overthinking this?

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 12h

🫠🫠

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 12h

My grandfather was in the coast guard and worked at Ellis Island briefly before we went to war, and I wish he were still around to ask him more about that time. Always, always ask the questions.

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 13h

Morgan is still in TXLege??? I bumped into him at the Starbucks around the corner from my apartment a decade ago and had a productive conversation about school funding, he got nothing accomplished, and he remains the last Republican I ever voted for.

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 13h

I hate to break it to you, but we know why extreme weather is happening more frequently. You just don’t want to believe it.

Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 13h

New: Top Republicans in the Texas Legislature have announced the creation of committees tasked with “getting to the bottom of” the July flooding that killed more than 130 people.

New legislative panels will investigate “facts and circumstances” of deadly Central Texas floods

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Camp Mystic leaders would be invited to testify before the committees, as part of what Speaker Dustin Burrows said would be a “comprehensive and thorough review.”

www.texastribune.org

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 13h

Precisely

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 13h

The Supreme Court held that that homophobic “church” could protest and shout slurs at MILITARY FUNERALS because expressive speech is protected in this country, but apparently standing up against an oppressive secret police operating within our communities without accountability is “abusive.”

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 16h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 14h

YOU ARE THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE!!!!

Your chamber uniquely controls/directs appropriations! The Department of Education is a creature of statute, and these actions by the admin violate statutory requirements.

What. Are. You. Doing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 14h

Just Nazis doing Nazi shit. There’s no denying it anymore.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 15h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 15h

Was it @ptklein.com ?

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 19h

YES

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

(It’s just a circle)

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 1d

been asking this for months. we can get journalists parachuting into bumbfuck Soybean, North Dakota, for sob stories about farmers who voted themselves into poverty -- but nothing about the Venn diagram between January 6'ers, Proud Boys, the KKK, and ICE?

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 1d

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Bro is not capable of being president *right now* but they say he’ll still be there in four years? Okay, sure. Will he be conscious?

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

I know he was thinking, “I’m not paid enough for this.”

Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

I support this