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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h

NEWS: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva have SUED the U.S. House of Representatives in federal court in Washington, D.C. over Speaker Mike Johnson’s refusal to swear in Grijalva.

Grijalva would be the 218th vote for the Epstein Files discharge petition.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10h

Arizona announces they are suing Mike Johnson for refusing to swear in Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva.

She is the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

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Borders Abound @bordersbarking.bsky.social · 7h

💀💀🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

NEW: AZ AG Kris Mayes and Adelita Grijalva have filed suit asking the court to declare Grijalva a member of the House once she's sworn in, and if Johnson won't do it, to allow someone else to. www.abc15.com/news/state/a...

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10h

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

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Borders Abound @bordersbarking.bsky.social · 8h

It’s too big

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 19h

I wonder how much revenue was lost yesterday due to the AWS outage, and how much money Bezos made anyhow. Feels like maybe AWS is too big.

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Borders Abound @bordersbarking.bsky.social · 11h

Facts. Thank you @raskin.house.gov

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Raskin: "Speaker Johnson described the exercise of 1st Amendment rights across the country by 6 or 7 millions Americans as part of No Kings as a 'Hate America Rally.' The Hate America Rally happened on January 6 ... there were more than 140 police officers who were wounded."

Borders Abound @bordersbarking.bsky.social · 11h

#releasetheepsteinfiles

Borders Abound @bordersbarking.bsky.social · 11h

We all called this

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 13h

CHOP called new evidence presented by President Donald Trump’s administration weak and untrustworthy in a blistering legal response to federal efforts to investigate its doctors providing gender-affirming care.

CHOP lawyers defend transgender care in blistering response to Trump administration seeking patient information

The Department of Justice claimed it was investigating "fraudulent billing practices" in an effort to procure patient information related to gender-affirming care.

www.inquirer.com

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Borders Abound @bordersbarking.bsky.social · 11h

We all know why and it STILL didn’t work

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 19h

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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Borders Abound @bordersbarking.bsky.social · 11h

I didn’t have Van Drew from NJ growing a conscience on my bingo card

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 11h

www.usconstitution.net/13-republica...

13 Republicans Break With Leadership in Letter That Changes Shutdown Dynamics - U.S. Constitution.net

Thirteen House Republicans just sent Speaker Mike Johnson a letter that reveals the messy constitutional reality behind this government shutdown: both parties actually want to extend enhanced Obamacar...

www.usconstitution.net

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Truthout @truthout.org · 11h

Major banks have funneled $2 billion into Amazon oil and gas projects since last year, investments Indigenous leader Jonas Mura calls “complicit in genocide.”

Big Banks Poured $2B Into Oil and Gas Financing in the Amazon Since Last Year

“These investments are complicit in genocide,” said Jonas Mura, chief of the Gavião Real Indigenous Territory in Brazil.

buff.ly

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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...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Racial profiling. All day every day.

www.newsweek.com/us-citizen-s...

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Borders Abound @bordersbarking.bsky.social · 11h

He’s the jar jar binks of government

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Dan Rather @thedanrather.bsky.social · 11h

No American president has ever had so many people protest against him, because no American president has ever been so deserving.

The Resistance Is Growing

What happens next?

steady.substack.com

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Borders Abound @bordersbarking.bsky.social · 11h

No money for cancer but we have enough money for a useless ballroom.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h

We need to remove the cancer in the Oval Office to restore funding to children’s cancer research.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14h

If you can’t win, why not cheat, that seems to be the MAGA playbook. The Republican-controlled North Carolina Senate has passed a new congressional map in a 26-20 vote, setting up an expected final vote in the state House.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 12h

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 13h

GEORGE CARLIN WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING

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Borders Abound @bordersbarking.bsky.social · 11h

#fdt

Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 18h

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.