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Lincoln Democracy 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 @stef47.bsky.social · 4d

Firing federal workers has been a Republican wet dream since Reagan.

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Jean Ibosh @fedup90611.bsky.social · 5d

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 7d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11d

Naked children torn from their mothers and tossed into vans.

U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties.

Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed.

This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda.

It was always about cruelty.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11d

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

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Chris N @cen73.bsky.social · 10d

Ah, the perfect Saturday.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12d

Trump is now gloating about meeting with Russ Vought of "PROJECT 2025 Fame" to apparently determine which "Democrat Agencies" he wants to cut during a shutdown.

Remember when Trump denied knowing about the authoritarian playbook and many pundits and politicians gave him a pass?

Project 2025: The MAGA Plan to Take Your Freedom | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

youtu.be

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Chris N @cen73.bsky.social · 12d

Farmers who voted for Trump, too.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13d

About to go live!

Zohran standing next to a sign for THE VIEW in a studio.

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 13d

It’s a bad look.

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Annastasia @annastasia77.bsky.social · 13d

I will NOT be silenced!!

Oct 18th No Kings March, I will see you on the streets, to defend our democracy, our rights, the rights of our legal immigrants!

Be safe, be vigilant, stay in groups and use your 1st amendment right to a Peaceful assembly!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

AOC: "This will experiences the consequences of this, but we have to be the consequence. Which is why we have to stand tall right now alongside everyday Americans who want us to be standing up."

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 13d

This is not a fight about tax credits.

This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin.

We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.

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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 15d

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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 14d

There are no words. A psychopath is sitting in the Oval Office, demanding illegal acts from OUR military. 25th amendment NOW!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15d

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?

I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.

So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15d

Sound Up 🔊

( ht: @stanrezaee.bsky.social )

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15d

Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers:

38-54 (Quinnipiac)
39-60 (AP)
40-56 (Gallup)
41-58 (Reuters)
39-56 (Economist)

On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/2010...