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Barracks Life 🇺🇸🪖🌈 🎃 @barrackslife.com · 17h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”

@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

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Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 5h

Why would they do that? It's not logical.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

AP: “Though 🇺🇸 only spends around 1% of its budget on foreign aid, Trump declared USAID — once the world’s leading donor of humanitarian assistance — a waste of💰and dissolved it.”

(But his pal Milei gets $40 Billion for Argentina) apnews.com/article/myan...

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Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 5h

Trump will not stop until he is met with overwhelming political opposition. When he is, he will have no one to bully, threaten, coerce, or bribe. Solidarity is the way forward—for the American people and the institutions that underpin civil society and democracy.

Robert Hubbell

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Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 6h

At a time when the Supreme Court is dismantling protections for descendants of enslaved people, defending Republican officials who “joke” about white supremacy and Nazi atrocities is beyond the pale of decency and humanity.

Robert Hubbell

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 6h

A Republican staffer on Capitol Hill had a modified US flag on his bulletin board that incorporated the Nazi swastika. The Nazi symbol was spotted by a participant in a virtual meeting with the staffer for Republican Rep. Dave Taylor (Ohio).

Robert Hubbell

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 6h

The fact that Vance cannot even find the moral courage or outrage to condemn a slur directed at the Indian people, given his familial connections, tells us everything we need to know about JD Vance.

Robert Hubbell

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Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 6h

John Roberts may finally kill the Voting Rights Act. But it will be his Dred Scott moment, and will tarnish his name and legacy for centuries to come.

Robert Hubbell

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 6h

The reactionary majority has adopted a Catch-22 that automatically invalidates any remedy that seeks to protect the rights of a racial minority. If the remedy uses race in fashioning a solution to race-based discrimination then the remedy violates the Constitution.

Robert Hubbell

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 6h

A central grievance motivating today’s conservative legal movement — and the Republican Party more broadly — holds that any measure rectifying the country’s habitual discrimination against minorities actually discriminates against the in-group.

Kate Riga

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 6h

The tactics employed by Republicans to suppress the voting rights of Black Americans can also be used to reform the Court and rehabilitate the rule of law. Expand the Court at the first opportunity!

Robert Hubbell

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 6h

John Roberts’ lifelong assault on voting rights for Black Americans is the culmination of efforts by the Old South to reverse the gains of the Civil Rights era. They accomplished that task by packing the Supreme Court with justices hostile to equal rights for Black Americans.

Robert Hubbell

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Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 6h

The tide of public opinion is turning against the false promises of Trump’s 2024 campaign; our task is to ensure that the sea change swamps the GOP in 2026. Roberts’ evisceration of the Voting Rights Act will make our task more difficult, but not impossible.

Robert Hubbell

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Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 6h

Roberts came one step closer to cementing his status as the equal of Justice Roger Taney, whose opinion in the Dred Scott case is universally acknowledged to be the low point of Supreme Court jurisprudence.

Robert Hubbell

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Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 6h

Chief Justice John Roberts’ mission in life has been to erase the gains of the Civil Rights era by invalidating the keystone legislation that ended the scourge of Jim Crow laws in the post-Civil War South. During oral argument, Roberts made his ambition clear.

Robert Hubbell

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 7h

Despicable

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 7h

SCOTUS seems ready to scrap fair elections, greenlight racial discrimination and hand House control to GOP

Marc Elias

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Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 7h

Hegseth’s Pentagon is trying to force journalists to sign a pledge that would make it impossible to do independent journalism. Most journalists, across the board, declined to bend the knee. Attempting to cancel the First Amendment is part of this administration’s legacy.

Joyce Vance

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 7h

At the Pentagon, shutdown or not, Trump appointees are hard at work, shutting down the free press.

Joyce Vance

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Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 7h

Congress could pass a measure to pay the troops easily if only House Speaker Johnson would call the House into session. Democrats have been begging Johnson to bring such a measure to the floor. Trump says that because he is commander in chief, he has the right to this power.

Heather Cox Richardson

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Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 7h

Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.

Heather Cox Richardson

Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 7h

Trump promised that he was “not going to start a war,” and promised “to stop the wars.” He campaigned to win a Nobel Peace Prize, claiming to have stopped 7 or 8 wars. But the U.S. military is building up its resources near Venezuela.

Heather Cox Richardson

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Watashiwa judisudesu @dozo27.bsky.social · 7h

The actual name of what we know as the Voting Rights Act is “AN ACT To enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes.” Congress passed it after state legislatures refused to acknowledge the 15th Amendment for 80 years.

Heather Cox Richardson

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