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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15h

Let's be clear: If North Carolina Republicans gerrymander their already illegal map further, they will be sued and they will lose.

I never bluff and I usually win.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17h

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 1d

Re: the ongoing measles outbreak. If you’re old enough to have experienced the longterm, devastating consequences of infectious diseases prior to widespread vaccination campaigns in the 1950s-60s, please TELL YOUR STORIES. On social media, in letters to the editor, on the radio., etc. #NotForgotten

Sharon Harvey @grannyblue4.bsky.social · 1d

I can attest for the loss of sight. I got measles prior to vaccines. After spending a month isolated in a darken room, I came out with vision so bad I couldn't see more than a foot in front of me. That is a lifelong consequence. People need with wake up and get their kids vaccinated.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

Find your local event at nokings.org/#map.

Bring your family and friends. Stand up with everyone you love, for the country you hold dear.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21h

Soon it will be show us your papers. This must stop.

A tweet by James Surowiecki replying to David J. Bier. Surowiecki asks, “Where in the Immigration and Nationality Act does it say that US citizens have to prove that they're citizens or else be arrested?” The quoted tweet by Bier reads, “ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog,” accompanied by a photo of a man wearing a face mask and standing near vehicles at night.

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aimin2please.bsky.social @aimin2please.bsky.social · 1d

maga is like a little kid blaming their imaginary friends for peeing the bed.

It's antifa or communists or Visigoths or woke or DEI or socialism or African Americans or Asians or immigrants aka Hispanics or gay people or trans gender people or poor people who are to blame, never magats.

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tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · 1d

At its worst yet: Chicago immigrant advocates face authoritarian ICE intimidation. 800 calls in a day. Rapid responders pepper sprayed, slammed, tailed, even detained though citizens. Civil society under siege for merely documenting arrests.

‘It’s Never Been This Bad’ - The Atlantic

Immigrant advocates face escalating consequences and threats from the president.

www.theatlantic.com

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ABQ Free Press @freeabq.bsky.social · 1d

SCOTUS’s unsigned emergency-docket orders are important signals:

“We are cowards who fear if we definitively rule against Trump, he’ll ignore our orders and it’s game over.”

So, these unsigned, non-precedent-setting, Etch A Sketch opinions buy SCOTUS time until Congress or voters weigh in.

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L’ren LeCocq @lecocqarts.bsky.social · 2d

Very clever, and true:

Angels In Velvet @angelsinvelvet.bsky.social · 2d

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ABQ Free Press @freeabq.bsky.social · 3d

Usually, the chief executive gets blamed when the corporation goes into the toilet.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

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Jenn Burrill @jennburrill.bsky.social · 3d

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ABQ Free Press @freeabq.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently working for Donald Trump’s secret police pays better than serving one’s country.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

They’re still offering new ICE recruits a $50,000 signing bonus, yet active duty military were seen today lining up at food banks.

Defend your country and you can’t afford to eat.

Terrorize your country and you become rich.

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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 3d

A federal judge has extended a consent decree (the Castañon Nava consent decree) that limits ICE’s ability to arrest people without warrants or probable cause.

The decree remains in force until February 2, 2026.👇

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ABQ Free Press @freeabq.bsky.social · 3d

Based on the women Trump has appointed to high government positions, if she were still alive today, Farrah Fawcett would be a heartbeat away from the presidency.

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 5d

Eric Swallwell (D-CA) says it’s coming to an end and House Republicans are privately breaking, that a “jailbreak” is brewing the moment the Epstein files hit the floor, and that Trump’s aura of fear is finally cracking.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

SWALWELL’S BOMBSHELL EPSTEIN TWEET: "The Epstein Files Are Coming And The GOP Are Getting Ready To Abandon Trump"

218 or chaos: Inside the House moment that could shatter Trump’s grip

open.substack.com

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 3d

WHAT THE HELL

Just one day after a federal court judge ordered ICE to stop using force against Chicago journalists, here is ICE using force against a Chicago journalist.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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ABQ Free Press @freeabq.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve said this before: The Nobel people should give Trump a participation trophy — ideally a little gold one. Gold spray paint will do.

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 4d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 4d

Boom there it is!

untethered to the facts

no credible evidence

if that's a judge's view, no degree of deference should dictate the opposite result. This is a really important principle

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 4d

Perry: "I have seen no credible evidence that there is danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois."

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 5d

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ABQ Free Press @freeabq.bsky.social · 4d

Trump’s assertions of the need for troops in Chicago are “simply unreliable”?

That’s an understatement!

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Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 5d

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

www.bloomberg.com

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ABQ Free Press @freeabq.bsky.social · 5d

A candidate who won’t answer follow-up questions? Seriously?

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ABQ Free Press @freeabq.bsky.social · 5d

You don’t need to be a lawyer to understand how bogus Trump’s prosecutions of his enemies is. Listen to this clip of US Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on MSNBC:

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ABQ Free Press @freeabq.bsky.social · 5d

The 10th Amendment is critical to preventing the current Trump power grab.

It reserves certain rights to the states (and their political subdivisions, like cities) and to the people.

It’s these rights Trump is abrogating by creating “emergencies” to call in troops and give himself more power.

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