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British Immigrant in Canada. Travel & Politics Blogger | Journalist | https://thisbritslife.com/international-politics/ #womensrights #humanrights #travel #anti-facism #somethingiswrong2024 #metoo

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Gemma @gemslawrence.bsky.social · Nov 18

Calling All Americans (and Friends)

Instructions from MLK’s daughter and Coretta Scott King.

#NEVERSAYHISNAME

Don’t give him credit for anything. He’s #45. It’s “The Republican Administration” or “The Republicans” who are doing everything.

Pass along. Share with journalists too!!

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Kt @kty38.bsky.social · 4d

www.opb.org/article/2025...

Colleagues say Oregon judge who blocked Trump troop deployment is ‘well-respected’ and ‘has no fear’

U.S. District Court Judge Karin J. Immergut is now at the center of one of the most consequential cases over executive authority in modern presidential history.

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Rose Ann The Sharer @thecleannewdeal.org · 26d

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John Scott G @johnscottg.com · 7h

Get rid of Rethuglican Rule and then America can have nice things.

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ShethaDamnTruth 🌊🌊🌊 @shethadamntruth.bsky.social · 4h

This is not legitimate ICE trained agents.
These are a racist, bitter human beings who feel as if this is their only recourse to get even with someone who has probably long forgotten what they’ve done to them.
Cowards, loyalist, mindless, spineless cultists.

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Patrick Lovell The Producer @patricklovellpresentsthecleannewdeal.com · 7h

Instead of being played by propaganda of CBS and 60 Minutes and capitulating mainstream media and even @maddow.msnbc.com and @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com who stepped over this monumental revelation, I highly to encourage you discover what you may have missed about #Epstein youtu.be/sky4amhdYn4?...

A discussion with David Enrich of The New York Times regarding JPMorgan and Jeffrey Epstein.

YouTube video by Patrick Lovell Truth Bombs The Con

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

Amateur hour with the feds!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 8h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 3h

I hope we see lots of the Portland Frog Brigade everywhere on No Kings Day.💚

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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Barracks Life 🇺🇸🪖🌈 🎃 @barrackslife.com · 6h

YES: Federal Judge rules federal agents in Chicago MUST wear visible identification. 👏 Show your faces, thugs!

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 8h

The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown.

Inmates say she's getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 5h

The level of kleptocratic corruption in this regime is breathtaking, e.g.:

—Selling off Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae to big banks

—Bribes from ABC & CBS

—TikTok sale to Ellison

—Everything Qatar: the plane gift, the Idaho military base

—Whoever has bribed him by buying his scam meme coins

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 19h

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 6h

I do not want to see a Supreme Court justice’s face on cable news, period

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Resist the World’s Oligarchy @greyghost65.bsky.social · 8h

💯⚖️💯
🖕🚫🌮💩👑🤑🚫🖕

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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Gemma @gemslawrence.bsky.social · 3h

They all conveniently forget about the Nuremberg trials and what happened to all the Nazi’s

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 4d

The “Bush being informed about 9/11” meme has been defeated.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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tat1111.bsky.social @tat1111.bsky.social · 15h

“And the ones that made them do it” which is where Biden and Garland failed us all.

Don’t elect a single person that does not recognize where we went wrong, or this will never be stopped.

It’s Trump and his cohorts that will need to be prosecuted… all of them!

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 15h

Every democrat should be talking like this. Not the feckless mueller time version of this that we’ve had for years, but actual promises of actual consequences

As long as it goes unpunished we’ll never be free of this

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 16h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18h

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 9h

"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try, or that you do know the difference, and you prefer evil." Great essay from @juliusgoat.bsky.social

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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Gemma @gemslawrence.bsky.social · 3h

Love Zach Bryan ❤️

I hope he sues the Government for using his song in one of their awful Nazi propaganda videos.

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HEAR IT: Country star Zach Bryan CALLS OUT Trump's deportation crackdown in new song

YouTube video by MSNBC

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