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Lip @lipatp.bsky.social · 11h

wow... libdems... they're so fragile...

Lip @lipatp.bsky.social · 11h

if he cares about antisemitism, he should say something about heritage foundation and its president, Trump and young Republican Nazis, etc, etc.

instead of only some who are anti Israel

what a loser

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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 22h

This is insane.

Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 1d

Some context to the viral videos:

Around 9am Friday, ICE/CBP *encircled* several square miles of a safe suburb and *stormed* it using multiple units.

They were in cars, on foot in alleys & gangways, and in helicopters. They demanded papers, threatened residents, pointed guns, kidnapped people.

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Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 1d

And I cannot even get into how many people in our community are here because they or their parents or grandparents were being hunted and terrorized in Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia & the Soviet Union.

They know what this is. They know it's happening here.

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Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 1d

Schools went on lockdown, people stayed inside. It lasted the entire afternoon. A constant din of whistles, sirens, helicopters, people shouting. Or dead silence.

I see the NYT, New Yorker, commentariat frame it as "activists clashing with ICE."

No.

ICE/CBP/DHS are terrorizing US citizens.

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Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 1d

The viral videos show horrifying events, but do not capture the fact that they were EVERYWHERE and took people from at least 3 separate neighborhoods. This was not a one street, one incident event. It was a military style siege stretching from Calvary cemetery to Skokie.

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Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 1d

Some context to the viral videos:

Around 9am Friday, ICE/CBP *encircled* several square miles of a safe suburb and *stormed* it using multiple units.

They were in cars, on foot in alleys & gangways, and in helicopters. They demanded papers, threatened residents, pointed guns, kidnapped people.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13h

"Polanski has blended anger with hope.

“Hope is much more difficult to sell than outrage, but he’s finding a way to do it that connects with people.”

Let's make hope normal again!

observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Green party surging as Polanski’s social media strategy w...

Green Party membership has more than doubled, driven in part by its platform messaging on apps like TikTok

observer.co.uk

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Lip @lipatp.bsky.social · 17h

and electoral reforms like RCV/STV, or regulate the evil big techs,

they don't want to do anything about it

Lip @lipatp.bsky.social · 17h

yeah the excitement on California prop 50 is confusing
"save democracy", "defeat fascism"?
come on, it doesn't at all.
even the public campaign funding, newsom/California dems put it on 2026 ballot measure, what's the point to delay it...

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2d

Has even a single House Democrat called for him to step down yet?

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 2d

HAKEEM JEFFRIES: " It's Halloween — Donald Trump should put on a costume and pretend to act like a president."

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2d

At this point I’m so over the political parties I literally don’t even know if I would vote yes on prop 50.

I don’t really give a shit if the democrats win the congress or not given how broken they are.

They could have fixed gerrymandering in 2021 and they didn’t.

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Lip @lipatp.bsky.social · 17h

do something about it!

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 1d

The vast majority of Americans don’t realize what he’s doing are actual crimes *because nobody is impeaching him*!

Americans expect their institutions to respond to these things. When they don’t, they think, “oh it must not rise to that level” and go back to watching The Voice.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

And what did the Biden administration do?

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

When JPMorgan alerted the Trump administration to the existence of $1 billion in funds Epstein held which were clearly connected to child trafficking, Trump responded by suppressing the information. Why?

JPMorgan flagged $1B in ‘suspicious’ Epstein-linked deals to Trump administration

Over 4,700 transactions, including wire transfers to Russian banks raised red flags in 2019, new documents reveal

www.independent.co.uk

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 1d

Funny how the same editors that dedicated a year-long campaign to convince us Zohran Mamdani is the enemy of the Hebrew people have now decided Graham Platner, a man with at least one actual Nazi tattoo, is a culture hero for our time. Who can say what the difference is?

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Lip @lipatp.bsky.social · 17h

"Michelle Goldberg, columnist" they signed the Harper's letter
harpers.org/a-letter-on-...

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

"And that's why I will..."

Christ.

Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration firing nearly all of the Special Education workers at the Department of Education sends a clear message:

They don’t believe that children with disabilities deserve an equal education.

The cruelty is staggering.

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Lip @lipatp.bsky.social · 17h

oh, 🙄 are you going to do something about it?

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David Zoltan (he/they) @wonkicorn.bsky.social · 1d

And as a policy wonk, this is what separated me from the party decades ago. A "big tent" party, by design, has no values. It cares only to hold power for its own sake.

We deserve better than that. We deserve reps that actually fight for and with the people. That center our needs, not theirs.

Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

People really don't want better messaging from the Democratic Party.

If I wanted to be yet another communications consultant, I could make tons of suggestions to strengthen the message but its all mostly bullshit.

The big problem is the policies and politics suck.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

My openness to “conspiracy theories” expands when the guy who is literally in charge of the military openly says that he wants to blow up countries so he can steal their oil.

At a certain point the conspiracy theory starts being everyone who is like “but he doesn’t mean that though”.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

So is he just speedrunning invading every oil hotspot in the world lmao.

Trump threatens to go into Nigeria ‘guns-a-blazing’ over attacks on Christians

US president says he ordered Pentagon to begin planning for action, without mentioning Muslim persecution

www.theguardian.com

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Tilted Owl @tiltowl.bsky.social · 23h

Isn't it interesting the but-he-doesn't-mean-it crowd is so, so quiet. If there is one thing you cannot fault them for, it's the agenda which they spelled out in capital letters.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 18h

And this works for anything. Every organization is compromised of real humans and no organization can do evil things without the direction and participation of the people within it.

Find out who those people are and call them out. The more powerful the better.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 18h

People I know who've worked in the House say something similar (keep in mind the House has far fewer staff per member).

So just remember to understand things enough that you can call out your own specific members and verbalize their own complicity.

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