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Mary Lou Fraser Gargas @loulou712203.bsky.social · 32m

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These folks have protesting DOWN PAT! We need those signs EVERYWHERE!

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Mary Lou Fraser Gargas @loulou712203.bsky.social · 35m

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In a Federal Courtroom in Texas, Republicans Were Desperate to Keep Details of their Gerrymander Under Wraps

Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h

Ah yes, air traffic controllers must show up for work without pay, but Congress can take the day off. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he’ll be making “necessary cuts” to the department, because nothing fixes staffing shortages quite like firing more people.

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Mary Lou Fraser Gargas @loulou712203.bsky.social · 43m

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GOP Rep. Kevin Kiley breaks with the speaker’s strategy of keeping House closed and not negotiating with Ds. And says Grijalva should be sworn in “There’s a duly elected member of Congress from th...

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Mary Lou Fraser Gargas @loulou712203.bsky.social · 2h

Good Work If You Can Keep It
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Good Work If You Can Keep It

Before Trump dismantled the bureaucracy, working for the government was an honorable job

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 2h

This loser is in his 40s.... being evil is bad for your appearance. Russ Vought

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Mary Lou Fraser Gargas @loulou712203.bsky.social · 2h

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North Carolina GOP announces its own new gerrymander

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 5h

Things just keep getting more bizarre. The propaganda machine is in full swing the Transportation Security Administration has asked airports to display a video message from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.

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Mary Lou Fraser Gargas @loulou712203.bsky.social · 3h

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Education Department layoffs hit offices that oversee special education and civil rights enforcement

The Trump administration started laying off 466 Education Department staffers on Friday amid mass firings across the government meant to pressure Democratic lawmakers over the federal shutdown.

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Mary Lou Fraser Gargas @loulou712203.bsky.social · 3h

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ABC cutting from JD Vance’s bullshit to an ad for Mascara is maybe one of the closest things I’ll ever get to taking a drag from a cigarette ever again.

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Steph59Renee 👠 @steph59renee.bsky.social · 11h

Hell no Donald's not going to Heaven.
If he's allowed in, I won't be going there.
I'd rather be in Hell w/o him than Heaven with him. 👠

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

ICYMI — “I don’t think there’s anything that will get me into Heaven. I think I’m not, maybe, Heaven-bound.”

Trump confesses on Air Force One

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mlf3430.bsky.social @mlf3430.bsky.social · 13h

Weekend Update" anchors reuniting to spoof Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

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Amy Poehler, Tina Fey reunite in 'SNL' cold open to mock Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem

Amy Poehler and Tina Fey reunited in the latest "SNL" cold open to spoof Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 10h

You wanna know how unserious Portland is taking ICE? They’re riding around buttass on a bike.

El oh fuckin el.

TrumpWatch @trumpwatch.skyfleet.blue · 10h

‘Quintessentially Portland’: naked bike riders protest against Trump administration
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‘Quintessentially Portland’: nude cyclists protest against national guard deployment

Riders wore nothing – or close to it – in hastily called event against Trump’s attempts to mobilize the national guard

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · Sep 11

Here are the kids who died in the Uvalde shooting in 2022. These are but a few of the people Charlie Kirk said were acceptable losses so people can keep their guns.

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 13h

Green Frogs & Other Inflatables UNITE

A quote from John Lennon that says “ when it gets down to having to use then you are playing the system’s game The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight. because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you the only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 17h

The Chicago detention center has refused the Mexican Consulate access to visit detainees

Now what reason would ICE have for doing that?

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 10h

After months of backlash, the Biden administration stopped detaining immigrant women there in 2021, and the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations embarked on an 18-month investigation. interc.pt/4okFqcd