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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1h

this is a prime opportunity for democrats to explicitly tell their voters "they say you're a terrorist, but youre just a patriotic american who is trying to get by in this world."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1h

this is the kind of statement highlighting why i criticize dems and say they need to adopt modern comms. this comment should be repeated on the social media for every congressional dem and denounced in press releases from them all. its not even ideological. blue dogs and super lefties can agree.

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1h

this is a prime opportunity for democrats to explicitly tell their voters "they say you're a terrorist, but youre just a patriotic american who is trying to get by in this world."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social · 1h

Here are the instructions to reach out to your legislative director (it has a link to our article of impeachment for Treason). Reach out to @citizensimpeachment.com with your district if you'd like to request a meeting with your rep re: impeachment for treason

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🚨 Rep, It's Treason | 📤 Monday Morning Message

Confirm receipt of impeachment article & request a meeting

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 2h

Republicans should know better than to reveal themselves as racist in private when the standard GOP policy is to reveal themselves as racist in public.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

your regular reminder that Ben-Gvir is a proud war criminal who used to have a portrait of a mass murderer in his living room and in a remotely functional political culture would never be allowed anywhere near the levers of power

one of the worst people alive

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 23h

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2h

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported

About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

www.pewresearch.org

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2h

the part about that “i love hitler” groupchat is that it’s not surprising that all young republicans are nazis, this is just the average rightwinger these days. they’re all extremists who love every extreme position possible and everyone needs to realize that

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 3h

Here are some ways to get ready for #NoKings this Saturday. We have a lot of good stuff for you!

(P.S. Want this delivered to your inbox? Get involved here: citizensimpeachment.com/sign-up-to-h...)

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 5h

This is Johnson saying the GOP Nazis had VIP tickets to Trump's inauguration. As proof there's no reason to be concerned about Nazis in the GOP.

What a time to be alive. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: Are you worried about extremist pro-Hitler sentiment among young Republicans?

JOHNSON: No. I don't know who any of these people are. I've never heard of them. Somebody posted a photo of me standing next to these guys wearing tuxedos. It was at the inauguration, people were coming up for selfies

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4h

“I’m not worried about nazis in the party because this is a Nazi party that uses Nazi methods to achieve Nazi goals and I’m a Nazi. Does that make sense?”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: Are you worried about extremist pro-Hitler sentiment among young Republicans?

JOHNSON: No. I don't know who any of these people are. I've never heard of them. Somebody posted a photo of me standing next to these guys wearing tuxedos. It was at the inauguration, people were coming up for selfies

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 4h

Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will:

MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR.

Measles cases have reached their HIGHEST point since the disease WAS ELIMINATED from the United States in 2000. We are at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.

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mrrexdart.bsky.social @mrrexdart.bsky.social · 4h

I figured that would be their reaction, and it's probably why Republicans picked paying "the troops" illegally as their test case. They know it's illegal, but figure that the public at large will want the military to be paid and will turn against anyone who says they shouldn't.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 7h

What really gets me is no one is even TRYING to draft an impeachment article.

This could be written up in a few hours.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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mrrexdart.bsky.social @mrrexdart.bsky.social · 4h

I think we were all supposed to act like it was a surprise instead of a pattern of behavior that continuously repeats.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5h

we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too!

time.com/collections/...

Why Protests Should Be Promises

Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 5h

Make your demand on Saturday clear: Impeach, convict, remove. Whatever your issue, just add "and impeach."

✴️ Release the Epstein files and impeach.

✴️ End ICE and impeach.

✴️ Defend democracy. Impeach.

Share your #NoKings sign here! We 💖 art. Show us your best pro-impeachment takes.

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Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social · 13h

Fun Fact: @aoc.bsky.social hasn't responded to a single one of the @citizensimpeachment.com requests for comment on impeachment. She's a yes on the tracker because she, and the rest of the house, was forced into a vote by @algreen.house.gov.

citizensimpeachment.com/tracker/

Rep position tracker - Citizens' Impeachment

Citizens' Impeachment maintains this tracker to display the stances from all representatives with regard to the impeachment of Donald Trump.

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Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social · 13h

I would also really love it if a Democratic priority were fighting fascism. That would be incredibly helpful in our current moment, @aoc.bsky.social

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18h

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 20h

I’m getting fed up with how many times we are seeing things we all bloody KNEW were going on, being presented as new revelations… The Entire Brexit campaign was clearly a moonshot for Putin, but the opportunity to break off a key part of the EU was irresistible.
Of COURSE he was involved.

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 20h

Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times around Brexit

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018...

Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times

Founder Arron Banks was offered lucrative deals in talks with the ambassador

www.theguardian.com

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 21h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

it wasn't enough that our cities and states already paid far more than they receive from the federal government. the people who elected trump want to steal more from us, to give to Argentina, to give to ICE, to give to billionaires. Intolerable

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 1d

Trump admin has frozen or cancelled $28 b for projects, almost all in Dem districts. Small amount of frozen funds in GOP districts are in predominately Dem states (CA, OR, WA, CO, MN, IL, NY, MD), or in predominately Dem cities (St Louis, Atlanta, Greenville) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump admin is freezing or cancelling billions of dollars in funding for projects in Democratic areas.

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mrrexdart.bsky.social @mrrexdart.bsky.social · 16h

They don't want to look weak on crime/the border. Or something, I don't know anymore.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16h

Trump take egg

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

A grocery store clerk in Chicago says shoppers see prices “and say, ‘What the f—? .. It happens all the time.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 17h

Like all members of the armed forces, our executive director takes her oath seriously. Using the military as his own police force is just one of the many reasons to impeach Donald Trump. #NoKings

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