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nancytaylor5.bsky.social @nancytaylor5.bsky.social · 32m

'It’s captured on film': Trump official slammed for demanding reporters 'give him a break' on bribe
Source: Alternet

nancytaylor5.bsky.social @nancytaylor5.bsky.social · 33m

GOP shutdown is killing major Trump demand: WSJ
Source: Raw Story

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nancytaylor5.bsky.social @nancytaylor5.bsky.social · 35m

Blackface scandal used to link MAGA Republican with racist text furor
Source: Raw Story

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nancytaylor5.bsky.social @nancytaylor5.bsky.social · 1h

Vile baseball fan loses two jobs after camera catches her attack US ‘veteran of two wars’ during Brewers-Dodgers game
Source: The US Sun

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nancytaylor5.bsky.social @nancytaylor5.bsky.social · 1h

Black Officer Says He Was ‘Humiliated’ After Being Singled Out to Pay at Chick-fil-A While White Colleagues Ate Free
Source: Inquisitr News
Unfortunately this is what chik Fil-A is associated with

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."

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Slava Bonkus #ElonSucksSoHard @bonkski.bsky.social · 16h

This pedo protector shutdown must be the end of Mike Johnson as speaker!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d

Fox Propaganda is desperately spinning the "No Kings" events in fearful anticipation of their success.

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

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Erin McCoy @partyof555.bsky.social · 16h

The ICE agents had no problem cursing. Unprofessional cowardly thugs. Did you watch him make sure he got his face good and covered as he brutalized that teen?!
Assholes!!!
As a Chicago native, makes me so angry to see our city being assaulted like this. We will outlast them.

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norcaljeff.bsky.social @norcaljeff.bsky.social · 16h

I'll say it again and always; I hope all the undecided voters, Independents, and Dems who crossed party lines to vote for the orange ass-wipe last Nov, can live with themselves now. You've done a great disservice to our country. 😠😠😠

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Aujourd-hui 🇺🇸🇺🇦🦋 @aujourd-hui.bsky.social · 15h

His job is to expect decent morality from his party and to call out immorality when it happens, not pretend he isn’t aware.

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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 17h

Mikey says sexual violence is not a serious thing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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🎃ℝ𝕆ℂ𝕂𝕐 𝕄𝕆𝕌ℕ𝕋𝔸𝕀ℕ 𝕍𝕀𝔼𝕎𝕊🎃 @rockymountviews.bsky.social · 20h

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🎃ℝ𝕆ℂ𝕂𝕐 𝕄𝕆𝕌ℕ𝕋𝔸𝕀ℕ 𝕍𝕀𝔼𝕎𝕊🎃 @rockymountviews.bsky.social · 1d

How it starts.
How it ends.

#MAGAWomen

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h

Two class-action lawsuits accuse Bank of America and Bank of New York of maintaining relationships with Jeffrey Epstein and failing to report suspicious activities until after his death. The suits allege his trafficking operation wouldn’t have existed without the special treatment provided to him.

Bank of America, BNY Sued Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties

New lawsuits accuse the banks of maintaining a relationship with the convicted sex offender and failing to report suspicious activities until after his 2019 death.

www.wsj.com

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𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐚 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐓𝐳𝐮, 𝔑𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫' 𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔟𝔩𝔢 @khannea.bsky.social · 15h

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Diane @dianesf.bsky.social · 1d

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Tim Murphy @tmurp1953.bsky.social · 15h

Who remembers the night that Trump embarrassed America by giving Rush Limbaugh the Medal of Freedom at a SOTU speech - in the presence of a Tuskegee Airman?

I do - and Trump did it again with his Charlie Kirk stunt. He has forever desecrated the highest civilian award. Shameful.

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Freethinkers United @freethinkersunited.bsky.social · 15h

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Here's the Truth About Trump's 'Peace Plan' for Gaza

The US allowed Netanyahu to create four key loopholes in the deal to ensure Israel can continue its Gaza genocide – regardless of the 'ceasefire' agreement.

zeteo.com

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 15h

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Price Index Report Shows Why Trump Policies Are Delivering 'Extra Pain' for US Consumers | Common Dreams

Unrig Our Economy unveils the People's Price Index, revealing how Trump's policies are driving up prices and hurting US consumers.

www.commondreams.org

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 16h

Here's an idea for the American politicians trying to entice Canadians to spend our money in a land of gangster fascism:
Offer free burner phones so we won't be thrown in detention for our social media posts.
OR,
We could say hell no, we ain't travelling to the USA.

www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...

Don't Let a Border Agent Ruin Your Holiday Trip. Travel With a Burner Phone

If you're traveling internationally, a burner phone is the most effective way to protect your private data.

www.cnet.com

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 15h

So You've Decided to Target Random People with Military Force
Here's why it's illegal
Trump "killed twenty-one people using military strikes in the Caribbean....escalated his attempt to deploy the military in cities throughout the United States"
Which is terrifying:
open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

The 2001 AUMF is incredibly broad (and it is still in effect today!) – but I don’t think even the most hawkish Republican in Congress could argue with a straight face that it would possibly cover Central and South American drug traffickers. Without any kind of congressional approval to engage in hostilities against these groups, President Trump is (I think?) relying on his Article II Commander in Chief authority, which – going back to the Civil War – has been interpreted to include a “defensive war power” to protect the country in the event of an imminent threat. The problem is that smuggling drugs into the country does not constitute an “armed attack” or the kind of imminent threat that would justify the use of military force in self-defense. More importantly, drug cartels do not even meet the definition of an “armed group” with which we could be engaged in the kind of non-state conflict we were post 9/11. Finally, remember the part about capture being infeasible? Well, not for nothing but the Coast Guard has been (successfully) interdicting drug vessels on the high seas for decades.

So if the U.S. is not in an authorized military conflict with these targets under either domestic or international law, what is it? Well, colloquially, we call it murder.

Don’t take my word for it. Even John Yoo, best known for co-authoring the so-called “torture memos” during the George W. Bush years and one of the strongest proponents of Article II war powers out there, argues that Trump is trying to extend the terrorism framework into something that is more properly addressed through criminal law. But I think there’s a reason the Trump administration is doing that, and it’s because the Obama-era theory of “preemptive self-defense,” which the administration is trying to distort, also extended to a category of people over whom Trump may want to exert military authority: American citizens.

Yes, that’s right, folks. In a major instance of Bad Idea Jeans, the Obama Justice Department authored a white paper which analyzed the “balance of interests” between an American’s rights under the Due Process Clause and the Fourth Amendment right against unlawful seizure (i.e., a drone strike) and the national security needs of the United States. It concluded that the balance tipped in favor of the government (surprise!) and that targeting a U.S. citizen under the criteria set forth above would not constitute murder or an “assassination,” which is prohibited under law. A lawsuit brought by the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights challenging the killing of three U.S. citizens, including Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born Islamic cleric involved in several al Qaeda plots against the U.S., was dismissed by the district court for lack of standing and because it raised “political questions” that were nonjusticiable by the courts. In other words, the legality of the strikes was not something the court could decide.

This is why Trump’s executive orders designating “Antifa” as a “domestic terrorist organization” and authorizing the Attorney General to designate other “domestic terrorist organizations,” alongside the Secretary of Defense’s statements that the military is targeting “designated terrorist organizations” (without naming them) should start ringing alarm bells. For one, these are not real things. Foreign terrorist organizations are a thing, and the process and criteria for designating these are indeed delegated by Congress to the executive branch under the Immigration and Nationality Act: In February, the State Department designated several drug cartels under this rubric. (Again, even this designation, on its own, does not automatically make them lawful military targets.) But the fact that the language used by the administration since then has replaced the word “foreign” with “designated” and “domestic” – and has even gone as far as to invoke “Antifa,”…

And this is where the military deployments into cities and Secretary Hegseth’s decision to basically authorize war crimes is a big, big problem. If the Trump administration is trying to conflate ordinary crime and even ideology with terrorism, and is taking the position that being labeled as a “terrorist” – by God knows who in the Trump administration and with no evidence, transparency, or judicial check – justifies using lethal force against that person, then it’s just one step away from ordering the military to do so.

In fact, Trump is calling cities like Portland and Chicago “war zones” and told his generals they would be fighting the “enemy within.” Like a good MAGA sycophant, House Speaker Mike Johnson has fallen in line, calling the upcoming No Kings protests a “hate America” rally led by “pro-Hamas” and “antifa” forces, with another representative calling it a “terrorist” event. Tom Nichols writes for The Atlantic that the civil-military crisis is here, and that the military “may soon face a terrible decision” – where the unlawful orders they are being conditioned to follow in the Caribbean will be directed against the very people they are sworn to defend and protect.

Following Bondi’s statement regarding Antifa, Representative Adam Schiff asked, “You begin to wonder – do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can’t rule that out.” No, we can’t. Pay attention to what is happening on the high seas, because the plan is to bring it to a city street near you.

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nancytaylor5.bsky.social @nancytaylor5.bsky.social · 17h

Trump Administration Planning to Install ‘Allies’ at the IRS to Target ‘Major Democratic Donors’ Including George Soros: WSJ
Source: Mediaite

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nancytaylor5.bsky.social @nancytaylor5.bsky.social · 17h

'Do they think we're dumb?' Trump's fancy dinner for corporate sponsors raises alarms
Source: Raw Story

I’m pretty sure they weren’t eating ramen

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