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Paul A. Kowal 🇺🇦🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇸☮️ @pakowal.bsky.social · Jul 20

It's mind boggling how many republicans in and out of office, republican operatives, right-wing media, filthy rich oligarchs and others of global power are working so fucking hard to protect pedophiles, sex traffickers and their enablers.

It disgusts me to the bone. I've lost hope for humanity.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27m

This is why it’s impossible to negotiate with Republican leadership in Congress. Once you reach an agreement with them and things pass, the Trump admin just flushes that agreement down the toilet and Republicans who made the deal remain silent. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

THUNE: Fund the government the old fashioned way -- I don't think you need rescissions

VITALI: Have you said to the WH, maybe don't do another rescissions package? Feels like it's poisoned the well

THUNE: It's in everybody's best interest, including the WH, to do a normal appropriations process

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Paul A. Kowal 🇺🇦🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇸☮️ @pakowal.bsky.social · 3m

If enough of them went against Trump at the same time, he probably wouldn't be able to do a thing about it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16m

Raskin: "There's a regime of fear that has come down on the Republican Party. They've looked at what happened to Liz Cheney, to Adam Kinzinger, to Mitt Romney, to others who have taken on the president. They insist on absolute 100% loyalty above everything else."

Paul A. Kowal 🇺🇦🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇸☮️ @pakowal.bsky.social · 5m

BIG spoiler alert...

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15m

Walking into a Republican's office in 2025.

Paul A. Kowal 🇺🇦🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇸☮️ @pakowal.bsky.social · 25m

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

I have seen a range of opinions and reactions from across the ideological spectrum on the Young Republicans thing, but one take you really don’t hear from anyone is that they are shocked this was happening.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 13h

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 14h

“Operation Inflation” is offering free inflatable costumes to Portland ICE protesters.

Bravo and Brava!👩🏻‍🍳💋

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-C-M-F- @chrispps.bsky.social · 2h

as it turns out, the Conversian Men that put Trump over the top, whatever their ideological incoherence, still appear to have a viscerally negative reaction (among assorted other things) to the idea of living in a “your papers, please” state

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 12h

Trump first.
America LAST.
www.thesirennetwork.com/p/donald-tru...

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14h

The racist-ass Supreme Court says race can't be a factor for college admissions or redistricting but racial profiling is perfectly fine for ICE to bash brown and Black skulls.

F this corrupt institution.

Expand the Court.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs.

Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

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Paul A. Kowal 🇺🇦🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇸☮️ @pakowal.bsky.social · 1h

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 7h

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s.

It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling.

Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

Globally averaged CO2 concentration (a) and its growth rate (b) from 1984 to 2024. Increases in successive annual means are shown as the shaded columns in (b). The red line in (a) is the monthly mean with the seasonal variation removed; the blue dots and blue line in (a) depict the monthly averages. Observations from 179 stations were used for this analysis.

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 1h

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Paul A. Kowal 🇺🇦🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇸☮️ @pakowal.bsky.social · 1h

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What will it take for the American public to wake the fuck up to the meteoric rise of Trump's fascist regime?

We have crossed the Rubicon, folks.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

A dark batch of headlines tonight.

@wsj.com @nytimes.com @axios.com @politico.com

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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 14h

This is almost literally what the English Civil War was fought over.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 20h

Trump and MAGA are outraged that millions are coming out for the No Kings rally because they can't draw anyone. After all, where are all the massive pro-Trump marches? Nowhere! 🤣

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 23h

The GOP that gave us the Jan 6 terrorist attack and then pardoned the terrorists is calling the No Kings rally a pro-terrorist rally. These are despicable people.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 23h

Mike Johnson declares war on No Kings rally saying it will be filled with Antifa terrorists. We are at war. It's that simple. The fascists are looking for an excuse to use the military to arrest, imprison and even kill us. If you think Im being over the top you simply don't know history.

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 3d

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 3h

Trump admin now openly weaponizing the IRS to target organizations that support Democratic causes. Once again Trump is copying the fascist playbook as he seeks to establish one party rule in the US. This demands far more attention! www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 3h

Minister warns Trump pledge to make America a 'beacon for religious liberty' is 'a sham'
www.alternet.org/the-right-wi...

Minister warns Trump pledge to make America a 'beacon for religious liberty' is 'a sham'

President Donald Trump's promise to transform America into a "beacon for religious liberty" is "a sham," writes Liz Reiner Platt and Rev. Fred Davie in Salon.Platt, a legal expert specializing in reli...

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WatchYourRepsSC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 10h

It’s time for the military to stand up and defy unlawful orders!

jekolski.bsky.social @jekolski.bsky.social · 12h

Trump/Vance targeting California-on Saturday 10/18 m be Shutting down Interstate 5 (aka The 5) to hold a military parade and have the Navy SHOOT MISSLES INTO CAMP PENDELTON. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

EXCLUSIVE: Trump May Launch Missiles from Warships into California this Friday and Saturday as Part of “Vanity Parade”

Sources tell MeidasTouch the White House will shut down portions of the I-5 for Vice President JD Vance’s Marine Corps spectacle during No Kings Protests, triggering chaos, gridlock, and outrage.

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 13h

Trump is violating the constitution and the remedy is to remove him.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19h

“The most patriotic thing that you can do is say no kings.”

Jean Smart is asking you to join us in the streets on Saturday. Let’s make No Kings Day the biggest and loudest peaceful protest in modern American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 15h

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15h

The Trump admin is apparently finalizing plans for two days of events under the pretext of the 250th anniversary of the Marines. Sources close to MTN describe the closure as part of a “vanity parade” that may involve Navy warships shooting live missiles into Camp Pendleton as a “show of force.”

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