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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 16h

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 22h

Purporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” Trump is authorizing punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like. bit.ly/4330Su2

Trump’s Orders Targeting Anti-Fascism Aim to Criminalize Opposition

Purporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” the president presents an imagined left-wing conspiracy and authorizes punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like.

www.brennancenter.org

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Patty Quinn @pattyq.bsky.social · 3d

I am grateful for the support we in the US are seeing from around the world. My deepest thanks to all of you. I am an informed citizen taking action, calling my elected officials often and protesting. You help me to keep going. Be well and safe.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 3d

No Kings protests outside of the US were massive today. 👍🔥

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Patty Quinn @pattyq.bsky.social · 4d

"Moral collapse" implies that the MAGA movement ever had morals in the first place.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

In Connecticut, the health care advocate office — whose services are free — has been able to resolve or overturn insurance denials in the patient’s favor about 80% of the time.

Check to see if your state has a similar consumer assistance program:

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

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Patty Quinn @pattyq.bsky.social · 5d

Done. Thanks for this. Happy to help.

Patty Quinn @pattyq.bsky.social · 7d

This is murdering, criminal theater. Lethal performance for the optics. I hope I live long enough to see a US version of Nuremberg Trials to bring Donald and his consiglieres to justice.

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 7d

These strikes are illegal for about 7 reasons:
1. Not self-defense
2. No (or any) Congressional authorization
3. No evidence of criminal wrongdoing
4. Occurred in int'l waters
5. No open state of hostilities
6. Criminal groups are not terrorists legally
7. No id on people killed or group targeted

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 7d

These strikes are illegal for about 7 reasons:
1. Not self-defense
2. No (or any) Congressional authorization
3. No evidence of criminal wrongdoing
4. Occurred in int'l waters
5. No open state of hostilities
6. Criminal groups are not terrorists legally
7. No id on people killed or group targeted

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Patty Quinn @pattyq.bsky.social · 7d

I acknowledge + commend George Stephanopoulos for cutting Vance's mic after he refused repeatedly to answer a question, but he isn't a hero for doing that. It's the job of a journalist. It's a sad comment that so few are doing their jobs that he is hailed a hero for doing the job.

Patty Quinn @pattyq.bsky.social · 7d

They're so wildly predictable with this party line rhetoric and name-calling. They're going by the party line script assigned to them, and they aren't allowed to deviate from it. No one with a functioning brain is falling for it.

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Patty Quinn @pattyq.bsky.social · 8d

Donald's proclamation and Hegseth's Wounded Knee decision, each was meant to be a slap in the face to Native Americans. They were made the spirit of hate. They were statements of power and what they believe to be their superiority. It showed their weakness and loathsome natures.

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Patty Quinn @pattyq.bsky.social · 8d

This won't stop with non-White non-citizens. I'm a white citizen. I contact my GOP US senator often to denounce the regime. I always have a copy of my passport and my original birth certificate with me. The circle of the regime's targets is widening. No one is safe.

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Patty Quinn @pattyq.bsky.social · 9d

The regime pursues its stated goal, the destruction of the state, meaning our government and our nation, so they'll move in and exploit the power vacuum. The firehose, as Bannon calls it.

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 10d

“CDC will have lost its ability to detect outbreaks and respond to them. It will no longer be able to track diseases, in America and around the globe. That includes infectious threats like flu, foodborne illnesses, and Ebola, as well as chronic diseases and injuries.”
time.com/7325192/cdc-...

CDC ‘Not Functional’ After Trump Administration Orders Mass Firings

The layoffs targeted leaders in departments related to respiratory diseases, chronic diseases and global health.

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Patty Quinn @pattyq.bsky.social · 10d

Our institutions, and all of us, need to build coalitions to fight this regime. That goes for educational institutions, law firms, news organizations, and more.

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Patty Quinn @pattyq.bsky.social · 13d

I'll be marching in Philly.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 13d

A recently surfaced video shows a Chicago-area minister being shot in the head by agents with a projectile while he prayed at a protest outside of an ICE facility in Broadview.

Video Shows ICE Agents Shooting Protesting Pastor With Pepper Ball From Rooftop

The minister said he was praying, inviting the agents to repent when they struck him.

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I/OAgent @ioagent.bsky.social · 14d

Look, who's saying the silent agenda loud

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14d

More good work by Greg Sargent

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16d

Why does the supreme court keep bending the knee to Trump? | Steven Greenhouse

As a new term begins, the justices have continually failed to provide a check on presidential power – with disastrous consequences

www.theguardian.com

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 19d

SCOOP: PA prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parent's address in Pennsylvania for years. Me with @marisakabas.bsky.social

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MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

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Patty Quinn @pattyq.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you for the gift article, this is very helpful, insightful, and informative.

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Patty Quinn @pattyq.bsky.social · 20d

I'm a US citizen. Republicans refused to talk to Democrats, refused to negotiate. This goes back to Newt Gingrich's days as Speaker in the early 1990s. They want to rule in a one-party permanent authoritarian regime. Their goal is the destruction of the government and the nation.

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 21d

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/the-actual...

The actual "enemy from within"

Trump lays the groundwork for using the military on dissent.

anntelnaes.substack.com

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Patty Quinn @pattyq.bsky.social · 20d

Boxing is not a sport. It is controlled, establishment-sanctioned barbarity. Two people getting into the ring, each with the goal of beating the other to a senseless, bloody pulp is not sport by my definition.