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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor who became a prominent critic of the president, pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of mishandling classified information. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

John Bolton Pleads Not Guilty In Trump’s Latest Political Prosecution

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

This is a utterly horrifying story. A medical student in Germany that was part of 764 manipulated and coerced a 13 year old trans boy into taking his own life live on instagram and it took years to bring an arrest.

archive.ph/079R6

"Portrait of a smiling child with short brown hair wearing a red hoodie. Below, a headline from The Washington Post reads: ‘It broke me’: Inside the FBI hunt for the online predators who persuaded a 13-year-old to die."

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PhoenixNymphy @phoenixnymphy.bsky.social · 1d

Please mask up for #nokingsday

Stay safe out there.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3d

I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond.

Pay attention and act!

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 11d

“The law does not permit this kind of prolonged deprivation of an individual’s liberty without any allegations or charges of violating the law,” said Jean Elizabeth Reisz, an attorney representing Marin, who is also a USC law professor.

lataco.com/bayron-rovid...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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PhoenixNymphy @phoenixnymphy.bsky.social · 11d

White people need to learn the difference between diplomacy and double speak

Not every conversation needs to be confrontational.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 12d

DAILY DEMS DOING THE WORK, MAKING NOISE, AND FIGHTING BACK Day 254

9 times out of 10, whenever someone comments “Why aren’t Democrats doing X?” They are, it’s just not getting traction. So, before you say that, make sure or, just amplify what you see, cause someone thinks that isn’t happening.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12d

I don't want the Jaguars to win, I just want the chiefs to lose.

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 12d

Judges that make rulings grounded in constitutional principles are not terrorists. This is unhinged rhetoric from Stephen Miller. It is the Trump administration that is an existential threat to the Republic.

Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.
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1/ Judge Immergut just granted a restraining order that prevents Trump's mobilization of the Oregon National Guard in Portland

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PhoenixNymphy @phoenixnymphy.bsky.social · 13d

...with the fact they've spent over a decade supporting and propping up a n@z1.

WW are at a pivotal moment right now. We can either use this moment to grow and pull out of WSC or dig in deeper.

The choice is yours.

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PhoenixNymphy @phoenixnymphy.bsky.social · 13d

Swifties REALLY got nothing to stand on and they're crashing out b/c their whole identity is being challenged b/c their idol is a white supremacist showing us in real time where her ideology actually stands.

We're watching WW with no sense of self lose their minds b/c they have to come to terms...

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PhoenixNymphy @phoenixnymphy.bsky.social · 14d

As a poor i had to grow up quickly. I lost my innocence young so I didn't get to be a girl for very long.

WW have no identity outside being some man's possession and Tay Tay's journey is showing us that on a grand scale.

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PhoenixNymphy @phoenixnymphy.bsky.social · 14d

So we all see how Taylor Swift is analogous to the white woman journey right?

Ya'll see her process right? Every white woman goes through this process and the more privileged you are the later you go through this process.

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PhoenixNymphy @phoenixnymphy.bsky.social · 16d

Khanna is just a tech boy shill

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 19d

Such a performative nitwit. Though I think he’ll be great on Dancing With the Stars in 2029 versus Kristi Noem.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Hegseth: "No more dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship ... we are done with that shit."

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19d

I expect that my law firm will intervene to fight against the Department of Justice in two more lawsuits today. We are not done fighting and we are not done winning.💪🗳️⚖️

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PhoenixNymphy @phoenixnymphy.bsky.social · 18d

New poem inspired by my awesome friend @spiritpanther.bsky.social #poem #poetry #beauty #art #creative

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 19d

A good samaritan and community watch member were brutally arrested while documenting a Border Patrol raid at a Home Depot, one was hospitalized while the other was detained for eight hours.

By Izzy Ramirez

The full story: lataco.com/feds-injure-...

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NPR @npr.org · 19d

UPDATE: Trump and Netanyahu pledge support for a U.S. plan to secure the release of remaining Israeli hostages and end the war in Gaza.

Trump announces an agreement with Israel to end war in Gaza

Ahead of the leaders' meeting on Monday, the White House released its peace plan to immediately end Israel's war in the territory, boost aid to Gaza and require Hamas to release Israeli hostages.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23d

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25d

🚨BREAKING: Two registered Maine voters filed a motion to intervene in the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the state Tuesday, aiming to stop what they call a “radical” federal overreach into their personal privacy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Maine Voters Seek to Block DOJ Access to Confidential Registration Data