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Maxwell @themaxwell.bsky.social · 1d

If the goal is to “remove the criminal element” so people in the city will feel safer, remove ICE. Simple.

Of course, his brain dead response is based on a special definition of who is considered to be people.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6d

A man was just abducted by ICE on Clark and Lunt, feet away from our campaign office.

Now our community is showing up and patrolling for ICE. Join us by getting involved in Protect RP: www.facebook.com/share/1DQqPQ...

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 6d

My stance is very simple: dems should negotiate as soon as, and not before, every impounded dollar is restored, every illegally fired employee is restored, every unconstitutional act is reversed

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Maxwell @themaxwell.bsky.social · 6d

Arguably, the executive is constitutionally intended to be subordinate to Congress.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 7d

Imagine if health care was just something everyone had, and not a zero sum competition between "good" people and "bad" people

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Maxwell @themaxwell.bsky.social · 7d

If a company or industry can’t survive basic ethical requirements, then it shouldn’t survive.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 7d

“Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar”

Never forget or forgive that Trump, Rubio, & Musk *chose* to inflict this monumental level of death and suffering on the poorest & most vulnerable people.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9d

related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it

Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 9d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 9d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 10d

Erika works 8 hours a day harvesting raspberries on CAs Central Coast. She shares, "I must be very careful to only harvest the ripe fruit. This careful selection means that only the best quality berries are packed and shipped to the supermarkets for you to eat." #WeFeedYou

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Maxwell @themaxwell.bsky.social · 11d

I genuinely think an appropriate response to the “illegal aliens are getting emergency care that taxes pay for” is simply:

“So?”

Said calmly and firmly.

Most Americans actually don’t object to people getting emergency care and don’t care about citizenship status for the person in an emergency.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12d

The reality is that the US Department of Homeland Security has been openly seized by unapologetic white nationalists who freely indulge in neo-Nazi rhetoric and use their huge and growing paramilitary army to mount massive attacks on communities of color in the US in a campaign of racist oppression

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ACLU @aclu.org · 12d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Maxwell @themaxwell.bsky.social · 12d

To authorize anything, doesn’t he need to have the authority to do it?
These are illegal deployments.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 13d

Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14d

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown.

Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 14d

If I’m running messaging, the word on the street is that Democrats are refusing to fund a dictatorship. Either Article 1 means something or nobody gets anything.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 15d

I think I did some good work here overall, but my guess is that most people are going to want to fast forward to the 34:30 mark to hear me and "David" from North Carolina.

www.c-span.org/program/wash...

Elie Mystal on Comey Indictment and Trump Justice Department

Elie Mystal talked about the Indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and actions of the Trump Justice Department.

www.c-span.org

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15d

I'll put this marker down now: if we go into a shutdown and Dems actually hold the line and don't immediately cave, their poll numbers will go up

90% of the reason their numbers are so low with non-Rs is they've managed exactly zero concrete opposition so far

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15d

"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 16d

I’ve said it before, any judge who so comfortably and clearly shows their prejudice should immediately be barred from their jobs, but we don’t live in a world that makes sense.

We live in a world where white people get to deem racism as a simple inconvenience and be the sole arbiter of its weight.

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 17d

So exhausting..

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17d

Telling the truth about red states will get you roundly condemned but spreading lies about blue cities is just standard operating procedure for Republicans.

It’s especially weird because most red states are living off tax money from blue cities.

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Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 20d

Trump and the GOP developed a budget plan with no Dem input. Dems offered an alternative that protects folks’ health care. Trump said he’d meet to negotiate, but then canceled the meeting. Why does he want to shut the government down AND take health care away from millions?

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21d

I'm appalled but unfortunately unsurprised to hear that ICE is targeting my neighbors in Rogers Park today. Unidentifiable and unaccountable agents are roaming the streets with their faces covered targeting schools and community centers. It needs to end. Abolish ICE.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21d

Yes I will be fighting back against the unjust firing by @washingtonpost.com.

I have filed a grievance and will be represented by none other than the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social and an incredible legal team.

Journalistic freedom is a bedrock of a healthy society and is worth battling for.

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