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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 6h

The Department of Homeland Security has acquired two luxury jets at a cost of $172 million to be used by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and other top agency officials, new documents reviewed by The New York Times revealed Saturday.

Kristi Noem slammed for ‘prioritizing comfort' after $172M 'luxury' purchase exposed

The Department of Homeland Security has acquired two luxury jets at a cost of $172 million to be used by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and other top agency officials, new documents reviewed by The New York Times revealed Saturday.According to the documents, the two jets are used Gulfstream G700s, which ...

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 6h

Good riddance Mr McConnell....signed AMERICA....

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 6h

They’re not even hiding it anymore.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7h

Happening now: Here’s a view of the “No Kings” protest in Washington, DC

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

Sanders: It is in danger when we have a president who grossly violates the constitution by accepting gifts from foreign leaders including a $400 million plane from the royal family of Qatar and then allows that family to build an air force facility in Idaho.

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Terry Leigh PhD 🇺🇸 @terryleighphd1926.bsky.social · 6h

Princeton, NJ #Indivisible #NoKings #3E #IndefiniteEconomicBlackout

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Dan Sena @danieldesena.bsky.social · 6h

No Kings protest in Orange, CA is cooking.
#nokings #3E #50501
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 6h

Trump Spends Third Straight Weekend Golfing Amid Government Shutdown

Trump flees DC for Florida resort

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 6h

Furious vibe

Sign says wake up America Hitler is in the White House

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 6h

Sooooo scary out here!!!! 😂😂
No fucking kings!!!!

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 6h

Times Square, NYC. #NoKings

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 6h

Millions of people have come together across the US to say no to the regime. Scenes from Boston, home of the original No Kings movement for the US. #3E #EndImpunity #EndAutogenocide #EndOligarchy #NoKings

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

COLUMBIA, TN

#NoKingsInAmerica 🇺🇸

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A Simard 🇨🇦 @adadcoaching.bsky.social · 6h

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 6h

Millions of people have come together across the US to say no to the regime. Scenes from Boston, home of the original No Kings movement for the US. #3E #EndImpunity #EndAutogenocide #EndOligarchy #NoKings

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 7h

When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 7h

Chicago - no kings

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 10h

"If you say a boat has narcotics on it, where is the narcotics? We want evidence, we want proof. There is nothing," she added.

Not to mention, we have non-lethal interdiction protocols for international waters. 1/

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 8h

The Declaration of Independence:

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

#NoKings

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Mary Jo Pehl @maryjopehl.bsky.social · 7h

No Kings "The Brooklyns" location, Twin Cities. THIS GUY who had to have been in his nineties, navigating the packed pedestrian bridge with his walker!!!

(Photo and posting with his permission.)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 6h

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7h

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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Sharon Chisholm @theogsharonc.bsky.social · 6h

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 1d

May have been the second most loathed SCOTUS justice ever (not necessarily worst) behind James Clark McReynolds

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

I found it pretty charming to learn that after Roger Taney died, sitting lawmakers called his death a "victory for liberty and the Constitution," suggested that he was probably burning in hell, and joked (?) that they'd rather hang him in effigy than do literally anything to honor his memory

Roger Taney’s Contemporaries Hated Him As Much As You Probably Do

Ordinarily, members of Congress do not publicly suggest that recently deceased Supreme Court justices are burning in hell. But Roger Taney was no ordinary Supreme Court justice.

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