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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 22h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

They’re still offering new ICE recruits a $50,000 signing bonus, yet active duty military were seen today lining up at food banks.

Defend your country and you can’t afford to eat.

Terrorize your country and you become rich.

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Brian Wolfman @brianwolfman.bsky.social · 1d

Very good point.

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 1d

“We fired all the competent career people and now it’s high-level loyalists trying to manage it all somehow” is run of the mill contempt. It’s not an exculpatory alternative.

If a judge orders me to do X, and my tale is I couldn’t comply bc I fired all my staff, that’s a confession not a defense.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1d

"Career prosecutors determined that there was no evidence to support these charges. They were pushed out and replaced with individuals whose only qualification is their loyalty to a single man, not to the Constitution or the law. That is corruption. That is abuse of power...we must all speak out."

Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 1d

INBOX: National Bar Association President Ashley L. Upkins calls the charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James “unjust and dangerous” and a representation of "the continued weaponization of our nation’s justice system for political gain."

Full statement below:

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Truth&Grace @truthandgrace.bsky.social · 1d

Republican voters have got to start making some noise!!

Truth&Grace @truthandgrace.bsky.social · 1d

YES. Bring every flag you can get your hands on!

TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 2d

My advice:

EVERYONE should bring as many American flags as possible to the No Kings protests on October 18th.

Blanket every rally from coast-to-coast in red, white and blue.

Take the flag back from the party of a wannabe-dictator and his sycophants, and never let it go.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Truth&Grace @truthandgrace.bsky.social · 3d

I haven't forgotten a thing. I haven't forgotten the Secret Service phones being wiped after Jan 6th. And I won't forget about the 1800 detainees from Florida swamp camp who were disappeared and we don't know what happened to them.

Truth&Grace @truthandgrace.bsky.social · 3d

"...brought peace to Gaza." Uhhh after it's been pulverized into rock piles? And how many thousands killed and injured? Whoopie.

Does this "peace" mean Israel and Jared can start building the Riviera Resort? You KNOW Bibi/47 won't do anything that doesn't benefit them personally,

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3d

MAGA says everyone in D.C. is smiling since the Trump invasion. Let’s look at some facts:

- Small retailers and restaurants report much lower foot traffic since the National Guard and federal agents began patrolling.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3d

Toldya. He was seeing if he could get away with bombing Venezuelans, and now he's going to go after Americans.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 6d

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 6d

I don’t have a lot of time so quick thread on exactly WHY what I posted about today is so bad. TLDR: it’s like the most convoluted fucked up incestuous polycule I’ve ever heard of. 🥴🥴🥴

First who is everybody? Scott Bessent is the Secretary of the Treasury so cabinet member from hedge fund land.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7d

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality.

Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.

Our duty is to stand up to brutality.

Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 6d

Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government

One of the most brazen conflicts in history.

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Truth&Grace @truthandgrace.bsky.social · 6d

Horrific. I just gasped in a car full of family :/

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 10d

What's he going to do ? Not swear in any more democrats ?

This is pathetic
Release the Epstein files

Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 10d

No more cover-ups.
‼️RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES‼️ #TrumpsShutdown

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RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸 @rogueresistknitter.bsky.social · 10d

Don't forget that he's also going to be using the same money to bail out Argentina after they enacted the same policies he and the Republicans are enacting and it destroyed their economy. Who will be the one to bail us out when the same thing happens here? I thought handouts were a bad thing.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10d

Trump is taking money from one group of Trump supporters (those getting taxed via his tariffs) to buy off another group of Trump supporters (farmers getting screwed because China stopped buying soybeans due to Trump). Well done, MAGA!

Our exchange on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2012...

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 10d

Getting rid of due process for immigrants eliminates due process for citizens too.

As in: [you] "Hey, you can't arrest me, I'm a U.S. citizen. Here's my ID & papers to prove it!" [ICE goons] "Your ID and documents are fake."

Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 10d

For people saying US citizens just need to show their IDs to avoid being stopped in immigration raids:

This man did. Agents told him it was fake.

Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 10d

Venegas, who specializes in laying concrete foundations, says he was detained both times despite showing his Alabama-issued REAL ID driver’s license — a higher-security identity card available only to U.S. citizens and legal residents.

Agents told him the ID card was fake

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Truth&Grace @truthandgrace.bsky.social · 10d

"I didn't see it." It's a lie, but it would be worse if it were true, to be in his position and not see this critical event. What an embarrassment of a man.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11d

Let’s open our eyes. This isn’t a functioning democracy any longer when - in the middle of a high stakes funding fight - the President illegally suspends federal projects in states run by Democrats as a way to punish the political opposition.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 11d

It’s not a shutdown. It’s a Republican shutdown. Call it by its correct name.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

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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