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Agent: These guys were all threatening us yesterday with hand guns.
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Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us.

Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols?

A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us.

R: Pulling out literal guns?

A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.
February 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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Absolutely reprehensible that AG Bondi is offering ICE stand down in exchange for access to voting rolls. Outrageous and disgusting. It shows ICE is in Minneapolis is not for law enforcement purposes. Instead it’s a way to stir up shit in blue states and extort them.
In the wake of another fatal shooting in Minneapolis.
AG Pam Bondi sends Gov. Walz a letter today making several asks including:
"Allow DOJ Civil Rights division access to state voter rolls"
January 25, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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I'm a journalist and attorney, not an activist, so I've no answers on what Americans should do right now.

I only know this: Donald Trump is attempting to incite a civil war so he can cancel all future elections, and he will keep executing citizens until that outcome is achieved.
January 25, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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This was Alex Pretti at work at the VA honoring a veteran who had passed.

This is who they're trying to falsely smear as a terrorist and assassin.
January 25, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Stale, Male, and so much beyond the Pale.
September 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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September 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Last year, in an address to the Society for the Rule of Law Institute (@chkbal.bsky.social), Ambassador John Bolton warned that, if elected to a second term, Trump would abuse and corrupt the Justice Department to carry out retribution. Watch.

(ht: @greggnunziata.bsky.social)
August 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Can checks and balances survive in a polarized age?

Our annual Rule of Law Summit returns October 22 in Washington, D.C.

Hear from leading judges, lawyers, and public servants on what's next for the rule of law.

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August 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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As you watch Trump manufacture pretexts for militarizing our cities on your TV, please note that an internal Department of Homeland Security memo recently put it in writing that officials want to see the military get much more involved in domestic law enforcement. We obtained that memo:
August 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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July 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Geology Murder

xkcd.com/3112/
July 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Meanwhile in Russia: military expert Igor Korotchenko thanked Donald Trump for lifting sanctions and urged him to protect Elbridge Colby. Foreign expert Alexander Bobrov surmised that Trump is losing to Russia with a devastating score.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecBU...
Igor Korotchenko thanks Trump and urges him to protect Elbridge Colby
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
www.youtube.com
July 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Here is the video showing the whole array of signs. #ResistFascism #TeslaTakedown #Indivisible #DCMediaGroup #WOFAVA #ImpeachconvictRemove
July 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Seeing Language as a Tool of Authoritarianism

www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/06/s...
Seeing Language as a Tool of Authoritarianism - emptywheel
When you speak on social media, are you saying or are you doing?
www.emptywheel.net
July 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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It’s time
June 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Day 70. 🇺🇸
June 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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By 2030..the global economy will be $1 trillion smaller than it would have been had the US remained in the TPP. More than a third of that loss would come because of a smaller US economy…The consequence for Americans: 690,000 fewer jobs.
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www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Trump Ripping Up the Free Trade Playbook Comes With $1 Trillion Cost
The ominous trajectory of the US president’s tariff overhaul looms over the G-7 gathering.
www.bloomberg.com
June 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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When you wonder about the impact of Trump, think about a senator like Mike Lee who exploits his power to spread disinformation and undermine the public’s capacity to know what’s true. A bad man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power.
Just four hours ago, even after we’ve learned the shooter was as an anti-abortionist Trump supporter, a sitting U.S. Senator is spreading fake conspiracy theories blaming the murder of a Democratic lawmaker on Democrats.

Not only that, he’s pinned the post!

Abominably evil stuff from Mike Lee.
June 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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that’s Elon Musk FRS @royalsociety.org
The wilful disinformation being spread by Musk and others about the Minnesota assassinations on X is similar to what occurred after the UK's riots in summer 2024. Governments need to wake up to threats the platform poses to civil disorder and societal polarisation.
June 16, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Two things are true at the same time: The regime is encountering a lot more resistance than they know how to handle, they are vulnerable. Yet they are also dangerous, controlling the coercive powers of the state, fueled by a paranoid, conspiratorial siege mentality that pushes them to escalate.
June 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM