Karl DEFEND DEMOCRACY Bunday 🇺🇸 🗽 🇺🇦 🇹🇼
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Protesting paid by lives & sacred honor of founders, former appellate judicial clerk. ⚖️ #OneMinnesota 代詞:tā Reposting means let's discuss. I love to hear the diverse perspectives of other Bluesky users. Please let me know what I can do better.
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Self-intro 🧵:

A campaign volunteer for a progressive legislative candidate invited me to Bluesky (joined 5 July 2023 user 264,507). Our candidate won.

My main goal in microblogging networks is to promote democratic values and protect rule of law and civil rights for all.

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Image of the Uncle Sam wants you poster from World War I with caption, "I want a president who obeys the Constitution."
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asharangappa.bsky.social
The search on Mar-a-Lago happened in August 2022. Jack Smith was appointed Special Counsel in November 2022.

Time, how does it work
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Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "
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andycraig.bsky.social
The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.
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Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
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jamellebouie.net
federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago



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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
45xiatai.bsky.social
I'd love to see some party switches in the correct direction. I remember some of those since I've been old enough to vote, but I think more in the Senate than in the House.
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mattyglesias.bsky.social
I don't think people are "betting against Bari Weiss" the concern is that she will succeed in transforming CBS News into regime-aligned propaganda.
sallyjenx.bsky.social
This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss
The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.
www.theatlantic.com
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thebulwark.com
Sen. Mark Kelly: "The president has previously said...that government shutdowns are on the president and all you need to do is get everyone in a room and have a serious conversation. And they're refusing to do that. They are holding people's healthcare hostage."
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Q: Who is Mike Johnson being threatened by? I mean, if he's not bringing the House back, releasing the Epstein files ... he seems scared

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think so ... Do I think he's really up to the task? No.
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Kamala Harris: "I think he has a vengeance campaign, which is really exposing the petty nature of who he is and his deep level of insecurity."
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45xiatai.bsky.social
We are ready to stand up fearlessly with thousands of our neighbors here in Minnetonka, Minnesota, for what may be the largest peaceful protest in the history of Minnesota's Third Congressional District. See you on Saturday afternoon 18 October 2025. #NoKings
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
No Kings Minnetonka-Southwest Metro · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “No kings” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, this principle echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together. Donald Trump thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty. Stand up for the United States of America and join us. 📍 Where: Minnetonka, Minnesota, at the same location as No Kings Day 14 June 2025 (which is the same location as the May Day protest in Minnetonka and the Minnetonka Wednesday Weekly Protest each week and Good Trouble Lives on in Minnetonka and Families First in Minnetonka and Minnetonka #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day) 📅 When: 12:00 noon to 2:00pm Saturday 18 October 2025 ℹ️ What: Neighbors will get together with other neighbors on public land near road margins in a friendly demonstration of support for freedom, democracy, and rule of law with our homemade signs. Some signs will be available to borrow or to keep. **A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.** All local protests organized by Indivisible MN03 are peaceful, legal, nonviolent, family-friendly exercises of first amendment rights in public places.
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/839634/?referring_vol=26546&rname=Karl&share_context=signup-form-modal&share_medium=bluesky×lot=5508951
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gtconway.bsky.social
Saturday, October 18. Everywhere. Find your local event at nokings.org.

#NoKings
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startribune.com
Have you or someone in your family tried to use a hospital’s free or discounted care policies? Do you or someone you know struggle with medical debt? Share your story to help inform our reporting:
Have you or your family sought free hospital care in Minnesota? We want to hear from you.
Have you or someone you know had trouble with medical bills? Tell us your story.
bit.ly
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donmoyn.bsky.social
They cannot talk about the shutdown without lying.

There is no connection between troop payments and federal employee layoffs. Zero.

They are paying the troops with multiyear R&D allocations within DOD. This is also illegal by the way! But completely disconnected to the layoffs.
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WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Okay, I’m going to take a mea culpa on this one, as initial reporting suggested he was ONLY facing removal because of the murder conviction he’s been exonerated from. But there’s more; at 19, he pled guilty to dealing LSD. And in immigration law, that’s its own “aggravated felony” ground of removal.
cmgiulini.bsky.social
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
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acyn.bsky.social
Vance: I’m sure that in the course of his life he has been paid more than $50,000 for services. The question is did he do something illegal.

Stephanopoulos: I’m asking if Homan accepted the $50,000

Vance: Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services? Low income women can’t get food
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.
45xiatai.bsky.social
Correct. The road construction will not influence the date, time, place, or manner of the No Kings Minnetonka-Southwest Metro protest in any way. I live in the neighborhood and was just on a survey walk of the site with my wife. All is well.
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
No Kings Minnetonka-Southwest Metro · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “No kings” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, this principle echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together. Donald Trump thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty. Stand up for the United States of America and join us. 📍 Where: Minnetonka, Minnesota, at the same location as No Kings Day 14 June 2025 (which is the same location as the May Day protest in Minnetonka and the Minnetonka Wednesday Weekly Protest each week and Good Trouble Lives on in Minnetonka and Families First in Minnetonka and Minnetonka #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day) 📅 When: 12:00 noon to 2:00pm Saturday 18 October 2025 ℹ️ What: Neighbors will get together with other neighbors on public land near road margins in a friendly demonstration of support for freedom, democracy, and rule of law with our homemade signs. Some signs will be available to borrow or to keep. **A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.** All local protests organized by Indivisible MN03 are peaceful, legal, nonviolent, family-friendly exercises of first amendment rights in public places.
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/839634/?referring_vol=26546&rname=Karl&share_context=signup-form-modal&share_medium=bluesky×lot=5508951
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Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."
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Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."
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atrupar.com
BREAM: Open enrollments starts in November. People are already getting notices about what they may pay. I mean, that's gotta be resolved.

MIKE JOHNSON: Yes, and they're eating up the clock in the month of October

(Johnson canceled the House in August to avoid taking votes on Epstein)
45xiatai.bsky.social
Since 1770, Americans have not been afraid to stand up for freedom. I won't be afraid to demonstrate peacefully, nonviolently (and, as to any correctly understood current law, legally) on Saturday 18 October 2025. Don't miss out on No Kings Day. #NoKingsMinnetonka