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Aliza Writes @alizawrites.bsky.social · 11m

ALWAYS. His opening shimmy gives me life

Aliza Writes @alizawrites.bsky.social · 17h

Channeling Madam VP @kamalaharris.com to that idiot protestor last night

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 17h

A painting of a bird beside the text "motherfucker shush"

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Aliza Writes @alizawrites.bsky.social · 17h

She thinks we are as stupid as his voters are

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Aliza Writes @alizawrites.bsky.social · 1d

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Aliza Writes @alizawrites.bsky.social · 1d

😅😅😅 I thought you'd appreciate that!

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 7d

Breaking: Trump-appointed federal judge issues temporary restraining order against Federalized deployment of National Guard in Oregon.

Judge: “this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law.”

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 7d

CALIFORNIANS!!!!

You’re gonna start getting your ballots. Vote YES for prop/ state measure 50, (it will be titled differently in different counties.)

Vote as soon as you get your ballot so that phone calls and texts can be directed to people who need more convincing.
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Aliza Writes @alizawrites.bsky.social · 11d

How's everyone enjoying the Trump/Republican government shutdown?

Hope it's worth it for them to deny millions of Americans healthcare!

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 11d

Donald Trump and his Republican cronies have officially shut down the government.

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🦍 It's Elections Time. Check Feed Pls @winterwarpath.bsky.social · 11d

Nobody who blames the shutdown on the Dems will get through to me. For me, the Dem's didn't cave, and that's important. They didn't sacrifice us. They refused to budge unless the GOP agreed to their terms.

I'm anxious about what's to come, but I'm not blaming it on the Dems.

Don't. Budge.

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Aliza Writes @alizawrites.bsky.social · 11d

We knew this would be the framing. Shame on @apnews.com .

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11d

Fix this @apnews.com.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11d

BREAKING: Democrats vote down a GOP bill to keep the government open, putting it on track for shutdown after midnight.

Aliza Writes @alizawrites.bsky.social · 11d

Thank the universe for moral, articulate, commanding judicial rulings

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11d

Just astounding. The reason they can shove through 100 Trump nominees at once is because the GOP changed the rules to eliminate the 60-vote requirement. Something they won’t do to fund the government. Yet they blame Dems.

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Aliza Writes @alizawrites.bsky.social · 11d

I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I say!

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 11d

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter:

"There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

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Aliza Writes @alizawrites.bsky.social · 12d

Love purging antisemites from my timeline. Never followed the dude, but he ended up in my feed. Feel free to rid of Mr. Brimm from yours.

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Aliza Writes @alizawrites.bsky.social · 12d

For my friends in California...

#StateMeasure50
#Prop50

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 17d

This is what it says on the sample ballot for the CA election on Nov 4. It is state measure 50, not prop 50 and nowhere. Does it say election rigging response act

So just be aware of that if you’re making calls if you’re telling people to vote, whatever you’re doing this is the official language

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 14d

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:

Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial

100%

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Aliza Writes @alizawrites.bsky.social · 16d

Unbelievable cruelty

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

ICE official confirms that the detainees who were shot were restrained when they were shot

Aliza Writes @alizawrites.bsky.social · 16d

Yup

Karoli @karoli.bsky.social · 16d

probably of Trump. A year ago, @alizawrites.bsky.social @socalmom.bsky.social and I walked the streets of DC at night with absolutely no fear. So just get out with that BS.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Trump: "They go to Uber. Young ladies in the White House. They'd call Uber for protection. They'd run to the car because they were petrified."

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Aliza Writes @alizawrites.bsky.social · 16d

I know it feels harsh but we need to get our heads around this reframing pronto. I love her too.

Aliza Writes @alizawrites.bsky.social · 16d

Again, we don't get to tell her how to use her voice. The majority of white people, incl. white women, sent her packing in 2024. We just get to sit down and listen now. Period. Your wishes are irrelevant, and the sooner we get comfortable with that notion, the better.

Aliza Writes @alizawrites.bsky.social · 16d

I would rather everyone else shut up about what she should and shouldn't say.

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Aliza Writes @alizawrites.bsky.social · 16d

darn it

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Aliza Writes @alizawrites.bsky.social · 16d

Kimmel had the sense to mention the silencing of journalists in his monologue & the chilling impact of it, something like "I know it's not as (exciting?) as the firing of late-night hosts, but it's been happening" & he went off on the danger of it. He should name names and have them on his show. 2/2