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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 2h

It’s absolutely the Presidio. It’s managed by a trust that the current occupant of the Oval Office has tried to shut down so he can sell off the land.

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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 2h

I’m sure that Jake Tapper is going to be writing about Trump’s obvious mental decline any day now.

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 13h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 5h

Trump golfing today during the government shutdown

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 8h

Tomorrow in San Francisco: @jacobsilverman.com and @alexhanna.bsky.social at Litquake.

7 p.m. See you there?

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 9h

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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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 9h

What Fr Dowling is doing here was not just "offering communion to detainees". A full on Eucharistic Procession is a really fucking big deal. In Catholic theological framing, those folks were the honor guard with the very great privilege of escorting Jesus himself to the detention center.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
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Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 3d

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19h

One week from right now, millions of Americans will gather in every state for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history. Join your local No Kings Day event to make it clear that We The People won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 17h

No Kings,
For the love of America.

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 1d

I voted twice in Congress to make independent redistricting the law of the land nationwide, but I’m voting YES on Prop 50.

Here’s why:

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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 16h

They don’t “figure it out.” People who happen to be in the vicinity when ICE rolls up and detains someone pull out their phones and start filming. We should all do that. But it’s all by chance (except at an ICE facility).

Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 16h

How *exactly* would they do what you’re demanding? How would they know where and when ICE is going to strike so they can intervene?

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 1d

Especially given that the word “robot” itself DERIVES FROM THE FUCKING CZECH TERM FOR “DRUDGERY” & “SERVITUDE”

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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 1d

I love the way he honors all the people surrounding him who have furthered this science.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 1d

I’m really glad that we have a new Bill Kristol, but the GOP has been against the “right of the people peaceably to assemble“ since at least the 1960s.

Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 1d

Jake Tapper is going to get right on this insanity. Any day now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Dinosaur Bob @dinosaurbob.bsky.social · 1d

Very. Smart. People.

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