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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 18m

“D” word is “dementia.”

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue

Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Trump doesn't remember/believe/understand HE was president on January 6, 2021

This is how unstable, how mentally unbalanced, how much of a dangerous mixture of dishonesty and insanity Trump is:

"Biden's FBI?" By Jan. 6 2021, TRUMP had run the FBI for 1,448 days #25A

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 36m

What I find not “amusing” is an incumbent avoiding addressing issues within his party and deciding to just run as a know-it-all jerk.

#ME02 #mepolitics #VoteTrueBlue

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 2d

And here I thought those old timey TV evangelists were the high water point of hypocrisy...

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 4d

Kristi Noem praying before sending her secret, masked goons out to harass the people of Portland

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 1d

#resist #VoteBlue

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam @repsuhas.bsky.social · 1d

Shutdown day 10.

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 1d

Translation: US citizens without representation would actually get some, a SCOTUS reflecting where the country is as a whole would be making reasoned decisions not knee jerk moving us ever closer to strongman dictatorship, and women would control their bodies.

But I digress.

#resist #VoteBlue

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 1d

Essentially, historically bad employer Trump sees this as a craven opportunity, though likely illegal and certainly unethical, to further demoralize our dedicated Federal public servants.

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue #GOPShutdown

Trump administration begins laying off federal workers amid shutdown

White House budget director Russell Vought said reductions-in-force were underway.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 1d

More blame the Dems for the #GOPShutdown by guess who - Jared Golden, who has once again determined that he is the only wise Democrat in Congress and the rest of us are conniving opportunists who don’t care about people and Fed workers. NOT TRUE!

#ME02 vote MATT DUNLAP!

#mepolitics #VoteTrueBlue

It’s time to end the shutdown

Ten days in, both sides are blaming the other, trying to “win” the government shutdown even as millions of federal workers and service members lose pay and Americans suffer with federal agencies strip...

open.substack.com

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Gerald Weinand @dirigoblue.bsky.social · 14h

Good question

Blue Woman Voting 📎 @bluewomanvoting123.bsky.social · 1d

@chrislhayes.bsky.social

Why aren't Dems suing to get the AZ rep sworn in?

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 1d

#resist #VoteBlue

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam @repsuhas.bsky.social · 1d

Shutdown day 10.

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 1d

Essentially, historically bad employer Trump sees this as a craven opportunity, though likely illegal and certainly unethical, to further demoralize our dedicated Federal public servants.

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue #GOPShutdown

Trump administration begins laying off federal workers amid shutdown

White House budget director Russell Vought said reductions-in-force were underway.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 1d

Translation: US citizens without representation would actually get some, a SCOTUS reflecting where the country is as a whole would be making reasoned decisions not knee jerk moving us ever closer to strongman dictatorship, and women would control their bodies.

But I digress.

#resist #VoteBlue

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 1d

More blame the Dems for the #GOPShutdown by guess who - Jared Golden, who has once again determined that he is the only wise Democrat in Congress and the rest of us are conniving opportunists who don’t care about people and Fed workers. NOT TRUE!

#ME02 vote MATT DUNLAP!

#mepolitics #VoteTrueBlue

It’s time to end the shutdown

Ten days in, both sides are blaming the other, trying to “win” the government shutdown even as millions of federal workers and service members lose pay and Americans suffer with federal agencies strip...

open.substack.com

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 2d

The #GOP knowingly funded the apparatus for a police state.

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

www.motherjones.com

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 3d

"Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!" - Fascist Führer Donald Trump

“This is not the first time Trump has tried to have a Black man unjustly arrested.” - Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue

Trump Takes Aim at Illinois Governor and Chicago Mayor

www.nytimes.com

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 3d

Now passing Hegseth and Noem for most vile...

"Bondi’s contemptuousness before the Senate Judiciary Committee was designed to send a clear message: You have no power to stop us."

She needs to be impeached.

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue

Bondi to Congress: 🖕

The attorney general came to the Hill to deliver a message to Democrats: Your ‘oversight’ couldn't matter to us less.

www.thebulwark.com

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 2d

Travesty.

#resist #VoteBlue #AZ07

Column | Congresswoman-in-limbo Adelita Grijalva on the dilemma she faces

Democratic Rep. Grijalva won her special election more than two weeks ago, but House Republicans refuse to swear her into office.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 2d

The #GOP knowingly funded the apparatus for a police state.

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

www.motherjones.com

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 2d

Travesty.

#resist #VoteBlue #AZ07

Column | Congresswoman-in-limbo Adelita Grijalva on the dilemma she faces

Democratic Rep. Grijalva won her special election more than two weeks ago, but House Republicans refuse to swear her into office.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 2d

And here I thought those old timey TV evangelists were the high water point of hypocrisy...

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 4d

Kristi Noem praying before sending her secret, masked goons out to harass the people of Portland

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 3d

Abso-impeach-lutely!

Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 3d

Now passing Hegseth and Noem for most vile...

"Bondi’s contemptuousness before the Senate Judiciary Committee was designed to send a clear message: You have no power to stop us."

She needs to be impeached.

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue

Bondi to Congress: 🖕

The attorney general came to the Hill to deliver a message to Democrats: Your ‘oversight’ couldn't matter to us less.

www.thebulwark.com

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 3d

In a few days, you may be notified that your health insurance premiums will double, because of Republican cuts to health care. Democrats are fighting to change that before it's too late.

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, he took the lead on that.

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 5d

Joseph Goebbels says what?

#resist #VoteBlue

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 5d

Stephen Miller leads GOP charge equating Democrats to 'domestic terrorists'

Trump advisors amp up extreme rhetoric against Democrats during government shutdown, immigration raids

Miller's rhetoric comes amid a federal crackdown on Portland, Ore., where he says the president has unchecked authority to protect federal lives and property.

www.latimes.com

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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 4d

We no longer have an Attorney General protecting the. people
of the Inited States of America, instead we have an extreme partisan personal unethical lawyer of Trump’s shielding him and administration wrongdoers plus creating diversions.

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue

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