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Lulu 🍉 @darbylulu.bsky.social · 26m

Consolidate. No requirements. Same benefits. Less waste. Less money. More efficient. Easy processing. No denials. Better care.

Lulu 🍉 @darbylulu.bsky.social · 26m

Democrats should emphasize the cost savings of universal programs that apply to everyone and consolidate resources.

Example: Medicaid, Medicare and Obamacare all do one thing: provide healthcare. They are separated by having different eligibility requirements and what those people 'deserve.'

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Lulu 🍉 @darbylulu.bsky.social · 37m

In Oregon, our driver's license or state ID is our voter registration. It's cheaper and more efficient than having two separate processes.

Republicans waste a lot of money trying to keep people from things like healthcare and voting. Determining who is deserving and what is fraudulent costs money.

Bernard Taylor @btaylorforcongress.bsky.social · 1d

Florida voters: If you got a new driver’s license since July 2024, your voter registration may not match!

Check & update your info to avoid issues with mail-in ballots or petitions. Your vote matters!

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Lulu 🍉 @darbylulu.bsky.social · 15h

Protests that may be hard to do long term but have a huge immediate impact.

Lulu 🍉 @darbylulu.bsky.social · 15h

A local only protest. Only buy from local-owned businesses for a week.

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Lulu 🍉 @darbylulu.bsky.social · 15h

A social media strike. No posting. No liking. No reposts. Nothing.

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Lulu 🍉 @darbylulu.bsky.social · 15h

Everyone should not buy anything for a day. One day, no money spent on anything. No food, no gas, no bills, no online shopping, no local shopping, no small purchases, no big purchases. I want all spending to stop for a day.

God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Bless Mayor Johnson for calling for a general strike!

Bless The Chicago Mayor’s Call For A General Strike

Can God get an amen?

www.thegodpodcast.com

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 20h

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

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Lulu 🍉 @darbylulu.bsky.social · 15h

Israeli deep-tech military defense company, R2, "...opened a US base in Texas this past May... 'Anything that transmits, we will catch it.'” #scary #bds
www.jpost.com/defense-and-...

Israeli deep-tech company wins US Army competition | The Jerusalem Post

Israeli deep-tech company R2 provides full-spectrum wireless defense for military, civilian, and critical infrastructure applications.

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Lulu 🍉 @darbylulu.bsky.social · 20h

During the three weeks the Portland ICE facility was closed, ICE was actively making arrests and using the detention hold rooms. ICE activity dropped BEFORE the closure and increased DURING the closure.
www.opb.org/article/2025...

Portland ICE hold room stayed in use during facility closure. National Guard.

Across the northwest, ICE book ins dropped before the Portland facility closed. NOT DURING. BEFORE.

Lulu 🍉 @darbylulu.bsky.social · 20h

How they will fix the problem will be interesting since they went all the way to the supreme court to make DEI unconstitutional.

Lulu 🍉 @darbylulu.bsky.social · 20h

DEI is a legal liability. Anti-DEI is bad for business. If corporations continue to lose profits because they aren't implementing DEI, they will put pressure on politicians to fix the problem.

Keep boycotting. Make anti-DEI a financial liability.
www.mediapost.com/publications...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 21h

The Trump regime is going to continue to abuse its power by sending National Guard troops into our streets.

Although the Frog Army of Portland is undoubtedly well-prepared, we highly recommend reading up on how to interact with the Guard as it is different than engaging with ICE.

Learn more here:

Responding to Federal Occupying Forces

Click here for another version of this document optimized for readability and accessibility. Table of Contents (click to jump ahead) We the People are PISSED: statement/intro Situation Report: current...

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Lulu 🍉 @darbylulu.bsky.social · 22h

"States rights" allow for states to implement religious law.

Lulu 🍉 @darbylulu.bsky.social · 22h

Idaho, my home state, often enforces religious authoritarian control over county and city governments. This law makes it illegal for public schools to have a vaccine mandate. There is no freedom when any level of government enforces religious law.
www.propublica.org/article/idah...

Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.

The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” ...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"No, we don't want a monarchy, we want a theocracy" is a not the flex they think it is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23h

So racist it's a news story in 2025. The administration's nominee to head the Office of Special Counsel.

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 23h

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today just decided to green-light this stated plan, granting Trump permission now to deploy National Guard troops into Portland.

svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 12d

Part of what's happening now was laid out by Stephen Miller on a podcast with Charlie Kirk in early 2024, then shortly after in an article on Feb 8 from The Atlantic. Trump's court losses only lead to further blurring of the lines between "legal" and overt dictatorial power.

screenshot of an article, text reads; How Trump and his advisers intend to staff such a program would make a prospective Trump deportation campaign even more volatile. Stephen Miller, Trump's top immigration adviser, has publicly declared that they would pursue such an enormous effort partly by creating a private red-state army under the president's command. Miller says a reelected Trump intends to requisition National Guard troops from sympathetic Republican-controlled states and then deploy them into Democratic-run states whose governors refuse to cooperate with their deportation drive.
Such deployment of red-state forces into blue states, over the objections of their mayors and governors, would likely spark intense public protest and possibly even conflict with law-enforcement agencies under local control. And that conflict itself could become the justification for further insertion of federal forces into blue jurisdictions, notes Joseph Nunn, a counsel in the Liberty & National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 23h

The dissent does an excellent job making the majority look like fools. cst.brightspotcdn.com/d9/44/ff61b3...

The district court’s factual findings, which the government does not
challenge on appeal, and which are not clearly erroneous in any event, fully resolve
this issue. In the two weeks leading up to the President’s September 27 social
media post, there had not been a single incident of protesters’ disrupting the
execution of the laws. Oregon, 2025 WL 2817646, at *10. I repeat: not a single
incident for two weeks. Here are summaries from police reports for the five days
preceding the President’s social media post.
September 22: Approx. 7-10 people. No calls.
September 23: Few people. No activity.
September 24: Approx. 10 people. No calls.
September 25: Approx. 20 people. No calls.
September 26: Approx. 15 people. Energy low, minimal activity.
No incidents.
A police officer’s report from September 26 stated: “Throughout the day we
observed approximately 8-15 people at any given time out front of ICE. Mostly
sitting in lawn chairs and walking around.”
It is hard to understand how a tiny protest causing no disruptions could
possibly satisfy the standard that the President is unable to execute the laws.

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Lulu 🍉 @darbylulu.bsky.social · 23h

It's problematic when you feel that your peers are making "absurd" legal decisions. It points to the chronic problem among conservatives who are rejecting factual evidence. It's not just having a different opinion on events. They believe things that never happened because someone said they did.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d

Graber says today's opinion "is not only absurd, but ... it erodes core constitutional principles... I strenuously object.

In the weeks preceding the President’s September 27 social media post
proclaiming that Portland was “War ravaged” and authorizing Secretary Hegseth to
deploy federalized Oregon National Guard members, demonstrations in Portland
were non-disruptive and small. Notwithstanding the turbulent events that had
occurred several months earlier, the record contains no evidence whatsoever that,
on September 27, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) was unable
either to protect its Portland facility or to execute the immigration laws it is
charged with enforcing.

Lulu 🍉 @darbylulu.bsky.social · 23h

"Also, on September 4, FPS arrested a woman described as “a daily chronic
problem,” who is “very aggressive” and believed to be armed with a Glock. "

You arrested her. Did she or did she not have a Glock on her? I would assume she didn't, otherwise it would have said so.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING The Ninth Circuit GRANTS Trump's motion for a stay pending appeal in the Oregon v. Trump case.

Reading through the opinion now.

#61 in State of Oregon, et al. v. Trump, et al. (9th Cir., 25-6268) – CourtListener.com

ORDER FOR PUBLICATION (Susan P. GRABER, Ryan D. NELSON, Bridget S. BADE) (Concurrence by Judge R. Nelson; Dissent by Judge Graber). [SEE ORDER FOR FULL TEXT] For these reasons, we GRANT Defendant’s mo...

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Lulu 🍉 @darbylulu.bsky.social · 23h

Wow there is a lot of fiction in here. Are they getting their evidence from right wing podcasters? 12 protesters were beating on a woman? Ah, what?

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING The Ninth Circuit GRANTS Trump's motion for a stay pending appeal in the Oregon v. Trump case.

Reading through the opinion now.

#61 in State of Oregon, et al. v. Trump, et al. (9th Cir., 25-6268) – CourtListener.com

ORDER FOR PUBLICATION (Susan P. GRABER, Ryan D. NELSON, Bridget S. BADE) (Concurrence by Judge R. Nelson; Dissent by Judge Graber). [SEE ORDER FOR FULL TEXT] For these reasons, we GRANT Defendant’s mo...

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 2d

Scorpio: "They are planning something." This you'll know as you grow weary each night. "Their plan is coming to fruition." You'll understand this. Always by morning you will forget us. We are planning still. The plan has nothing to do with you. Stop knowing about it. We hear you knowing.

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Angels In Velvet @angelsinvelvet.bsky.social · 1d

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