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Dr René MD 🇺🇸🩺 @drrenemd.bsky.social · 6h

Guess who was "President" on January 6?

I'll tell you cos you don't have 2 brain cells to rub together. Hope the "advanced imagery" was a Brain MRI.

It was YOU, DJT. Pffft 🖕

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 15h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Fred Little @doclittle.bsky.social · 10h

Presence of legal observers coordinated by the National Lawyers Guild & the ACLU during anti-Iraq War protests in 2002-2004 kept many situations from getting out of hand before there were arrests, and where there were arrests on bogus charges, getting the charges tossed. Similar help is needed now.

Ellen Enders @ellenenders.bsky.social · 10h

Dear Lawyers - We need to ask one more thing of you
Will you please coordinate w/ each other so that we have a legal presence (w/ a bullhorn like this, in case needed) at each protest in cities/states w/ Trump goons? I know it's probably not possible, but this is incredibly helpful for protesters,

Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 11h

WE NEED LAWYERS AT ALL THESE PROTESTS‼️ He was incredibly calm, well spoken & respectful‼️

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 11h

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 14h

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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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 11h

a state of Puerto Rico could be a light red state if the GOP was even 20 percent less racist

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11h

Bad Bunny went from bagging groceries recording music on SoundCloud to being one of the most streamed artists in the world. He embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of Latinos that Republicans say should make them natural conservatives. Instead they are crashing out on him.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 15h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 15h

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Marble Liberal @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 16h

Who owns the army is THE constitutional question of the 17th century

jim0novak.bsky.social @jim0novak.bsky.social · 16h

The U.S. Constitution's Army Clause (Article I, Section 8) requires that congressional appropriations to raise and support armies must be for a term no longer than two years.

They feared standing armies.

The Founders were more radical anti-fascists than common knowledge would expect.

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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 18h

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

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Fred Little @doclittle.bsky.social · 11h

Either Pritzker's claim that he is using State Police to protect residents from Federal Occupation Forces is false, or civilian control of state law enforcement resources, personnel, and operations is a fantasy. Could be either. Could be both.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17h

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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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 14h

People who act confused by Hamas' desire to free Barghoti are bizarre to me, Hamas wants him out even though he isn't Hamas affiliated because they believe he is one of the few, or maybe even the only, individuals who can unite the whole of Palestinian factions under the PLO

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 16h

If it happens, this is actually a very positive development. Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) has demonstrated very clearly over the past 2 years that they cannot be trusted w/this mission & we know the contract driven US attempt to do HA is a disaster. 1/

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 21h

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details not authorized for release, said U.S. Central Command is going to establish a “civil-military coordination center” in Israel that will help facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid as well as logistical and security assistance.

US Sending 200 Troops to Israel Amid Ceasefire Deal in Gaza

The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to monitor the Gaza ceasefire and establish a “civil-military coordination center.”

buff.ly

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16h

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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Cliff Weathers @cliffweathers.bsky.social · 20h

A meme to dye for!

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Fred Little @doclittle.bsky.social · 19h

Yes, they're trying to advance the End of Days.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20h

“Before the Messiah returns, some Christian Zionists believe that certain events described in the Bible must take place—and they’re attempting to speed up the process. Christian Friends of Israeli Communities funds projects in the West Bank to fulfill prophecies”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

God's "blank check": Christian Zionists are pouring billions of dollars into Israeli extremism

Evangelicals have become Israel's most important American allies.

www.motherjones.com

Fred Little @doclittle.bsky.social · 19h

This is Beth Davidson's electoral base in NY 17. Far-right ultra-religious anti-modern white supremacists actively working hand-in-glove with Southern white evangelical racists who are consciously speed-running Armageddon as a matter of religious devotion. A++ pick for self-hating secular voters.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20h

“A 2013 poll by the Pew Research Center found that 82 percent of white American evangelicals believe that Israel was given to the Jewish people by God, compared with 81 percent of ultra-Orthodox Jews and 44 percent of respondents overall.”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

God's "blank check": Christian Zionists are pouring billions of dollars into Israeli extremism

Evangelicals have become Israel's most important American allies.

www.motherjones.com

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 22h

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22h

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21h

Luttig has it right here: “[T]he Supreme Court has given them no choice but to speak out.”

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 21h

They're coming for it all.

YourDrunkAuntie @morewildones.bsky.social · 1d

Only took about 9 months

BREAKING: In a shocking moment, AG Pam Bondi suggests that the DOJ will execute American citizens they deem as Antifa, "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take this same approach with antifa."
This attorney general is unhinged.

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Fred Little @doclittle.bsky.social · 22h

I was using a shopping list app yesterday and got an in-app popup prompt to install the Borgata Casino app. The casinos are not satisfied with the destruction of the young, and now it's Potterville in your pocket, 24/7.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23h

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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