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True Patriots Believe In & Protect Democracy

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Leon ruined twitter. November 3, 2026 will be epic; it's going to really suck in the meantime.

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True Patriots Believe In & Protect Democracy @donjorizzy.bsky.social · Jan 22

You don't need to amend the Constitution. Just pass a law that requires any PAC who buys ads to buy equal time or "space" immediately following/adjacent to their (dishonest) message for the target to respond. This would diffuse their money advantage and the effectiveness of their negative ads.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

New, from me: I break down all that is happening with the shutdown.
Shutdowns are bad. But only Trump and Russ Vought are brave enough to ask: what if shutdowns aren’t painful enough? How can we use this as an opportunity to target our political enemies? 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

The Shutdown Shitshow

As Trump uses the shutdown to settle scores, the public bears the cost

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2h

On this date 56 years ago, millions of Americans peacefully protested the U.S. government

It's that time again www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Moratorium Day: The day that millions of Americans marched

On 15 October 1969, millions of people in the US marched to call for an end to the Vietnam War.

www.bbc.com

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True Patriots Believe In & Protect Democracy @donjorizzy.bsky.social · 1h

See Mike...see Mike lie...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 1h

Section 2 of the 15th Amendment explicitly delegates to Congress the right to decide how to enforce Black voting rights. That's what the text says. And that's the original intent of the framers.

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True Patriots Believe In & Protect Democracy @donjorizzy.bsky.social · 1h

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True Patriots Believe In & Protect Democracy @donjorizzy.bsky.social · 22h

Great reality check on the day son of Klan member Fred awards white-nationalist Kirk with the Presidential medal of freedom...I won't hold my breath waiting for these students to be disciplined by their schools under US Dept of Ed threats of mass-withheld research grants.

Alan Rosenblatt @drdigipol.bsky.social · 23h

Well it seems that behind "closed doors" Young Republicans are a bunch of racist, anti-Semitic, bigoted people.

Who knew?

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

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Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 19h

Dallas Fort Worth Airport is refusing to air Kristi Noem’s propaganda video—because it’s illegal. All airports must follow suit and reject this misuse of public space. No platform for propaganda. No exceptions.

Love Field, DFW Airport won't show video blaming Democrats for government shutdown

North Texas' two largest airports say the video, in which Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem says Democrats "refuse to fund the federal government," goes against their advertising policy.

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True Patriots Believe In & Protect Democracy @donjorizzy.bsky.social · 1h

A "ringing" endorsement of Trump's economic policies that Miran was centrally involved in " formulating."

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Lynda Will Not Obey @ivanasstaircam.bsky.social · 2h

Mike Johnson whining about berating a Capitol police officer after their cult beat the shit out of them on January 6th? And then their cult leader pardoned the cop beaters?

That’s rich.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

Moopppan: "There's no reason to think that the Louisiana legislature would have done anything different if every black democrat was a white democrat."

ACTUALLY THAT DOESN'T MATTER. Because the VRA (section 2) isn't asking about INTENT it's asking about RESULTS.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

Ooh, Roberts question: he's asking Mooppan to help him distinguish Milligan from this case.

Again, Roberts thing is that Milligan is right because Alabama made stupid arguments and he can ignore Milligan now because Louisiana is making better arguments in favor of racism.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

Lol. that was it. He was up for like 15 minutes of humiliation, and now he's gone.

Last up is Hashim Mooppan. Deputy SG for the Trump administration.

There's no real reason for the Trump admin to be here. But there's an opportunity for racism so I guess Trump wants to be involved.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

But that means he was there when Kagan was a professor, just before she became Dean. So it's *possible* he had her for a class. I choose to believe that she's embarassed this man before, and now it's just more public.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

Roberts and Alito skipped their chance to ask questions.

Sooo... what's basically happening is that the Republicans have decided to let the Democrats absolutely dog-walk Ed Greim so they can feel better about this case that they're going to lose.

Greim, meet bus, tell me how the wheels look.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

Kagan is going back to the difference between Section 2 and Section 5. This would work if Roberts was an intellectually honest person. Unfortunately, Roberts hates Black people voting as much as any Klansman ever did.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

Louisiana: "The plaintiffs came in and said 'we want a second majority-minority district."
KBJ: "NO THEY DID NOT. They said our votes are being dilluted."
Louisiana: "That's the same thing."
KBJ: "No it's not. ... trust me on this."
:)

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

One of my only remaining joys is that every single time Amy Coney Barrett makes a stupid argument, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets a chance to follow up and illustrate her stupidity.
And this will happen again, and again, for the rest of Barrett's life.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

Brett Kavanaugh is basically arguing tha there have been "sufficient remedies" for racism.

This seems like a good time to bring up the @politico.com about how young Republicans have *remedied* racism.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

Haaahahaha. Kagan says "in Milligan, we rejected a number of arguments. It seems to me that you just made every one of them." Then she started to list them.
... she's still listing them. :)

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

The Louisiana argument is essentially that you CAN use race to be racist but you CAN'T use race to ameliorate racism.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

Louisiana guy is now trying to pivot to "The FEDERAL government" has no business telling Louisiana that black people get to have political power.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

Sotomayor: "race is *always* a part of redistricting efforts."

Thank you. See, the Republicans are trying to gaslight people by suggesting they're for "no race in gerrymandering." That's just not true. Race is ALWAYS a factor when you're drawing a map.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

Supreme Court: "We have to give black people a sandwich"
Louisiana: "Fine. What about a Po Boy?"
Supreme Court: "Or, you know, we could drown black folks in the river."
Louisiana: "WE ARE ALL FOUR DROWNING BLACK FOLKS IN THE RIVER!"

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

Nelson: "Section 2 requires neither a confession, nor an accusation of racism. It looks only at results."

This should be the winning point, but it won't, because Republicans.

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