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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9h

Just tuned in to Trump’s AF1 gaggle. On Hamas shooting Palestinians in the streets, he says “they’re keeping order since 2M are returning home to Gaza, it’ll be all alright”.

I won’t share the graphic footage, but it doesn’t resemble “order” by any stretch of imagination.

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Bob @bobby1954.bsky.social · 2d

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

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Lady P of Soggy Bottom @pshoot.bsky.social · 1d

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court temporarily allowed the Trump administration to keep the National Guard under federal command in Illinois — but blocked its use for active deployment. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Appeals Court Allows Trump to Keep Control of Illinois National Guard but Bars Deployment

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Juliet Dowling @jdrf.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in Peace, Diane Keaton. You were one of a kind! ✊🏻

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Juliet Dowling @jdrf.bsky.social · 1d

You were great. So appreciate your insights.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Me to @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the Comey and James and (probably imminent) Bolton prosecutions

"It doesn’t matter what your politics are. If you say he’s stupid, which he is, if you say he is wrong, which he is, if you say he’s a criminal or sleezy, which he is ... then you’re his enemy.”

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 1d

Protesting once per quarter is like throwing a pebble at a bus.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 1d

Rep. Ro Khanna said we all have to contact our Members of Congress and demand they pass this bill to release the Epstein files--YOU CAN DO IT NOW HERE:
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Congress: Pass the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act

Contact Congress today!

actionnetwork.org

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting…

Pictures of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Shutdown America:
A CNN Town Hall with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Moderated by Kaitlan Collins
Wednesday 9 pm ET

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Holly McCall @jhollymc.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago Marathon is this weekend and run chat boards are on fire with folks worried about missed flights and Donald Trump is not prepared to deal with marathoners who miss a race cause of air traffic controller sick outs.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

With weeks to go before Mainers decide on a ballot initiative that could radically restrict voting in the state, the GOP backers of the measure seemed to have received a gift from heaven. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Mail Ballots Were Found in an Amazon Box in Maine. Some Suspect a Political Dirty Trick.

Read more here...

www.democracydocket.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Juliet Dowling @jdrf.bsky.social · 2d

So that he can declare an emergency.

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Juliet Dowling @jdrf.bsky.social · 2d

WHAT?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

Sister Jean was a role model in Illinois — inspiring us to embrace our neighbors.

As a lover of life, she taught us to channel positivity to keep us hopeful in times of need and kept that attitude all the way to a life well-lived at 106 years old.

May her memory be a blessing.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3d

Indicting your political enemies because they’re your enemies, not because they’ve committed crimes, is unAmerican.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

The director of the FBI glamorizing a vigilante (Punisher) who kills people bc the law isn’t ’strong enough.’ This is clearly fascist symbolism.

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 9d

reddit occupied government

Ken Dilanian
@DilanianMSNBC
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The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

3b) That tension in breaking the law in the name of the (new or real) law is central to fascism and evident in the popular Blue Lives Matter Punisher imagery. Also evident in much of what Trump has to say about the subject.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

3a) Notable in the "Manifesto of Fascist Intellectuals:
- the desire to do politics as warfare (important given the legacy of WWI)
- the argument that what was needed at the start of fascism was a 'revolutionary' violation of the (perverted) law to restore 'order', i. e. the "new law."

Mussolini and other fascists marching in black shirts

It was the very faith that had ripened in the trenches and in intense reflection on the sacrifice accomplished in the course of battle, a sacrifice for the only worthy goal: the vigor and greatness of the fatherland. It was an energetic, violent faith, unwilling to respect anything opposed to the fatherland's vigor and greatness. This is how squadrism arose. Determined youths, armed, organized in military fashion, and dressed in black shirts, placed themselves outside the law in order to institute a new law. They fought the state in order to found a new state.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

3) Next, some primary sources like "Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals" (1925) by the "philosopher of fascism," Giovanni Gentile.

Given fascism's renunciation of rational consistency, there is arguably something paradoxical in the notion of a "fascist intellectual." Anyway...

"Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals" (1925)

On 29-30 March 1925 the first Conference on Fascist Culture was held in Bologna under the leadership of Giovanni Gentile. Over four hundred profascist intellectuals lent their names to the event, though actual attendance was more modest. Its aim was to rally Italian intellectuals behind the regime in an effort to enhance the image of the newly declared dictatorship both at home and abroad. One of the congress's immediate results was the following manifesto, largely drafted by Gentile...

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