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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

ICE is a black hole

Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 10h

In fairness, the GOP had to scrap many layers of options the founders might have expected before landing on the most bland authoritarian imaginable

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 10h

There is almost no one doing it like Chris Van Hollen is right now

Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 10h

Chris Van Hollen for Senate Minority Leader.

We need someone at the helm who understands the fight we're in and is willing to fight it. As far as I've seen, no one in the Senate Dem caucus is speaking with more clarity or conviction.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 10h

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 10h

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13h

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 18h

Honestly kind of amazing how publicly stressed they seem to be about this protest. I’m used to big demos being ignored or co-opted.

Almost like this is unpopular personalist regime knows how brittle it is!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

There is no insurrection in Portland unless you consider an uptick of people wearing inflatable frog costumes an insurrection.

No one is falling for this absurd propaganda, and there is NO justification for deploying our troops against peaceful American citizens.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Relying on yard signs

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 2d

(Pronounced MAMES)

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 2d

John Maynard Memes

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

Their complaints that Dems oppose the “rural hospital fund” are so hilarious.

Kind of like: “I’m going to burn down your house and give you a chocolate chip cookie instead.”

“That sounds terrible.”

“What you don’t like chocolate chip cookies!?”

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 2d

People are not pawns. The latest CDC layoffs are another example of this Administration going after our health—this time by firing scientists working to prevent chronic & respiratory disease.

I’m working to reopen the gvt, reverse these reckless cuts, & fund health care.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

these guys haaaaaaate free speech

Politico @politico.com · 3d

Johnson slams the No Kings protest march scheduled to take place in DC next week as the “hate America rally” that would draw “the pro-Hamas wing” and “the antifa people.”

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 2d

I hope generations of children someday are taught about the cowardice of men like Buddy Carter during this time

GaPolBot @gapolbot.bsky.social · 2d

# gapol New legislation or amendment from Carter, Earl L. "Buddy": Recognizing President Donald J. Trump's Role as a Transformational Peacemaker Whose Achievements in International Diplomacy Merit the Nobel Peace Priz https://www.congress

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3d

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 4d

Sanity: a question of fact

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 4d

As someone who has lost a civil fraud claim at summary judgment because I couldn’t show scienter at the time of the representation, I find this reply triggering

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 4d

Could not be more clear the president wishes he had unilateral power to imprison people, like in an absolute monarchy

He doesn’t so instead he’s forcing the govt to bring charges against his enemies because he wants vengeance

Nakedly corrupt, the sort of thing that necessitates removal from office

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 4d

Gonna be up to judges and juries to hold the line.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING

New York Attorney General Letitia James has been indicted by the US Department of Justice.

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 4d

This very morning on Newsmax, I heard a Republican elected say: 1) requiring transparency in hospital costs (not even a bill to regulate those costs!) and 2) regulating pharmacy benefit managers.

That’s the big R plan on healthcare! Doesn’t do much for people who can’t afford 4-figure premiums

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

CNN: Marjorie Taylor Greene says Republicans have no healthcare solutions. What do you say to her?

REP. PETE SESSIONS: She needs a couple more years in office and she would learn that we do have ideas on the table

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 5d

The fruits of moral compromise are measured in Scaramuccis

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 5d

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 5d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Josh McLaurin @joshforgeorgia.bsky.social · 5d

Like are you hearing what I’m saying?

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 6d

Tom Nichols on the situation in Chicago: “This story really isn’t about immigration… It’s about getting the American people used to idea that Donald Trump is an absolute ruler who can put the military in streets at will, and intimidate everyone, including citizens.”

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

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