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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 5h

Worth noting of course that part of why there is a high concentration of Black federal workers is because the federal government made a conscious choice to hire Black employees to make up for decades of discrimination (including a purge under Wilson)

it’s all white nationalism?
always has been!

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 5h

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 20h

if Trump is Nicholas II, who is our Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 20h

The constitutional remedy to this, as we established 375 years ago, is an axe.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 21h

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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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 20h

honestly I’d expand to the administration as a whole

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 20h

honestly DHS should be interdicted

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 21h

Axios!

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 21h

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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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 22h

this is plainly illegal (not that this functionally matters but we should keep saying it)

Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 22h

apnews.com/article/trum... OMB says the money for the troops is going to be covered by R&D but we’re back at how does DFAS color that money (like legally how does it use that pot) and distribute it properly over a holiday weekend to meet a Wednesday suspense.

Trump directs the Pentagon to use 'all available funds' to ensure troops are paid despite shutdown

President Donald Trump says he's directed the Defense Department to use “all available funds” to ensure that U.S. troops are paid on Wednesday despite the government shutdown.

apnews.com

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 22h

interdict time

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 22h

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Treats Hog (Good) 류강 대™🪨🕯️ @karnesmellagio.bsky.social · 22h

The Liberal Party of Canada is the most clear cut example of a organization that operates off of the Fuhrerprincip

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 1d

the tariff otaku strikes again

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

oh no

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 1d

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 2d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 4d

👏 Vance interdict 👏

"Our Holy Father … is very personally concerned about these matters," El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, who took part in the meeting, told Reuters. "He expressed his desire that the U.S. Bishops' Conference would speak strongly on this issue."
"It means a lot to all of us to know of his personal desire that we continue to speak out," said Seitz.

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 4d

This country needs to be under interdict

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s video of the incident

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 6d

I mean hating sandwiches seems very autistic coded

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 6d

If Trump is going to insist on the military occupation of democratic-governed cities and states, then yes the government cannot be allowed to reopen.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 6d

Okay. Well, if Trump is going to attempt legal end-arounds like federalizing the NG of GOP states to send them to Dem states over the objections of governors and courts, I think the Democrats should just keep the federal government shut down indefinitely.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6d

does it bode well when a federal judge schedules a hearing at 7PM on a sunday night

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: Judge Karin Immergut has scheduled a hearing for 7p PT/10p PT tonight on the new TRO request, which includes California and argues that "[t]his Court should issue a second TRO to prevent circumvention of the first TRO." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 6d

can the president draw a clock.

General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 7d

Donald Trump's emerged after 5 days hiding from the cameras and he is THE PICTURE OF HEALTH

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 6d

yeah this is an in kind contribution to the jones campaign

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 6d

yeah if we have a scenario where SCOTUS says “actually the 22nd Amendment says something other than what it plainly says in the text [and we read it that way for the unique benefit of Donald John Trump]” we are in a scenario that probably results in military intervention in politics

Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 6d

re 2028 & "SCOTUS will just let him!" responses, my general sentiments been this: if SCOTUS wants to say 2+2=5--that the v clear text of "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice" doesnt say that--than we have a v diff prob & one thatll likely end w SCOTUS' collapse

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 6d

SCOTUS isn't magic!

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 7d

Miller is the Reinhard Heydrich of this administration

and, well, we know what happened to Heydrich

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7d

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 7d

oh no

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Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 7d

The Catholic Church is the greatest force for good in the world today.

I will not be taking questions.

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 7d

Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies. For @reuters.com:

Pope Leo, after Trump critique, urges Catholics to help immigrants

Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies.

www.reuters.com

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 7d

Once again imploring His Holiness to place this country under interdict

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 7d

Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies. For @reuters.com:

Pope Leo, after Trump critique, urges Catholics to help immigrants

Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies.

www.reuters.com

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