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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 16h

Trump's threats of martial law are bringing us closer to his hellish dream of dictatorship, and we cannot be complacent. Watch the LP Podcast here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sCHRSOlzf64

He's In His Coup Era 🏰

Trump is flirting with invoking the Insurrection Act, and when he says he “can do something,” he usually means he's GOING to do it. This week, Stephen Miller encouraged the fantasy of Trump's so-called “plenary authority” to deploy the National Guard in...

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NanBP @nabbp.bsky.social · 14h

Yes exactly. I heard a former SS mgr say that if the level was raised to ~$300k there would be no solvency issues

Julianne Wingate @julieannewingate.bsky.social · 18h

SCRAP THE CAP
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SCRAP THE CAP
SCRAP THE CAP

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mayitalk.bsky.social @mayitalk.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you, Governor Pritzker. We appreciate you so much. I wish the Texas governor would listen to you, but he's such a DJT wannabe.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14h

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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mayitalk.bsky.social @mayitalk.bsky.social · 12h

Scary. GOP congress so chicken. They just need to join together and call it out. They're letting the bully continue to take their lunch money. It's so childish to be so chicken; DJT is a very weak man and he only knows how to bully; so don't cow tow to bullies.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 13h

@repstansbury.bsky.social: "This is gangster activity. The president is trying to shield pedophiles by calling and threatening members of Congress. We need more members of Congress, whether it's the Epstein files, the shutdown, health care, democracy, the rule of law, to just fucking do their jobs."

mayitalk.bsky.social @mayitalk.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so tired of their fake everything

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"Somehow the image of the people bowing and praying to the neon god they made has a certain resonance today. And so does the idea that the response has been...the sound of silence."

The Insidious Effort To Rationalize Trump’s Lawfare

This is not a president justified in going after those who went after him. It’s a person making a mockery of our justice system.

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mayitalk.bsky.social @mayitalk.bsky.social · 1d

I am so upset and I'm having harder times enjoy enjoying friends who I know voted and support Trump, even though we don't talk about it. We don't talk politics to be safe. But I am losing all respect for these people who supported him. I'm struggling.

Race Bannon @racebannon.bsky.social · 1d

The New Axis of Chaos: Putin Hitting Ukraine's Energy Infrastructure & Trump Wrecking the Economy in the U.S.
www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/the-new-ax...

The New Axis of Chaos: Putin Hitting Ukraine's Energy Infrastructure & Trump Wrecking the Economy in the U.S.

You’re Not Watching Separate Crises; You’re Watching a Single Strategy Unfold in Real Time.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Sometimes nowadays Watergate can feel almost quaint, but this is a good refresher on Nixon's corruption and poor character, and how Nixon wrote the playbook in many ways for Trump: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-nixo...

Trump’s Abuses of Power Show We Didn’t Learn Much From the Nixon Era

That failure is implicit in nearly every frame of a new documentary about Katharine Graham.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 1d

Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism ... you don't say www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism

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NO KINGS IN AMERICA… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 2d

THE MORE YOU KNOW…💫

What if we gave teachers $50k signing bonuses, $100k salaries, and $60k in student loan forgiveness.

You know, the same as ICE gets.

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mayitalk.bsky.social @mayitalk.bsky.social · 2d

He doesn't have a brain either. And he's missing a heart as well.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: What is your view on a two state solution?

TRUMP: I don't have a view. I'm gonna go with what they agree to.

mayitalk.bsky.social @mayitalk.bsky.social · 2d

My heart breaks. The selfish GOP is so deplorable.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Sous-K @sous-k.bsky.social · 2d

How do you hide a war zone? Seems to me there would be some evidence of that left behind.

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mayitalk.bsky.social @mayitalk.bsky.social · 3d

How do we all stand up against this cowardice of GOP. What are they doing protecting the Conman Donald Trump. How much blackmail does the orange head have against all these people?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 4d

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mayitalk.bsky.social @mayitalk.bsky.social · 4d

Caught this before it started.

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mayitalk.bsky.social @mayitalk.bsky.social · 4d

I am not convinced these are real law-enforcement people. The mask gives it away. I think a bunch of "wannabes" have been hired. It is scary as crap because they are not trained. This makes me sick of what America has become.

mayitalk.bsky.social @mayitalk.bsky.social · 4d

Bondi is unbelievably rude and socially unacceptable and vile. She's starting to give Stephen Miller a run for his money in evilness.

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mayitalk.bsky.social @mayitalk.bsky.social · 4d

This is the most bizarre display of bullshit I have ever seen by an AG who is in over her head. Unbelievable crap. Lie after lie after lie. And when she said what she said about Karolying, I almost fainted.

Now her attacks on Adam Schiff are totally inappropriate.

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mayitalk.bsky.social @mayitalk.bsky.social · 4d

What an immature and bombastic approach she is demonstrating. She thinks she's showing how skilled she is, but she is showing how incompetent and how she is only supporting DJT. Deplorable.

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mayitalk.bsky.social @mayitalk.bsky.social · 4d

I am so sick of his racism and misogyny. Crockett has more IQ in her little toe than he in his whole brain. He's jealous of this smart and accomplished woman. We need more Crocketts. She is awesome. We are very lucky to have her in Congress. She takes a stand for what's right no matter how difficult

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mayitalk.bsky.social @mayitalk.bsky.social · 4d

Bondi's behavior. Bondi's disrespect to the senators. Her lies on and on and on.
She is a female Trump. Pointing fingers at some bullshit examples to avoid answers to serious questions. This is unbelievable.

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mayitalk.bsky.social @mayitalk.bsky.social · 4d

What is wrong with her? How can she have such a dark soul? She is speaking to DJT only. Her sassiness is unbecoming of an attorney general.

One day, she will look back at this and go oh my God I cannot believe I covered for DJT

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 4d

Rob Reiner warns Trump’s media crackdown could plunge U.S. into a ‘full-on autocracy’
The award-winning director and actor said the current climate has become “beyond McCarthy era-esque.” www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Rob Reiner warns Trump’s media crackdown could plunge U.S. into a ‘full-on autocracy’

The award-winning director and actor said the current climate has become “beyond McCarthy era-esque.”

www.msnbc.com

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