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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 1m

Perfection. 🎶♥️⚖️

Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 5m

Bette Midler sings to Stephen Colbert: You never kissed the orange ass.

Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 52m

Hegseth, Vance, Miller. All overgrown adolescents working out some teenage angst.

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 55m

Baby, baby
Stick your head in gravy
Wash it off in bubble gum
And send it to the Navy

Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 4h

The GOP's talking points in action - - and they're horrible actors - - "hate America rally" will prove to be their biggest political mistake by this weekend, when patriotic Americans all over the country march, because we LOVE our country and will stand to save it from tyranny. ⚖️🇺🇸❕

#NoKings 🐸

Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 5h

Stephen Miller. One little unkind man.
Surely the good American people are more powerful than he believes he is.

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 5h

"'It’s a mighty battle going on. It’s not about winning or losing. It’s about being in touch with your own personal humanity because there’s such a lack of it coming from this administration,' Sheen told host Nicolle Wallace."

Humanity. Pass it on...

AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 6h

#Pinks #ProudBlue
I think Martin Sheen’s description of trump’s cabinet smelling like “ego, fear and false worship” is about as accurate as it gets.
torontosun.com/entertainmen...

Martin Sheen slams Trump administration for 'lack' of humanity

The former West Wing actor appeared on The Best People podcast, claiming U.S. President Donald Trump’s inner circle is a joyless group.

torontosun.com

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 8h

ICE targeted an apartment building near my home. Masked agents in unmarked cars. I've said this before. Democratic Governors & Mayors need to order their local police depts to arrest any & all unidentified & masked alleged ICE agents.

This anonymous denial of due process is deadly.

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 6h

If THIS happening in the United States of America doesn't ANGER every American to their core, then they do not deserve to be called an AMERICAN ❕⚖️🇺🇸

Everyone with the capacity to get there should be at a No Kings rally this Saturday.

THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE IS STRONGER THAN ICE AND DONALD TRUMP ❕

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7h

⚠️ Warning: these back-to-back scenes are hard to watch unless you’ve got a depraved heart.

These are thugs, not officers with any real training. We keep seeing it again and again, and at this point, it’s clearly the op.

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 6h

"I’m going to say this the last time and then move back to basketball. This should be about the morality of our country and not about the race. This has nothing to do with Black and White. Black and White should be grabbing arms together on this one and fighting against this.”

Kurt Helin @basketballtalk.bsky.social · 12h

Chicago native Doc Rivers denounces ICE activity in his hometown

www.nbcsports.com/nba/news/chi...

Chicago native Doc Rivers denounces ICE activity in his hometown

"We hate it. I'm from Chicago. I'm very prideful about this place, so I hate it."

www.nbcsports.com

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Kurt Helin @basketballtalk.bsky.social · 12h

Chicago native Doc Rivers denounces ICE activity in his hometown

www.nbcsports.com/nba/news/chi...

Chicago native Doc Rivers denounces ICE activity in his hometown

"We hate it. I'm from Chicago. I'm very prideful about this place, so I hate it."

www.nbcsports.com

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 15h

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 6h

We all need to get an inflatable frog suit.
This has only just begun! 🐸🇺🇸⚖️

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AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social · 9h

It’s way past time for Mike Johnson to stop the political games and seat Adelita without delay. Today, my office is sending a letter to Speaker Johnson demanding he do so.

Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 6h

"Sanders has begun asking attendees of his 'Fighting Oligarchy' meetings about AI and data centers, and has found little political support for them.
'For any Democrat who wants to think politically, what an opportunity,' Shakir said. 'The people are way ahead of the politicians.'"
- Dave Weigel

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 13h

Went to the DC exurbs to write about a growing political trend — citizens who don’t want more data centers, and are looking for politicians who’ll help.

Locally they’re getting help from both parties. At higher level, Rs are resolutely pro-data center and Ds are conflicted. t.co/Ir0QW8FUey

https://www.semafor.com/article/10/13/2025/as-electricity-bills-rise-candidates-in-both-parties-blame-data-centers

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 11h

Here's the joint statement from the TV networks, including Fox News, rejecting Pete Hegseth's Pentagon rules.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Even Fox News won't sign on to Pete Hegseth's draconian Pentagon press rules, setting up a showdown between the snowflake defense secretary and his former employer.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/pentagon-p...

The Safe Space Secretary

Pete Hegseth built his career on Fox News mocking "snowflakes." Now, Status has learned, his former employer and others are rejecting his efforts to build a safe space around the Pentagon.

www.status.news

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 7h

"I think it's going to backfire," as well, Oliver Darcy.

And yes, "Pete Hegseth is just way out of his league here."

(Once a punk...)

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 7h

Enter George Stephanopolous.

Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 7h

"A nation—especially this one, with its short memory and incomprehensible diversity—can’t cohere simply as a geographic boundary and a set of laws. It needs a common language and culture—a way of life."

In a U.S., where income is a huge dividing line & media is subjective, "common" seems unlikely.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10h

The American experiment only works if people believe in it. George Packer on why we still need patriotism:

America Needs Patriotism

The experiment only works if people believe in it.

bit.ly

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 8h

Do it❕⚖️🇺🇸

Speaker Johnson, you are not above the law!

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 9h

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 9h

"Covering your face with sunglasses and a mask can work, but it also makes you look like the faceless law enforcement officers of the other side. Protesters have embraced practical whimsy by becoming frogs, dinosaurs, and Pikachus."

🐸⚖️🇺🇸

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 9h

stylish, practical, brave, good: www.404media.co/the-surreal-...

The Surreal Practicality of Protesting As an Inflatable Frog

Say goodbye to the Guy Fawkes masks and hello to inflatable frogs and dinosaurs.

www.404media.co

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

Which Republican genius came up with the talking point to label millions of ordinary Americans peacefully protesting their government as paid Marxists who hate America?

That’s really what you are going with?

That we hate the United States of America?

Fuck you.

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