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Celiene O'Hara @celiene-ohara.bsky.social · 1h

Fuck this shit!

✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 2h

Arc de Trump 😐

A CBS News reporter asked Trump who the new monument is meant to honor.

Trump: “Me.”

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 1h

This is not just hypocrisy or refusal to call out issues on his own side.

It's that he agrees, he's explicitly and happily on their side, and they are part of the movement he and Trump have been bringing into the mainstream for a decade.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20h

JD Vance when students write public op-eds criticizing Israel: "Deport them! They don't deserve to be in the US! They're adults and they need to be held responsible!"

JD Vance with thirty-somethings praise Hitler in group chats: "Kids will be kids!"

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 10h

Jamie Raskin is Correct, and Fighting Chump's Regime.......

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mrbill30560 @mrbill30560.bsky.social · 1h

Honore Daumier, The Republic,1848, oil on canvas, Musee D’Orsay, Paris FR

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Mozelle Victory @godswrath699.bsky.social · 1h

MarJack951 @marjack951.bsky.social · 1h

I can safely say Vance is ok with this.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18h

ABOLISH ICE and EXPAND THE SUPREME COURT should be mainstream Democratic promises and talking points.

But timidity and civility will rule the day and screw the rest of us and this country in the end.

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mrbill30560 @mrbill30560.bsky.social · 1h

Says the Woman representing the Party of Pedophiles...

mrbill30560 @mrbill30560.bsky.social · 1h

Says the woman from the Party of Pedophiles...

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

This woman is vile. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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OK Doomer ☮️🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♂️🙈🙉🙊💙 @manqueman.bsky.social · 1h

Yet again: Public policy is rejected so an elite can be served instead.
The extraction, the exploitation, the abuse is climbing ever higher up the wealth ladder.
Now coming for the middle/upper middle class.
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SEC permits mandatory arbitration clauses in registration statements | DLA Piper

The SEC recently issued a policy statement reversing its long-standing practice concerning mandatory arbitration clauses in connection with initial public offerings.

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Indigo Moon @indigomoon2025.bsky.social · 1h

Tell me how Jack Smith planted those documents on Eric Trump's Daddy office and he claims he saw Eric Smith do it when the Mar-a-largo raid was August 8, 2022 and Jack Smith was appointed November 18, 2022? Lying is clearly a hereditary trait of the Trump family

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2h

We’re making fun of her, but it really is beyond the pale at the White House press secretary would say this in public and it would not be a scandal.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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mrbill30560 @mrbill30560.bsky.social · 5h

The Corrupt Supremes don't want black folks to vote...

Mozelle Victory @godswrath699.bsky.social · 16h

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Brian Tyler Cohen on Voting rights

US Supreme Court hears critical Voting Rights Act case

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen News

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Paul Strand, White Fence, Port Kent, New York, 1916 (negative); 1945 (print). © Paul Strand Archive, Aperture Foundation

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Yayoi Kusama with her artwork Pumpkin, 2010 #womensart

Photo of a Japanese woman with dyed red hair and yellow and black dress sitting on the edge of an art installation with a yellow platform and walls covered in large black dots, on the platform is a large sculpture of a yellow pumpkin with black dots in vertical lines

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14h

Marianne Brandt (1893-1983), designer from the Bauhaus school, head of the Bauhaus Metal Workshop in 1927, pioneer of modern design #WomensArt

Three monochrome photographs, one at the top shows the head and shoulders of a white woman with short dark hair and striped top looking out to the viewer, bottom left image shows a stylish round metal teapot and image to the right reflects a tall metal coffee pot

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mrbill30560 @mrbill30560.bsky.social · 8h

@womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Donna Dennis, Mad River Tunnel: Entrance and Exit, 1985-1986, color lithograph on paper, 20 x 16 1⁄2 in. (50.8 x 41.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1998.57.8, © 1985, Vermillion Editions Limited, Inc. and Donna Dennis; Minneapolis

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mrbill30560 @mrbill30560.bsky.social · 8h

Donna Dennis, Mad River Tunnel: Entrance and Exit, 1985-1986, color lithograph on paper, 20 x 16 1⁄2 in. (50.8 x 41.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Glen D. Nelson, M.D., 1998.57.8, © 1985, Vermillion Editions Limited, Inc. and Donna Dennis; Minneapolis, MN

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Mozelle Victory @godswrath699.bsky.social · 15h

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KETANJI BROWN JACKSON

'It Doesn't Need A Time Limit': Ketanji Brown Jackson Details Key Section Of Voting Rights Act

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 16h

Great 🧵; this is the main point. If the President can spend money on whatever he wants without congressionally mandated appropriations we don't have separation of powers, or even really a constitutional republic (at least under the terms of our constitution). We just don't.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

So just how bad is this? I got a text from an appropriator friend saying "The Republic has fallen. Pack it in."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17h

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

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mrbill30560 @mrbill30560.bsky.social · 21h

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