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Stand United against all tyranny Return OUR government to the Rule of Law. Find Your Choice, Use Your Voice! #endcitizensunited #project2025 #SlavaUkraini #EpsteinFinancials #Resist #NOKINGS

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Brian @pacificatiler.bsky.social · Apr 1

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Brian @pacificatiler.bsky.social · 9h

We're disappearing children from parents now.

Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 1d

How does kidnapping children without informing their parents make America great? How does this make us safer or help the economy or promote rule of law? This is intended only to intimidate and humiliate immigrant families who are doing their best to follow the rules. Shame on these immoral people.

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

Brian @pacificatiler.bsky.social · 10h

When a minor is detained and sent to a state facility without parental knowledge, it's called KIDNAPPING and HUMAN TRAFFICKING, not simply being arrested!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

More on the legality of Trump paying the troops from another account - now appears maybe it isn't legal? Reporters: Dig into this!

Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 1d

Not that Trump/Vought/Hegseth gaf, but among other ways in which the law says this may NOT be done:
A) The part of 8005 I've underlined in green says money transferred to another account is "available… for the same time period" as that other account; that other acc't expired on Sept 30.

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Brian @pacificatiler.bsky.social · 10h

Now, put them both in a car with the elephant at the wheel.

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thecropreport.bsky.social @thecropreport.bsky.social · 13h

Wheat: $496.75
Coffee: $383.25
Pork Bellies: $132.10
Orange Juice: $203.26
Gold: $4112.69

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 14h

How shameful. Trump is firing these people for NO good reason and leaving students with disabilities and their families with even fewer resources.

This is cruel and stupid.

Kids with disabilities deserve a great education, just like anyone else.

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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Brian @pacificatiler.bsky.social · 13h

Who ever imagined that the Executive would ever twist the powers given by the Patriot Act.
Funny thing, power.

Brian @pacificatiler.bsky.social · 15h

Take note on how to govern without any knowledge of what is being governed by little Mikey Johnson.
He awaits his orders from the executive instead of his job title requirements.

Brian @pacificatiler.bsky.social · 15h

I guess there will be blood as they threatened since us lefties won't roll over and die quietly.

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Brian @pacificatiler.bsky.social · 15h

Forget the 25th amendment or impeachment proceedings. This is fast escalating into treason territory where the whole executive administration can be removed!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

Phang: We know that there is a move by 99% of the Republicans locked step with Trump and countless still unidentified billionaires and politicians to keep this from moving forward. How do we know? Because Speaker Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva…

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Brian @pacificatiler.bsky.social · 15h

No to US boots on the ground in Gaza.
PLEASE distance your office from AIPAC donations.
We don't need that type of monied corruption taking away votes for you.

Brian @pacificatiler.bsky.social · 15h

I would love the provision to be made into law for us, the employers, to sue our employees in congress for unearned back pay.

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beckys1313.bsky.social @beckys1313.bsky.social · 18h

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Brian @pacificatiler.bsky.social · 15h

Reagan et al. manipulating hostage release in order to win an election would be in the first chapter.

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Brian @pacificatiler.bsky.social · 15h

I noticed how his comrades didn't skip a beat at what he did, pointing a gun directly at the head of a protestor and firing, was just a routine action.

We're these actors trained by the IDF or what?

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Brian @pacificatiler.bsky.social · 15h

ICE wouldn't exist without that atrocious Patriot Act.

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Brian @pacificatiler.bsky.social · 15h

If they could respect us enough to actually articulate some of those ideas they've been promising since...( checks notes) March 23, 2010, when the ACA was signed into law.

15 years of B.S.

Universal Healthcare NOW !!!

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 19h

NEW: We just filed a Hatch Act complaint against several Trump administration officials, including Karoline Leavitt, Scott Bessent, Kristi Noem and Peter Navarro, for making partisan statements about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign.

CREW files Hatch Act complaint against Trump administration officials - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

Trump officials likely violated the Hatch Act by making partisan statements about Zohran Mamdani’s campaign in their official capacities.

www.citizensforethics.org

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Brian @pacificatiler.bsky.social · 1d

Edicts from the priest class instead of safeguards of our constitution.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

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Brian @pacificatiler.bsky.social · 1d

Hope they're restricted from the property.

Brian @pacificatiler.bsky.social · 1d

I think something was slipped into my water supply. 💧 Is MTG on our side now??

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arykab1956.bsky.social @arykab1956.bsky.social · 2d

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