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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 1h

This acquisition in addition to demanding voter data in all 50 states shows there is not any protection for fair/free elections. They want to charge certain election officials with crimes, cheat to hold power and throw out the Constitution. Democrats are not using what power they have to fight.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 2h

ICYMI, Dominion Voting has been acquired by Scott Leinendecker, a former GOP election official from Missouri. Leindendecker is also the CEO of electronic poll book supplier Knowink whose product manager, Mitch Millville, was Ed Martin’s campaign IT director in Missouri in 2011. This Ed Martin. 1/

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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 2h

Ok great excuse for abolishing ICE. If they pass give them a job in the military where they will be taught real skills and learn discipline.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump on DC: "Mr. Senator, you could walk down, you can have your wife meet you at the restaurant, she's not gonna be accosted, shot, beat up, raped."

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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 2h

Our people’s historic monument being demolished. Just like our country.

William @william80.bsky.social · 2h

BOYCOTT CLARK CONSTRUCTION
Clark Construction is the primary contractor for the new state ballroom being built at the White House. The project, announced by the White House in July 2025, involves demolishing a portion of the existing East Wing to construct the new 90,000-square-foot facility.

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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 2h

Finally a voice that epitomizes my outrage. Say it loudly. That’s exactly how we feel. We are beyond fed up.

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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 2h

Maybe …my guess… is to eliminate any danger of spontaneous sparks from friction. Or the danger from the hell flames coming up to swallow this asinine project.

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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 2h

I have one too but it is made out to me…Beautiful and Brilliant Protester.

Latina Immigrant🐸 #NoKings🚫👑 @jasmine29.bsky.social · 3h

Speak for yourself. I got my check already.😜

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Your pissed off grandma @anomaly100.bsky.social · 1d

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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 2h

Yes. As evidenced in No Kings Day we have power in numbers and must exercise it.

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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 3h

MAGA finally realized they are actually a minority because more people didn’t vote than voted for both major candidates COMBINED. That’s why I don’t get companies kissing up to MAGA. The general population far out numbers them. Not even counting teens and other minors.

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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 3h

MAGA are used to being the loud rousers because the opposition has been quiet and meek. Honestly I think the opposition has been shocked since the Insurrection waiting for “someone” to rescue us. Now we know …we have to save ourselves. We are the quiet majority and there will be justice…eventually

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5h

Trump supporters are demanding he throw us in prison for our reporting. If they think those kind of threats scare us, they don’t know who they’re dealing with. Our message. 👇

They Want Us IN PRISON?!!

By Ben Meiselas

www.meidasplus.com

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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 3h

ECM on fire today. Subscribe and share. At the end of video she discussed an intriguing idea…Tribunals for victims of ICE injustice and lawlessness. In Portland we’ve been FOR abolishing ICE since 2020. Any politician up for election in 2026 MUST be willing to hold ICE and others accountable. DO IT!

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 5h

Coming up at 11 am ET, we're talking about Trump's destruction of the East Wing, Platner's tattoo, new revelations about immigration court detention, a crazy story involving Trump's appointed US Attorney, the 9th Circuit goes AWOL on Trump's invasion plans, and way more.

youtube.com/live/wxSOabY...

DEMOLITION MAN: Trump DESTROYS East Wing of WH in CRAZY vanity plan

YouTube video by Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 5h

It's amazing how direct the international press is on these issues as compared to US media.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Scrutiny grows over Trump competence – but can an unfit president be removed?

Impeachment and 25th amendment offer routes for removal – but experts say system is set up to protect the president

www.theguardian.com

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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 3h

Why do they talk like this about Democrats and not their President breaking so many laws and flaunting The Constitution? So interesting.

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 5h

Man, they are TERRIFIED about how many people oppose them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Tom Emmer calls Democrats "despicable" and says "your hate America rally is over"

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4h

Wow that’s crazy release the files

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Comer: "The evidence we've gathered does not implicate President Trump in any way. Public reporting, survivor testimony, and official documents show that Bill Clinton had far closer ties to Epstein. We're working to bring former President Clinton in for a deposition, but Democrats aren't helping"

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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 3h

There should have been consequences for everyone. What’s wrong with demanding (like South Koreans did) that LEADERS be held accountable? Congress should have been purged. Trump should have been barred from holding ANY office. They ALL tried to overthrow the government!!! Americans we messed up.

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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 4h

Right you are. I meant “completely inappropriate” such as taking off his clothes. No one to help 🍊 because he is too mean. My Dad’s MAGA friends were so staunchly into individualism. Thankful I live far away and brought my Dad here to Oregon where he lived very well even with dementia for 5 years.

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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 4h

Same true for physicians and social workers. They deaden the emotions as a survival mechanism. Billionaires just get removed completely from what regular people experience. Humans have powerful adapting capabilities. Term limits are great. Particularly for Supreme Court, and Congress.

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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 4h

It’s hard for me to grasp the experiences of Black people in this country. The level of privilege and hate in some White folk is off the charts. My only hope is that those old hateful people will die off. Yet then I see The Young Republicans keeping that muck alive because it’s all they have.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 6h

It’s book launch day for Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual For Keeping A Democracy, my first book. I hope you’ll read it or listen to it. a.co/d/43dbybC

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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 5h

Tax any wealth above 1 billion by 90-100%. There should not be multi-billionaires. It removes their humanity.

John Burden @shapelessspirit.bsky.social · 6h

I have lived long enough to see Reagan cut taxes 70% and break the unions. The world has slowly been going to hell ever since. The TV and media shaped a hateful, more racist, sexist mentality. Few newspapers telling the truth. CIA media control, manipulation. Time to say NO MORE.

Anonymous @opsnowcrash.bsky.social · 6h

When you realise fixing the world is actually so easy—it’s just inconvenient for billionaires. Tax extreme wealth, enforce antitrust laws, and watch life improve.

#WealthTax #Limitarianism

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

The Epstein files contain the name of a prominent former PM who brutally beat & sexually assaulted an 18 year old.

Trump, Bondi, Patel & Johnson don’t want the world to know his name.

That’s why Johnson will have the House adjourned today for the 78th day out of the last 90.

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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 17h

We SHOULD have pushed hard for consequences after Jan. 6.
1. Expulsion of Congressional co-conspirators
2. Barring Trump from holding any office per Congressional law. The man was impeached TWICE
No consequences led to what we see today shitting on citizens and tearing down the Whitehouse.

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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 17h

True. So true. Credibility is adjacent to factual.

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Valerie Stewart @portlandval.bsky.social · 20h

He makes a country where laws are not applied fairly to everyone. Rather it’s a place where only friends and loyalists succeed under his generous pardons of even the worst crimes. The people who disagree are to be crushed with the least provocation. That is not how this country has ever worked.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"Trump has now pardoned or commuted the sentences of most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century...."

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

With George Santos, Trump finds another convicted congressional Republican to reward

The president has now pardoned or commuted the sentences of most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century.

www.msnbc.com