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@RETINKS 📎 💙 @retinks.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."

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For What It's Worth @stillme1916.bsky.social · 14h

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 13h

I liked the idea that Diane Keaton was out there, somewhere, being Diane Keaton.
--sigh--

Rest in peace, Annie Hall.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16h

This Is Fascism

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TENK10@MarthaKennelly @tenk10.bsky.social · 1d

These people are unreal.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

The White House
Shared this video titled Roundtable."

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WatchYourRepsSC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 14h

@drjljohnson.bsky.social it’s time for a #NewSC

Let’s go!

Rep. Jermaine Johnson @drjljohnson.bsky.social · 23h

#NewSC

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@RETINKS 📎 💙 @retinks.bsky.social · 13h

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MBlue.Bsky.social 🌺MB🌺 @mblue.bsky.social · 3d

wtf #WhitewashingHistory
Japanese internment camps
Very personal to me, my family #FvkTrump #EndRacism

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 14h

Citizens demanding transparency and lawfulness from their public servants.

📢This is the way.
#ChicagoStrong

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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 17h

Fired in "error." Sure, okay.

David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 17h

Trump and paperwork, man.™️ I’m tellin’ ya!

#TrumpAndPaperworkMan

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Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

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Senior Botanist at Antifa Botanic Garden 🌵 @newsprintmafia.bsky.social · 2d

This nails Trump right out of the gate.

How Cults Use Language to Control | Otherwords

YouTube video by Storied

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 2d

Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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DePassage 🥖🇫🇷 🤝 💙💛 🗽 @sudetsoleil.bsky.social · 2d

‼️🇬🇪 "Un tribunal géorgien a condamné jeudi Zviad Ratiani, poète et militant, à 2 ans de prison pour “résistance à un agent des forces de l'ordre” lors de manifestations antigouvernement.

📍Ils ont accusé Ratiani, 54 ans, d'avoir giflé un 👮 devant le bâtiment du parlement de Tbilissi en juin."😤😠

🇺🇦 News @uazmi.media · 2d

Georgian Court Sentences Poet to 2 Years in Prison For ‘Resisting’ Police.
#news #uazmi #war #russia
Zviad Ratiani’s sentence was handed down amid protests against the pro-Russian Georgian Dream party that have continued for nearly a year.

Georgian Court Sentences Poet to 2 Years in Prison For ‘Resisting’ Police.

Zviad Ratiani’s sentence was handed down amid protests against the pro-Russian Georgian Dream party that have continued for nearly a year.

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Tony Michaels 🎙 @thetonymichaels.bsky.social · 2d

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 2d

Swear her in.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 2d

In a democracy, presidents don’t wield the military against citizens or weaponize the Justice Department against political opponents.

Since Congress won’t act, voters must.

We must decide what kind of country we want

A president who uses the military and the Justice Department to exact revenge against his perceived enemies is as un-Ame

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 2d

At 11am I will try to live-blog, for @lawfaremedia.org , the hearing in Abrego Garcia’s civil (habeas corpus) case in federal court in Greenbelt MD. Abrego is seeking release from detention under a SCOTUS precedent called Zadvydas v Davis (2001). ...
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 2d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Don Isaacs @donisaacs.bsky.social · 2d

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

Can you just hear those words coming out of the mouth of DJT?

Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 2d

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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pink jimi photon @pinkjimiphoton.bsky.social · 2d

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@RETINKS 📎 💙 @retinks.bsky.social · 2d

#NOKINGS

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 2d

What a despicable little man who is lying through his teeth to try to incite violence against Americans who will be peacefully assembling to protest the Trump regime’s anti-democratic rule.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning everyone

Shout Out California
Morning Message from the great @markhamillofficial.bsky.social
Get YOUR BALLOT in the mail

VOTE YES ON PROP 50

Your Country Thanks You

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 2d

Built up anger about the Nobel is spilling over.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump posts a bizarre, whiny screed signaling an escalation of tensions with China

Some very strange things are happening in China! They are becoming very hostile, and sending letters to Countries throughout the World, that they want to impose Export Controls on each and every element of production having to do with Rare Earths, and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it’s not manufactured in China. Nobody has ever seen anything like this but, essentially, it would “clog” the Markets, and make life difficult for virtually every Country in the World, especially for China. We have been contacted by other Countries who are extremely angry at this great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere. Our relationship with China over the past six months has been a very good one, thereby making this move on Trade an even more surprising one. I have always felt that they’ve been lying in wait, and now, as usual, I have been proven right! There is no way that China should be allowed to hold the World “captive,” but that seems to have been their plan for quite some time, starting with the “Magnets” and, other Elements that they have quietly amassed into somewhat of a Monopoly position, a rather sinister and hostile move, to say the least. But the U.S. has Monopoly positions also, much stronger and more far reaching than China’s. I have just not chosen to use them, there was never a reason for me to do so — UNTIL NOW! The letter they sent is many pages long, and details, with great specificity, each and every Element that they want to withhold from other Nations. Things that were routine are no longer routine at all. I have not spoken to President Xi because there was no reason to do so. This was a real surprise, not only to me, but to all the Leaders of the Free World. I was to meet President Xi in two weeks, at APEC, in South Korea, but now there seems to be no reason to do so. The Chinese letters were especially inappropriate in that this was the Day that, after three thousand years of bedlam and fighting, there is PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

I wonder if that timing was coincidental? Dependent on what China says about the hostile “order” that they have just put out, I will be forced, as President of the United States of America, to financially counter their move. For every Element that they have been able to monopolize, we have two. I never thought it would come to this but perhaps, as with all things, the time has come. Ultimately, though potentially painful, it will be a very good thing, in the end, for the U.S.A. One of the Policies that we are calculating at this moment is a massive increase of Tariffs on Chinese products coming into the United States of America. There are many other countermeasures that are, likewise, under serious consideration. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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@RETINKS 📎 💙 @retinks.bsky.social · 2d

#California #SpecialElection

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: California’s Nov. 4th Special Election: Voting 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

California will have a statewide special election on November 4, 2025. Across the state, voters will be asked to decide on Proposition 50, a measure that would redraw California’s congressional distr...

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Maggie @sbh08mae.bsky.social · 3d

#ProudBlue

Mike Johnson told Senators Kelly & Gallego that he’ll move to seat Rep-Elect Adelita Grijalva ASAP

Johnson lied

His aide threw Johnson under the bus confirming Rs have no plans to swear her in until Dems decide to open the government” on their terms

No, Republicans must blink first

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