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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1h

Hey can I get a quick check-in from all the "I Voted For This" MAGAs on flushing $40 billion of taxpayer money down the toilet to bail out Argentina for some reason? Can you explain your reasoning in demanding tens of billions of dollars of our cash go to a country we have very little to do with?

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

this fucking article makes no mention whatsoever about the fact that he does not legally have this authority, nor that claiming it is unconstitutional, not in small ways, but in fundamental ways

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3h

"In unison."

Amen.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 1h

We should start establishing the principle that a Jim Crow Congress has no legal, moral, or political legitimacy

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 5h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
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Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 1h

We need media that knows the law and the basics of the Constitution.

The author of this peice nee to be fired and sent to remedial education.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1h

“Not going to be great” is quite the understatement by Fox here.

Tweet by FactPost (@factpostnews) reading: “Fox: The tariffs, 10% for lumber, 25% for cabinets, vanities, upholstered furniture. On January 1st, the tariff for cabinets and vanities increase to 50%, all the rest of the furniture to 30%. The cost of building materials has increased 34%. There is a concern that this is not going to be great for the home buying industry.” Below is a Fox Business screenshot showing a reporter in a lumber workshop with the headline “New tariffs on furniture & lumber take effect.”

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JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 1h

I'm writing a memo expanding my authority to force NYT editors to commit Seppuku

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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Truth Social(ist) @twitterrefugeeog.bsky.social · 9h

Mike Johnson makes me proud to be an atheist.

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 9h

Seconded

Glad to have moved away from cedar season in Austin

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 9h

Violence against intimate partners IS very serious

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

I bet you’ll see a bunch of normal folks with patriotic signs and American flags whose collective protest embodies the foundational truths of this republic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

WATCH: “This is not a both sides thing. Let’s not lie about what’s happening.”

- Senator @ericschmittmo 🤥 , lying about what’s happening as @senatordurbin calls for toning down the rhetoric

(Again: Right-wing violence has been far more prevalent)

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 1d

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 11h

This!

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 11h

... but which, certainly, contain humans who received exactly zero due process. The accusation is a death penalty. That isn't following the law or administering justice in my opinion.

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Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 11h

Good job Coast Guard. Interdiction takes drugs off the streets and gives us evidence to go after kingpins. That should be the strategy in the Caribbean rather than illegally bombing boats that may or may not contain drugs.
www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releas...

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 11h

A fence outside the Broadview ICE facility was taken down late Tuesday night, in accordance with a federal judicial order issued last week.

ICE facility fence in Broadview has been removed, in compliance with federal judge's order

U.S. District Judge LaShonda A. Hunt of the Northern District of Illinois had set a deadline for 11:59 p.m. Tuesday for the removal after finding that ICE had placed the fence on city property without permission, exceeding its authority.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: This politician was literally trading leveraged positions on companies they legislate on.

Representative Rob Bresnahan bought over $1750,00 in option positions in $SPY, $IWM, $QQQ all calls, on September 15th, expiring on the 19th.

They are literally day trading.

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 11h

It is extra money out of citizen's pockets and into the government.

Screw your semantic BS.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 11h

U.S. TSY SECY BESSENT: TARIFFS ARE A SURCHARGE, NOT A TAX

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 11h

Tariffs are taxes

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Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 11h

Piss off sir.

"Stupid slogans equals we all know you hold federal employees in contempt and we intend to do all we can to punish you for your hateful conduct."

Tax these fuckers.

Spudmonkey @spudmonkey.bsky.social · 11h

I'd have used wrong, although I understand your choice.

40 years on and they are still wrong, ignorant and hateful.

I'm not afraid to cast judgement on these folks at this point.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 11h

Hitlerite Occupied Government

Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.bsky.social · 22h

Just the Department of Homeland Security, using a term hijacked and popularised by the extreme-right Identitarian Movement.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13h

I was told that Trump had achieved peace in the Middle East

Israel keeps Gaza border crossing closed while reducing aid deliveries

The ceasefire on Wednesday was largely holding, although Hamas described Israeli attacks in Gaza as violations of the agreement.

www.npr.org

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