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worldcitizen1994.bsky.social @worldcitizen1994.bsky.social · 2h

She's a fine governor, but Mills should not run against that craven trump enabler. I'm sorry, but someone younger and tougher is needed to defeat Collins.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 7h

Deja Vu: Los Angeles, invasion of Trump thugs disrupted a summer camp outing

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 7h

Just saw an announcement from a kids soccer group that ICE agents have been spotted in the area, so it’s OK to skip today’s games if people are scared.
The MAGA assault on our community is intolerable and has nothing to do with making people’s lives better.

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worldcitizen1994.bsky.social @worldcitizen1994.bsky.social · 2h

Curious what the Nobel Prize winner from Venezuela has to say about this ...

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 6h

Murder, Inc. is really stupid, reckless, and itching for a fight.

Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 6h

The Great Stunt Queen is blowing up Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean, but most of the world’s cocaine is produced in Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia and smuggled through the Pacific, not the Caribbean. As for fentanyl, Venezuela does not supply it at all. It’s made almost entirely in Mexico.

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs

President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.

www.nytimes.com

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 6h

This is so deliciously perfect, @governor.ca.gov

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

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worldcitizen1994.bsky.social @worldcitizen1994.bsky.social · 2h

Man, but I hope this bastard loses in humiliating fashion next month.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 5h

We know why.

#EpsteinFiles

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5h

Gov. Pritzker on Adelita Grijalva: "Mike Johnson won't swear her in. Why is that? … She'll be the 218th signature forcing a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files."

"Trump and Mike Johnson are working awfully damn hard to keep a sexual predator's files from being released. Makes you wonder why."

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worldcitizen1994.bsky.social @worldcitizen1994.bsky.social · 2h

*Sigh ...* I hate that Zelenskyy has to grovel like this.

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 5h

Vance picked interesting examples:

- Trump publicly begged the DOJ to prosecute Hillary in his 1st term: tinyurl.com/bdhvrcfh

- Trump directed the DOJ to investigate Biden in 4 months ago: tinyurl.com/2s3w8fpv

- Trump accused Obama of being “guilty” of “treason” 3 months ago: tinyurl.com/2f6p265z

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

WELKER: Is the DOJ acting on orders from the president to prosecute his political opponents?

JD VANCE: No ... You know who we haven't prosecuted? Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton ... he's allowed to have opinions about law enforcement

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 3h

"A little psychotic..."

"In our faces...."

"... and no one knows what to do."

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3h

Worth your time.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 3h

Keep ‘em coming #Canada

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 5h

The Canadian economy is too dependent on the US, the country’s industry minister said, as she vowed to protect jobs in its export-focused automotive sector.

Canada Will Fight to Save Auto Jobs Despite US Threat, Minister Says

The Canadian economy is too dependent on the US, the country’s industry minister said, as she vowed to protect jobs in its export-focused automotive sector.

bloom.bg

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worldcitizen1994.bsky.social @worldcitizen1994.bsky.social · 2h

Wow -- for once in his miserable life, he's right.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 3h

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 3h

🚨 Another day, another... #GunViolence

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h

Shooting with multiple victims at Wiregrass Commons Mall in Dothan, Alabama. (WDHN)

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 3h

And I'm giving them a new air force facility in Idaho.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

As I got to know them, they gave me a $400m plane.

@acyn.bsky.social

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 3h

Here's the naked truth, Trump.

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 9h

WATCH: Former Vice President Kamala Harris sits down with MSNBC’s Eugene Daniels for a wide-ranging interview.

MSNBC EXCLUSIVE: Kamala Harris warns 'The rule of law is very much under attack'

YouTube video by MSNBC

www.youtube.com

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worldcitizen1994.bsky.social @worldcitizen1994.bsky.social · 2h

Please do not have a bunch of wimpy centrist pundits praising this convicted criminal, who's only doing this to distract from the Epstein scandal.

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 11h

OMB Director Russ Vought is using the Republican shutdown as cover for his Project 2025 deconstruction of the federal government.

These political mass firings violate the Antideficiency Act and illegally attack our civil service.

They engineered the shutdown to inflict more damage on Americans.

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 11h

This shutdown isn’t abstract. It’s 54,000 federal civilian employees across New York — and nearly 2 million nationwide — locked out of their jobs and paychecks. It’s 37,091 people in NY-10 losing Medicaid, and thousands more on Obamacare.

Republicans’ war on healthcare is devastating real people.

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 5h

The shutdown is just one front in Trump's war on Americans.

While GOP holds paychecks hostage to gut health care, Trump is freezing vital NYC transit funding out of pure spite. It's a simple extortion effort to try to inflict pain and punish opponents. Stop and come back to DC to open government.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 3h

Idiotic. When one party is attempting to radically overturn precedent and the lower courts affirm that precedent maybe just maintain the status quo and hold off overturning the lower courts until you've heard the arguments? Trump isn't "irreparably harmed" by delaying his radicalism by a few months.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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worldcitizen1994.bsky.social @worldcitizen1994.bsky.social · 2h

Van Orden is a lunatic and trump whore. His warbling means nothing.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

I think the only exception will be if Americans start doing what they did in Taiwan, ie, get in the streets and *stay* in the streets, for days, until it simply can't be ignored. I wish I thought Americans were that engaged & prepared.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Turns out protest alone was never what changed things, it was protest *plus media coverage of protests*, which prompted officials to respond to protests, which increased public awareness of protests, etc.

If the protest happens & corporate media simply ignores it ... it's inert.

ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 1d

Six out of eight of the largest mass-movement protests in US history have happened since 2017. You wouldn't know this from most media reporting, and you sure af wouldn't know this from the way either major party has reacted.

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