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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Susan Collins is the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which means she has considerable power to influence the administration but she prefers to mumble weak protestations to the media

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

Despite all of Susan Collins’s **concerns**, Russ Vought, who she voted to confirm, still went ahead and fired a boatload of hard-working Americans.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d

SUSAN COLLINS, Wednesday: "I've made very clear that I do not believe there should be firings of furloughed workers."

RUSS VOUGHT, Friday: "The RIFs have begun."

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21h

Due to Tennessee’s abortion ban, Mayron Hollis was forced to continue a pregnancy that threatened her life. An emergency delivery left her without a uterus and her baby with medical issues.

This was their first year in a post-Roe state (pub. Feb. 2024):

She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life.

Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"Forty-two judges went so far as to say that the Supreme Court’s emergency orders had caused 'some' or 'major' harm to the public’s perception of the judiciary[,] [including] nearly half of the Republican-nominated judges."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

Marjorie Taylor Greene : "Prices have not come down at all. The job market is extremely difficult. Wages have not gone up. Health insurance premiums are going to go up. Homeowner's insurance goes up every year. Rent is going up. Young people have no hope of buying a home."

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Dragon Moll Z 🎃 @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 1d

I think it should be clear at this point that like the US federal government has collapsed.

There are no branches. There are no rules.

There is just one man and his truth social posts.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress over two weeks ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in.

Why the delay?

Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23h

A federal appeals court partially reinstated Trump’s authority over the Illinois National Guard, while maintaining restrictions that prevent him from deploying troops within the state.

Appeals Court Allows Trump to Keep Control of Illinois National Guard but Bars Deployment

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Kieta Mall Skoglund @kietams.bsky.social · 1d

What could possibly justify this level of violence and this number of officers?!! Is the big scary 15 year old too much for them? Too bad they don’t use this to target actual criminals. But then they wouldn’t be able to act all tough so they avoid them.

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castawayfarm.bsky.social @castawayfarm.bsky.social · 23h

There is, without doubt, more than a zero percentage chance that sex trafficking is taking place in these ICE detainment facilities. It's pretty much the 'perfect storm' of a bunch of angry, racist, and misogynistic men with carte blanche to act out their worst impulses with little to no oversight.

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DanaG @danagpnw.bsky.social · 1d

And disappear them to a facility with no oversight. Horrified by what may be happening there.

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Proudly Blue @proudlyblue.bsky.social · 1d

One gets the idea that brutal guys sign up for ICE so they can beat up teenage girls with a mask on and get away with it.

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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Clearly someone who grew up here, she has no accent; really want to know what was going on here. Looks like they were following her already at the start of the video. Why?

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago’s North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour." @wgntv.com
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Bluesmobile @bluesmobile.bsky.social · 1d

“The whole reason I signed up for the military was to shoot at my own citizens while going bankrupt not getting paid.”

- Nobody

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"This is not about Democrats or Republicans ... No one wants a government in which officials accept cash bribes for government action. That is the stuff of banana republics or the type of Beltway swamp that Mr. Trump swore to drain."

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Opinion | The Tom Homan Affair Has More Red Flags Than a May Day Parade

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Steve Hofstetter @stevehofstetter.bsky.social · 1d

More than half of ALL government shut down days in the history of America have come under just one president.

Simply put, the man is a terrible leader.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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DemCastDonGA @donshantajr.bsky.social · 1d

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

Are American citizens being disappeared? Yes.

Are American citizens who are veterans of the US Armed Forces being disappeared? Yes.

Without warrant or probable cause—solely based on skin color—Trump goons captured and caged a citizen veteran for days.

This is a fascist regime.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

More than 5,000 federal employees have received layoff notices. We’re working to ensure that the administration isn’t using state voter rolls to target registered Democrats for termination. More details soon.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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