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Allyson Williams Democrat 🇺🇦🌻
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Retired librarian, Equine Specialist, married 48 years. Nana of 4-1. No messages, please.
#IStandWithUkraine. I am 70.
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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 29, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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maddow.bsky.social
Ashland, Virginia:

"Despite widespread hazardous road conditions and icy weather from the recent winter storm, more than a thousand residents from across Greater Richmond made their opposition clear..."

www.vpm.org/news/2026-01...
Hanover County supervisors oppose proposed ICE facility
The locality’s ability to deter the purchase is extremely limited, though.
www.vpm.org
January 29, 2026 at 11:59 PM
allysonwilliams.bsky.social
Good for them!
maddow.bsky.social Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18h
Ashland, Virginia:

"Despite widespread hazardous road conditions and icy weather from the recent winter storm, more than a thousand residents from across Greater Richmond made their opposition clear..."

www.vpm.org/news/2026-01...
Hanover County supervisors oppose proposed ICE facility
The locality’s ability to deter the purchase is extremely limited, though.
www.vpm.org
January 30, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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January 30, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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northjules.bsky.social
www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/senate-dem...
As A Bush-Appointed Judge Exposes The Lawlessness Of ICE and FBI Agents Raid Georgia Election Offices To Soothe A Mentally Declining Trump, Ilhan Omar Calls For The 25th Amendment
Plus, Maine nurses protest against Susan Collins
www.dworkinsubstack.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:17 PM
allysonwilliams.bsky.social
“Public Bathroom?”
saltybitchables.bsky.social SaltyBitchables @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 3h
They are calling the Dilley detention center what it actually is. It is officially the Federal Concentration Facility.

This isn’t AI. I looked it up, and you can, too.

#FuckICE #ProudBlue #Pinks #DilleyConcentrationCamp #Resist
Dilley concentration camp
January 30, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
Between seizing ballots in Georgia, trying to leverage Minnesota to turn over its sensitive voter data, and political prosecutions, the DOJ is laying the groundwork to subvert the 2026 elections. I created Democracy Docket for times like this. Help it grow by supporting it now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
January 30, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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meidastouch.com
The new Epstein files production features numerous allegations made against Donald Trump and others.
January 30, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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northjules.bsky.social
The hypocrisy!
#Pinks #ProudBlue
January 30, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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peark.es
A different kind of April fools

*SUPREME COURT SETS BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ARGUMENTS FOR APRIL 1
January 30, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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barbararybolt.bsky.social
#ProudBlue #Resist

This ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Freedom of the press is a basic American principal. Whether you like Lemon or Fort, journalists have to right to report on events without fear of being arrested by ICE or anyone else.

Stop with the bullying!
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3h
"We’ve recently seen that even in the Trump era, public pressure still can work. It’s time to do it again. News outlets across the political spectrum need to loudly defend Lemon’s and Fort’s rights. Journalists are not making themselves the story, Trump is,” said the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
January 30, 2026 at 6:22 PM
allysonwilliams.bsky.social
He has Putin’s playbook.
muellershewrote.com Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 31m
I doubt it’s a coincidence that Tulsi Gabbard was at the Georgia election office raid and Maduro is in custody. Her presence signals they could fabricate a foreign election interference claim. But not against Russia, of course.
January 30, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.
Tweet from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges."
January 26, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents. “There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me. If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.
January 27, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
To put it another way: Courageous jurists on the lower courts have held back Trump from inflicting even more damage on civil rights and liberties. This timeline sucks, but the one in which the judiciary doesn't even try to push back is FAR worse. We insult these judges when we dismiss their impact.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d
I’m done with this shit. This isn’t a game. And if you don’t realize that the work of Judges Xinis and Boasberg and Ellis has been an essential part of forcing this administration to account for its actions, you’re not a serious person.
January 27, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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A truly beautiful and moving piece by Adam Serwer in The Atlantic describing the everyday heroism of people in MN @adamserwer.bsky.social @theatlantic.com :

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Instead, what they discovered in the frozen North was something different: a real resistance, broad and organized and overwhelmingly nonviolent, the kind of movement that emerges only under sustained attacks by an oppressive state. Tens of thousands of volunteers—at the very least—are risking their safety to defend their neighbors and their freedom. They aren’t looking for attention or likes on social media. Unless they are killed by federal agents, as Pretti and Renee Good were, other activists do not even necessarily know their names. Many use a handle or code name out of fear of government retaliation. Their concerns are justified: A number of people working as volunteers or observers told me that they had been trailed home by ICE agents, and some of their communications have already been infiltrated, screenshotted, and posted online, forcing them to use new text chains and code names. One urgent question among observers, as the videos of Pretti’s killing spread, was what his handle might have been. No matter how many more armed men Trump sends to impose his will on the people of Minnesota, all he can do is accentuate their valor. No application of armed violence can make the men with guns as heroic as the people who choose to stand in their path with empty hands in defense of their neighbors. These agents, and the president who sent them, are no one’s heroes, no one’s saviors—just men with guns who have to hide their faces to shoot a mom in the face, and a nurse in the back.
January 27, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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My New One @slate.com: "Trump’s Continued Obsession With 2020 Is a Joke. His Raid on a Georgia Election Site Is Not."
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Given the deep investigations of the 2020 elections generally and Fulton County, Georgia, in particular, it is highly unlikely that the new FBI investigation (whose warrant was curiously sought by a U.S. attorney in Missouri, not Georgia or even Washington, D.C.) will amount to anything. So what was it really about? One tipoff is the curious appearance during the FBI raid of Fulton County’s election offices of Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, who is known to peddle conspiracy theories herself. Portraying this raid as part of a national security effort is in line with the musings of Cleta Mitchell, a Trump conspiracy-theory ally who had been on Trump’s call with Raffensperger. Back in September, Mitchell, on a call with fellow election deniers, suggested that Trump could declare a “national sovereignty crisis” in a bid to take over the midterm elections. Trump has no power over the conduct of federal elections, which are left in the hands of the states, a point numerous courts have made recently in striking down parts of an August Trump executive order purporting to make voting harder. But that doesn’t mean he won’t try. Trump has expressed regret that he did not seize voting machines in 2020. So this threat for 2026 (and 2028) is real.
January 29, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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The Trump administration recognized that Tulsi Gabbard was wildly unqualified/too much of a nutjob for her post running U.S. intelligence, so they've given her some busy work (the busy work is trying to unravel American democracy). www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
January 29, 2026 at 8:42 PM
allysonwilliams.bsky.social
How’s that Tariff Ruling coming?
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2h
I continue to think the Supreme Court is *more likely than not* to (1) rule against Trump's attack on birthright citizenship and (2) uphold state laws that count late-arriving mail ballots.

But it will also likely gut the Voting Rights Act in Callais. So still not a great outcome for democracy!
January 30, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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As long as THEY get away with it, THEY will continue. The lawlessness and corruption is blatant - in our faces, yet THEY are not stopped or held accountable.
January 30, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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phillipusa.bsky.social
No New Funding For ICE…
A BIG THANKS to all the people who worked to make this happen.
January 29, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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January 30, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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Truthiness in doubt. They could corral a month’s worth of bounties.
January 30, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
we will not be silenced.
January 30, 2026 at 4:31 PM