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AmyK

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AmyK @amyk2024.bsky.social · Feb 6

Call your representatives
Stop the coup

5calls.org

5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

5calls.org

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker: “Another thing that’s happened with very few people paying attention is they demanded our voter data. Not just ours in Illinois — every state’s voter data. Why? They won’t tell us why.”

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 8h

No shit.

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AmyK @amyk2024.bsky.social · 6h

This seems very bad and it’s hardly reported in the news

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Homeland Security reassigns ‘hundreds’ of CISA cyber staffers to support Trump’s deportation crackdown

News of the reassignments comes at a time when the U.S. is facing a wave of hacks targeting private industry and the federal government.

www.yahoo.com

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 6h

People are not pawns. The latest CDC layoffs are another example of this Administration going after our health—this time by firing scientists working to prevent chronic & respiratory disease.

I’m working to reopen the gvt, reverse these reckless cuts, & fund health care.

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 7h

Name a song with the word "Sweet" in the title or lyrics...🎶

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AmyK @amyk2024.bsky.social · 7h

youtu.be/_qi1k52G-h0?...

Sweet Inspiration

YouTube video by The Sweet Inspirations - Topic

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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 1d

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online

Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.

www.oregonlive.com

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Juliet King @sepia26.bsky.social · 2d

Where the hell is the outrage? I don't need them to join the dems, just speak out about how systematically horrid this GOP is to the most vulnerable. Damn their hypocritical hides!!!

Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 2d

Roughly a third of U.S. Catholics back the GOP—while the Pope calls out greed, inequality, and indifference to the poor. Hard to preach compassion on Sunday and vote against it on Tuesday. Faith without empathy isn’t devotion—it’s performance.

apnews.com/article/vati...

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 2d

I believe that the Epstein files reveal the following:

Epstein was a MOSAD asset who created Kompromat material to use as leverage against powerful men.

That material including sex with young boys as well as girls.

He was also a major money laundering conduit.

The men caught up in the scandal

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 2d

include some with massive visibility, wealth and global reach.

The files reveal blackmail, extortion, financial crimes, espionage, treason, and other high crimes.

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

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 2d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Trump wants to invoke the Insurrection Act to punish anyone who opposes him, and he’s following a four point plan to do it.

Here’s what you need to know about it — and some thoughts on how to respond. www.youtube.com/shorts/31X8v...

The Real Reason Trump Wants To Invade Chicago and Portland

YouTube video by Robert Reich

www.youtube.com

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 2d

Stephen Miller is a corrupt loser with a microphone and a Napoleon complex. He’s also basically running the government.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 3d

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AmyK @amyk2024.bsky.social · 3d

To hide his complicity in the sex trafficking

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d

Federal officers are firing so much tear gas at protesters outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, that some nearby community members who aren’t even protesting are struggling to breathe when they leave their homes to run errands.

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

www.motherjones.com

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AmyK @amyk2024.bsky.social · 3d

He’s having a fake “antifa” meeting

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.”

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3d

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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AmyK @amyk2024.bsky.social · 3d

Impeach the MF

AmyK @amyk2024.bsky.social · 3d

Jon Stewart gets it…

youtube.com/shorts/_iLI9...

"Standing up for 75 million Americans... seems like the least they can f**king do." Jon Stewart

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Juliet King @sepia26.bsky.social · 3d

Brighter minds than mine have already said this, but I can't see any good off-ramp for the GOP here. They pass the CR, their constituents' premiums skyrocket, GOP gets blamed. They need dem votes on this, so the GOP can blame them, I hope they don't get them. Stand firm, dems, you got this!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. I think they are absolutely struggling to figure out how they are going to get out of this.”

@politico.com #Shutdown
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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