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God @thegodpodcast.com · 14h

Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed.

THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!

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Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely wild the GOP is carrying water for a dude depicting himself as a king in a jet dumping poo on Americans.

Impossible to take anyone still standing by Trump seriously on any topic. Mike Johnson the “conservative Christian” is just cool with this at a values level, eh?

Mmmkay.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

OMG

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 1d

For your Saturday
~ Margaret Atwood
Handmaid's Tale
June —Nothing changes instantaneously.
In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

Margaret Atwood
Handmaid's Tale
June —
6 Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen.
When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously.
In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like George Santos exemplifies a lot of what’s broken in the “justice” system. He was a corrupt politician, he briefly experienced the horrors of inhumane prison conditions, then the corrupt president moved to yank him out—and his victims received none of what they were owed in the process

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

#A_NewHope ✊

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 1d

Holy fuck! No Kings protesters are marching through Center City in Philadelphia. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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baseballm0m.bsky.social @baseballm0m.bsky.social · 1d

#NOKINGS from Cape May, NJ!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

The people running this country have zero respect for the Constitution, laws, rules of ethics and professional responsibility, traditions or norms. They are lawless gangsters drunk on power and nobody in their party outside the admin has the courage or integrity to stop them.

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baseballm0m.bsky.social @baseballm0m.bsky.social · 2d

Just making some cookies for tomorrow’s protest!!

#NOKINGS

No kings in America with a Statue of Liberty sugar cookie

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 2d

Prosecuting enemies.

Releasing allies.

Profiting off of the Oval Office.

Extrajudicial killings.

Illegal acts.

Ignoring the Constitution.

Detaining Americans without cause.

Sending the military into American cities.

Whoever came up with the slogan #NoKings was a f*cking prophet.

Fight back!

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🫶🏻LaylaBella🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 3d

If only we could figure out how to convince the rest of his supporters that there are actually things called facts

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

meanwhile, in season three of The Diplomat, the president is reading Autocracy Inc

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

It's d̶e̶b̶a̶t̶e̶ bingo night in NYC!

And since Andrew Cuomo rarely has anything new to say, the odds are in your favor.

Download/print a board nd follow along starting at 7 p.m. on NBC 4 New York, Telemundo 47 and their digital platforms.

zohranfornyc.com/bingo

N.Y.C. Mayoral Debate Bingo!

A small preview of a bingo board where the center piece is "Zohran's Name Mispronounced."

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 3d

I urge our nation to use this weekend's No Kings marches as a declaration of independence against the tyranny and lawlessness currently running this country.

Use your voice. ACT PEACEFULLY. Protect yourself and your community.

THERE ARE NO KINGS IN THE UNITED STATES.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 3d

📌BREAKING FROM AP: John Bolton charged in a federal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information.

📌Bolton's a selfish asshole, but if that was a crime in America, Trump would be doing 198 life terms.

📌Fascism is here.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 3d

Remember, the Holocaust didn’t start with gas chambers in Auschwitz.

It started with politicians dividing the people with “us vs. them”.

It started with intolerance and hate speech.

It started when people stopped caring, became desensitized, and turned a blind eye.

Remember.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations to @mariaressa.bsky.social, as well as the representatives of the Bangladeshi and Venezuelan democracy movements who joined me at the Hillary Rodham Clinton awards at @giwps.bsky.social. Great to spend a day surrounded by people working hard to make their countries better.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects

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Kenny Akers @keneakers.bsky.social · 4d

I voted for Kamala Harris because I believe in the power and necessity of women in leadership, mainly Black women. To the women reading this, be the change, break the cycle, and lead with purpose. 👇🏾

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

Today, I convened a group of former military generals and veterans to hear perspectives on deploying troops in American cities.

Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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