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benfranklinskite.bsky.social @benfranklinskite.bsky.social · Apr 1

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Our voices matter
Be heard

Right now the clock is ticking: can we save our democracy, federal agencies and rule of law before the damage is irreparable?

I'm sure you know that it took Hitler less than 6 months to destroy democracy in Germany?

I understand that with a GOP trifecta in the Capitol, your options are limited.

Still, I feel the Senate Dems are not meeting the peril of this moment with the urgency required.

We are seeing daily assaults on the rule of law, our constitutional rights, our national security, our federal agencies which we funded by Congress, a continual usurpation of the congressional power of appropriations, a stream of language that brings hatred, division and lies, attacks on the courts, law firms, universities, proclamations that normalise racism and even segregation. The economy is plummeting and our alliances are broken.

As your constituent, I write to ask, no, demand, you do more.
The Senate dems have been bringing Roberts Rules of Order to a knife fight.

Please stop acting as if any of this is normal. If the illegal DOGE actions were being done with tanks and paramilitaries and bulldozers, there would be burnt out shells of buildings across DC and the nation.

Please: use the tools at your disposal and force your brainwashed GOP colleagues to rejoin reality:

Please THANK CORY BOOKER for filibustering and JOIN HIM next time.

PLEASE:

Consider these actions that Senate Dems and Independents could do that would force your GOP colleagues to work together or down tools:

- Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored

- make Quorum calls

- Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule is restored

- Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored

I also urge you to obtain a copy of Project 2025 and start to be proactive. Game out strategies to oppose the agenda measure by measure.

I understand that your role right now probably involves challenges, pressures, and perhaps even threat…

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Sally Dukes @sallydukes.bsky.social · 2h

liberation theology is BACK

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 7h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1h

We can no longer rule out the possibility that Congresswoman Greene and Senator Fetterman are currently experiencing a Freaky Friday.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Greene on the Epstein files: "I can't conclusively say that's why the House isn't in session, but the House should be in session...there is a new Democrat that's been elected that deserves to be sworn in...if it's to avoid the discharge petition, why drag this out? It's going to have 218 signatures"

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benfranklinskite.bsky.social @benfranklinskite.bsky.social · 37m

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Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social · 2d

The article closes with this:

"Among the grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence is the following charge: “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.” The same can now be said of Donald J. Trump and Peter B. Hegseth."

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 2d

"Donald J. Trump and Peter Hegseth have committed an overt act of Treason by levying war against the United States in full view of the public. They have sought to jeopardize the union of these United States by setting the States against one another in pursuit of absolute, unchecked, despotic power."

Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social · 2d

It's beyond time to call the President's intent to wage a "war from within" what it is: Treason.

@citizensimpeachment.com does just that in its new article of impeachment.
citizensimpeachment.com/article-of-i...

Article of Impeachment: Treason - Citizens' Impeachment

Article II: Treason (For Article I: Tyranny, please click here) H. RES _____ RESOLVED, that Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, and Peter B. Hegseth, Secretary of Defense […]

citizensimpeachment.com

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eric1990s.bsky.social @eric1990s.bsky.social · 1d

States can indict the cabinet on treason charges.

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benfranklinskite.bsky.social @benfranklinskite.bsky.social · 37m

Yes, it is treason

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Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social · 1d

Also true 👇
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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 1d

Absent the structure of federalism, this would be an unambiguous act of aggression. And POTUS eliminated any ambiguity last week at Quantico, when he looked all his generals in the face and said, “this is a war.” He’s told us what these moves mean: he’s levying war on the United States. It’s treason

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Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social · 1d

@andycraig.bsky.social laying it all out, right here

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

That's not just a breakdown of airy political philosophy about the nature of state sovereignty, it's torching the unity of the armed forces. Chain of command being ripped apart not from below but from above. It's saying your unit is from the wrong state so we don't trust you, you're not one of us.

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benfranklinskite.bsky.social @benfranklinskite.bsky.social · 38m

Time to impeach

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Trump's declaration of "a war from within" is treason. Impeach Trump and Hegseth

Text SIGN PTWYGV to 50409 to send this to your officials.

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benfranklinskite.bsky.social @benfranklinskite.bsky.social · 38m

Yes, treason
And the remedy is impeachment

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Trump's declaration of "a war from within" is treason. Impeach Trump and Hegseth

Text SIGN PTWYGV to 50409 to send this to your officials.

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benfranklinskite.bsky.social @benfranklinskite.bsky.social · 39m

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Trump's declaration of "a war from within" is treason. Impeach Trump and Hegseth

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Json Momoa @jotatx.bsky.social · 9h

@chrischirp.bsky.social is doing a fantastic work here
www.trumpactiontracker.info

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benfranklinskite.bsky.social @benfranklinskite.bsky.social · 39m

Fired up ready to go
Be heard: tell your electeds that it's time for impeachment

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Trump's declaration of "a war from within" is treason. Impeach Trump and Hegseth

Text SIGN PTWYGV to 50409 to send this to your officials.

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benfranklinskite.bsky.social @benfranklinskite.bsky.social · 40m

Others can amplify that message -- that treason requires impeachment

With @resist.bot

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Trump's declaration of "a war from within" is treason. Impeach Trump and Hegseth

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benfranklinskite.bsky.social @benfranklinskite.bsky.social · 42m

It's treason.
It's time to impeach

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Trump's declaration of "a war from within" is treason. Impeach Trump and Hegseth

Text SIGN PTWYGV to 50409 to send this to your officials.

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Palm Oil Detectives | #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social · 3h

Behind #RSPO’s certified “sustainable” #palmoil lies a harsh reality of #deforestation and #humanrights abuses 🔥🌳🌴 ⛔️connected to all #supplychain members. “Sustainable” palm oil is a lie, make sure you #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife wp.me/pcFhgU-7Sp

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 6h

Mike Johnson is delaying Democrat Adelita Grijalva’s swearing in to block a House vote to release the Epstein files.

Republicans swore in their own winners the next day in April.

This is rank hypocrisy and totally shameless.

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KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 3h

"that independence from a king was critical to their wellbeing & dignity as free people.
And the revolution was the act of convincing, of gaining the self-confidence to declare independence, far more so than the violence of a war.
They...."

www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-to-ove...

How to Overturn an Oligarchy

We've had some real victories. The FTC is looking into fire truck monopolization, California passed a law against coercion machines, and lobbyists took a big loss last month. America is waking up.

www.thebignewsletter.com

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KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 3h

"These guys fought a war against the most powerful empire in the world, and won, and they did so because they convinced each other a decade earlier, during deeply distressing economic times, that independence..." www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-to-ove...

How to Overturn an Oligarchy

We've had some real victories. The FTC is looking into fire truck monopolization, California passed a law against coercion machines, and lobbyists took a big loss last month. America is waking up.

www.thebignewsletter.com

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KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 3h

the public opinion was enlightened and informed concerning the Authority of Parliament over the Colonies.”

What Adams wrote has always stuck with me.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-to-ove...
Those guys...

How to Overturn an Oligarchy

We've had some real victories. The FTC is looking into fire truck monopolization, California passed a law against coercion machines, and lobbyists took a big loss last month. America is waking up.

www.thebignewsletter.com

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KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 3h

was effected, from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen Years before a drop of blood was drawn at Lexington.” Adams cited the legislative records, the pamphlets, newspapers, and the public debates “by which...

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KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 3h

"In 1815, John Adams wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson about the American Revolution. “What do We mean by the Revolution?” he asked. “The War? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an Effect and Consequence of it. The Revolution was in the Minds of the People, & this...

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 18h

As these strikes get worse, support will only grow for another War Powers Resolution to stop them.

Let’s hope by then we are not in a full-fledged war.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Bipartisan measure to restrict Trump’s war powers fails in Senate

A bipartisan Senate resolution to restrain Trump’s ability to wage war against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers failed in a 48-51 vote.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 18h

BREAKING: I just forced a vote with Senator Kaine to block the unauthorized boat strikes in the Caribbean.

In an important step forward, the vote was bipartisan, even if it fell two votes short.

Bipartisan measure to restrict Trump’s war powers fails in Senate

A bipartisan Senate resolution to restrain Trump’s ability to wage war against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers failed in a 48-51 vote.

www.washingtonpost.com

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