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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5h

I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond.

Pay attention and act!

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1h

Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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bestfriendsforlife @bestfriendsarebest.bsky.social · 16d

Do they know how morally wrong what they are doing is? Do they know what they are doing is Constitutionally illegal and is the definition of TREASON?

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bestfriendsforlife @bestfriendsarebest.bsky.social · 11m

Argentina has a huge Nazi territory. Doesn't it?

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 4h

So this is just facially illegal right?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidef...

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 4h

Mike Johnson called us back from July 4 recess on 7/3 so he could gut Americans’ healthcare in the Big Ugly bill. Since then, he has only had the House in session for 19 of the subsequent 104 days. That’s how we ended up here.

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 4h

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 4h

If you’ve recently awoken from a coma, the Speaker of the House is stalling the swearing in of a newly elected member from Arizona because she would be the deciding vote in the discharge petition to release the Epstein files, which would be trouble for his boss.

You’re caught up.

Ps: Welcome back.

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AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 4h

#Pinks #ProudBlue
Trump is going after Jack Smith, Andrew Weissman, Lisa Monaco and Adam Schiff for investigating his illegal activities. He wants anyone who has tried to hold him accountable locked up. The Republican Senators are all complicit.
newrepublic.com/post/201828/...

Trump Makes Clear No One Can Rule Against Him as He Threatens Enemies

Donald Trump is now calling himself the “chief law enforcement officer.”

newrepublic.com

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 4h

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 3h

$40 Billion to Argentina. Don’t tell me we can’t have healthcare.

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Blue Axeman @blueaxeman.bsky.social · 3h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h

Finally, some common sense from Oklahoma education.

Ryan Walters turned classrooms into culture war battlegrounds. Reversing his Bible mandate isn’t “anti-religion,” it’s accepting the fact that the Bible is not a history book!

Schools should teach, not preach.

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Notaboomer 🫩 @notaboomer.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe by fix they mean neuter

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John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 44m

Just like the GOP wants to “fix” social security by raising the eligibility age, effectively denying millions social security until they are near death.

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Jeffery 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 1h

Speaker Johnson is a lying little weasel. And that's putting it nicely.

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Oeishik 🐸 @oeishik.bsky.social · 1h

Mikey's is trying to fix healthcare but he really only has concepts at this time. Please hold a moment. youtu.be/ntSa7CWWjLI

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Hellish Children @hellishchildren.bsky.social · 1h

Mike Johnson:

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Galia Halpern @galiahalpern.bsky.social · 1h

There are many problems with healthcare in this country, but not a one of them has ever been addressed by this current iteration of the GOP.

Hell, half the GOP-led states *still* haven't expanded Medicaid coverage. It's been 14 years since that option was available to them.

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Joseph Dennis @jd1515151.bsky.social · 36m

Trying to get rid of health care and replace it with "concepts of a plan".....

Lying about covid and watching people pile up in refrigerated morgue trucks.

Then unleashing RFK Jr to go wild and destroy the American Health Care System.

He's got America on a slow kool-aid IV drip.

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Joseph Dennis @jd1515151.bsky.social · 1h

Everybody will be covered with TrumpCare.

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bestfriendsforlife @bestfriendsarebest.bsky.social · 25m

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1h

Collins: Speaker Johnson that Republicans are actually the party that wants to fix health care by addressing issues with it, as he says they did in the one big beautiful bill.

Sanders: Did he really say that? They're trying to fix health care by throwing 15 million people off of it?

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 1h

Senators Kelly & Gallego are out of give of fucks for Johnson’s excuses for delaying Adelita’s swearing in.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 58m

Sanders: Saturday, millions of people are going to come out on a No Kings day. Speaker Johnson said this is a hate America rally because people are coming out expressing their concerns.. It’s not a hate America rally, it's a love America rally.

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