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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 10h

AP: The U.S. says it's sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor Gaza ceasefire deal.

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 10h

Letitia James on her indictment: I'm a proud woman of faith, and I know that faith and fear cannot share the same space. And so today, I'm not fearful. I'm fearless. And as my faith teaches me. No weapon formed against me shall prosper. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 11h

Joe Rogan on Trump's immigration crackdown: When you're arresting people in front of their kids... people that have been here for 20 years. Everybody who has a heart can't get along with that... no criminal record, they worked the entire time, they paid taxes. Find them a pathway to citizenship.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 12h

Duncan Trussell on Epstein: Talk about a bad list. The list of people who said, let's protect people who who have done horrific shit to kids.

Joe Rogan: The Democrats were pushing this. The Republicans fought against it. 51 to 49. It's crazy.

Trussell: What the fuck's in there, man?

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 13h

Marjorie Taylor Greene: This should not be happening, the shutdown is just going to drive everybody's approval rating that much lower.

Pamela Brown: You're putting the blame on the leadership of your party?

Greene: Absolutely. We control the House. We control the Senate. We have the White House.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 15h

Trump: We've become the party of good healthcare. We're the ones who are saving healthcare. We're going to be reducing the cost of medicines by 100%, 200%, 300%, and 500%, and even more than that.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 16h

Pamela Brown: When you say the foreign government or powerful people, who specifically were you alluding to there?

Marjorie Taylor Greene: I'm talking about the Epstein list. I genuinely do not understand why there's been any effort to hide this and prevent it from coming out.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 16h

Pamela Brown: The Democrats are accusing Speaker Johnson of delaying the swearing in of Arizona's Democratic congresswoman-elect because she would give the last vote needed to release those. Epstein files.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: The House should be in session for many reasons.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 17h

Wolf Blitzer: What are you hearing from your constituents right now?

Marjorie Taylor Greene: I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying that if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't going to be able to have health insurance.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 17h

Marjorie Taylor Greene: Healthcare is drastically changed. I'm one of those that gets real tired of political drama when it's not actually solving a problem. And this is such a crisis that I'm, I'm willing to say, okay, everyone, we have to do something about this.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Jimmy Kimmel on Epstein files: "You know things in Washington are broken when Marjorie Taylor Greene is the lone voice of reason on the Republican side."

Greene: "I’ve always been an unapologetic Trump supporter… but I’m not a slave."

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Abby Phillip: [Trump's] described his political opponents using the exact language, you still think that that is incitement to assassination?

Brianna Lyman: I would love to hear the clips, but...

(Phillip plays clips of Trump calling his political opponents scum, fascists, garbage...)

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Dan Goldman: Can I just point one thing out... 45 minutes into this, you have had to fact-check Phil [Williams], Brianna [Lyman], significantly tonight, because there's so many allegations that are talking points that are just not supported by the facts.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Abby Phillip on flag burning: Conservatives want liberals to stop calling Trump authoritarian, fascist, but he's also doing things like saying he's getting rid of the First Amendment.

Brianna Lyman: I didn't see that clip... I think it's just a tongue-in-cheek comment.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Clips of Mike Johnson saying, "that’s in not my lane" about everything that's actually in his lane.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker: This is a convicted felon who is threatening to jail me. This guy's unhinged, he's insecure, he's a wannabe dictator... come and get me.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Hayes: New reporting from the Wall Street Journal tonight, that message that Trump posted to Pam Bondi online was meant to be basically a DM that he accidentally posted publicly... Pam was surprised to learn it was public. Bondi, upset, called the White House aides.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Kristy Greenberg on Comey's indictment: "To present a case to a grand jury without being fully versed in what those materials are… particularly when you have a memo from career prosecutors that says... proceeding here would violate DOJ policy and may raise ethical issues."

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago protester: The National Guard is not welcome here. Crime is under control. Military occupation doesn't make our cities safer. Resources and investment in community makes our city safer. My family left Eastern Europe because of the pogrom.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

CNN montage of Trump saying "Antifa."

Total clown.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on extending ACA credits: It is hurting so many people... let's take off our Democrat jerseys, let's take off our Republican jerseys, and we should do something responsible for the American people and fix this.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

"A second Antifa meeting just started. America is under attack."

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's Antifa roundtable in 88 seconds 👻

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Trump on burning flags: "We took the Freedom of Speech away."

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Pete Fuller @petefullerga.bsky.social · 1d

Literally the whole point of the constitution is to disallow one person from having full unconditional power.
How these people can get this so wrong is beyond comprehension.

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

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