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Blue Radleigh

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Former fed at DOJ & DHS. ⚖️ Wrong in all the right ways. 🩷

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Blue Radleigh @blueradleigh.bsky.social · Jan 30

You are not alone, and you are so very needed. You don’t have to see the whole way through, just keep taking each step you can in the right direction. Rest, but don’t quit. You will find others doing the same, finding the way. We will make a way out of no way, like so many have done before us.💛

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10h

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 14h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Blue Radleigh @blueradleigh.bsky.social · 13h

I want to believe you, Will…but while they may not have most Americans, so far most Americans seem too apathetic and complacent to mount an effective resistance.😐

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Blue Radleigh @blueradleigh.bsky.social · 14h

The ignorance, apathy, and complacency of millions of my fellow Americans has been one of the most profound disappointments of my life.

Sarah Iannarone @sarahforpdx.bsky.social · 19h

My next door neighbors fleed the Bosnian civil war in the middle of the night. One Orthodox, one Muslim, they escaped through Austria, made a good life here in USA. Sons graduated PSU, have families & great jobs.

They are beside themselves that Americans are so being so cavalier with our Democracy.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 2d

Let me be clear: It’s ILLEGAL to deny federal workers back pay after a shutdown.

There’s a 2019 law that guarantees it, but Trump is once again trying to break the law.

You don’t get to punish people for doing their jobs just because you’re failing at yours.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 2d

I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 2d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Blue Radleigh @blueradleigh.bsky.social · 19h

Accurate.

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 1d

Look at his eyes - pure panic.

These "federal agents" are like clumsy mall cops with guns. No training, no control, no clue.

It’s a miracle they haven’t shot each other yet.

They're a danger to the public.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21h

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

ICE thugs.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h

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Blue Radleigh @blueradleigh.bsky.social · 20h

On point. 🔥

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5d

i just can’t get over ICE going into the streets of the city i live in, throwing gas at citizens, invading people who live here. this is state sponsored terrorism being enacted on americans

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

This shit is dystopian. Blackhawk helicopters, zip-tied kids, and racial segregation vans.

ICE is terrorizing communities.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 6d

So Speaker Johnson gave the congress another week off. Paid of course, while they shut the govt down.

The GOP has made it clear they have no interest in compromise with Dems. So they will have to figure how to reopen their govt that they closed.

And they get another vacation

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 5d

We can fund health care and keep the government running, or we can shut everything down to raise prices on people.

To me, that’s a pretty easy choice.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6d

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 20d

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22d

Obama: We have to recognize that on both sides there are people who are extremists

But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22d

It doesn’t matter if it’s far-right or far-left — extremism is extremism. And it’s toxic. 🚫

That being said, far-right violence in the U.S. has been significantly greater than far-left violence in recent decades.

#UnitedNotDivided

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23d

Kroger will lay off ~1,000 employees.

In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks – which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay.

Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024.

Textbook corporate greed.

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Blue Radleigh @blueradleigh.bsky.social · 23d

Good. It should.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23d

This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident

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