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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15h

"If we were even to suppose the national rulers actuated by the most ungovernable ambition, it is impossible to believe that they would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs."

Oh Alexander, honey.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17h

Quoted by Judge Perry today in her opinion in Illinois v Trump

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 15h

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

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Bert in Colorado @bertfoxson.bsky.social · 15h

I’m really glad that Rubio is so young.

It will allow him many years of reflection in a federal prison.

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Mt Pleasant 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 @jekllnnhide.bsky.social · 15h

not gonna lie, I see Peter Thiel trending and throw up in my mouth a bit, from anxiety.

that man *is* the antichrist

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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 15h

Portland Frogman used “spooky” hands and hip thrusts to make ICE agents retreat. Under that costume are huge muscles, watch video. An ICE asshole sprayed pepper spray into the air vent but Frogman continued in his costume another hour. Hero #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue

m.youtube.com/watch?v=WsW2...

ICE Humiliated By Army Of Inflatable Animals At Protests

YouTube video by Really American

m.youtube.com

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Nichole Hiltz @nicholehiltz.bsky.social · 15h

Ohhh, oookay from
“Bawitdaba da bang da bang
I sing shitty
I pretend to be a cowboy
At four years after fifty
Make people call me Kid Rock
But name is James Ritchie
I pick the boogie said I eat the boogies! 🎙️

Nic, out ✌️

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h

Trump's Lies vs. Portland's Reality

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14h

Mike Johnson is so desperate to shield Republicans from questions about huge healthcare cuts and health insurance costs hikes that he keeps canceling House business so the GOP can hide.

Let’s keep the pressure on Republicans to stop hiding and end the Trump Shutdown: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

(next to an image of the Capitol and a hand holding a megaphone) STOP THE TRUMP SHUT DOWN

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Anti-Trumpism @forabettertomorrow.bsky.social · 14h

YES: A Wyoming librarian fired for refusing to pull LGBTQ books just won a $700,000 settlement for violation of her First Amendment rights. 👏 Let this be a warning to every censor-happy official in the country.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14h

The White House
Shared this video titled Roundtable."

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14h

I genuinely think that many people don't fully understand the situation in the USA.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 14h

To celebrate Banned Books Week, we honor as MD-08 Local Heroes two amazing independent bookstores in Montgomery County—Wonderland Books in Bethesda and People’s Book in Takoma Park, which have created sanctuaries for books, writers, ideas, resistance and community.

Local Hero Video Series: Week 278 Feat. People’s Book and Wonderland Books

YouTube video by Rep. Jamie Raskin

www.youtube.com

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 14h

CHRIS KLUWE REACTS TO LIBSOFTIKTOK “UNHINGED MANIAC” CALLOUT

hashtag smash that like and subscribe

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14h

Are American citizens being disappeared? Yes.

Are American citizens who are veterans of the US Armed Forces being disappeared? Yes.

Without warrant or probable cause—solely based on skin color—Trump goons captured and caged a citizen veteran for days.

This is a fascist regime.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 14h

The Hypocrisy
Thank you @drericding.bsky.social

GET VACCINATED
DON'T LISTEN TO RFKJR
VACCINES WORK

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, all voted for cuts to the CFPB.

Yet collectively, they routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.

(Published August)
By @joeljacobs.bsky.social

These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.

Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, lo...

www.propublica.org

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

"We have to engage in this moment with the ruthless survival skills of an LGBTQ kid in Florida or in North Dakota who does not have the luxury of prioritizing purity and perfection over goodwill and good intentions."

@mcbride.house.gov joins @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social:

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 14h

Never in my life have I ever read a medical report that lists "cardiac age" in it. That isn't a thing.

Reuters @reuters.com · 14h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

reut.rs

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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 14h

The President of the United States is a child rapist & batshit crazy malignant narcissist…

He doesn’t want to go to jail so he never wants to leave office…

He is trying to foment civil war so he can evolve a police state & forego elections…

BECAUSE. HE. IS. A. CHILD. RAPIST.

#NoKings on 10/18

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MJ @ambientheat.bsky.social · 14h

Transmission from the front lines in war torn Portland Oregon.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14h

IT'S FASCISM!!

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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 14h

A federal judge has extended a consent decree (the Castañon Nava consent decree) that limits ICE’s ability to arrest people without warrants or probable cause.

The decree remains in force until February 2, 2026.👇

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Peace @dogsmile.bsky.social · 14h

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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 14h

Reminder that DEA agent Kiki Camarena was tortured and murdered by the Sinaloa drug cartel. Same cartel Trump rolled out a red carpet for, giving special escort across the border to 17 family members. They DON’T deserve our protection! #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue

www.dea.gov/justice-for-...

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14h

Friday night Tequila tweet: I’m so fucking sick of how divisive Trump & his people are. Here she is, using her official government office for political/partisan purposes. To trash Democrats. It’s wrong, it’s illegal, & it’s a really shitty thing to do. I’m fucking sick of them trying to divide us.

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