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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 15h

This isn’t about politics; it’s about ownership of the scoreboard. When the scoreboard changes owners, the game changes. The sale no one voted on...and why you should care.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 11h

One thing you will never ever see is cops actually protecting protesters, regardless of circumstance. It's against their very nature. Even with their city under assault by the federal government, cops go after protesters like dogs after a cat.

Unless those protesters have swastika flags.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 15h

🚨🚨🚨A 15 year old opens the door to the vehicle, but ICE monsters proceed to throw her around like a rag doll — because they can. Notice the police drive away, just out of view of the camera. Uploaded ~ 2 hours ago. 1/2

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Colleen Paige @colleenpaige.bsky.social · 23h

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Elizabeth @elizaet.bsky.social · 9h

a man in a suit and tie is scratching his head while standing in front of a crowd .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is scratching his head while standing in front of a crowd .

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11h

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Elizabeth @elizaet.bsky.social · 9h

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11h

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

Cartoon by John Deering.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Angus: Who else are you going to give military bases to? When’s Vladimir Putin getting his rocket bases in the United States?

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 13h

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Marble Liberal @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 13h

Who owns the army is THE constitutional question of the 17th century

jim0novak.bsky.social @jim0novak.bsky.social · 14h

The U.S. Constitution's Army Clause (Article I, Section 8) requires that congressional appropriations to raise and support armies must be for a term no longer than two years.

They feared standing armies.

The Founders were more radical anti-fascists than common knowledge would expect.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · Jun 24

New article out from me, in which I consider: what if I'm wrong about everything re: what's important for a flourishing democracy?

I use a recent book attacking institutions & advocating disintermediated localism to explore the limits of my view.

Get it free here: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...

Being a Citizen in the Rubble of Institutions
Kevin J Elliott

Abstract

What is the best foundation for democracy: citizenly habits sustained informally by the spontaneous effort of citizens themselves, or formal institutions and the law? C. L. Skach's How to Be a Citizen tells us how someone who dedicated her career to the importance of law and institutions lost her faith in them and came to see the habits and informal relations of citizens as the real site of democracy. Like many observers of politics in recent years, Skach has concluded that the regnant social order based on law and institutional mediation has fatally discredited itself. But giving up on institutions and law is no small thing. There are powerful reasons for, and immense social forces tied up with, coordinating modern societies by means of them. This review article explores the tensions between Skach's approach and some of these reasons and forces. Yet it does so not in the spirit of critique but rather as a challenge for those who view institutions and law as almost unquestionably fundamental to modern life. It seeks to explore what value there is in Skach's informal, anti-institutional approach for those who have not yet entirely lost the faith she once affirmed in modernity's legal and institutional workhorses.
democratic theory, constitutionalism, modernity, judicial supremacy, institutionalism, coordination

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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Elizabeth @elizaet.bsky.social · 2d

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

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“Suspending who?”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Sarah O’Connell @sarahoconnellshow.com · 2d

A former library director in Wyoming has won $700,000 in a settlement after she was fired for refusing to remove Sexual health and LGBTQ+ books. www.advocate.com/news/wyoming...

Wyoming library director wins $700,000 after being fired for defending LGBTQ+ books

Terri Lesley has won $700,000 after she was fired for refusing to remove LGBTQ+ books.

www.advocate.com

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Elizabeth @elizaet.bsky.social · 2d

Taken him out REMOVE him and his enablers GTFO 😡

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 2d

DO NOT LOOK AWAY!!!
Pls sign & share ⬇️

Sign the Petition

🚨🚨🚨 EPSTEIN SCANDAL // REMOVE TRUMP FROM POWER 🚨🚨🚨

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Maida ☠️ @emmaidama.bsky.social · 2d

😂🤣 Newsom’s trolling is now at a whole new level 😂🏅
#NobelPeacePrize #Pinks 🌸

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Habu @flyinghabu.bsky.social · 2d

Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky.

But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭

#Astrophotography

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon taken from my backyard

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

Kash Patel's FBI just fired special agents who worked on Jack Smith's investigation of Trump.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

FBI fires special agents who worked on Jack Smith's probe into Trump

The agents were fired after Kash Patel disclosed that Smith's team obtained phone records of members of Congress, which the Smith report itself referred to.

www.nbcnews.com

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/10/...

Epstein bank records sought by top House Democrat from Jamie Dimon, other CEOs

The Trump administration is under fire for refusing to make public investigative files about Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of President Donald Trump.

www.cnbc.com

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