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Erie

@empoweredswan.bsky.social

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Eternally hopeful Love will win the day. Looking to find joyful warriors to work with to make it happen 💜🦋🪶🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸

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Erie @empoweredswan.bsky.social · Feb 23

She Rides

She Rides into battle, sword drawn, pointed forward.

She rides

She rides toward an enemy attacking Her land.

She rides into the fray, pulling attackers off the vulnerable.

She rides. & she does not hide.

When it is over, she drops her sword and returns to planting seeds in Her garden

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Erie @empoweredswan.bsky.social · 1h

This is maddening. Completely maddening. Screw republicans for letting this happen

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

also, what an image. the president demolishing a portion of a humble people’s house to make room for his royalist monstrosity

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 8h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 7h

In new AP-NORC poll here's Trump's approval with independent voters. Um, big yikes!
- Job approval 21%-75% (-54)
- Immigration 26%-66% (-40)
- Economy 18%-78% (-60)
- Health Care 16%-79% (-63)
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 6h

The Trump administration, in one image.

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Politico @politico.com · 7h

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

This is a desecration and an abomination. First he posts an AI video of himself wearing a crown dumping shit on the heads of Americans, then he starts tearing down part of the White House for his Mar-a-Lago style ballroom.

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Erie @empoweredswan.bsky.social · 5h

🤬🤬🤬🤬💔 is all I can think to say. He desecrates everything decent

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

There is a bias among pundits to eye-roll and dismiss Dem opposition to Trump (such as the No Kings protests) as predictable. But in terms of raw numbers (both events and participants), what we're seeing is much bigger than e.g. the Tea Party movement was. Dems are a high entropy system right now

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Former DOJ lawyer Erez Reuveni was ordered to tell a judge that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was an MS-13 gang member and terrorist. "That is not factually correct."

Reuveni: "They did everything to him in violation of his due process rights. What's to stop them if they decide they don't like you anymore?"

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 13h

No Kings couldn't have gone better - massive turnout, no violence, and it drove Trump so crazy his response was "Kings are good and I poop on everyone." Best of all was the effect on the millions of participants and everyone watching.

My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/no-kings-p...

No Kings was a huge success. Just look at Trump's response.

Turnout was enormous. There was no violence. And the wannabe king is triggered.

www.publicnotice.co

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

Robert De Niro: “[Donald Trump] has no empathy. ... It’s something deeply psychological in him. He wants to hurt people, he wants to hurt this country.”

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders:

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

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Todd (they/them) #AbolishThePolice @toddbohannon.bsky.social · 12h

“Israel has killed nearly 100 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded more than 230 since the ceasefire came into effect on October 10.” #GazaGenocide‌
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‘Fear a cruel companion’ for Palestinians amid Israeli attacks across Gaza

Gaza Government Media Office says Israel has breached the truce agreement 80 times, including 21 violations on Sunday.

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NPR @npr.org · 11h

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them

Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

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Brent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social · 11h

No Kings Feces

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11h

What have the news media been thinking as they’ve normalized and empowered MAGA fascism over the last decade? I took an intrepid journey inside the media’s brain to find out.
Read my free Stop the Presses newsletter.

My exclusive Trump-era tour inside the media’s brain

What were America’s journalists thinking? I have strong suspicions.

www.stopthepresses.news

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

There are more of us than there are of them. Thank you for a truly historic day of peaceful protests across America. #NoKings

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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 1d

This was #NoKings in #London, yes, we got into it as well :-)

(#SoundOn)

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Here is a map showing the exact spot a CHP vehicle was struck by shrapnel after a shell detonated over I-5 during the Trump-Vance missile firings at Camp Pendleton:

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Trump posting a video of himself dropping a huge shit on America is probably the most accurate public statement he has ever made.

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Erie @empoweredswan.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is also a benefit to protests. The local police see how caring, patriotic, respectful and fun their community members are and it conflicts with the narrative of the propaganda. It humanizes people, they feel the good vibes and it solidifies community.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

We're going to win.

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