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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

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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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7h

Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast.

But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 8h

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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P Collirigger @pcollirigger.bsky.social · 15h

The very concept of being a "longtime proponent" of using the Insurrection Act proves that it is being misused. By its own terms, the Act is to respond to a exigent threat needing immediate and short-term response, so concerning that the Constitutional rights of the citizens can be overridden. +

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 16h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 15h

These are terrible numbers for Trump (via @pewresearch.org)

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

"Majorities say trump has used his office improperly; fewer say he has improved government, U.S. standing" (graphs via Pew Research)

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 15h

This is the clearest sign yet that Democrats are winning this argument. Nobody is going to buy this desperate B.S. I’m honestly surprised, but the Democrats have managed to back Johnson into a corner.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."

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WatchYourRepsSC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 1d

Nice to see Sen. Gallego and Kelly going to bat for Adelita Grijalva, as they and everyone else should be.
Speaker Johnson is stalling her swearing-in because her vote would help finally reveal the Epstein files.

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JoyB-she/her ❌👑 @equityandjoy.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, yes he did.
This is Trumps second "annual" physical in six months.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Didn't Trump already have his annual check up in April?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

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Here’s the video again: www.instagram.com/reel/DPi9m_2...

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 1d

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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LastGreatAct 🇺🇦 @lastgreatact.bsky.social · 1d

States need to enforce judges ruling, winning in court does not seem to matter without enforcement.

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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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JoyB-she/her ❌👑 @equityandjoy.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Make America Great Again…

GTF Out!

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 2d

Holy crap.

This is fantastic.

I didn’t know he had it in him.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 2d

This is the way.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 2d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 2d

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 3d

“Emotions are heightened as staff continue to learn about newsroom developments from other media outlets”

@premthakker.bsky.social talks to sources within CBS on the appointment of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief

zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 3d

seeing as ICE isn't getting paid right now, and yall have said fuck all about what ICE is doing to residents of this country, maybe stop trying to reopen it, and demand more.

Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 3d

ICYMI: Senate Republicans just blocked Democrats' bill that would reopen the government AND save health care for millions of Americans.

This is now the FIFTH time we've voted on this bill.

The Republican shutdown continues.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

She had no less than seven holes in her body from the shooting.

Martinez is a US citizen.

ICE agents shot a US citizen on US soil at least seven times. Her car was riddled with bullets.

I'm glad she's been released pending trial, but surely the agent who shot her should face charges?

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 3d

Nazi Noem set up a sniper unit on a rooftoop in Chicago overlooking ICE protestors below.

She visited it this weekend.

Trump and his thugs are going to gun down US citizens.

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JoyB-she/her ❌👑 @equityandjoy.bsky.social · 3d

And bullet proof vests.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

1. As Chris notes, in addition to journalist plaintiffs in here, there's a religious plaintiff: Rev. David Black, a Presbyterian minister who was filmed being shot by federal agents with what appeared to be pepper balls while praying outside the Broadview ICE office.

I just spoke with that pastor…

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: I'm listening in on a second new lawsuit out of Illinois today, addressing First Amendment freedoms surrounding protests, including press and religious claims.

Judge Sara Ellis, an Obama appointee, is hearing the TRO motion and has found the plaintiffs, for TRO purposes, have standing.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUB, BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO, CHICAGO NEWSPAPER GUILD LOCAL 34071, NABET-CWA LOCAL 54041, ILLINOIS PRESS ASSOCIATION, RAVEN GEARY, CHARLES THRUSH, STEPHEN HELD, DAVID BLACK, WILLIAM PAULSON, AUTUMN REIDY-HAMER, and LEIGH KUNKEL, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated,
Plaintiffs,
V.
KRISTI NOEM, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS); TODD LYONS,
Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); MARCOS CHARLES,
Acting Executive Associate Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations, ICE;
RUSSELL HOTT, Chicago Field Office
Director, ICE; RODNEY S. SCOTT,
Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP); GREGORY BOVINO, Chief Border Patrol Agent, CBP; DANIEL
DRISCOLL, Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF);
WILLIAM K. MARSHALL III, Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP); PAMELA BONDI, Attorney General of the United States;
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE; UNIDENTIFIED FEDERAL OFFICER DEFENDANTS; UNIDENTIFIED FEDERAL AGENCY DEFENDANTS; and
DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States,
No. 25-cv-12173
PLAINTIFFS' COMPLAINT FOR INJUCTIVE AND DECLARATORY RELIEF

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