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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 16h

Yesterday was a beautiful celebration of America. And it, once again, exposed Trump and his Republican cheerleaders as liars. As divisive liars. This weekend’s community Substack. Check it out.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

We Are All Americans

The Social Contract Community Issue

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Eric Mulder for Aurora @ericforaurora.bsky.social · 17h

"We'd all be at brunch" was a problematic sentiment in 2016 and it's a problematic one now. Cancel brunch and carry whatever energy you brought yesterday forward not only in election years but in your city council meetings and community.

A sign reading "If Kamala were president, we'd all be at brunch"

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 20h

So where are we at the morning after? Well, because Trump/Republicans/MAGA didn’t get ANY of the violence on the streets that they so DESPERATELY hoped for & encouraged, they’re now attacking #NoKings as just a bunch of old white people. Smh. This won’t work either.👇

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Eric Mulder for Aurora @ericforaurora.bsky.social · 19h

3E may be one of the most monsterously bad proposals I've seen put before voters in Aurora: council members seeking to hold multiple elected offices at once are setting their constituents for poor representation at best.

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Aurora ballot questions range from gender language to multiple offices - Sentinel Colorado

One amendment would remove a ban that prohibits elected city officials from holding another elected public office.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

Screenshot of a post on X from Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s verified account. The post reads: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government.”

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Mark Bechtel @markymark757.bsky.social · 1d

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Eric Mulder for Aurora @ericforaurora.bsky.social · 1d

I'm an individual rights Libertarian and I did the same thing because of Joe Walsh. Right now we as a country are facing an eviceration of the rule of law and this is one of the few meaningful mechanisms of opposing it.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · Jun 3

I’m a freedom-loving conservative. I left the Republican Party 5yrs ago. Today, I’m doing something I never thought I’d do - I’m formally joining the Democratic Party. Here’s why:👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

From the TEA Party to the Democratic Party

Yup, I'm finally making the leap

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings Denver speaker Joe Salazar (fmr Dem state rep) tells me they estimate 25-30k gathered in Denver today, similar to the No Kings protest earlier this year. This view is from photographer Cheney Orr for the New York Times. #copolitics

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Blue Texas @turntexasblue.bsky.social · 1d

No-Kings-Denver, CO

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Eric Mulder for Aurora @ericforaurora.bsky.social · 3d

Hell if Megyn Kelly runs for president to stop AOC, I'll run for president to stop Megyn Kelly 🤷‍♂️

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11d

I agree with Donald Trump:

Trump is not the right leader for his moment.

Graphic where Senator Warren says: In 2013, Trump himself said, about a potential government shutdown, quote:

Then, a Donald Trump quote: “if there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He’s the one that has to get people together.”

Senator Warren says: Donald Trump today should take a hint from Donald Trump yesterday.

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Eric Mulder for Aurora @ericforaurora.bsky.social · 12d

If Mayor Coffman doesn't want to hear from the public, he needs to find another job besides Mayor. You can very easily enforce time limits on public comments without infringing on anyone's first amendment rights.

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Aurora lawmakers maintain virtual meetings, overriding calls for in-person assembly - Sentinel Colorado

"There's always going to be an element of friction in our representative form of government." - Mayor Mike Coffman

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Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social · 14d

Folks we are watching the adjudication of some of the most important constitutional issues of federalism, executive discretion, and judicial review since the 19th c

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Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon

Judge asked federal government lawyer: 'Do you believe this is an appropriate way to deal with a judge’s order that you disagree with?'

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 13d

3 wks ago she won an election to represent a congressional district in southern Arizona that hasn’t had congressional representation for 7 months. But she hasn’t been sworn in. So the district still has no representation. Why? To protect Trump and keep the Epstein files hidden.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15d

MORE: Immergut issued a stark warning that the efforts by Trump to make a bad-faith justification to call up the guard risked plunging the country into a form of unconstitutional military rule.

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Eric Mulder for Aurora @ericforaurora.bsky.social · 16d

Even Barry Goldwater understood governance requires a good faith attempt to barter with others you don't get along with. And the current majority hardliners saying "take it or leave it" on government funding affirm Goldwater's warnings every day.

Mark my words if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible problem. Frankly these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 19d

Hegseth & Trump ordered 800 of our top military commanders from all over the world to fly to a Marine Corps base outside of DC and all gather in one room today to listen to unserious, performative shit like this. What a fucking waste of money & time. What a stupid security risk.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Hegseth: "No more dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship ... we are done with that shit."

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Eric Mulder for Aurora @ericforaurora.bsky.social · 19d

Combine this latest declared purge with Hegseth's de-emphasis on laws of war training and we need to see this for what it is: the secretary of war is seeking to create a military that won't question orders that call for firing on US civilians.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 21d

FDA approved the abortion pill mifepristone 25 years ago.

So why is RFK Jr. raising questions about it now? He's trying to roll back abortion access nationwide.

I'll keep fighting against attempts to restrict access—because medication abortion is safe and effective. Period.

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Eric Mulder for Aurora @ericforaurora.bsky.social · 23d

@walshfreedom.bsky.social right again.

JD Vance: Democrats are about to shutdown the government because they demand we fund Healthcare for illegal aliens.

Joe Walsh: Nice try. You Republicans control the House, the Senate & the White House. Why are you whining about the Democrats? You control the entire federal government. Any shutdown is on you.

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Nicholas Sarwark @sarwark.org · 26d

During my tenure as Vice Chair, the Libertarian Party of Colorado endorsed Amendment 64 (when the old parties wouldn't) and helped Colorado become the first state to make cannabis legal again.

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What's the next libertarian policy reform that Coloradans should adopt?

2012 Colorado Amendment 64 - Wikipedia

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25d

$In truth, neither Congress nor the executive can claim to represent the undivided will of the American people. It is arguable whether such a thing even exists in the American system, as the public is not a single entity but an ever-shifting set of groups and interests. Congress represents the American people in their diverse and fractious unity, and the president represents a will of some of the people, briefly assembled for a fleeting purpose, to dissipate until it forms anew in the next election. It is simply a conceptual error to think of democratic legitimacy as a grant embedded in a single person. It’s better to see it as a relationship between our political institutions and the publics they serve, each responsive to the other as they work together to do the business of government.$

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 26d

The thing Kimmel did best is emphasize this wasn't just the principle of the matter in his one case, as if it was an isolated incident. It's part of Trump's broader system-wide attack on free speech. He noted both Colbert and Fallon, but also the attacks on journalists, the extortion lawsuits, etc.

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