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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · Nov 24

Joined Twitter in 2015 to resist Trump. Can't believe we are back to square one. I am transitioning from X. Join me.

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 13h

The Handmaids in Orlando yesterday

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 13h

Former US Presidents who have won the Nobel Peace Prize

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 2d

ICE Is Hounding Chicago Area Locals With Excessive Chemical Munitions. Firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, a lawsuit says, sickening even uninvolved residents. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

www.motherjones.com

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Chicago Pastor Sues Trump Admin After Allegedly Being Shot by ICE Agents.

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 2d

Gov. JB Pritzker on protecting his constituents after President Trump’s arrest threat: "This guy is unhinged. He’s insecure. He’s a wannabe dictator. And there’s one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump, If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 6d

A Toddler being detained and zip-tied as part of an early morning ICE raid in Chicago

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 6d

ICE stops a family at gunpoint & smashes their car window over a newborn baby

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 6d

This is what happens when education is underfunded for decades.

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 21d

A woman protesting outside an ICE facility was attacked by agents with mace and sting balls.

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Stick (Spooky pun goes here) 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🩸 @diflas-iawn.from.wales · 21d

Donald felt threatened because these girls were old enough to say "no".

EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 21d

When asked if he really thought the women who protested him at a restaurant in DC should be jailed. Trump said, “Certainly, I thought it was very inappropriate. Yeah, I think they were a threat.”

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 21d

Hard to believe, but this is happening in the suburbs of Chicago.

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 21d

When asked if he really thought the women who protested him at a restaurant in DC should be jailed. Trump said, “Certainly, I thought it was very inappropriate. Yeah, I think they were a threat.”

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 22d

FBI Director, Patel: "We have released all credible information in the Epstein case file, and there's absolutely zero credible information against Donald Trump or anyone else"

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American Partisan™ @partisan.social · 22d

Exactly the response I'd expect from Trump, a sociopath who once watched an 80-year old man bleed to death at Mar-A-Lago, and whose only concern during the entire episode was getting the blood off of his "beautiful" marble floor.

EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 22d

Some think he cares about them?

Trump to reporters: 'Fly safely. You know why I say that? Because I'm on the flight. Otherwise, I wouldn't care."

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 22d

Some think he cares about them?

Trump to reporters: 'Fly safely. You know why I say that? Because I'm on the flight. Otherwise, I wouldn't care."

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 22d

U.S. ambassador 'disappointed' with anti-American sentiment in Canada

"You ran a campaign where it was anti-American, elbows up, me too. You know, that was an anti-American campaign. That has continued. That's disappointing." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. ambassador 'disappointed' with anti-American sentiment in Canada | CBC News

The U.S. ambassador to Canada is expressing frustration over the anti-American sentiment he sees in this country, including from politicians, after U.S. President Donald Trump hit most of the world wi...

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · Jun 15

Victor Zhikai Gao is correct. Bringing the manufacturing base is no small undertaking.

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · Aug 22

“This criminal that’s wanted by the police breaks into this guy’s house, this guy gives him a beating, and this guy gets charged. Something is broken,” Ford slams assault charges against homeowner after break-in globalnews.ca/news/1134240...

‘Something is broken’: Ford slams assault charges against homeowner after break-in | Globalnews.ca

Premier Doug Ford says "something is broken" after a Lindsay man was charged for injuring an alleged intruder during a violent break-in at his home.

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · Aug 11

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From the Handmaid’s Tale to Real Life: Christian Nationalists Want Government Enforced Patriarchy

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · Aug 6

Trump’s agriculture secretary: People should work on farms to avoid losing Medicaid

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · Aug 6

Top analyst says the next 5 years could see 'no growth in workers at all' and sends a warning about the fate of the U.S. economy share.google/sZy1wlczcGL1...

Top analyst says the next 5 years could see 'no growth in workers at all' and sends a warning about the fate of the U.S. economy

Investors may want to think twice about betting broadly on a “strongly rising U.S. economic tide,” JPMorgan’s David Kelly writes. Same with lower interest rates.

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · Aug 4

Marjorie Taylor Greene Turns on GOP, Says Republicans Are Anti-Women... www.newsweek.com/marjorie-tay...

Marjorie Taylor Greene turns on GOP, says Republicans are anti-women

"I don't know if the Republican Party is leaving me, or if I'm kind of not relating to Republican Party as much anymore," Greene said.

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · Aug 4

Trump is killing Democracy—And Not Bothering to Hide It
The assault is happening in plain sight, from the Epstein case to Texas reapportionment to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. www.thebulwark.com/p/killing-de...

Killing Democracy—And Not Bothering to Hide It

The assault is happening in plain sight, from the Epstein case to Texas reapportionment to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

www.thebulwark.com

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · Aug 3

Unfit and Unqualified': Senate GOP Confirm Pro-Trump 'Attack Dog' Jeanine Pirro as US Attorney for DC www.commondreams.org/news/jeanine...

'Unfit and Unqualified': Senate GOP Confirm Pro-Trump 'Attack Dog' Jeanine Pirro as US Attorney | Common Dreams

"By confirming Pirro," said one critic, "Senate Republicans made one thing clear: they care more about pleasing Donald Trump than honoring their constitutional duty to advise and consent on presidenti...

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