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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 11h

"The power of rock-solid messaging. . . that's something that's been lost throughout the Democratic party.

We need message discipline. The remedy for tyranny and treason is impeachment. Full stop."

- Keira Havens, Executive Director of Citizens' Impeachment

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 11h

This week, Citizens' Impeachment received responses from two representatives who say that Trump needs to be impeached for treason.

Rep. Dwight Evans (PA-03) @repdwightevans.bsky.social

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (TX-35) @doggett.house.gov

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 6h

And demand consequences

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 7h

Another act of war & terrorism against the American people. If you are, for example, a parent who gives a shit about your kids' survival, you need to be screaming at your reps to impeach the lead terrorist and screaming at every lazy impeachment naysayer to shut the fuck up before they get us killed

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 7h

Saying it to your reps is most important, yes! 💜 But there are so many folks on here, including most of the really influential commentators, who need to hear it too. The failure to push hard on impeachment is killing us. I fear it is going to kill many of us literally.

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 7h

Also, rather than screaming, it may just be better to block impeachment naysayers at this point. They deserve to be siloed off. I've had enough of them and see no reason to trust that they're anti-Trump at all

Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 7h

Are you going to let Trump kill your loved ones before you make an all-out push for impeachment? Or are you going to listen to the tenth-rate bullshitters and rent-a-pundits who keep telling you impeachment is impossible?

John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 7h

This wildly illegal action is also a betrayal that will, almost certainly, kill someone you love.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 7h

"We cannot wait another second to make a full-court press on impeaching this president" would be a start

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 7h

It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 7h

"We can wait on impeachment" is a political stance that stands to contribute to the illness and death of millions - it's part of the same fucking foolishness that gave us Trump twice to begin with, and people who understand better need to stop indulging it

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 7h

Another act of war & terrorism against the American people. If you are, for example, a parent who gives a shit about your kids' survival, you need to be screaming at your reps to impeach the lead terrorist and screaming at every lazy impeachment naysayer to shut the fuck up before they get us killed

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22h

"Stalinism and Stephen Miller: Cause for concern"
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/stalinism-...

Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video)

Cause for concern

snyder.substack.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 12h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 15h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 11h

I know journalism is in a bad way, access has changed, etc., but is anyone even ATTEMPTING a full expose of this serial killer‘s role in the dictatorship? I mean, no rush or anything, it‘s only one of the most urgent political stories of the 21st century

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 13h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1d

We still falling for this or - ?

Never believe that anti‐ Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti‐Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1d

Resign immediately.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Ian Carroll, whom Democratic representative Ro Khanna is featuring in this video, claims Israel invented Holocaust denial to discredit its critics, that the US is controlled by a "Zionist mafia," and that Jews did 9/11.

Really bad that Democrats are platforming overt antisemites like this!

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 1d

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1d

As always when I bring up this subject, I have to repeat:

-ANY cheating would invalidate Trump’s win even if it wasn’t outcome-determinative.
-Trump constantly hinted that he would cheat or had cheated (”I don’t need votes,” “vote-counting computers,“ etc.)
-His win was invalid anyway (14A Sec. 3).

Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of talk about how “history will judge“ our current moment. I think historians will marvel at how few mainstream left-liberals questioned whether Trump cheated in 2024. Increasingly this taboo feels like a wounded pride thing, an irrational insistence that It Couldn’t Have Happened Here.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Oh www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

CNN headline: Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting
Systems, says he'll push for paper ballots

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Free Speech For People @fsfp.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: We have officially updated our articles of impeachment to reflect Trump’s treasonous war against the United States and its people. #ImpeachTrump

Trump is openly committing treason. He must be impeached and removed from office. - Free Speech For People

By mobilizing U.S. troops against civilians, Trump is levying war against the United States.

freespeechforpeople.org

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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s a Republican in the deep South asking Trump to *apologize.* Why? Lost tourism.

Now imagine if districts all over the US started losing tourism, due to an air travel boycott tied directly to impeachment demands.

Don‘t think the GOP would turn on Trump? We do.

www.wrkf.org/local-region...

Trump’s comments are hurting Canadian tourism in Louisiana. Lt. Gov. Nungesser wants an apology

Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser said he’s heard from many Canadians who are avoiding the state, including upcoming festivals in Acadiana, because of Trump’s comments.

www.wrkf.org

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 1d

“Putting your political opponents in jail because they are your opponents—not because of what they did—is the heart of tyranny. It is an obviously impeachable offense,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the indictment of NY AG Tish James on Trump-ordered charges.

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1d

Love CI and boost them often! My question is for the Congressman (and I believe CI has asked him the same...)

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1d

Where’s the call for impeachment

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1d

Impeachment demands themselves are just a way of formalizing the stance: "We need to oust the dictator now, not wait for elections that he's already corrupting." That's the rational approach toward Trump, and anyone who's got the mindset this article describes is already committed to it.

Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1d

Voting is very easy. The Revolution is so vast and poorly defined that it's functionally impossible (even a huge uprising wouldn't satisfy this group—they'd just move the goalposts). Both groups are just differently posed moderates, and both scoff at "achievable but risky battles" like impeachment.

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1d

"'[T]he person who fears failure prefers tasks which are either very easy or very difficult.' If the task is trivially easy, there is no possibility of failure; if the task is difficult, failure is inevitable."

Yes—this is why the "Just vote" and "We need a Revolution" groups are the same at heart.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

check out @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's excellent essay here: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 1d

Not one dime to fund the federal government until Congress fires Trump.

(This is literally the only leverage the party has—they should use it to demand what their voters really want and what the situation really requires.)