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Jackie Banyasz

@garwoodgal.bsky.social

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Mother, grandmother, feminist, human rights activist, engaged citizen. Long ago U.S. Senate staffer. Honorably withdrawn member of Aftra-Sag; Actor’s Equity Association.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Emanuel: China's basically found leverage; they're applying pressure, and they're doing it to soybean farmers. Our farmers have lost that market, are out a huge amount of money, and could see a lot of bankruptcies in the rural parts of the Midwest.

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Eric Badofsky @ebadofsky.bsky.social · 5h

“𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘸 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘺𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘰 #𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘮, 𝘕𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘴𝘮, 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮. 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦.”

– @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Cartoon: 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵, by @assignedmale.bsky.social

Four-panel cartoon by artist Sophie Labelle depicting an offscreen interviewer speaking with an older, gray-haired woman wearing round glasses, a salmon-colored overcoat, and a yellow headscarf.

Panel #1:

Reporter: MA'AM! WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE RADICAL LEFT FEARMONGERING THAT WE COULD SOMEDAY SEE FASCISM IN THE U.S.?

Woman: DEAR BOY, THE U.S. HAS BEEN A BLUEPRINT FOR FASCISM ALL ALONG.

Panel #2:

Woman (continues): HITLER SPECIFICALLY CITED JIM CROW, U.S. ANTI-MISCEGENATION AND WHITE-ONLY IMMIGRATION LAWS AS INSPIRATION FOR HIS EUGENICS POLICIES.

GERMANY SENT PEOPLE TO STUDY WHAT WAS BEING DONE IN THE U.S. TO EXPORT IT OVER THERE.

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Woman (continues): IN THE ‘30s TENS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS ATTENDED MASSIVE RALLIES BY FASCIST GROUPS SUCH AS THE ‘FRIENDS OF NEW GERMANY’ OR THE ‘GERMAN AMERICAN BUND.’

THEN IN THE ‘4Os, TWO DOZEN CONGRESSPEOPLE WERE CHARGED WITH SEDITION FOR PLANNING A FASCIST OVERTHROW OF THE GOVERNMENT.

Panel #4:

Woman (continues, dejectedly): AND SINCE WWII, THE AMOUNT OF FASCIST GROUPS AND MILITIAS HAS BEEN EXPONENTIAL.

NOT ONLY CAN FASCISM COME TO THE U.S., IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN INHERENT PART OF AMERICAN SOCIETY.

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Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 21h

SNL pays respects to Diane Keaton at the close of the show.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 5h

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

ICYMI — They lied about why they assaulted the WGN producer (then rammed a car for no reason)

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dbnewtondoors.bsky.social @dbnewtondoors.bsky.social · 7h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Kamala Harris: "Here in Chicago I'm told the helicopters that were descending on an American city were Black Hawks. Do you know what Black Hawks were designed to do? War. So I think everyone can draw their conclusions just based on the facts."

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Palmer Report @palmerreport.com · 5h

Trump is now so deep into dementia that he doesn’t remember who was President on the day he, as President, incited a domestic terrorist attack to try to remain President. He’s that far gone.

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 8h

Checking out my war-ravaged neighborhood here in SE Portland this morning. Everyone stay safe out there.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

Congratulations to all the runners today at the Chicago Marathon!

I hope you’re taking a moment after crossing the finish line and enjoying all that the best big city in the nation has to offer.

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Jill 💙🌊🌊💙 @pumpkin061.bsky.social · 1d

👇😡👇

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 10h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 8h

Remind me, who was the president who sat on his fat ass in the White House cheering this on during J6?

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dbnewtondoors.bsky.social @dbnewtondoors.bsky.social · 1d

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bmcarthur17 @bmcarthur17.bsky.social · 19h

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione claim he wasn't read his rights before he was questioned by law enforcement officers, and they failed to obtain a warrant before searching his backpack.

Delay. Deny. Depose.

#Resist

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Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 22h

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 7h

If journalistic malpractice was a crime, Kristen Welker would be serving a life sentence.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Lizzy For Democracy @lizzy2016.bsky.social · 1d

Flood the Zone with Truth and Facts...

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MoJoJuju @xoey1.bsky.social · 15h

Sooo Darn True.....😂

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yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 22h

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