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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 7h

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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JabbaNoBadda @jabbanobadda.bsky.social · 3d

Hey Barton! I’ve been a fan of yours ever since your @theatlantic.com piece warning about how the GOP would try to steal the 2020 Election.

If I recall, in 2024 you participated in some “if Trump wins” role-playing exercises. Based on those, are things going better, worse, or about as you expected?

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly this whole thing has made me realize how valuable labor is because the United States Congress literally rather hand the keys of the entire government to a child rapist who tried to murder them rather than work Fridays.

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Rick of this Shit @sameastheold.bsky.social · 4d

Merrick Garland slow walked, so Pam Bondi could run.

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JabbaNoBadda @jabbanobadda.bsky.social · 5d

@ericlisann.bsky.social: While mainstream media eat up the MAGA spin that the Biden DOJ was targeting polit. enemies, what this story REALLY reveals is how inept & cowardly they were. It took 33 mos. after 1/6 for them to get friggin’ tolls records of key coup plotters!?
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Jack Smith investigation into January 6 obtained phone records of GOP lawmakers, Republicans say | CNN Politics

Senate Republicans announced Monday the FBI, as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 investigation, used court orders in 2023 to obtain the phone records of nine GOP lawmakers, a move the se...

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JabbaNoBadda @jabbanobadda.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe I’m missing something, but why doesn’t his table include a single government that’s been in power during the last 50 years?

JabbaNoBadda @jabbanobadda.bsky.social · 7d

The United States isn’t “even a Hungarian… regime” yet? I dunno. Some folks I respect think we’re getting pretty darn close.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8d

There has to be actual, physical punishment for a lot of these people. They're not going to be shamed into doing better and without the specter of suffering they will simply do the same again at the earliest opportunity.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8d

I said what I said.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 8d

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

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JabbaNoBadda @jabbanobadda.bsky.social · 9d

Amen! What’s so enraging & soul-crushing is that some of us were screaming at the top of our lungs ~4+ YEARS AGO that the window of opportunity for criminal accountability for Trump & the GOP was rapidly closing. Yet everyone told us, “be patient,” “you don’t know what Garland is doing,” etc.

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Rick of this Shit @sameastheold.bsky.social · 9d

So can we finally admit that it was the white collar criminals that were more dangerous to America all along?

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 9d

also like taking 3 years to indict the guy who did a coup live on television probably hurts the message. were you just incompetent or are you exaggerating the threat? there isn’t really good answer for why this grave threat is free at all, let alone allowed to run again

Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 9d

i’ve seen the “running on democracy didn’t work in 2024” line so many times the last 10 months and it is so emblematic of everything wrong with the dem party. abandoning something that fundamental because it didn’t work *one* time in one the weirdest elections this century

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9d

I asked Chris Murphy if he privately talks to Dem colleagues about why they don't sound the alarm loudly. His answers were depressing. Dems tell him they don't want to be "alarmist" or that "democracy" didn't work in 2024, so they want to stick to health care. 5/

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 10d

love to write articles that make people question their will to live

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Conspiratorial templates @mynamehear.bsky.social · 10d

I'll never forgive my fellow Americans for electing this utter piece of shit. They enabled an entire government full of the worst human beings imaginable and most Americans are too ignorant to even understand what they've done.

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JabbaNoBadda @jabbanobadda.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks for replying and reposting. It gets pretty dang deflating to watch post after post after post get almost no engagement.

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JabbaNoBadda @jabbanobadda.bsky.social · 10d

Did @jvl.bsky.social commission this survey?
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Mark Ebenhoch aka INGLORIOUS BASTARD @realmarkebenhoch.bsky.social · 10d

Extremely scary.

Millions of Americans support arresting president's critics and suspending Congress, survey suggests

A 2025 survey highlights a deep divide in American political attitudes, with a substantial minority prioritizing strong leadership over democratic processes. Researchers found one-third of adults woul...

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JabbaNoBadda @jabbanobadda.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve been saying for years that if the modern-day GOP had their way, they’d shred essent. every moral principle humanity has come to agree upon as we've evolved into a more "civilized" species. Yet they’re the ones who keep calling their perceived enemies “savages.”
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JabbaNoBadda @jabbanobadda.bsky.social · 12d

None of those men endorsed Biden in 2020 or Harris in 2024.

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JabbaNoBadda @jabbanobadda.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah, but one time Biden accidentally called Zelenskyy Putin. Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12d

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.

He said this out loud.

JabbaNoBadda @jabbanobadda.bsky.social · 12d

Why would we ever expect corporate “godzillas” — whose entire existence depends on making profits — to have the guts to defend democracy when a man of “sterling character & integrity” who had the sacred duty to uphold the rule of law & defend our democracy didn’t have the guts to lift a finger?

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JabbaNoBadda @jabbanobadda.bsky.social · 12d

Just want to be clear that I didn’t mean that YOU didn’t speak out. You were one of the very, very, very few former federal prosecutors who DID. I was referring to the literal thousands who didn’t, or, worse, repeatedly assured the American people that Garland was on the case.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 12d

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12d

“We are under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy, but worse—they don’t wear a uniform.”

This is the President of the United States, who ordered the entire leadership of our military to sit and listen to him, speaking a few minutes ago.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 12d

I still think it should have been all over when he said, “find 11,780 votes.”

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JabbaNoBadda @jabbanobadda.bsky.social · 12d

That’s been Trump’s public position ever since he started running in 2015. That’s why I’ve found it so difficult to forgive those who voted for him the first time and claimed to not have known what they were getting. This was all out in the open from the very beginning.
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JabbaNoBadda @jabbanobadda.bsky.social · 13d

If that’s true, what I’ll never understand is why so very few spoke out.

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