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James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 15m

Accountability. All Democrats must bring it.

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optivix.bsky.social @optivix.bsky.social · 2h

The skit really reinforced the power and effectiveness of shameless stonewalling and did nothing to demonstrate how it directly attacks democracy and constitutional order. In fact it essentially made a joke of a very real threat.

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James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 2h

Yes well said.

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James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 2h

Exactly. This is what SNL seems incapable of understanding and therefore incapable of writing skits that actually work.

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James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 2h

Option #1: deploy agent provocateurs to foment violence at nonviolent protests.

Option #2: keep trying option #1

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James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 3h

SNL doesn’t get it. Their depictions of these criminals only normalizes them. There’s no edge to the parodies.

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James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 3h

It all began in 1980 under our first total bs president.

darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 6h

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James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 4h

“Repair its ties”?? I didn’t realize we had stopped paying Netanyahu to mass murder children. Oh wait. We never did. So maybe we should disrupt our ties with him before repairing them?

James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 6h

Ways of knowing

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16h

This Is Fascism

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James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 16h

They must go.

James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty quick fall from grace.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 1d

Who’s NOT “antifa?”
That’s the burning question.

James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 1d

And that there will be no investigation, that she can keep the money, tax-free, and that she will continue in her government job, and that anyone who questions these things is an "antifa" terrorist who should be arrested without due process.

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 1d

And that there will be no investigation, that she can keep the money, tax-free, and that she will continue in her government job, and that anyone who questions these things is an "antifa" terrorist who should be arrested without due process.

James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 2d

“Antifa” is his gang sign for anyone who opposes him

James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 2d

First they try bribery and then try extortion. It’s a criminal operation masquerading as a presidency.

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James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 2d

If you think the Epstein photos are damning you should see the Putin videotapes.

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James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 2d

The “Tr$mp Enterprises” administration operates the largest human trafficking network since the end of slavery.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

www.motherjones.com

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James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 2d

Important thread countering lies and disinfo being spread by Stephen Miller et al.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

There is nothing an authoritarian fears more than peaceful, organized people power. That’s why the White House is now turning its sights on us. 🧵

www.reuters.com

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James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 2d

Tyranny will lose.

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James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 2d

If SCOTUS overturns this ruling, it would mean the end of the USA.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Brilliantly damning.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 3d

Jimmy Kimmel returns with unfinished business over Trump’s birthday letter to Epstein

James McGowan @jamesmcgowan.bsky.social · 2d

Everything the Times publishes must be read between the lines. Take it from 3rd gen NYer and NYT reader.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3d

You’d think a decade into all of this, the NYT would have figured out how to stop lauding the arsonist for helping to extinguish the fire.

Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 3d

there was a ceasefire when trump came in. he let israel blow that up, let famine spread, let his goons murder starving people, before using the power he'd had since he took office. grotesque to call this peacemaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/trump-mideast-visit-israel-gaza.html

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

The simple truth is that Trump is a criminal. Now he and his accomplices are back in power, and they’re using that power to smear the honest agents and prosecutors who investigated them. www.thebulwark.com/p/bondi-host...

Bondi to Congress: 🖕

The attorney general came to the Hill to deliver a message to Democrats: Your ‘oversight’ couldn't matter to us less.

www.thebulwark.com

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