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Uppity Black Woman @uppityblackwoman.bsky.social · 1h

This is how you fight against this regime!

Use their revered USSCJ's words against them!

Let the lower courts grapple w/going against the USSCJ's words!

Let them explain how they were wrong in the past and how over turning their opinions now is correct!

Brilliant!

www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

Comey cites Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas in arguing against Halligan’s appointment

The former FBI director points to words of the high court’s GOP appointees in one of his motions to dismiss his indictment.

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lifelearn.bsky.social @lifelearn.bsky.social · 1m

Yes all with the approval of congress which yes payed for it because it’s the people’s house . Who’s paying now? Not the people. Money comes from selling the house for favors.
I will be there when we tear it down .
Stand up
Show up
Do your part

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Harry @harry.bsky.team · 50m

A note for sports: Bluesky’s engagement rate was x10 higher than X’s across a sampling of identical posts made on both platforms by @rapsheet.bsky.social (sharing with permission)

Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.

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lifelearn.bsky.social @lifelearn.bsky.social · 45m

The state and people need to step up. The fed isn’t going to help.
He and the republicans has torn down the protection that we all have been relying on.
This election cycle, know your candidate will work for you. Not just a company stooge that plays golf with the “ few” .
Stand up
Show up
Do

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Holy City Sinner @holycitysinner.com · 2h

Shutdown threatens South Carolina's environmental protections, local groups warn abcnews4.com/newsletter-d...

Shutdown threatens South Carolina's environmental protections, local groups warn

From the beachfront to the depths of the forest, South Carolina’s coast and beyond are known for their deep connection to the environment.But hundreds of miles

abcnews4.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5h

WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20h

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 5h

It’s book launch day for Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual For Keeping A Democracy, my first book. I hope you’ll read it or listen to it. a.co/d/43dbybC

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 6h

We got some Dem action. Reps Garcia & Sen. Blumenthal have opened an investigation into Kristi Noem & the ILLEGAL arrests of citizens.
FINALLY!!

NOW SOME “SHOCK & AWE” PLEASE.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 1h

Speaker Johnson must stop blocking the results of a free and fair election. We’re demanding he do his job and swear in Adelita Grijalva immediately.

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lifelearn.bsky.social @lifelearn.bsky.social · 55m

Truth

lifelearn.bsky.social @lifelearn.bsky.social · 55m

Shame the people there fell for the same greed that trump promised. Empty words . Empty promises, mindless acts that benefit the few.
They too can change their way . Think about it .
Stand up
Show up
Do your part.

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Rural Freedom Network @ruralfreedomnet.bsky.social · 18h

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 1h

Former FBI Director James Comey Moves to Slam Door on Trump’s Indictment

🔗 substack.com/@legalaf/not...

Former FBI Director James Comey Moves to Slam Door on Trump’s Indictment

Read the motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution below

substack.com

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1h

"Authoritarians strip you of your language. They try to convince you that what you know is not true and that what you say is not valid. We have to deny authoritarians their ability to demonize our language."

More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 3h

The man who wanted to kill Hakeem Jeffries used the same language as Mike Johnson.

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Nola Bob @nolabob.bsky.social · 21h

#KillerTunes
#MusicChallenge

Day 21: The Bed Woman (Else)

Elise Trouw - Radiohead Meets The Police mashup
(Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi and The Bed's Too Big Without You)

Elise Trouw - Radiohead Meets The Police (Live Loop Mashup)

YouTube video by Elise Trouw

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

Ted finally deleted this lie over 24 hours later. Only the 900th time he has posted a fake right-wing internet lie. You would think a US Senator would take a few minutes to make sure these things are legit, but we are talking about Ted Cruz.

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lifelearn.bsky.social @lifelearn.bsky.social · 1h

Send him , everyday , the montage of all the cities, Huston , Austin, Dallas…. Would be nice

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 12h

UK food inflation is being driven by climate change-induced extreme weather, driving up price of butter, milk, beef, chocolate & coffee

The price rises in those staples is contributing 40% of overall food inflation

Climate change is hitting peoples' pockets, right now

www.ft.com/content/ced8...

Five staples fuelling UK food inflation as climate risks rise, study finds

Findings challenge narrative that food price growth is being driven by higher taxes and wage costs

www.ft.com

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lifelearn.bsky.social @lifelearn.bsky.social · 1h

Folks ? Don’t you think it’s time to stand up and put the fossil fuel people in their place.
Vote for people who understand we’re at that point of no return. That all must do what they can to help turn the tide . Leadership isn’t .
Stand up
Show up
Do your part