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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 6h

Chappell Roan af her show in LA last night: “Fuck ICE forever”

Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker: “Another thing that’s happened with very few people paying attention is they demanded our voter data. Not just ours in Illinois — every state’s voter data. Why? They won’t tell us why.”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 1d

Jimmy Kimmel plays a montage of Donald Trump pathetically begging for a Nobel Peace Prize. Sorry Donnie, maybe next year! 🤣🤣

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 2d

Dolly Parton on supporting the LGBTQ community: “We are all God’s children. We are who we are and we should be allowed to be who we are. If you’re the fine Christian that you think you are, why are you judging people? If you’re gay, you’re gay. If you’re straight, you’re straight.”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 3d

Jimmy Kimmel put together an amazing compilation of Donald Trump saying all the words from the birthday letter he wrote to his best friend Jeffrey Epstein

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 2d

Actor Jeff Bridges as The Dude: “ICE? Let’s get ICE off our streets and into our beverages man. This aggression will not stand. Let’s just abide, together. Now that’s just like, my opinion”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 3d

JB Pritzker on Donald Trump: “He’s demented, literally. Unhinged. This is somebody who’s so insecure that he lashes out pretending that he can come arrest people for no reason at all. He can’t, he isn’t gonna do it. TACO. Trump Always Chickens Out.”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 3d

Rosie O’Donnell on Donald Trump: “He’s a liar and a fraud and a fake. I try to shame him for who he is and what he is with facts. And that’s what makes him so crazy. He’s been threatening for 20 years to sue me. You can’t sue someone who tells the truth about you”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 3d

Jimmy Kimmel put together an amazing compilation of Donald Trump saying all the words from the birthday letter he wrote to his best friend Jeffrey Epstein

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 4d

JB Pritzker: “Whenever the president talks about somebody critically, it’s often projection about what he himself is insecure about. Each of the things he said about me, they’re all true about him. I can take it. I am not afraid of this president.”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 4d

JB Pritzker: “Whenever the president talks about somebody critically, it’s often projection about what he himself is insecure about. Each of the things he said about me, they’re all true about him. I can take it. I am not afraid of this president.”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 4d

Pramila Jayapal: “They don’t want to talk about healthcare. And if they do talk about healthcare they want you to blame immigrants instead of the billionaires. It’s not the immigrants who slashed your Medicaid, it’s the billionaires.”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 5d

JB Pritzker: “What we’re talking about is authoritarianism. In the early days of the Nazi regime they started slowly but surely taking away people’s rights and what we’re seeing now is the very same thing”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Fonda: “No president has ever sent troops into the Democratic cities across the country saying full force. He is amassing power in a way that will destroy our democracy.“

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 6d

Jasmine Crockett: “Stop believing the lies they are putting out there. The only person that is harming you right now is the old white nepo baby that is sitting in the White House that is causing all the destruction, pain, and problems you are enduring”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 5d

Tammy Duckworth: “We know the Trump administration lies consistently. For the large part people are being very respectful, but ICE is being very aggressive. They are using Gestapo tactics in Chicago and this is what Trump wants to do. He wants to intimidate the people of Chicago.”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 5d

Mark Kelly: “The Federal law is that undocumented individuals do not have access to Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, even the Affordable Care Act. That’s the law. So this is a red herring from my Republican colleagues. They don’t want to help folks out”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Fonda: “No president has ever sent troops into the Democratic cities across the country saying full force. He is amassing power in a way that will destroy our democracy.“

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 6d

Jasmine Crockett: “Stop believing the lies they are putting out there. The only person that is harming you right now is the old white nepo baby that is sitting in the White House that is causing all the destruction, pain, and problems you are enduring”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 7d

Mark Kelly: “lf you are undocumented in our country, you cannot get healthcare from the Affordable Care Act exchange. You are not eligible for Medicare. You are not eligible for Medicaid. They’re just making that up. They just like to blame brown people.”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 7d

Actor Richard Gere on Benjamin Netanyahu: “He has to go. This is not someone who can change. He has to go. And all the enablers in the coalition that he has together, they all have to go”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 7d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Donald Trump: “He is unstable in every way possible. Unhinged and unhealthy. The idea of describing the American people as enemies from within is clearly not just a sign of authoritarianism, he has totally imbibied the full spirit of tyranny”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 7d

Mark Kelly: “lf you are undocumented in our country, you cannot get healthcare from the Affordable Care Act exchange. You are not eligible for Medicare. You are not eligible for Medicaid. They’re just making that up. They just like to blame brown people.”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 7d

JB Pritzker: “Trump’s treasonous words are leading to treasonous actions. Pushing back at authoritarian regimes starts with a resistance that can effectively ridicule the opposition and look into the camera and say this guy is full of shit”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 7d

AOC: “What we are seeing right now is that Republicans are desperate. They have shut down the government. They are getting walloped in these negotiations because they have no plan for people and we are here to ensure every American has expanded and protected healthcare”

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