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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2h

The Pentagon has sidelined top military lawyers questioning the legality of new policies, including use of National Guard troops for immigration enforcement & mass firings of civilian staff. Army JAG Lt. Gen. Berger and Air Force JAG Lt. Gen. Plummer were both dismissed. - CNN

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/politics/pentagon-lawyers-sidelined-jags

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 1m

So are we really sending troops into Gaza. Please no.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 3m

Abortion rates will go up even more.

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 26m

“The Trump administration appears to have fired all but one person from the office that oversees the federal government’s family-planning initiatives, including teen pregnancy prevention programs and embryo donation efforts.”

HHS Appears to be Cutting Its Entire Family Planning Office

Almost every member of the Office of Population Affairs lost email access and is unable to tell if they were laid off, workers told NOTUS.

www.notus.org

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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 39m

Can't get over the MAGA Repub primal scream about Saturday's No Kings protests
From Congressional leadership to the Treasury Sec'ty
They're making a point of demonizing protesters into every available mic
They're really worried

Show up on Saturday
And raise your beautiful voice!

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 7m

Can’t really blame her since Dems have caved constantly like cowards in recent history.

But I’m heartened that there appears to be a backbone.

Every day Johnson refuses to swear in the Dem final Epstein vote also helps a lot.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 14h

Sounds weak.

milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 15h

Big tech has invested too heavily-they have to be all-in.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 18h

Alt World Cup

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20h

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 20h

Kinda hard to do that when the Repub Speaker won’t call the House back to work.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 20h

Cowardly fool. Get ready for more violations.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 20h

The really sad part are the Young Republican women who tolerate this shit. It’s funny when their token gets spent and they get sent to the kitchen.

milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 20h

Sorry to “those offended”, amazing. He’s not sorry at all, he loves this. He gets off to it, they all do, because they’ve never faced consequences.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 20h

They’ve never faced any consequences in their lives.

That’s part of the reason they’re like this.

And they never will. They’re rich and white. They can commit crimes, including rape, with impunity.

This is our society - Trump is the manifestation, not the cause.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 20h

Katherine Dee’s body, his choice.

milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 20h

They’ll get promoted.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 21h

This has a live feed. Stuff going down.

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Chicago News Bot @chicagonewsbot.bertshouse.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Massive law enforcement presence on Chicago's East Side | LIVE
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crash-massive-law-enforcement-presence-south-avenue-east-side-live/18005825/

Massive law enforcement presence on Chicago's East Side | LIVE

There is a massive law enforcement presence on Chicago's East Side early Tuesday afternoon.

abc7chicago.com

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 5d

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 5d

@warnock.senate.gov: "As a man of faith, here's something that I have noticed about evil... Evil always gets a little bit too impressed with itself. It's filled up with hubris. Evil always goes too far, and because it goes too far, it contains within itself the seed of its own destruction."

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 22h

My fave recent “discovery” is that Roman women’s hairstyles depicted in art were actually totally possible to do in antiquity, proven by modern stylists. Ask the ladies, gents.

My burning question is where is the temple of Isis in London.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 22h

I don’t think it will make much of a difference. A huge part of MAGA (30%) is anti-intellectual and isolationist. Realizing China is racing past the US in science will just give them an adrenaline rush of more hate. Another 30% don’t look up from their phone enough to even notice or care.

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milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 22h

This will backfire because now the media will cover it at least a little.

However, it will not backfire against him - Most of those non-MAGA friends and family cut him off a while ago.

I feel sorry for his kids.

milkweed.bsky.social @milkweed.bsky.social · 23h

“Table of points and authorities”

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