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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 13h

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Notorious SA G @mac11187.bsky.social · 3d

When the military is being used against civilians, the moral imperative to "support the troops" is lost.

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Don Kronenberger @donkronenberger.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t cave. It would be malpractice for Democrats to bail out the corrupt, unlawful GOP for ACA alone. Dems should negotiate that separately. GOP will be desperate for it. No CR without enforceable guarantees GOP‘s law breaking stops, including Grijalva seating and Epstein. Filibuster be damned.

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Chimamma69 @chimamma3.bsky.social · 3d

Start publicly calling for the 25th like some of the governors have.

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U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen @shaheen.senate.gov · 4d

If my Republican colleagues fail to work with us, 267,000 veterans will lose their health care, according to a new report from the Urban Institute.

These are Americans who put their lives on the line for our nation, who will be priced out of health care if Congress doesn’t act.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 3d

In addition to kicking 250,000+ Veterans off their health coverage, don't forget:

Trump fired more Veterans than any other President and is hellbent on firing thousands of VA workers as well.

He doesn't care about Veterans or middle-class families.

He only cares about himself.

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen @shaheen.senate.gov · 4d

If my Republican colleagues fail to work with us, 267,000 veterans will lose their health care, according to a new report from the Urban Institute.

These are Americans who put their lives on the line for our nation, who will be priced out of health care if Congress doesn’t act.

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Jeffrey Brown @texasgeologist.bsky.social · 2d

The Atlantic: The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here
The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.
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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social · 3d

THIS IS THE KEY MOVE👇🏼

Dems must fight

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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social · 3d

this is the ball game right here👇🏼

once taney-roberts SCROTUS invalidates VRA👇🏼

jim crow gop gets 40-seat House gerrymander👇🏼

D’s must prep to fight now

Blue states must w/hold fed $’s til gop obeys constitution

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 2d

I tweeted this in 2017. I don’t understand the lack of mobilization to stop it, given the years of warnings.

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Amanda Delcambre @amandadelc.bsky.social · 3d

To anyone saying we’re being an alarmist, the alarm is sounding. We’re done hitting snooze. It’s time to wake up and the reality is we are not the same country anymore.

The greatest threat to the American experience is the American president. Let that sink in!

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 3d

You’re absolutely right

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d

I know this sounds extreme. It is.

I know I sound overly alarmist. I don't think I am.

Trump is enacting a well thought out plan so he and his allies can rule forever.

But it's not too late to stop them. We can peacefully and forcefully mobilize now. We have the power.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d

Step 5 of the plan:

Rig the rules and the information. Tilt the election playing field your way and destroy the idea of truth.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d

Step 4 of the plan:

Seize control of Congress's spending and tax powers to use those powers to reward loyalists and punish opponents.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d

Step 3 of the plan:

Use the military to perform political intimidation in places with high levels of opposition to the regime.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d

Step 2 of the plan:

Use government power to compel the media to tell only the regime's narrative and to silence critics.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d

Step 1 of the plan:

Turn the justice system into a political witch hunt operation that punishes critics for free speech and immunizes loyalists for actual criminality.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Obregonia Jones @obregonia.bsky.social · 3d

Just in the last 18 months The Washington Post has become an effectively useless, corrupt, and racist media organization. The decline had started before the current administration, but it became turbocharged in January. It is moribund.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d

2/ rightly say, it's the worst crime that can be committed in a democratic republic. One either agrees to look squarely at that or one doesn't, and everything falls out from that choice.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d

This is the essential thing that all the bothsidesing turns on. It's pounding the table of proceduralism so hard you hope people will ignore the facts - Trump ran a conspiracy to overturn the results of a election and thus the constitutional order itself. That's not just something bad, as you ...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d

I guess I should also add that a key difference between the Trump investigation and the Comey indictment is that *Trump did something obviously and significantly wrong*. Like, if you can't grok that distinction as important, I don't know what to say.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d

If you’d like a more realistic assessment; I wrote about it today. www.pbump.net/o/dethawing-...

Thawing out ‘Arctic Frost’ and the new Biden-was-worse argument

A recent American presidency, you may be alarmed to hear, engaged in an action that was "arguably worse than Watergate" — an event still positioned in some circles as the gold-standard of presidential...

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 18h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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monstrumhorrendum.bsky.social @monstrumhorrendum.bsky.social · 2d

I don't, but JD and others in Trump&Co crime cyndicate got Acre Trader, AppHarvest and then some to buy up farms and resell to foreign investors or whomever they wish.
TrumpReich is the Oligarchy that leaves even the Russian oligarchy in the dust.

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