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PaulaEquine @paulaequine.bsky.social · 9h

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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PaulaEquine @paulaequine.bsky.social · 11h

Just a reminder that Mike Johnson is a freak

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other's Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson admitted that he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake in a resurfaced clip from 2022.

www.rollingstone.com

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PaulaEquine @paulaequine.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah. I can't defend that.

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PaulaEquine @paulaequine.bsky.social · 15h

She is adorable

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

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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PaulaEquine @paulaequine.bsky.social · 2d

Lawler is a weasel punk. Everything with these Republicans is performative theater.

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PaulaEquine @paulaequine.bsky.social · 2d

@ilikefugazi.bsky.social Checking in on the Chicagoland folks. Hope you're doing o.k.!

This is madness!

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PaulaEquine @paulaequine.bsky.social · 2d

I am embarrassed for Garland Hale Barr IV.

Next thing you know, cAndy Barr will be wiping Trump's ass to get a Trump Senate endorsement.

Maybe he can commission some toilet paper with Trump's face, too.

washingtonreporter.news/p/op-ed-rep-...

Op-Ed: Rep. Andy Barr: Why I’m leading legislation to put Trump on a new $250 bill

Rep. Andy Barr is one of President Trump’s staunchest defenders in Congress. Now he wants the president on America’s newest currency.

washingtonreporter.news

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PaulaEquine @paulaequine.bsky.social · 3d

EGOT material.

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PaulaEquine @paulaequine.bsky.social · 3d

What the Hell? Why on God's green earth is CBS interviewing Cheryl Hines? Did anyone ever interview the wife of the Health & Human Services Secretary in the past?

thehill.com/blogs/in-the...

Cheryl Hines: ‘Disappointing’ Kennedy family has split with RFK Jr.

Cheryl Hines says she finds Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s falling out with his relatives “disappointing,” speaking out against the public “atta…

thehill.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3d

Looking for one thing you can do right now to help protect the right to vote? It will only take a few minutes, and you can share it with all of your friends. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-thing-yo...

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote

The U.S.

joycevance.substack.com

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PaulaEquine @paulaequine.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations

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PaulaEquine @paulaequine.bsky.social · 3d

How he conducted this experiment is as funny as the topic itself.

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PaulaEquine @paulaequine.bsky.social · 3d

www.upworthy.com/cats-butthol...

6th grader's science experiment answers, 'Do cat buttholes touch every surface they sit on?'

A question no one knew they needed answered.

www.upworthy.com

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PaulaEquine @paulaequine.bsky.social · 3d

Give Loomis some privacy in the bathroom, please.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 4d

We have the Insurrection Act for a reason—

But it's not so a President with 34 felonies can ignore court orders and punish cities he doesn't like with military intimidation.

Especially not when the courts are telling him his claims of insurrection are "untethered to the facts."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump "We have an Insurrection Act for a reason. If I had to enact it, I'd to that ... if courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I'd do that."

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PaulaEquine @paulaequine.bsky.social · 3d

Ben Stiller's fascinating documentary about his parents and the shared landscape of our childhood; "Stiller and Meara: Nothing is Lost"; Anne Meara flashes back to 1936 in her essay, "Old Nuns."

thomasbeller.substack.com/p/stiller-an...

Stiller and Meara, and Old Nuns

Ben Stiller's fascinating documentary about his parents and the shared landscape of our childhood; Prose by Anne Meara, who flashes back to 1936 in her essay, "Old Nuns."

thomasbeller.substack.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 4d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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PaulaEquine @paulaequine.bsky.social · 4d

I am so very sorry @theasscat.bsky.social ! I hope Linus & Gisele meet up over the rainbow!

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 4d

I came here to chew gum and call out lies on Twitter... and I'm all out of gum.
(Photo @politicalpics)

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 4d

"For any nation to be successful, it cannot teach its children to hate themselves and to hate their country." -Stephen Miller

So teaching the truth about America's racist past makes children hate themselves & country?

History class must have traumatized this snowflake.🔥☕️😏

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 4d

In addition to whatever Durham told the 2nd most recent prosecutors, all the exculpatory evidence Durham gathered on this subject will have to be turned over to Comey in discovery
abcnews.go.com/US/special-c...

Ex-special counsel John Durham undercut case against James Comey in interview with prosecutors: Sources

John Durham, who investigated the Russia probe, told prosecutors probing James Comey that had been unable to uncover evidence supporting charges against him, sources say.

abcnews.go.com

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