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The new US government BlueSky accounts, for your blocking convenience.
If you feel weird about blocking the accounts of the government of the United States of America (like I did) Just read some of their posts, and you won't be able to get thru the list fast enough.

bsky.app/profile/eva....
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Do yourself a favor and read through @jonseidel.bsky.social's entire 🧵on this morning's hearing. It's incredible to see the truth about Chicago acknowledged & the rule of law holding firm.

"Ellis also finds that the feds' use of force in Chicago "shocks the conscience."
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I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.
I remember watching John Rocker relief pitch back in the 1900's.
He would suffer under current rules meant to expedite the game because his between-pitch routine included spending about 45 seconds kind of slapping himself in his own face, presumably to psyche himself up to throw the next heater.
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Adding to the GOP's shit week Trump's tariffs are getting pummeled at SCOTUS today and there is a significant chance they are found illegal and unconstitutional in the coming days.

If that happens throws entire GOP agenda into absolute chaos, and Trump will be globally/domestically humiliated.
Rs got trounced last night because:
- the tariffs were a mistake
- gutting ACA/Medicaid was a mistake
- raising electricity prices was a mistake
- unleashing ICE on Americans is a mistake
- demolishing the East Wing was a mistake
- electing Trump was a HUGE mistake
bsky.app/profile/did:...
People are pissed, and we need to keep fighting.

My initial thoughts on the blue wave that swept across the country last night 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/in-a-blue-...
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Trump's mouth is visibly drooping as he stands on stage
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Is there ever, or will there ever be, a bunch of stories the day after a GOP win about how all the people they openly want to hurt are scared, or
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ICE isn’t going after the worst of the worst. This morning, they took a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district.

#ice #chicago
Old enough to remember when conservatives would tell us that the US is not the world's policeman
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I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.
“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”

Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Zohran Mamdani ran on freezing the rent in NYC.

Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.

Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.

Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
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"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week."

This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
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Trump is going to triple down on his authoritarian tactics after voters rejected his election rigging plans

Key point from @leahgreenberg.bsky.social: “They’re gonna try 5x harder to sabotage midterms after tonight & we’re gonna have to organize on literally historic scale to stop them”
Last night was huge rejection of Trump's plan to rig midterms:

-CA passes prop 50, giving Dems up to 5 new seats

-VA elects Dem gov & leg, boosting redistricting chances

-ME voters defeat voter suppression initiative

-Dems retain majority PA Supreme Court

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Voters soundly reject Trump's plot to rig the next election
On Tuesday, Democrats passed new congressional maps, defeated GOP attempts to make it harder to vote, and protected pro-democracy judges.
www.motherjones.com
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Again, these maps have got to be causing a massive panic in any state where they're considering gerrymandering.
“.. There were no counties or cities (as of writing) that moved right relative to four years ago. On average, they instead moved 13 points to the left.”

@pbump.com #Virginia
www.pbump.net/o/what-chang...
They've been extra-exemplary.
As in extralegal or extrajudicial
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v pleased Sotomayor just said this same damn thing at oral argument in the tariffs case like UM didn't we say in the student loans case??

DOJ said this is different bc there's a foreign emergency; Sotomayor said ok bet, so we say global warming is an emergency and then we can have loan forgiveness?
Every time I see Trump claim vast powers over economic policy that the Constitution does not give him, often only for the Supreme Court to step in and go 'seems legit,' I can't help but think about the Court carrying on as if canceling some student loan debt was shocking executive overreach
vox.com Vox @vox.com · Sep 16
In a trio of cases, two currently pending before the Supreme Court and one that is likely to land on the justices’ doorstep as soon as Tuesday, President Donald Trump claims new powers that, if he prevails, would give him near-total control over all US fiscal and monetary policy.
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If the administration thinks it has a compelling case to use military force against Venezuela, it should seek authorization from Congress as required by the Constitution.

Instead it is trying to convince senators to abdicate their constitutional responsibilities.

www.politico.com/live-updates...
Key Republicans waver ahead of war powers vote
The White House, in an apparent push to get Republicans on board, has increased efforts to brief lawmakers about its legal rationale for boat strikes in the Caribbean.
www.politico.com
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being scared of people who wouldn't care if you exist if you weren't trying to terrorize them shouldn't be a job
Matt Walsh has been crashing out for the last day and it's beautiful.
Now that there is no incentive to be poor, where will Texas billionaires find their labor force?
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The fact that this Democratic tsunami swept across the country so unstoppably shows that Trumpism & MAGA barely exist outside of social media anymore. Their movement has collapsed among the population — and it’s impossible to fill the real world with Trump government troll bots.
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And they're living it up with dancing girls at Mar-a-Lago and drinking bubbly at the new Café de Rose Garden and hitting companies up for Trump's opulent ballroom and squeezing a 747 from Qatar and selling watches and crypto and sneakers and otherwise making a mint.

It shouldn't be hard at all.