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plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 2d

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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 ...

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plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 2d

You can buy a raffle ticket and hope to win a home in another country, or you can work to fix this mess and make this country better.

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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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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

English man raffles house to Americans seeking ‘safe haven’ from Trump

‘A safe haven’: Buckinghamshire man invites Americans to enter house raffle

Man hopes liberal Americans looking to move from Donald Trump’s America will buy tickets

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plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 2d

History books may be written by these people unless more people take to the streets. #nokings 10/18!

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plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 4d

And everyone goes to work tomorrow and goes about their day.
#nokings

plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 5d

I’m here for the comments🥸

plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 7d

Gentle Reminder: Women are being fired from top military positions, losing their reproductive rights and hearing they shouldn’t be allowed to vote anymore.

plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 10d

“Listen, we want to take the subscription numbers down.”

plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 10d

plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 11d

Funny to anyone who regularly uses the N-word 😞

plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 11d

Saturday at Lincoln and Washington Boulevard defending the principles of Lincoln and Washington.
👬👭👬👫👭👬👫
#yeson50

plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 12d

He’ll get to day one on his third term in office

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14d

This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face.

democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Ranking Member Jamie Raskin
Prepared Remarks for the Judicial Conference
September 16, 2025
Thank you, Chief Justice Roberts, for the invitation.
Forgive my directness here but the times are serious, as you know, our time is short. I have just five minutes and don't want to trespass on Senator Cruz's time.
Sometimes these days I feel as if all the foundational principles are being trampled and lost.
Often, I hear my colleagues in the House, and these are fellow Democrats, get up to protest some Executive usurpation of legislative power and they begin their lament with the plaintive cry, "We are a coequal branch of government..."
And I always feel they have lost the argument right there just by repeating that fifth-grade dogma.
First of all, co-equal is not even a word. It's an embarrassing redundancy like "very unique" or
"irregardless.
"

But there's a reason all legislative power is vested in the Congress and there's a reason it's in Article I.
The Founders had a revolution against monarchy and its constant assaults on liberty. In America, the Framers determined, only the representatives of the people would have power to declare wars, pass budgets, impose taxes and tariffs, and so on. Article lis pages and pages of all the powers vested in Congress. Then you get to Article Il, which is tiny.
The key paragraph says a president shall be removed from office upon impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. If we are co-equal, why do we have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and permanently disqualify the president and he doesn't have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and disqualify us?
The core job of the president is plain: "To Take care that the laws are faithfully executed."
That's it. Not abused, not thwarted, not impounded, not redirected, but faithfully executed.
A lot of the cases entering the federal courts are variations on this theme.

Here's the remarkable thing: Americans have brought over 300 cases in federal district courts against the Administration so far for usurping legislative powers, defying federal laws, or violating the rights of the people. This summer, researchers found that plaintiffs were winning an astonishing 77% of the cases in the district courts. Moreover, they found that President Trump was losing about equally before Republican-appointed judges (72%) and Democratic-appointed judges (80%).
The numbers in the federal circuit courts of appeal are similar, with plaintiffs against the Administration winning overwhelmingly and again without a sharp partisan valence to the appeals courts' voting. A good example is the birthright citizenship case where four district court judges, two appointed by Republican presidents and two appointed by Democratic presidents, all struck down the President's purported negation of birthright citizenship. Then, on appeal, three circuit courts again all ruled against the Administration.
But everything is flipped when the cases come to the Supreme Court.

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plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 15d

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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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17d

Scottish teenager’s petition on single-use plastics wins support in parliament

Groundswell of support for ban propels campaign of Tabby Fletcher, 17, from her island home on Jura to Holyrood

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plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 17d

The climate-change hoax strikes again.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 17d

Bees, once buzzing in honey-producing Basra, hit by Iraq's water crisis reut.rs/4myL7lB

Bees, once buzzing in honey-producing Basra, hit by Iraq's water crisis

Bees once thrived among the date palms along the Shatt al-Arab, where Iraq's mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet, but drought has shrivelled the green trees and life in the apiaries that dot the riverbank is under threat.

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plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 18d

And he rambled on about the climate-change hoax and how we have clean coal available if anyone wants to buy it…please buy our clean coal🙏

plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 18d

Um, are you allowed to report on dinosaurs? Aren't they now a big no-no?

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plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 18d

It will hold hamburgers, upside-down bibles, a room where you can burn books, another where you can lock "them up," & another where you can pick the faraway country you want to send an immigrant to. Plus a convenient cash to Trmp-crypto exchange-for men only. Women are required to stay home forever.

plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 18d

A rambling mess. I feel for the translators and journalists who have to pay attention.

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plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 18d

This is a tsunami of criming. Find/start a protest, go weekly and bring friends. Here’s a big, nationwide one everyone should have in their calendars.
#nokings
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

plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 18d

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

plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 18d

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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