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Pam🫘🧶💙🏳️‍🌈 #NoKings🚫👑 @pmmcdaniel.bsky.social · Jun 13

Stop the abductions!

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Families Are Beautiful

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 4h

NEW: In federal court Thursday, some information about Texas’ secretive redistricting process started to come into focus as Republican leadership took the stand.

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

New Details Emerge in Federal Court About Texas’ Secretive Redistricting Map

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4h

Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com

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Pam🫘🧶💙🏳️‍🌈 #NoKings🚫👑 @pmmcdaniel.bsky.social · 4h

They are right now in the process of manufacturing the proof to support their currently unfounded claims.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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crazy1689.bsky.social @crazy1689.bsky.social · 4h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 5h

Spot-fucking-on. 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯👇

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 5h

Boom there it is!

untethered to the facts

no credible evidence

if that's a judge's view, no degree of deference should dictate the opposite result. This is a really important principle

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 10h

Perry: "I have seen no credible evidence that there is danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois."

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Pam🫘🧶💙🏳️‍🌈 #NoKings🚫👑 @pmmcdaniel.bsky.social · 5h

All Trump is accomplishing is making Letitia James a folk hero.

Palmer Report @palmerreport.com · 5h

Donald Trump's phony criminal case against Letitia James doesn't stand a chance

There is a myth out there that I’d like to dispel. That myth is that everyone does the right thing, that people are by and large strong and assertive, and when push comes to shove, they rarely or never back down in the face of political weaponization. This is a pleasant thought, but all it…

www.palmerreport.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

There’s a reason academics universally rejected the initial push to canonize Charlie Kirk as a saint devoted to free speech.

We know all too well that’s the exact opposite of reality.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 8h

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

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Pam🫘🧶💙🏳️‍🌈 #NoKings🚫👑 @pmmcdaniel.bsky.social · 5h

Normally the DOJ doesn’t bring cases they can’t win, but they really don’t care if they convict her. They just want to defame her & vindicate Trump. Their goal is retribution & intimidation & they hope to financially ruin her.

So they are fine with cherry picking evidence & even lying to indict.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

they can see the polling

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 14h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Pam🫘🧶💙🏳️‍🌈 #NoKings🚫👑 @pmmcdaniel.bsky.social · 5h

This certainly gives local police grounds for arresting them.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 20h

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14h

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

www.freefunder.com

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 6h

If anyone knows where this path leads ….

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

Spiegel on the criminal complaint against James: The US legal system has become a farce. When lackeys can file charges on the orders of their masters, no one can feel safe anymore. Then arbitrariness prevails. The end of the rule of law and freedom. And that affects everyone

US-Justizministerium klagt prominente Trump-Gegnerin Letitia James an

Die Vorwürfe lauten Bankbetrug und falsche Angaben: Das US-Justizministerium hat Anklage gegen Generalstaatsanwältin Letitia James erhoben. Die Widersacherin von Donald Trump reagierte mit einer Kampf...

www.spiegel.de

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6h

Oh god

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Pam🫘🧶💙🏳️‍🌈 #NoKings🚫👑 @pmmcdaniel.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING: A federal court has issued an order barring federal officers from using tear gas, pepper spray, or projectiles on protesters & journalists in the Broadview ICE Processing Center & wider Chicago region & requires that all officers clearly show which agency they work for on their uniforms.

Amanda Informed (@amandainformed)

BREAKING: A federal court has issued an order barring federal officers from using tear gas, pepper spray, or projectiles on protesters and journalists in and around the Broadview ICE Processing Center...

substack.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6h

(🧵) A key irony in what is now happening in Portland, Chicago, Los Angeles, Memphis, and D.C. is something I have not heard much discussed: in order to meet the high legal standard for deployment of federal troops, Trump must not only argue but establish by evidence that his agents are... incapable.

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Pam🫘🧶💙🏳️‍🌈 #NoKings🚫👑 @pmmcdaniel.bsky.social · 6h

They don’t check on the way out. You just go through Canadian customs. Just tell them first stop on vacation. No guns, no knives, no problem.

Border patrol didn’t stop him at the airport. Someone just canceled his tickets.

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 7h

Veteran voices are needed now more than ever in California, necesitamos tu voz.

On the ballot: Proposition 50, the “Election Rigging Response Act.” #Prop50 protects fair representation and defends our democracy against this administration’s attempts at election rigging.

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 14h

As it turns out, not only were we NOT overreacting, we were underreacting 🫠

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

All to cover up the Epstein files.

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