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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 5h

Benny Johnson is a well known plagiarist, grifter, & Christian nationalist who was being paid by Russia - to the tune of well over a $100,000 a month - to push Russian propaganda on the American people - the perfect bio for a MAGA influencer. We no longer have a Justice Department.👇

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snowmein.bsky.social @snowmein.bsky.social · 7h

So the buildings have rights but We the People have none.

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 14h

JB Pritzker: “Another thing that’s happened with very few people paying attention is they demanded our voter data. Not just ours in Illinois — every state’s voter data. Why? They won’t tell us why.”

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snowmein.bsky.social @snowmein.bsky.social · 9h

I think the difference will be that Trump has broken so many things they will have no alternative but to act boldly and they better be prepared on day 1.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 11h

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

trib.al

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snowmein.bsky.social @snowmein.bsky.social · 12h

Note how none of these folks believe securing the homeland includes We the People.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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snowmein.bsky.social @snowmein.bsky.social · 15h

Next he will deploy the Russian army to Chicago.

snowmein.bsky.social @snowmein.bsky.social · 15h

WTF?

snowmein.bsky.social @snowmein.bsky.social · 15h

I first encountered it in a college French class. I think it was selected as a commentary on the French professor’s career teaching Americans.

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snowmein.bsky.social @snowmein.bsky.social · 16h

***YOU***

snowmein.bsky.social @snowmein.bsky.social · 16h

CAN TOU HEAR HIM BISHOPS?!

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 1d

For the fourth time in eight days, Pope Leo has taken direct aim at Donald Trump's abuse of migrants in the United States.

In a new letter sent to Catholic Charities USA, he calls immigrants to the United States “witnesses of hope” and encourages Catholics to do all we can to welcome them.

Fourth Rebuke in Eight Days: Pope Leo Intensifies Clash with Trump Over Migrants

In his latest rebuke of Trumpism, Pope Leo praises immigrants as “agents of hope” and tells Catholics their faith is tested by how they welcome the stranger.

open.substack.com

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snowmein.bsky.social @snowmein.bsky.social · 1d

That’s quite a whopper.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

It’s hard to overstate how grotesque is the prosecution of Letitia James. I hope John Roberts—who unleashed this malignant, vengeful career criminal on our beloved country—is enjoying Trump’s utter abuse of power and trashing of justice and the rule of law.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 2d

You’ll never be able to convince me ripping an American citizen out of their Chicago apartment in the dead of night, zip tying their hands and refusing to let them call their lawyer is ‘America First’

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 1d

Trump is forcing the military to our cities, intimidating Americans and distracting troops from their core missions.

It's unconstitutional—we can't act like it's business as usual.

I'm blocking the NDAA until we secure a hearing to investigate this gross abuse of our military.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

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snowmein.bsky.social @snowmein.bsky.social · 1d

If only Bishop Barron could hear him.

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snowmein.bsky.social @snowmein.bsky.social · 1d

Funny your kid is too young to read a book about the Klan but not too young to see it act out in the school pick up zone.

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snowmein.bsky.social @snowmein.bsky.social · 1d

Funny how learning about an LGBTQ person is too confusing for young school children but seeing parents kidnapped is not.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

"Pope Leo made an urgent plea for the world to help immigrants in his first major document, which was released on Thursday and invoked one of the late Pope Francis' strongest criticisms of U.S. President Donald Trump's anti-immigration policies."

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

www.reuters.com

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snowmein.bsky.social @snowmein.bsky.social · 1d

It is defining itself as the secret police.

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