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Tom Sullivan
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Morning guy at Digby's Hullabaloo since 2014. Author 'For The Win' guide: http://bit.ly/30oNLBT Bylines: @crooksandliars @HuffPost @BillMoyers Citizen-Times & more Trump once threatened to sue me: https://bit.ly/3EHUHhU
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 1d
Thank God the people working for Trump are evil morons and not evil geniuses
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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 19h
Trump’s War On You
Is that a laser dot on your back?
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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 10h
Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”
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Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago
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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 22h
A battle damage assessment in Trump 2.0's Cold Civil War against the U.S. Constitution and you.
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Trump’s pet psychopath “glitches” when he realizes he’s said too much in public about Trump’s plans for martial law.
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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 19h
#ShowMeYourHellhole
#Kimmel
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Chicago is doing just fine #ShowMeYourHellhole
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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 19h
#ShowMeYourHellhole
#Kimmel
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Nice Day for a Floating Concert on the Chicago River #ShowMeYourHellHole
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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 19h
#ShowMeYourHellhole
#Kimmel
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#ShowMeYourHellHole 
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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 19h
Trump’s War On You
Is that a laser dot on your back?
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 20h
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 22h
A battle damage assessment in Trump 2.0's Cold Civil War against the U.S. Constitution and you.
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Trump’s pet psychopath “glitches” when he realizes he’s said too much in public about Trump’s plans for martial law.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 3d
It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d
It's spreading from city to city -- L.A., D.C., now Chicago. Everyday Americans will NOT bend the knee to dictatorship
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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 2d
A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

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Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters
A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
Terrifying!
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d
#WarRavagedPortland
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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 2d
What kind of "professional" law enforcement operation is Kristi Noem running that tolerates "individual acts of brutality by federal officers ... too numerous to catalogue”? Are chokeslams part of ICE/DHS training? Is she recruiting agents from prison gangs?
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DHS agent chokeslams (and hospitalizes) protester.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 2d
AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d
I'm on the record saying that Russ Vought will do things during the shutdown that will make his illegal rescissions visible in the way they otherwise weren't. And boy howdy, threatening to ignore the law on backpay is a great example. [corrected]
Shaheen, a retiring Dem Rs are looking to flip on shutdown, says of OMB threats on back pay: “It would be a lot easier to resolve the situation if Russ Vought would stop talking.”
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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 2d
Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

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Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied. "Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."
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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 2d
Kristi's made her entire department an anti-American laughingstock.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d
Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.
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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 2d
The 36th Illinois fought at Chickamauga and Atlanta; the 46th Illinois fought in the Battle of Shiloh; the 82nd Illinois fought at Gettysburg. I'm sure Greg Abbott wouldn't mind Illinois sending a few good men to liberate Dallas-Fort Worth.
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Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois, as Gov. Pritzker calls for end of Trump administration's 'authoritarian march'
Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois, as Gov. Pritzker calls for end of Trump administration's 'authoritarian march'
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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 2d
What kind of "professional" law enforcement operation is Kristi Noem running that tolerates "individual acts of brutality by federal officers ... too numerous to catalogue”? Are chokeslams part of ICE/DHS training? Is she recruiting agents from prison gangs?
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DHS agent chokeslams (and hospitalizes) protester.
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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 2d
The GOP is just as careful about running the country.
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Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America
A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland
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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 2d
"Were California to secede, almost 15 percent of America’s GDP would go with it." CA might not do that, but should the 15 blue trifecta states divest from red trifecta states, their "state investments ... total almost 75 percent more than the 23 red trifectas."
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It’s time for soft secession
How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.
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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 3d
Donald Trump is a career criminal, a convicted criminal. He's accepted billions in obvious bribes. He's ordered the military to murder people in small boats in international waters. He's defying the courts. And he's desperate to paint opponents as the real criminals.
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Accelerationists Accelerating - Digby's Hullabaloo
Breaking rules and breaking down barriers "The main scene of crime in Washington, D.C. is the White House," argues Marcy Wheeler in a new video. Donald Trump, JD Vance, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Kash Patel, and Pam Bondi are working hard to paint Trump opponents as violent terrorists. In part, to distract from the crimes the Trump administration is committing,…
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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 3d
Courts draw the line. Trump steps over it. They draw another line,. He steps over that. With this lawless administration, court orders enjoining Trump’s illegal behaviors amount to no more than double-dog dares.

Ready for a general strike yet?
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PORTLAND FROG is Back after being “Pepper Sprayed In the Vent”
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