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M. Tullius Cicero 🇺🇦

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O tempora! O mores! Pro-democracy, anti-extremism. Former Midwesterner in New Mexico. Pro-Oxford comma, objective case, subjunctive mood.

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M. Tullius Cicero 🇺🇦 @tulliuscicero43.bsky.social · Mar 21

Important advice. 👇

Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · Mar 21

In the, apparently increasingly likely, event that someone doesn't receive their Social Security benefit I would recommend that your first stop not be trying to call SSA directly. Report it to your local Congressperson or Senator's office, using their website constituent services form if possible
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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · Mar 21

The most obvious thing about this is it is evil and sociopathic. But there’s another element: speaking as someone who has both prosecuted fraudsters and defended people very wrongfully accused of being fraudsters, it’s absolute bullshit.

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · Apr 4

If you know any international students in the United States, a colleague of mine made a flier to help students with finding an immigration lawyer. Please share and circulate among your networks:

I'm an international student! How do I find an immigration lawyer?

Where to look:
-Free: Check immigrationlawhelp.org and search by state.
-Paid: ALIA (the American Immigration Lawyers Association) and NIPNLG (the National Immigration Project) maintain directories of immigration attorneys.

What to prepare:
Bring any immigration documents you have (visas, letters from USCIS, etc.) to your first meeting with an attorney.

Avoid scams:
-Ask for proof that the provider is a licensed attorney or otherwise recognized or accredited by the Department of Justice
-Get a contract for legal services
-Never pay to access USCIS forms - they're free

Scan the code or visit https://linktr.ee/lawyerinfo for more resources + info

*this flyer is not legal advice*

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5m

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17m

it is not actually an accident that the fundamental principles of limited government were first articulated in fights over taxing and spending

finance is the sinew of war--and everything else too

www.youtube.com/watch?v=94M_...

Liberalism 101: Liberalism and Limited Government

YouTube video by Liberal Currents

www.youtube.com

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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 4m

How many people there are who are incapable of putting to their own consciences this question, "Do I want to know how the fact stands, or not?"

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2h

Marjorie Taylor Greene : "Prices have not come down at all. The job market is extremely difficult. Wages have not gone up. Health insurance premiums are going to go up. Homeowner's insurance goes up every year. Rent is going up. Young people have no hope of buying a home."

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 44m

OUR tax dollars are being used to bail out Argentina, OUR troops are being put on the ground in Israel & OUR soil is being used by Qatar for a military base of their own.
While OUR government is shutdown.
Anyone who believes OUR so-called “president” when he says he is “America first”, is an idiot.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7m

Clearly someone who grew up here, she has no accent; really want to know what was going on here. Looks like they were following her already at the start of the video. Why?

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 2h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 18m

His late night post came after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday became the first university in the country to reject White House proposals tying federal funding to a set of demands from the MAGA administration.

Republican Praises School For Turning Down Trump 'Bribe'

Renegade Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie applauded MIT for standing fast against the MAGA administration’s demands over federal funding.

trib.al

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

Music now.

Grim reminder: people held inside the detention center have reported it's impossible to hear much coming from outside.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

People here have been periodically begging local police to stop them, to "do something." One protester is crying.

Another caravan (including the ICE SUV) departs. Seeing more Border Patrol inside.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

In Broadview, IL this morning outside the Chicago area ICE detention center—

Just rolled up, immediately saw ISP/CCSO arresting a protester w/ a guitar (he appears to be in good spirits over it).

ICE vehicles have been coming and going, including a large bus driven by a masked agent seen earlier.

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 11m

“We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.”

― Diane Keaton

January 5, 1946 - October 11, 2025

May you Rest in Peace, sweet soul.

💔🕯️🕊️

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10m

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 4h

The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 3h

I understand the optics here but this is also literally why Charles met his end in Whitehall, either Article I means what it says or it doesn't and the Constitution is dissolved

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 3h

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 13m

This is a good account to check from time to time if you're interested in higher ed because there's crazy things happening at OSU these days. Check out the in-depth $5000 scholarship application OSU's conservative Chase Center has posted :)
chasecenter.osu.edu/undergraduat...

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 4h

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 28m

Tim Morello in 2012 on then REP Speaker: “Ryan has a rage against women, a rage against immigrants, a rage against workers, a rage against gays, a rage against the poor, a rage against the environment … only thing he’s not raging against is the privileged elite.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Wendy Siegelman @wendysiegelman.bsky.social · 30m

On Friday jurors handed up an award of $52 million against former Trump associate Felix Sater, who was found liable of laundering tens of millions of dollars allegedly stollen from the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan and BTA Bank

www.law.com/2025/10/10/e...

Ex-Trump Business Associate Found Liable for Money Laundering in Retrial | Law.com

Jurors handed up an award of $52 million against Felix Sater. That award is without interest factored in—a potentially significant addition since the acts took place more than a decade ago. The case w...

www.law.com

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 29m

Blunt headline on today's abbreviated pundit roundup from @demfromct.bsky.social.🤞 that this metaphor is correct and continues to be. (Interesting content, too, as always.) www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Mike Johnson leads Republicans off a cliff

Gabe Fleisher /Wake Up To Politics: The Shutdown Isn’t Going How I Expected Republicans are taking the blame, and some are starting to crack. In the same vein, I doubt anyone will remember ...

www.dailykos.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 30m

Please pitch in if you can to help make next Saturday the biggest day of protest in US history! We’re seeing a surge in RSVPs and we need to match that enthusiasm with the resources and support that our groups, hosts, and volunteers need: secure.actblue.com/donate/indiv...

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · Apr 7

Reminder:

All
People
Had
To
Do
Was
Fill
In
A
Little
Oval
Next
To
The
Smart
Black
Lady’s
Name.

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M. Tullius Cicero 🇺🇦 @tulliuscicero43.bsky.social · 30m

I remember going to an APA Central meeting (that’s American *Philosophical* Association for you psychologists out there) at the Palmer House back in the ‘90s and one of my colleagues brought a travel coffeemaker & blew out the power to an entire floor

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1h

Simple messaging I recommend you share and text friends, family, and neighbors.

These are the lines Democrats need to be using.

Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 1h

Trump went for a Covid shot and then set the CDC on fire.

If that ain’t that asshole in a nutshell.

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M. Tullius Cicero 🇺🇦 @tulliuscicero43.bsky.social · 38m

Same.