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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 53m

Democracy died. Fascism is here. Legal residents of the United States sent to foreign prisons without due process. Students detained after voicing their opinions. Federal judges threatened with impeachment for ruling against trumps priorities.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 55m

As a nation, we stand on the decks of Titanic. Aware we’ve hit an iceberg. That we’re taking in water at a pace that leads to inevitable disaster. That survival requires immediate action. Yet as I scan the throngs of people seeking direction, a voice of hope, a leader. To my surprise, there are none

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 1h

Trump’s budget hands billions in tax cuts to the ultra-rich—while cutting Medicaid, food assistance, and education for working families.

This isn’t just policy. It’s values on display.

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trumps-bud...

Trump’s Budget: Tax Cuts for the Rich, Cuts for Everyone Else

A $7 Trillion Plan That Slashes Food Aid, Medicaid, and Education While Rewarding the Top 1%

adamkinzinger.substack.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 1h

Trump’s budget hands billions in tax cuts to the ultra-rich—while cutting Medicaid, food assistance, and education for working families.

This isn’t just policy. It’s values are on display.

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trumps-bud...

Trump’s Budget: Tax Cuts for the Rich, Cuts for Everyone Else

A $7 Trillion Plan That Slashes Food Aid, Medicaid, and Education While Rewarding the Top 1%

adamkinzinger.substack.com

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 1h

John Roberts Defies the Supreme Court. He is proving to be a loyal soldier in Trumpy's Army of War. I guess in-Justice Roberts being paid untold millions in crypto retirement money is being rewarded bigly.
newrepublic.com/article/2001... via
@newrepublic

John Roberts Defies the Supreme Court

If the chief justice was once a judicial institutionalist, he has become all too eager to cast norms and precedent aside in matters that benefit Trump.

newrepublic.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 3h

As his administration imposes sweeping tariffs across the world, Trump argues that the import taxes will make America "great" and "rich," making the country once again the "most respected country anywhere in the world," while ushering in a "golden age."
IT'S BULLSHIT.
www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

As Trump's tariffs take shape, is America really winning?

The president says his tariffs will spur America into a "golden age," but that remains far from certain. Here are five things about how his trade policies could impact the U.S. and global economies.

www.npr.org

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 3h

The chief justice of the US has painted himself as a modern institutionalist over the past 20 years. Experts say he’s emboldening Trump’s drive toward authoritarianism. He is destroying our country.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America

The chief justice of the US has painted himself as a modern institutionalist over the past 20 years. Experts say he’s emboldening Trump’s drive toward authoritarianism

www.theguardian.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 3h

Venezuela’s Maria Corina; this year’s winner that it has “honoured brave women and men who have stood up to repression, who have carried the hope of freedom in prison, on the streets and in public squares, and who have shown by their actions that peaceful resistance can change the world”.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 3h

Project 2026: Trump’s Plan to Rig the Next Election
From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favor.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election

From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favo...

www.motherjones.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 4h

Congratulations Maureen!!
Well deserved
You're the best 💛💛💛

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 5h

They aren't Christians. they are Nationalist. Trump is their God.
They dont know who Jesus is.

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 5h

Nationalism is a form of religious extremism that focuses on promoting the views of its followers in order to achieve prominence or dominance in political, cultural, and social life. Nationalists seek to preserve the status of a Christian state. Christian nationalism overlaps with white supremacy.

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you Judith 💛🧡🩷❤️
I appreciate you including me.
Happy Friday
LIfe is precious...all life.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 11h

We didn't, 77 million morons did.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 12h

Like Hitler, Trump spews hatred, fear, and disinformation—promising revenge & retribution. He seeks to terminate the U.S. Constitution, corrupt the DOJ to indict any/all opponents, throw people in jail who disagree with him, and shut down all fact-based journalism—ending democracy & the rule of law.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 12h

It is important to emphasize that enforced disappearance is a violation of international human rights law and US legal challenges are being pursued against such practices.
Trump is doing it anyway.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

ICE may deport migrants to countries they aren't from with just six hours' notice

Immigration officials may deport migrants to countries other than their own with as little as six hours' notice, Trump administration memo says.

www.usatoday.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 12h

Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or communism. Our advantage is that we learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 12h

Hey Lauren,
Thank you for including me
Happy Thursday to you.🩵🩵🩵

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 13h

We have NO KINGS in
The United States of America 🇺🇸

Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 14h

No question whatsoever.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 14h

Absofuckinglutely

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 14h

Project 2025 Would Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and Balances and Create an Imperial Presidency
Far-right extremists giving presidents almost unlimited power to implement policies that will hurt everyday Americans and strip them of fundamental rights.
www.americanprogress.org/article/proj...

Project 2025 Would Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and Balances and Create an Imperial Presidency

Far-right extremists have a plan to shatter democracy’s guardrails, giving presidents almost unlimited power to implement policies that will hurt everyday Americans and strip them of fundamental right...

www.americanprogress.org

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 14h

that, far from holding them to account, their supervisors — and even agency heads — endorse their systemic criminality.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 14h

The audacious lawlessness of these federal “immigration enforcement” officers has reached the point that they now feel free to assault elected officials who have the temerity to call out their illegal acts. Plainly, these masked thugs are acting with full confidence

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 14h

Alex Karp Insists Palantir Doesn’t Spy on Americans. Here’s What He’s Not Saying.
Documents from Edward Snowden published by The Intercept in 2017 show the NSA’s use of Palantir technology. He's llying
theintercept.com/2025/09/12/p...

Alex Karp Insists Palantir Doesn’t Spy on Americans. Here’s What He’s Not Saying.

Documents from Edward Snowden published by The Intercept in 2017 show the NSA’s use of Palantir technology.

theintercept.com

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