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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 18h

He just said it. 100% unironically and unmistakably.

“We took the freedom of speech away.”

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 21h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 19h

You have got to be joking hahaha

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 1d

This is the result of Farage and Jenrick’s far-right, divisive rhetoric. Hard working, responsible people feeling afraid for their future.
Disgraceful.

Doncaster chippy owner 'scared for his children' after vandalism - BBC News

Poseidon's Fish Bar had the word "England" painted on its front, says Iraqi-born owner Darin Ahmed.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18h

Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 1d

The riots in Portland have really escalated. I saw protesters dressed as unicorns and teddy bears.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19h

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.”

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 18h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21h

Johnson: Miss Grijalva has not yet had a scheduled date because she was elected after the house was out of session,

Gallego: You don't want her to be on the Epstein discharge.

Johnson: You guys are experts at red herrings.

Gallego: This is an excuse

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

Given Kemi Badenoch has supposedly renounced Trussonomics, there’s an awful lot of multi-billion pound tax giveaways, predicated on *extremely* optimistic cuts and savings.

Almost as if she knows she’s never going to have to try to actually deliver any of this.

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Tampa Bay resister 🇺🇸🇨🇿🇨🇴🏴‍☠️⚡️🐶🎧 @depechemodefan101.bsky.social · 16h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 1d

The "Portland War Zone" made it to CNN. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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アンディ @andymarkle.com · 1d

As someone who was subjected to conversion therapy, it doesn’t work. It won’t work. It’s torture. I was hooked up to an IV and made to vomit watching gay porn for two hours per week. I was prayed over. Bibles and the Book of Mormon were shoved in my face.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 16h

Hard to watch images from war ravaged Portland where capybara, frogs, unicorns and pink dinosaurs are dancing in the middle of the night outside the ICE facility.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Soybean farmers, coffee importers, tea importers, banana importers — all facing an existential crisis because the president is surrounded by hostile hyper-morons

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Soybean Farmer: So now I've got a tariff war that's killing my market. I don't have any money from grain we're sending to other countries for USAID. I mean, I've got a compound problem. I don't know how you plan for next year because we don't know where we're at.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 18h

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

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Joseph Young @jayoung3292.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣

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