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This Cat Lady 🌊💙❄ @2bpainfree.bsky.social · Dec 12

Shamelessly, borrowed this...

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Eric Sorensen @ericsorensen.bsky.social · 18h

Donald Trump started a war with the best big city in the nation. Thanks Fox News!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 17h

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an order making city property off-limits to ICE. As federal troops deploy to Chicago, this is a bold stand for accountability and human rights. No city should ever be turned into a battleground for political power.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 17h

What we learned today from the Bondi hearings; Tom Homan kept the $50,000 bribe and Donald Trump is in the Epstein files with half-naked women.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 17h

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 17h

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This Cat Lady 🌊💙❄ @2bpainfree.bsky.social · 13h

My drive home in rush hour traffic is scarier than that crowd.

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RescueJen @rescuejen.bsky.social · 16h

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 16h

Democrats should not hold another vote on anything until she is sworn in.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Grijalva: The frustration for me is that it seems as if Speaker Johnson is not willing to swear me in because our politics are a little different, or because I’m going to be the 218th signer—he can just continue to drag this along with no end in sight.

That is not a foundation of our democracy.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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This Cat Lady 🌊💙❄ @2bpainfree.bsky.social · 13h

1st the Republicans caused the problem.
2nd Republicans can't govern.
3rd yes the could use the the nuclear option in the senate but Republicans want the drama 🙄

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 16h

The Speaker of the House is refusing to swear in an elected official, leaving an entire district without representation, just to block a vote that would release files on the world’s most notorious pedophile, whom the President once called his best friend. Why isn’t this on every front page?!

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15h

This is so dark

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This Cat Lady 🌊💙❄ @2bpainfree.bsky.social · 14h

I'm all out of fucks to give. Anyone got a spare? No? Ok he can just sit and take his FO moment.

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FactsLover.bsky.social @factslover.bsky.social · 15h

We'll light up their phones tmrw!

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 18h

If Chicago wanted to make those Texas soldiers feel at home, they'd wait for a blizzard, then turn off all the power and go to Cancun for the weekend.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

CHATTANOOGA: several hundred @utchattanooga.bsky.social Students are marching to protest the removal of DEI and disbanding of several centers, as regressive new Republican laws take hold

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 22h

Here are the 10 states that will see the highest premium increases for families that lose tax credits if Republicans refuse to act.

West Virginia 387%
Wyoming 382%
Alaska 346%
Tennessee 320%
Mississippi 314%
Texas 289%
South Carolina 285%
Alabama 284%
South Dakota 235%
North Dakota 234%

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 19h

Chicagoans are calling it "Operation Butterfingers."

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 19h

This is so not normal. And so not right. And so unconstitutional. And if a Democratic president had the Governor of Illinois send IL national guard troops to Texas, @GregAbbott_TX would be having a meltdown.

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This Cat Lady 🌊💙❄ @2bpainfree.bsky.social · 16h

Best part is with government shutdown the farmers can't get bailed out no matter how much they beg for it. They are squarely in FO.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 19h

The question is is this a recession or a collapse?

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 19h

I forget-- who controls the White House, Senate, and House?

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This Cat Lady 🌊💙❄ @2bpainfree.bsky.social · 17h

The surveillance state begins. This will be used to round up dissenters.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

ICE will reportedly hire contractors to surveil social media platforms 24/7 to target people for deportations.

The information would then be funneled into an existing ICE database built by Palantir (founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel).

"The party of small government,” folks.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18h

Why even have congress? Also funding WIC is good

George Pearkes @peark.es · 20h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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