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Mary J Berry

@56jaytee.bsky.social

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Retired Paralegal, researcher, political and historical documentaries; Main Stream Media is Corporate conservatives! Liberal/Democratic; love dogs #BlueCrew #Resist 🦋 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🚫DM! 🚫NO LISTS!! 🚫Bots/Trolls 🚫drug 🚫ask for cash$-bc I don’t have ANY$

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Mary J Berry @56jaytee.bsky.social · Jun 11

This👇🏼
NEVER FORGET!
NEVER FORGIVE!

𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑡ℎ ✨ @alluringnyc.bsky.social · Jun 9

Bear mace, stun guns, zip ties, the gallows to hang Mike Pence, firearms, a pipe bomb, flag poles to beat police officers who subsequently died from the beatings; more than 100 police officers suffered injuries, including cracked ribs, gouged eyes and shattered spinal disks.

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Mary J Berry @56jaytee.bsky.social · 15h

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We are winning in courts but DJT WH attack on voting and unconstitutional overreach is affecting many blue states -hang onto your vote please check your voter registration regularly to ensure your RIGHT to VOTE

DOJ Targets Blue States In Voter Roll Lawsuits ‘Driven by Partisanship’

Read more here.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Janine0826 @goldfish0826.bsky.social · 15h

Why do they want to hurt so many people? What are they going to gain from this? If I were a gov employee and they said no back pay who the hell wants the job anymore.they are rotton to the core and then some.

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Mary J Berry @56jaytee.bsky.social · 15h

I’m aware Trump is a putrid human and even describing him as human is misleading- he is the antithesis of human being -he is and always will
Be an animal w mob mentality…

Mary J Berry @56jaytee.bsky.social · 15h

Power-unlimited power and for Trump who has always been ‘cash poor’ having unlimited power over tax cash coming in is his idea of heaven-he’s stiffed small businesses, now he wants to withhold US employees $750,000- along w other monies allocated but not paid as yet by Trump WH AS they are required

Mary J Berry @56jaytee.bsky.social · 15h

'Have to play a different game': Scholar offers one simple way to beat Trump

www.alternet.org/how-to-defea...
Worth reading but we have known this for awhile

'Have to play a different game': Scholar offers one simple way to beat Trump

A professor of democracy and international affairs at Johns Hopkins University says there's a simple way to beat President Donald Trump, who, under the Constitution, is "trying to seize power he's not...

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Mary J Berry @56jaytee.bsky.social · 15h

'Don't see how they get out of this': Expert warns Supreme Court backed itself into corner

www.rawstory.com/supreme-cour...
Protest the SCOTUS RWNJ response to Trumps idiot ideas - another bunch that need to be repudiated and impeached

'Don't see how they get out of this': Expert warns Supreme Court backed itself into corner

The Supreme Court officially ended its three-month summer recess Monday in kicking off its 235th term, and legal experts are warning that the justices may end up folding to the Trump administration in...

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Mary J Berry @56jaytee.bsky.social · 15h

Leaked memo shows Trump plans to stiff 750k shutdown workers

www.rawstory.com/trump-267416...
Sorry TRUMP MAGA GOP
it will NEVER be okay to stiff public service employees -who make little enough as it is-and denying to pay them is criminal

Leaked memo shows Trump plans to stiff 750k shutdown workers

A leaked White House draft memo suggests that the Trump administration is actively considering stiffing as many as 750,000 federal workers and denying them compensation while furloughed amid the ongoi...

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Mary J Berry @56jaytee.bsky.social · 15h

George Conway warns 'mad at the world' aide has 'figured out how to push Trump's buttons'

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Trump Cabal are ALL CRAZY @gconway.bsky.social as you know very well! Thanks George for your insight

George Conway warns 'mad at the world' aide has 'figured out how to push Trump's buttons'

Conservative attorney George Conway, one of President Donald Trump's loudest critics since early in his first term, warned Monday that one person in the president's orbit may be steering him more than...

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Mary J Berry @56jaytee.bsky.social · 15h

'Home is now on fire': Jack Smith issues Trump warning in 'rare public appearance'

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Jack Smith had the smoking gun on preventing Trump from getting in the WH yet again- @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov
Democrats should have put Trump in jail-for 1/6

'Home is now on fire': Jack Smith issues Trump warning in 'rare public appearance'

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith issued a stark warning about Donald Trump in a "rare public appearance," according to a legal expert.Legal analyst Allison Gill, better known as Mueller, She Wrote, n...

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Mary J Berry @56jaytee.bsky.social · 15h

'Epstein bomb about to drop': Dem lawmaker claims House Republicans ready to abandon Trump

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More evidence that R’s are “unhappy” ready to vote on Epstein files and are now ready to
REPUDIATE Trump

'Epstein bomb about to drop': Dem lawmaker claims House Republicans ready to abandon Trump

Republican lawmakers in the House are ready to abandon Donald Trump because of the fallout over files related to convicted child abuser Jeffrey Epstein, according to one Dem in Congress.Rep. Eric Swal...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Imagine that.

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Mary J Berry @56jaytee.bsky.social · 16h

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This will likely be the beginning of the Republican Party voters repudiate Trump MAGA GOP Project 2025 policies

Opinion | Marjorie Taylor Greene's break from the GOP on the shutdown is significant

A MAGA firebrand is echoing the Democrats' strongest talking points against the GOP.

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Mary J Berry @56jaytee.bsky.social · 16h

He might not have a choice I just posted about that warning that he and MAGA R’s will be held accountable and would likely lose their seats in 2026 midterms the GOP will be the subject of many investigations

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t.

And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks.

Did I get that right?

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

No one in Canada will ever love you again — they know they’re living right above the madhouse.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Everything they are doing & saying right now is very obviously meant to clear the way for mass repressive violence.

Fact checking is not going to do shit.

Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit.

We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.

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Mary J Berry @56jaytee.bsky.social · 16h

@speakerjohn.bsky.social

Swear this Democratic candidate IN ASAP or fail to get your seat in coming midterm elections.. the GOP 🎉 will be over! and you along w other MAGA R’s will be held accountable by and for American citizens

nypapajoe.bsky.social @nypapajoe.bsky.social · 16h

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Rep. Dave Min @congressmin.bsky.social · 1d

It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours.

There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds.

Also, release the damn Epstein files already.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds reasonable 🤔.........

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

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