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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2h

The Best Way to Oppose Trump: #NoKings on Oct 18

A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 8h

The America I Knew Has Been Shattered By These #ABlueView🧵1/2

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2h

🧵2/3 Trump Invades America

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2h

Trump Invades America #ABlueView🧵1/3

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 8h

🧵2/2 On Oct 18th We Can Together Help Bring it Back

10 days till the MOST powerful way YOU can constrain Trump & his henchman at SCOTUS: The nationwide #NoKings rallies

Find one: #map.nokings.org/#map" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.nokings.org/#map & bring as many as you can, especially folks who have been hesitant before

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 8h

The America I Knew Has Been Shattered By These #ABlueView🧵1/2

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Invades America #ABlueView🧵1/3

#NoKings Oct 18
Find one near you: #map.nokings.org/#map" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.nokings.org/#map

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is a Socialist. MAGA are Welfare Queens. #ABlueView🧵1/3

During Trump 1, 92% of his China Tariff Revenue ($66B) was used as corporate welfare ($61B) to buy off farmers angry at their loss of sales: tinyurl.com/2xt7wn8k

And he's about to do it again.

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

This is false: www.reuters.com/fact-check/m...

Fact Check: Maine Governor Janet Mills did not threaten to stop paying federal taxes

The Democratic governor of Maine, Janet Mills, has not threatened to stop paying federal taxes if U.S. President Donald Trump stops federal funding for the state, contrary to online posts, a spokesperson for the governor said.

www.reuters.com

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

🧵3/3 The Opposition

A pivotal moment for the Nazis: They claimed a Feb '33 fire at the Parliament was set by Communists, that there were further plots, & they induced the president to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree suspending civil liberties. en.wikipedia.org/wik... #NoKings

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

🧵2/3 Trump Invades America

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Invades America #ABlueView🧵1/3

#NoKings Oct 18
Find one near you: #map.nokings.org/#map" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.nokings.org/#map

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

🧵3/3 Trump is a Socialist

Besides the Trump regime redistributing tarriff revenue to supporters, it is increasingly buying the "means of production" as he increasingly takes ownership of private, American companies. (Ok, maybe he's more of a State Capitalist than Socialist.)

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

🧵2/3 MAGA are Welfare Queens

GOP "lawmakers have estimated that, this time around, farmers could need as much as $50B in" support. www.nytimes.com/2025...

Why Trump loves 'em: tarriffs & corporate welfare empowers him by choosing winners & losers (and increases his bribes).

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is a Socialist. MAGA are Welfare Queens. #ABlueView🧵1/3

During Trump 1, 92% of his China Tariff Revenue ($66B) was used as corporate welfare ($61B) to buy off farmers angry at their loss of sales: tinyurl.com/2xt7wn8k

And he's about to do it again.

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2d

The Political Malpractice of Congressional Dems #ABlueView🧵1/3

It's good D's are finally willing to take political risk.

It's brain dead that their shutdown goal is to force Trump to take health insurance actions that'll make him & the R's more popular (and that most voters will forget they did).

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 1d

Great point!

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2d

🧵3/3 Congressional Dem Malpractice

Instead of a fight solely over health care, the D's should equally demand Trump's dictatorial (& inflationary) tariffs be revoked too; the combo is a much stronger argument for the moment the Country is in now:

A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 15d

Dem Strategy for Funding the Govt #ABlueView🧵1/3

Congressional Dems have set a goal of reversing the healthcare cuts in the #BigUglyBill to get their votes to keep the govt open later this month.

Dems' goal should instead be reversing Trump's tarriffs, for 3 key reasons.

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2d

🧵2/3 Congressional Dem Malpractice

“It was only days ago that Trump put every flag officer in the U.S. armed forces into a room & told them that he plans on using their soldiers against American citizens" tinyurl.com/4fwrfbp2

THIS (dictatorship) is what the shutdown should be about.

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2d

The Political Malpractice of Congressional Dems #ABlueView🧵1/3

It's good D's are finally willing to take political risk.

It's brain dead that their shutdown goal is to force Trump to take health insurance actions that'll make him & the R's more popular (and that most voters will forget they did).

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2d

🧵2/2 Please Don't Assume Someone Else Will Save You

And don't forget to bring a thousand of your closet friends to a No Kings event on Oct 18!

Find an event near you: #map.nokings.org/#map" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.nokings.org/#map

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2d

Please Don't Assume Someone Else Will Save You #ABlueView🧵1/2

Volunteer to knock on doors or make calls for a critical campaign (eg, CA, VA, & NJ): bsky.app/profile/mal...

Find all 2025 campaigns you can help: apnews.com/article/2...

Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 2d

You are my hero!

You see the peril in our country.

You know democracy is in danger.

You post about it daily.

The good news is that YOU can save us, and volunteering for elections is the most effective use of your time—far more effective than posting.

And Prop 50 is the most important race rn. 🧵

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2d

And don't forget to bring a thousand of your closet friends to a No Kings event on Oct 18!

Find one near you: www.nokings.org#map

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2d

🧵3/3 SCOTUS is Willfully Creating Massive, Irreversible Harm

Example: Their ruling that "All Latinos Are Now Always Subject to Arrest Wherever They May Be" (bsky.app/profile/abl...) inflicts a SCOTUS-created harm on citizens who can now be arrested simply for speaking Spanish.

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2d

🧵2/3 SCOTUS Breaks the Rules

By not ruling on the merits & rushing to reach "interim" decisions in the "shadows" that lopsidedly favor Trump, SCOTUS is violating the legal requirement to maintain a status quo that minimizes harm to the parties: tinyurl.com/2pcyph7s

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A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 @ablueview.bsky.social · 2d

Will Lower Courts Oppose SCOTUS' Rush to Bypass the Constitution? #ABlueView🧵1/3

Lower Courts arent happy: they reliably overturn Trump's unconstitutional ploys yet if he appeals, SCOTUS *rushes* to rule for him 10x more than they do the Constitution: tinyurl.com/5exh6zjn

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