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Albany Cheshire ❌👑 @albanycheshire.bsky.social · Jan 29

Making this my pinned post.

Just Security @justsecurity.org · Jan 29

NEW Public Resource

Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions

A catalogue compiling all the legal challenges facing the #TrumpAdministration’s executive orders and actions.

Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions

A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.

www.justsecurity.org

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 9h

Chicago tonight

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 9h

Alternative, also accurate headline could be: commander in chief of world’s largest military does not understand how a cell phone works

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 13h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13h

NEW: A copy of the arrangement with Eswatini that Mother Jones reviewed shows that the US has agreed to pay the only absolute monarchy in Africa $5.1 million to take in up to 160 ICE detainees.

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11h

I hope/pray this very flawed ‘deal’ from Trump that Hamas & Israel agreed to ends the genocide & famine & leads to a real ceasefire.

But my biggest fear is there is nothing and no one to stop Netanyahu from resuming the genocide once they get all the hostages back and Trump has his Nobel Prize.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 11h

The subtle implication that Trump v. U.S. has always been law and that a president's official acts weren't considered prosecutable when Smith started is disgustingly dishonest.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11h

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11h

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 13h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Ron Davis @ronpdavis.bsky.social · 14h

Congrats to Jonathan Choe on grifting his way into the room where the fascism happens.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 13h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Jun 16

Brandi Kruse is the Washington state version of Oregon's Rick Dancer. She's a former local TV news host turned stoker of reactionary rage (posing as a common sense moderate). Like Rick, the comments on her posts, most of which are demonstrably false, are filled with rageful white people.

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Albany Cheshire ❌👑 @albanycheshire.bsky.social · 14h

Things get more fashy by the day, but it is still legal to protest and protest we must.

#nokings #portorchard

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 14h

Notable about today’s WH roundtable on Antifa, IMO: not just one outside law enforcement/public safety official brought in for it. Bondi, Patel for administration, but no police chief, state Public Safety Secy, sheriff, etc. Just a dozen right-wing “journalists”. …

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h

Discount Goebbels: Don't call us fascist.

Also Discount Goebbels: Can I introduce you to my buddy who thinks the Nazis were the good guys?

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

"I'd love to do something about that" -- Trump floats the idea of stopping a planned protest in Austin

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

Looks like the MAGA grifters at the "antifa violence roundtable" are looking to get Trump to list DSA as a terror group as well.

Brandi Kruse: "They're basically the same thing. There's a lot of Democratic Socialists of America out there in black block hiding their faces."

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 17h

Real murderers row here.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 17h

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 17h

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Albany Cheshire ❌👑 @albanycheshire.bsky.social · 17h

She's awful.

She parades as a reporter, but she's clearly an activist.

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Albany Cheshire ❌👑 @albanycheshire.bsky.social · 17h

I hate that because she's in my neck of the woods she pops up into my Facebook feed with more regularity than I would like.

And then I have to restrain everything in me to not comment for her to stop being such a cunt to trans people.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 17h

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Albany Cheshire ❌👑 @albanycheshire.bsky.social · 17h

It appears that ICE showed up in Shelton, WA this morning.

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Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov · 19h

Ran into Speaker Johnson and told him exactly how I feel about Republicans shutting down the government to protect pedophiles and jack up health care costs for 24 million Americans.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 19h

i'm not sure how you can claim to cover things fairly and fully when you're using the bootleg name that is officially only a "secondary name" for the department

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 19h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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