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Alicia

@alicialou.bsky.social

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🐶Mom 🌈Ally Slava🇺🇦 🚫DM, porn, soliciting = BLOCK. It’s all just exhausting. “On the other side of the conflagration, There will still be love, There will still be beauty, And there will be on ocean of truth for us to swim in.” Pearl Cleage.

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The Weeknight on MSNBC @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social · 1d

The Weeknight host @michaelsteele.bsky.social slams Attorney General Pam Bondi as a “petulant political hack” for insulting Democrats during a Senate hearing and refusing to answer their questions.

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The Weeknight on MSNBC @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social · 12h

“Republicans are AWOL”: @welch.senate.gov, a member of the Senate Judiciary and Finance Committees, slams GOP absence during shutdown

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Marko Silberhand @markosilberhand.bsky.social · 1d

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Trump's fascism is unbearable !

Stay Strong Portland . . . we are with you !!

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 1d

Think Miller needs to send in a few more battalions. Maybe Hegseth can send some elite units. Things are getting dangerous in Portland

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 5h

Good morning, Pam Bondi ☕️💅🏽

Photo of a blonde female pathological liar wearing a dark suit to match her dark soul, with the words:
“Someone should tell Pam Bondi that while Nixon didn't go to prison, his Attorney General did.”

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 4h

If ANY other president had been caught DMing directives for the Attorney General to indict his political enemies it would have been game over.
Impeached. Removed.

But not Trump.
With Donald Trump, it’s just another fucking day ending in Y.

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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 12h

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 21h

🚨 This is protecting the American people. “Full force” is not defined by the military. More of this!

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H S Rivney, novelist @hsrivney.bsky.social · 10h

a man with white paint on his face is wearing a helmet with wires coming out of it

ALT: a man with white paint on his face is wearing a helmet with wires coming out of it

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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 12h

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 14h

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

“Have you given any more thought to suspending habeas corpus?”

TRUMP: “Suspending who?” 🤷🏼

Aaand scene.

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 15h

Marge only cares because she admitted this is going to hurt her adult children. Republicans NEVER care until something affects one of their own. Think Dick Cheney when his daughter came out as gay.

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😱Squeallium😱 @squillium.bsky.social · 16h

MTG with the reverse Fetterman

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Wow

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 16h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on extending ACA credits: It is hurting so many people... let's take off our Democrat jerseys, let's take off our Republican jerseys, and we should do something responsible for the American people and fix this.

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 23h

the problem with "things were always this bad" is that it is rhetoric that exists, specifically and exclusively, to deny the lived reality that Republicans Fucking Make Shit Worse, and it usually comes from a place of "both parties serve the same masters!!" performative, weaponised cynicism

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Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 23h

Last year, ICE agents weren’t covering their faces whilst shooting pepper balls at clergy.

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To aqui pra procrastinar @euperdendotempo.bsky.social · 23h

Last year venezuelan fishermen could just fish

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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 23h

last year our HHS secretary was not insane and believed in vaccines and wasn't declaring autism was caused by Tylenol

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23h

Last year the Secretary of Defense was a black general and now the Secretary of Defense is a washed up National Guard major who the military considered a white supremacist insider threat and said white supremacist is also an alcoholic accused of spousal abuse.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23h

I will grant that there were always bad things. I will grant that not dealing with the bad things allowed them to get worse. But I refuse to believe everything was always *this* bad, because I remember them being relatively better.

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Alicia @alicialou.bsky.social · 12h

Sickening.

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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 13h

This is the incident in Cicero, it appears, that @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social did an interview about.

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Jacob Soboroff speaks to people in Chicago suburb after ICE arrests 2 men at bakery

Two men were arrested by ICE while getting a cup of coffee at a bakery in a Chicago suburb. MSNBC Senior Political and National Correspondent Jacob Soboroff spoke with a woman who witnessed the arrest...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

In a very real and practical sense, the elimination of USAID occurred because a) civil servants who followed the law were pushed out, b) unaccountable amoral people were given power, and c) SCOTUS let it all happen.
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In addition to mass firing of public servants, Musk's team executed a takeover of the Treasury payment system. David Lebryk, the civil servant who was acting Treasury Secretary, pushed back against the Musk official, Tom Krause, who demanded control over the payment system and specifically to pause USAID payments. Lebryk informed Krause that Treasury could not legally stop payments, and recommended to work through USAID instead. Krause then threatened Lebryk: “I would also recommend you consider an equal alternative liability.” By the next week Lebryk announced his retirement, and Musk announced he was shutting down the agency.

It was later revealed that the other DOGE official who had sought to take control of Treasury spending, Marko Elez, was a self-avowed racist with a record of making disparaging remarks about foreigners, including “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.” After he resigned, Musk led a successful campaign to bring Elez back into government, even as he pushed out those doing actual life-saving work.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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