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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 11h

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 9h

ICE. IS. ALWAYS. LYING.

Bodycam footage shows ICE agent taunting Marimar Martinez before shooting her 5x in Chicago’s Brighton Park, contradicting federal claims that she drove toward officers.

The footage blows apart DHS’s fabricated story about the shooting.

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · May 21

🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did. 🚨🚨🚨

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10h

A practice that would have been unthinkable under past administrations is becoming normalized: Sending ICE detainees, without due process, to far-flung prisons.

@nlanard.bsky.social takes us inside the "legal black hole" in Eswatini, where Trump is sending 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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Congressman Wesley Bell @repwesleybellmo.bsky.social · 9h

Cordial reminder that Arizona Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva holds the final signature needed to release the Epstein files. Speaker Mike Johnson continues to delay her swearing-in—canceling House votes for the second consecutive week despite urgent legislative business—

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 5h

Nice to see Sen. Gallego and Kelly going to bat for Adelita Grijalva, as they and everyone else should be.
Speaker Johnson is stalling her swearing-in because her vote would help finally reveal the Epstein files.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Rev. Magdalen @revmagdalen.bsky.social · 5h

Wasn't "plenary power" also the argument that they used for why state legislatures should get to overturn the vote outcome in their states, back in Trump's 2020 coup attempt?

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6h

Oh this is not great

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6h

Oh this is not great

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6h

Senator Ruben Gallego calls Speaker Mike Johnson a "Pedo Protector" to his face for not swearing in Adelita Grijalva.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jun 26

Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!

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🦋 iPERSiST iRESiST iM @mama-gramma-bear.bsky.social · 6h

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

DMC ❌👑 @dcombes.bsky.social · 9h

Fairbanks, Alaska💥Democrat mayoral candidate defeats MAGA Republican incumbent mayor David Puhs. Republican held seat for almost a decade. Thank you Fairbanks for showing up. Congratulations Mindy O'Neall! Every seat matters. Let’s #GOTV🗳️
#Pinks

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Acta Non Verba 💙⚓️🌊 @actanonverbame.bsky.social · 6h

This is Antifa in action!

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gracepeace @gracepeace.bsky.social · 7h

They didn’t just “find” Trey hanging.
They beat him. They suffocated him. Then they hung him, like a message.
A message to every Black person who dares to speak, defend, exist.

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91 Alpha @joedferg.bsky.social · 7h

Ronald’s wife stole $10,000,000.

Amy Tidd @amytidd.bsky.social · 1d

A $10 million Medicaid settlement was quietly sent to the Hope Florida Foundation — a charity led by Casey DeSantis meant to help Floridians. But instead it was funneled into the coffers of a political com. to fight last year’s marijuana legalization effort.

floridapolitics.com/archives/759...

Subpoenas are flying over Hope Florida scandal with grand jury reportedly imminent

Hope Florida has been the subject of increasing scrutiny and lawmakers’ questions.

floridapolitics.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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Amy Tidd @amytidd.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Carl!

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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 9h

Jeffries: “Republicans acted with great urgency to swear in two right-wing members of congress to do in the American people… What is the delay with respect to Representative-elect. Grijalva? Anything to do with Republicans continuing effort to hide the Epstein files? Inquiring minds want to know.”

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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 21h

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📎 Leo Woke 🧷 @kerrlr.bsky.social · 2d

Goebles and Himmler would be impressed at this Manufactured Consent.
Unfortunately they got caught in their lie.
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 2d

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25d

We thought No Kings Day in June would be a good protest. We did not know it would break records, with 2,169 protests in every state and 27 countries.

We need your help to make October 18 even bigger: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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Kimmes @real-me.bsky.social · 12h

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Amy Tidd @amytidd.bsky.social · 1d

A $10 million Medicaid settlement was quietly sent to the Hope Florida Foundation — a charity led by Casey DeSantis meant to help Floridians. But instead it was funneled into the coffers of a political com. to fight last year’s marijuana legalization effort.

floridapolitics.com/archives/759...

Subpoenas are flying over Hope Florida scandal with grand jury reportedly imminent

Hope Florida has been the subject of increasing scrutiny and lawmakers’ questions.

floridapolitics.com

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Amy Tidd @amytidd.bsky.social · 12h

lol

🌮 Two Yutes @twoyutes.bsky.social · 13h

Abbott sent his Elite National Guard unit to Chicago. Be afraid Deep Dish Pizza, be very afraid.

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