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Ann Slater 🍁

@annslater22.bsky.social

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"This business is everybody's business." Mom to two fully functioning adults. Empty nester. Falls A LOT. Safari expert. Lover of democracy. Believer in humanity. Delights in shenanigans. Quantum mechanics fan. OG Montrealer. 🇨🇦

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23h

Really looking forward to the @jasonleopold.bsky.social FOIA for the staffer's notes who put this together, DURING a shutdown.

Not least bc (as @whitehouse.senate.gov noted), the Reid Hoffman slur was false.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 23h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 8h

This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 7h

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.

If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com

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Ann Slater 🍁 @annslater22.bsky.social · 4h

Time will tell that some of these guys covering for Trump are going to be exposed as losers who loved being included in something, others will have been true psychopaths, and some of them just plain stupid, useful idiots. I'm still not sure where I'd put Johnson, but he's amongst them.

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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 5h

Be the reason they start searching bags for googly eyes at the entrance to your local zoo.

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Ann Slater 🍁 @annslater22.bsky.social · 4h

They may have scrub the files, sure. More than likely, they tried to turn a buck by using the files as blackmail, which explains some of the capitulation to Trump. But, there seem to be plenty of witnesses, and all you have to do is ask Lutnick, and he'll tell you everything, apparently.

Ann Slater 🍁 @annslater22.bsky.social · 5h

Somebody has seen the Epstein Files and knows when to jump ship. 🤔

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 5h

What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.

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Ann Slater 🍁 @annslater22.bsky.social · 9h

Ah. Explains Sen. Kennedy trying to quickly get on the release the Epstein Files train yesterday.

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Ann Slater 🍁 @annslater22.bsky.social · 20h

Josh Johnson is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. 💯

Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 20h

New set is out now Friends

MAGA Mega Mad over Bad Bunny Bowl

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This strikes me as pretty bad

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 21h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Ann Slater 🍁 @annslater22.bsky.social · 20h

Also, there is no merit to her accusation. It's pure deflection.

Ann Slater 🍁 @annslater22.bsky.social · 20h

I'm sorry, but this is going to bug me in an OCD kind of way. It was Bill Clinton who got on Loretta Lynch's plane.
Now I can sleep.

Ann Slater 🍁 @annslater22.bsky.social · 20h

He has a PhD in Economics from Oxford. His thesis was "The Dynamic Advantage of Competition."
One could say he was made for this moment.
Here's a link to the abstract.
www.proquest.com/docview/3014...

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 1d

Josh Hawley and Yale Law School, ladies and gentlemen.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

NYT: Some legal scholars dispute the legality of burning witches. Here is why the opinions are shifting.

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Ann Slater 🍁 @annslater22.bsky.social · 1d

Someone tell Johnson that Grijalve told me that she wants to be sworn in now.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Ann Slater 🍁 @annslater22.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how I missed that. I'm having a tough day with my family today, and I'm all discombobulated. I really like Carney. He's whip smart, too, and I just immediately reacted. I need to go lay down and turn off social media.

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Ann Slater 🍁 @annslater22.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly this. 👇👇👇👇👇

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

Ann Slater 🍁 @annslater22.bsky.social · 1d

100%
She has so many skeletons in her closet I'm surprised she's not wearing one.

Ann Slater 🍁 @annslater22.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you. Oh my God. That makes it hilarious now. 😂

Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not. You’ll notice Carney mentioned Azerbaijan & Armenia. That was a sideways reference if ever there was one.

See John Stewart’s hilarious bit on this.

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