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AD @aquahawk53.bsky.social · 12h

"Antidi" sounds pretty good. Sounds like something an Ewok would say, when you say it out loud. But definitely "Anti-dictator".

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

Pritzker: “This is a convicted felon…who is threatening to jail me. This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump: If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Gov. Pritzker after Trump calls for him to be jailed: “I will not back down… what else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Terrifying!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

#WarRavagedPortland

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

CHICAGO Mayor Brandon Johnson on Trump calling for him to be jailed: “This president is unstable, unhinged, a threat to our democracy.”

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AD @aquahawk53.bsky.social · 14h

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"Tin soldiers and Trump is coming.."

Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Music And Song Courtesy:Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)

YouTube video by peaceandfreedom2011

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"Making the rigged election claim to the military now, retroactively, is a half-step. By stating it as fact and forcing the general staff to accept it, he is laying the predicate to make such a claim directly to the military in the future." www.thebulwark.com/p/legal-orde...

“Legal Orders” and Trump’s Military

Authoritarians don’t take power by openly flouting the law. They look for pretexts and legal theories.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

282 Ex DOJ officials open letter: “We believe it’s our duty to sound the alarm about this administration’s degradation of DoJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it”

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

Wow! Trump just threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to block court rulings against him.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

HOLY SH*T.

There it is.

Trump says he will speak to the DOJ about giving Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

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AD @aquahawk53.bsky.social · 2d

The Harvest moon. 🦇🐺🧛‍♂️

Galaxy S24, Night mode.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

Pritzker: “The Trump administration is following a playbook: Cause chaos, create fear and confusion, make it seem that peaceful protesters are a mob by firing gas pellets and tear gas canisters at them. Why? To create the pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Trump: “We have an insurrection act for a reason”

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

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“There’s a baby!” ICE agents stop Alamosa family at gunpoint, smash car window

Immigration arrest last week in southern Colorado follows national trend of escalating force from ICE agents

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

Gov. Pritzker: "[ICE] killed an unarmed person just a couple of weeks ago in Franklin Park...They killed somebody...They are just putting out their propaganda and then we've gotta later determine what actually happened."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Miller declares Trump-appointed Judge Immergut an insurrectionist for upholding the constitution — keeping him from mobilizing Oregon’s national guard without them

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 5d

The House has chosen not to work and is withholding the swearing-in of newly elected Democrat Adelita Grijalva. She still hasn’t been seated, and it definitely feels intentional since her signature would provide the last vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

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AD @aquahawk53.bsky.social · 5d

🤮🤬🤮

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Miss Jay @missjay.bsky.social · 6d

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

“.. This is the risk of shutting down the government and handing the keys to Russ Vought,” the Senate majority leader said ..

@politico.com
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

Zelenskyy sounds alarm over unprecedented power outage at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Ukrainian president says Russian shelling is preventing work to restore links to grid and that one of the plant’s diesel generators has failed * See all our Ukraine war coverage Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday said the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been off the grid for seven straight days, warning of the potential threat of a “critical” situation. It is the longest outage at Zaporizhzhia since Russia invaded and seized the nuclear plant, Europe’s largest. Continue reading...

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Reuters @reuters.com · 8d

IAEA working to restore power to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Grossi says reut.rs/4nEKjNl

IAEA working to restore power to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Grossi says

The International Atomic Energy Agency is engaging with both sides of the military conflict to restore offsite power to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as soon as possible, the U.N. atomic watchdog's chief Rafael Grossi said on Tuesday in a statement.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 7d

Priorities.

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Unite For Veterans Coalition @unite4vets.bsky.social · 7d

Do you know the difference between the National Guard and ICE? The National Guard are your neighbors. They are members of your community. When deployed, they are there to help the community, not harm them.

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