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Susan Z Witter @autumndancer.bsky.social · 1d

Where are the assertive press corps?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The complete and total bullshit about this is that it should have been the FIRST question asked of Johnson. It is a disgrace that he was not asked about this before he ended his press conference. Unbelievable that he continues to get away with this. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

COONS: How did you conclude that these strikes on boats in the open ocean are legal?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have issued

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Susan Z Witter @autumndancer.bsky.social · 1d

Can we bombard Mike Johnson w messages abt this?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jeffries: "Johnson has to actually answer that Q as to why Republicans have refused to seat Rep.-elect Grijalva. Why?... when it comes to enacting tax breaks for Republican donors, they race to do it...she will be the 218th signature on a petition to force a vote on the release of the Epstein files"

Susan Z Witter @autumndancer.bsky.social · 1d

Silos

Susan Z Witter @autumndancer.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I lobbied her on that for some time. She likes the sun though, and she’s got a very reasonably priced house

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Reset America @reset-america.bsky.social · May 14

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Reset America @reset-america.bsky.social · May 15

Words matter

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Susan Z Witter @autumndancer.bsky.social · 1d

Me too! But I have a sister in Florida (Ocala) and I’d miss her

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Susan Z Witter @autumndancer.bsky.social · 1d

Hilarious! and effective!

Susan Z Witter @autumndancer.bsky.social · 1d

You mean, if Trump is left holding an empty bag? It isn’t! I was being facetious.

Susan Z Witter @autumndancer.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of discussion on this, and i think we’re on to something! The only problem is, once we secede, every state will end up wanting to secede with us. Then Trump will be left as prez of …..nothing. Kind of like Yertle the Turtle..

Susan Z Witter @autumndancer.bsky.social · 2d

Please, please, let’s secede! Wa-or-fornia! Cal-or-shington! I’m for it!

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Susan Z Witter @autumndancer.bsky.social · 2d

Please, please, let’s secede! Wa-or-fornia! Cal-or-shington! I’m for it!

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Citizens Fed Up @citizensfedup.bsky.social · 5d

QUICK, while the government is shut down, somebody start a new one...!!

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Citizens Fed Up @citizensfedup.bsky.social · 3d

How much lettuce needs to be picked, or how many roofs need to be fixed, to afford a Super Bowl ticket...??

When will MSM call out the gaslighting...??

ICE at the Super Bowl is nothing but pure bullshit...!!

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Citizens Fed Up @citizensfedup.bsky.social · 3d

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Susan Z Witter @autumndancer.bsky.social · 2d

I’m goin’!

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3d

Where are the commanding officers of those sailors in the background. How are they letting this happen?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 3d

The last three government shutdowns have happened while Donald Trump was President.

This shutdown, like all recent shutdowns, is a REPUBLICAN SHUTDOWN.

Enough with the chaos. Time for Republican leadership to work with Democrats to reopen government and save your health care.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING: We are going to court to stop the Trump administration’s abuse of the coming shutdown to illegally RIF employees

So proud to be part of this lawsuit w/
AFGE @afscme.bsky.social @democracyforward.org & Altshuler Berzon

Here’s the complaint
democracydefendersfund.org/prs/9.30.25-pr

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Susan Z Witter @autumndancer.bsky.social · 3d

And if people keep spouting untruths, beware—keep your own reality intact

Susan Z Witter @autumndancer.bsky.social · 3d

“intersubjective” is a new term for me. Explains a lot of the craziness. She has a couple of follow-on comments in this post. Most important: don’t hang out with manipulators.

Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 3d

If you want to understand propaganda you have to realize that what we call "reality" is really just mutually agreed upon hallucinations. Our sense of reality is easily manipulated by the creation of intersubjective hallucinations. They create "truth" that serves the interests of the propagandists.

Susan Z Witter @autumndancer.bsky.social · 3d

“intersubjective” is a new term for me. Explains a lot of the craziness. She has a couple of follow-on comments in this post. Most important: don’t hang out with manipulators.

Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 3d

If you want to understand propaganda you have to realize that what we call "reality" is really just mutually agreed upon hallucinations. Our sense of reality is easily manipulated by the creation of intersubjective hallucinations. They create "truth" that serves the interests of the propagandists.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 3d

The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 4d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 4d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

www.reuters.com

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 29d

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29d

Leavitt: "These are the bad guys that we are picking up in Washington DC every day. The president would love to do this in every Democrat-run city across the country."

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