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brooklyntrolleydodger @bklyntrolleydodger.bsky.social · 2h

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brooklyntrolleydodger @bklyntrolleydodger.bsky.social · 2h

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brooklyntrolleydodger @bklyntrolleydodger.bsky.social · 7h

"people are having fun with this"
- Mike Johnson

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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brooklyntrolleydodger @bklyntrolleydodger.bsky.social · 8h

I saw an ad on tv for the first time this past Sunday during football for an opioid addiction drug that said “don’t take with street drugs”

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Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 23h

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

heatmap.news

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brooklyntrolleydodger @bklyntrolleydodger.bsky.social · 21h

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21h

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 23h

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

brooklyntrolleydodger @bklyntrolleydodger.bsky.social · 22h

Hey @meidasjordy.bsky.social

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Rick Treder4 @hodag85.bsky.social · 1d

This needs to be every single Democrat right now.

Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 2d

“The idea that you’re going to arrest people… just because they oppose the president of the United States, there is something genuinely wrong with this man and the 25th Amendment ought to be invoked.” --Gov. JB Pritzger

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 1d

Country legend Zach Bryan has released a song that puts country over his own bank account.

The backlash from country fans will be massive- they’ll force him off country radio like they did to the Dixie Chicks but he doesn’t need radio access anymore

American hero 🇺🇸

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brooklyntrolleydodger @bklyntrolleydodger.bsky.social · 23h

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 1d

Any Project 2029-style rebuilding project that tables confrontation with the Supreme Court will doom itself. www.offmessage.net/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court's Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory

If Democrats can't avoid the trap Republican justices are setting, we'll never recover from the Trump fiasco.

www.offmessage.net

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brooklyntrolleydodger @bklyntrolleydodger.bsky.social · 1d

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brooklyntrolleydodger @bklyntrolleydodger.bsky.social · 1d

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

As right wingers make shit up about free medical care for "illegals," don't forget the medical care necessitated by Kristi Noem's goons.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ddz...

How Kristi Noem is giving away $400K in "free" medical care

YouTube video by emptywheel

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brooklyntrolleydodger @bklyntrolleydodger.bsky.social · 1d

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

No "assurance" or "promise" any Republican makes on anything is worth a single thing, at all. It has exactly zero value. Why would any Democrat agree to anything that's not a piece of legislative text, when even legislative text is ignored by the wannabe dictators of the Trump regime?

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

The Senator who enabled the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh is selling snake oil again. #MEPoltiics

Will some Democrats be stupid enough to buy?

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brooklyntrolleydodger @bklyntrolleydodger.bsky.social · 1d

There are not enough fucks

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brooklyntrolleydodger @bklyntrolleydodger.bsky.social · 1d

I will contribute to a fund to put this on billboards in every gop city

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

This is Somers Farkas

Trump appointed her as ambassador to Malta

She is another one of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's close pedophile friends

Her husband is in Epstein's black book 7 times

He and Epstein also co-owned the Simpson Bay Yacht Club after Epstein was arrested for child trafficking

Trump appointed Epstein and Maxwell friend and partner Somers Farkas as ambassador to Malta

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

I don't have the bandwidth to make this case explicit. But today, Todd Bessent put Frank Bisignano in charge of IRS, in addition to Social Security.

Bisignano, at Social Security, gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data.

Now he's in charge of IRS.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions.

He also did not explain whether he’d made any effort to speak with the president by phone, something that has become commonplace for reporters covering the second Trump administration because Trump has maintained use of his personal mobile phone since returning to the presidency and frequently uses it to contact reporters directly.

The president’s purported text message exchange with Tapper was also unusual because Trump is not known to be a frequent user of his phone’s text message capacity.

He also famously eschews email and other written forms of communication and during his first term he openly complained when attorneys working for his administration took notes during meetings.

Trump’s unconventional use of text-based communications to purportedly respond to Tapper comes as questions continue to swirl about the state of his health

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brooklyntrolleydodger @bklyntrolleydodger.bsky.social · 2d

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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 4d

Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?"

Older veteran: “87.”

Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”

Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”

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Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social · 2d

Folks we are watching the adjudication of some of the most important constitutional issues of federalism, executive discretion, and judicial review since the 19th c

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon

Judge asked federal government lawyer: 'Do you believe this is an appropriate way to deal with a judge’s order that you disagree with?'

www.oregonlive.com

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brooklyntrolleydodger @bklyntrolleydodger.bsky.social · 2d

And the judge repeatedly had to remind him that he was an officer of the court

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