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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 10h

Ari Melber: Over the past three decades, far-right extremists led 220 attacks, compared to far-left extremists leading 42 attacks. That's roughly five times [more]

If you look at the body count... far-right extremist violence led ~520 deaths, the left-wing attacks resulted in the death of about 78.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 11h

Will Chamberlain, free speech absolutist.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 11h

Jessica Tarlov: I'm stunned that Republicans want to draw attention to this because... the senators who were part of this investigation are not just random names that he picked off a list, but people who were named in Jack Smith's charging documents for trying to turn over a free and fair election.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 11h

A guy who's been calling for a civil war every other Tuesday, suddenly clutching pearls over John Oliver's comments, is peak irony.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 12h

Scott Brown, a soybean farmer, criticizes Trump's tariff wars for devastating small farmers: "They've painted us in a corner with this China deal… The farmer can't continue to produce the crop below the cost of production. And that's where we're at."

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 12h

Podcaster / FBI Director gets Community Noted.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 13h

Amy Klobuchar: Double. That's how much the healthcare premiums are going up for people on the ACA. Three-fourths are in states that were won by Donald Trump.

There are actually more statues of deceased Republican leaders than there are Republican House members over there right now.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 13h

Marjorie Taylor Greene is finally realizing that her party does not care about everyday Americans.

"Not a single Republican in leadership talked to us about this, or has given us a plan to help Americans deal with their health insurance premiums doubling."

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 15h

Sen. Peter Welch: Is there a tape and that has audio and video of the transfer of the 50,000 [to Tom Homan]?

Pam Bondi: You would have to talk to Director Patel about that.

Welch: I'm talking to you.

Bondi: I don't know the answer.

Welch: You do know the answer.

Bondi: Don't call me a liar!

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 15h

Sen. Peter Welch grills Pam Bondi after her office claimed elections were "taken over by the left."

Bondi: "I'd be happy to talk to my chief. Who was that? Who said that?

Welch: "It was your chief, which I assume you would know who that is."

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 16h

Question: Can we talk about Portland for a second? Are you planning to invoke the Insurrection Act?

Trump: It's been invoked before... if the governor can't do the job, we'll do the job. It's all very simple.

(They are trying to desensitize Americans about Trump doing this)

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 16h

John Kennedy: "Maybe they should have gone to Amazon and buy [sic] some testicles online."

These people are weird.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 17h

Pam Bondi refuses to answer Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's question: "There's been public reporting that Jeffrey Epstein showed people photos of President Trump with half-naked young women. Do you know if the FBI found those photographs?"

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Reposted by Blue Georgia

Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 1d

in context, this is a Kinsley gaffe

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Kaitlan Collins: [SCOTUS] rejected today the appeal by Ghislaine Maxwell to overturn her conviction... her only chance of getting out of prison is a pardon from you.

Trump: I'd have to take a look at it.

Collins: She's convicted of child sex trafficking.

Trump: Yeah. I'd have to ask DOJ.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Lunatic Kristi Noem just said Biden was facilitating cartels "trafficking drugs... trafficking children and human beings."

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

"When a judge assumes for him or herself the powers that have been delegated by the Constitution to the president, that is a form of illegal insurrection."

— Stephen Miller portraying judicial review — a core democratic check on executive authority — as a form of rebellion.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Harry Enten: Trump deploying troops into US cities is a “political loser.”

Most Americans oppose it.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 2d

John Oliver torches Trump’s latest grift, a "$400 million plane from Qatar" funneled through the so-called "library loophole," and mocks Pam Bondi’s defense that it’s "not a personal gift."

'We all know what’s going to happen."

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 2d

John Oliver on how there are no limits on presidential library donations, which could be considered legal bribes.

Trump "seemed almost designed to exploit his every personal failing, from his tendency to obfuscate his wrongdoing, to his desire to build expensive monuments to himself."

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 2d

John Oliver: "Trump's Presidential Library Foundation seems to be the preferred vehicle for what I’m apparently legally not allowed to call shakedowns or extortion attempts — so I won’t say it."

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 2d

John Oliver: "Conservatives are not happy about the 2026 Super Bowl halftime performer."

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 2d

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 2d

John Oliver on ICE raids, one agent allegedly said "fuck them kids."

Oliver: "That is completely unacceptable coming from a federal agent who has zip-tied children."

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