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Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 1d

America needs a new captain...

Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 2d

I was yelling at the TV when Gov Pritzker was on MSNBC with Rachel Maddow "Why dont you use YOUR law enforcement officers to arrest these masked thugs breaking and entering people's homes!?!?" Then let the administration try and sort it out in court!

Carlye Hooten @chooten.bsky.social · 2d

This is EXACTLY what I keep talking about. I don't know how state prosecutions of federal officers would work, but they're already breaking federal laws, constantly. The only way to rein them in in state courts.
Why haven't governors authorized prosecutions? I don't understand that.

@Cali-Candace.bsky.social @cali-candace.bsky.social · 2d

We need STATE PROSECUTIONS AND CONVICTIONS!!!
tRump CAN’T PARDON STATE CONVICTIONS!!!

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Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 2d

I was yelling at the TV when Gov Pritzker was on MSNBC with Rachel Maddow "Why dont you use YOUR law enforcement officers to arrest these masked thugs breaking and entering people's homes!?!?" Then let the administration try and sort it out in court!

Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 2d

My doggies. Watching me watching football.

Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 2d

We watched. We lost, but still love our team.

Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, but MAGA and Fox News have claimed multiple US cities have burned to the ground. They're still standing, of course.
Someone should do a YouTube series of US cities that have been claimed to have been burned down by Democrats, or Antifa, or whatever. I think it'd get alot of views.

JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social · 2d

“Portland is burning to the ground.”

This motherfucker belongs in a nuthouse, not the White House.

Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 2d

They know the emperor isn't wearing any clothes. I don't think they care, or will, until it causes them pain.
BTW, if those are your dogs, SO cute!

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Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 2d

Yep. Mark my word, they're trying to CREATE an insurrection.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d

Attempts to deploy federalized National Guardsmen to Oregon, California, & Illinois, also, signs that Trump, or at least someone around him, is starting to think seriously about the Insurrection Act. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Portland And Beyond

This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act: “I’d do it if it was necessary.

open.substack.com

Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 2d

This is true. Trump, and indeed MAGA does not care about laws.

𝐿𝑒𝒻𝓉 𝒞𝑜𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝐿𝑒𝓈𝓁𝒾𝑒 ⚾️📚 @bayareafan19.bsky.social · 3d

Unfortunately, there hasn’t been a single law that’s stopped him yet. He just ignores them and does what he wants anyway. We need an actual serious and effective stop to all of this. C’mon, SOMEONE do SOMETHING about the lawlessness and destruction. This is not sustainable for 3 1/2 more years.

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Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 2d

Hmmmmm. Money talks, eh?

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

MTG BREAKS RANKS: “When the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE”

Marge posts she is open to working out a healthcare deal for “Americans only.”

Reality setting in as Dems hammer away!

Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 2d

If YOU THINK this administration or any of his MAGA followers or voters actually CARE if he had sex with young minor girls....you are WRONG!

CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 2d

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 2d

Mark my word. She WILL be pardoned. They won't let her talk to the media though. You can bet on that. Epstien wasn't allowed to, and she won't be allowed either. Too much to lose.

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2d

Now you know

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Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 2d

Bullies never stop asking for your lunch money. Once you give it, they keep coming back for more.
Companies, corporations, lawyers, politicians, PEOPLE! STOP capitulating to this fucking government!!!

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Inbtwnthedarkandthelight @thedarkandthelight.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight on #Maddow Gov. Pritzker mentioned that ice/cbp could only operate within a hundred miles of the border. Their explanation was the shores of Lake Michigan was the border🤦🏻‍♂️ Somebody needs to teach ice barbie geography of the united states.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Aug 17

If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

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Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 2d

The United States as we knew it is gone. The rest of the world needs to pay attention. The Eagle has Fallen.

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Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago, Portland, and other cities soon.....

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Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, well, in case anyone isn't paying attention, they are TRYING to incite violence by using violence.
We now have a military occupation of American cities.

Eagle has FALLEN.

Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 2d

Part of Leavitt’s justification for the Guard in Portland: people are “disrespecting” ICE and engaged in “civil disobedience.”

Section 12406 allows deployment only in the event of foreign invasion, a rebellion, or inability to enforce federal laws.

Not disrespect and disobedience.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

COLLINS: Which local officials in Portland have said that the National Guard is needed there?

LEAVITT: The judge's opinion is untethered in reality and the law

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Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans are SCUM. If you believe in evil, THEY are it.

Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 2d

My constituents want me to get to work but House Republicans are more concerned about protecting the Epstein files.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Elected but Not Seated, Grijalva Waits to Sign Epstein Petition

www.nytimes.com

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Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating. She must've changed her mind.

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Brian Sager @briansager.bsky.social · 3d

MAGA stupidity continues to blow my mind. It shouldn't, but it does. These people are just fucking stupid, and you CAN'T fix that.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

“She needs to crack a book.”

Maria Cardona & Tapper clown Tomi Lahren for “botching” that Puerto Rico is part of 🇺🇸 in her question to @krystalball.bsky.social about Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl

(From @bluegeorgia.bsky.social )

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6d

@timmiller.bsky.social: “The Commerce Secretary is really stupid…He's just being dumb enough to say the obvious truth, which is that 'my fellow cabinet members and the President of the United States, who I work for, are covering up something related to this sex trafficking ring.'”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7d

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 8d

TOMORROW: Join our rapid response call to prepare for a potential Trump Shutdown. We will need to act fast to hold Republicans accountable if they force a government shutdown, so we plan to convene with national partners to lay out a strong grassroots response: www.mobilize.us/HealthcareNo...

HEALTHCARE
NOT
AUTHORITARIANISM

SHUTDOWN SHOWDOWN

MASS CALL OCT. 1ST 8:30 PM ET

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