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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 8h

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14h

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.”

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 13h

He just said it. 100% unironically and unmistakably.

“We took the freedom of speech away.”

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 12h

Gavin Newsom: “What more evidence of authoritarianism do you need? These guys aren’t screwing around. We can no longer screw around. It’s all at stake. People need to wake up. We can’t continue to play by the old set of rules.“

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Daniel Bastiaanse @indodragon.bsky.social · 23h

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 23h

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 18h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Arnie Arnesen @nharnie.bsky.social · 15h

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Liz @elizawally.bsky.social · 1d

Please PAY ATTENTION AND RESIST WHERE//WHEN YOU CAN

It’s Still Me! @itsstillme1.bsky.social · 2d

Stand firm!✊🏽

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 2d

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

This.

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 2d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

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

No corruption here, folks! Totally normal stuff the deputy director of the CIA(Michael Ellis) just demoted the acting general counsel and decided to make himself the top lawyer while still being the No. 2 in charge.

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

ICYMI — A July 17th post from Miller’s cousin disavowing him is making the rounds again. www.rawstory.com/stephen-mill...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s order to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Chicago is illegal, immoral, and must be stopped by the courts. ICE is already wreaking havoc in our communities. Let’s call this what it is: an invasion by out-of-state troops coming here only with the purpose of tormenting Chicagoans.

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 3d

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

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