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Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 12h

They can deport him to another continent with just-say-the-word immediacy but they can't move him a few hundred miles in less than a week to endure a trial they are subjecting him to?

Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 13h

JUST IN: Feds say they are incapable of moving Kilmar Abrego Garcia from PA to TN for court session Friday in his criminal case. A week lead time isn't enough, prosecutors say, plus there's a hearing on one of his civil suits Friday in Maryland. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 12h

So grateful to have friends in this fight with @hopeful66.bsky.social against orange tyranny!

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Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 12h

I don't know which i need in my life more: those glasses or a cat willing to wear glasses.❤️🐈😎

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Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 13h

Relatable content

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Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 17h

Words spoken by the kind of man who pisses on the floor next to the toilet because a woman will clean up after him.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

An aspiring tyrant in the making…

Stephen Miller was always a POS. Here he is in high school, already looking middle-aged, giving a student government speech:

“Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up our trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?”

Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for including me in this starter pack, @hopeful66.bsky.social! I'm honored to be fighting for democracy with such a great community of others! Onward!

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Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 2d

LMAO at the hip thrusting frog.

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 3d

A frog just defeated ICE. Somewhere Pepe is crying.

a cartoon skeleton holding a bottle of jarritos orange

Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 3d

Alt: A cartoon skeleton throws you a bottle of jarritos orange and then cheers. Click!

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White House told only way to move Discovery is to chop it up

Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 3d

Or like scuttling boxes of classified documents in the bathroom to avoid having to return them.

Or like trying to obtain a sword from a museum to give to King Charles.

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Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 3d

Or like relocating the Declaration of Independence to the Oval Office and then putting a curtain up to hide it from damaging light exposure?

semireflection @semireflection.bsky.social · 3d

www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/d...

Can you believe these shitheads are cutting costs by cutting this up and relocating it to White Supremacy Texas; prob Elon’s property? This is like using the Constitution for a placemat. @altnoaa.bsky.social @airforcetimes.bsky.social @militarytimes.bsky.social

: Smithsonian warns that dismantling orbiter for relocation is history in the wrecking

www.theregister.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

Referring to the abuse visited upon over a thousand girls as a “red herring” is nasty work, you asshole.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Welker: They say the house is not in session because you don't want to swear in the newly elected democratic congresswoman who would be a critical vote to releasing the Epstein files.

Johnson: It's totally absurd. This has nothing to do with that. It's another red herring.

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Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 3d

X is bad, m'kay?

a cartoon character from south park sits at a desk with a computer

Alt: The school counselor from the animated series South Park sits at a desk with a computer and says mmmkay.

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Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 3d

Not even a high school student would start a research paper by referring to their own TikTok as a source.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

Oregon AG Rayfield: The first thing that might’ve told you the federal government wasn’t doing so hot was when they started off some of their arguments by talking about Truth Social as their source of facts.

Actually got a comment from the judge: “Is this really how you’re going to move forward?”

Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 3d

By that definition, last week's executive order and memorandum on domestic terrorism would seem to qualify as state terrorism.

Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 4d

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 4d

Two to FOUR guards? While also handcuffed to the bed with a broken leg?!

Waste, fraud, and abuse much?

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d

Along with the horrific nature of his detention, this is a colossal waste of money:

“Two to four uniformed guards have been continuously stationed in Petitioner's hospital room, monitoring him at all times .. while he sleeps, eats, uses the bathroom.”

At the hospital, Petitioner was admitted under a "blackout" procedure for patients in law-enforcement custody and was registered under the pseudonym "Har Maine UNK
'hirteen." Santiago Decl. " 7. Federal agents remained at Petitioner's bedside during admission, transfer to non-public treatment areas, and throughout his stay, keeping him handcuffed to his hospital bed. Id. 1 6.
On or about August 27, 2025, CBP transferred custody of Petitioner to ICE. See Pet.
148. He remains detained at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center under the supervision of ICE, which has contracted with Spectrum Detention Services ("Spectrum") to provide guards.
See Santiago Decl. 1 8; Pet. 1 48.
Since that date, two to four uniformed guards either Spectrum employees or ICE agents have been continuously stationed in Petitioner's hospital room, monitoring him at all times, including while he sleeps, eats, uses the restroom, or receives medical care. See Santiago Decl. 11 9-10.

Texas Gerrymander ‘Aggressively Seeks to Roll Back Minority Power,’ Expert Testifies

Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 4d

Love your accessory style.

Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 4d

If minorities are responsible for winning Trump the presidency, if they're voting republican in record numbers that nobody's ever seen before, then why is it necessary to redistrict?

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: In Texas redistricting case, a leading political scientist testified that he saw “evidence of intentional discrimination” in the map, which “aggressively seeks to roll back minority power.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Read more here.

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Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 4d

So 18-years-and-1-day-old unaccompanied migrant children are the worst of the worst, criminals sent from foreign prisons, eh Republicans?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS a new ICE policy that went into effect last week to automatically detain unaccompanied migrant children on their 18th birthday when they “age out” of shelter care.

The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.

Garcia Ramirez v. ICE case caption.

ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND TO ENFORCE FINAL JUDGMENT AND PERMANENT INJUNCTION
Upon consideration of Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and to
Enforce the Permanent Injunction and accompanying Memorandum of Points and Authorities
and Declarations (the "Motion"), and all other materials properly before this Court, it is hereby
ORDERED that Plaintiffs' Motion is GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED that Defendants and all persons acting under their direction or in concert with them, are hereby ENJOINED from implementing any new directive regarding age-outs;
ORDERED that Defendants and all persons acting under their direction or in concert
with them, are hereby ENJOINED from detaining any class member in an adult ICE facility in
any manner that contravenes the Permanent Injunction;
ORDERED that Defendants immediately rescind any determinations to detain based on this directive;
ORDERED that Defendants immediately produce that directive, any related policies
regarding that directive, and the Age-Out Review Worksheets of any class members who may
have been impacted by that directive, including all AORs issued since October 1, 2025.
SO ORDERED this 4th day of October 2025.

Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 4d

And this, because Mike Johnson sent everyone home for a week during a shutdown to prevent Adelita Grijalva from voting to expose the powerful people implicated by the Epstein files. And so billionaires could save their pennies.
@adelitaforcongress.bsky.social

Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 4d

If healthcare companies are setting their rates for next year as we speak, then Republicans will get what they want even if Dems prevail in the shutdown. Republicans will have sent rates soaring, people will drop their enrollment, and companies will go bankrupt.

People will die.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

This is not a fight about tax credits.
This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin.

Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 4d

Weaponized gratitude is a tool of abusers masquerading as saviors.

I refuse to bow down in gratitude that my life was spared to the abuser who injured me in the first place.

A post by JD Vance, Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most. Yet she oozes with contempt.

My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much happier person if you showed a little gratitude.

Butterfly Resurgent🦋 @butterflyresurgent.bsky.social · 5d

Biden has not belittled Christianity. Trump has disgraced it.

A post by the Department of State accusing the Biden administration of belittling Christianity.

The pictures of Biden praying in church or kneeling at a funeral. No belittling here.