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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info · 3h

Good morning ppl! It’s day 9 of the GOP shitdown & I have a special Spam in the Gears to start your morning with. Speaker Johnson will be live on C-Span @ 8:30 ET to take questions over the shitdown. It would be a shame if ppl called in and only asked about the #Epstein files. Numbers below to call.

Speaker Johnson taking calls on c-span about the shitdown today at 8:30am ET

Call in numbers: (302)748-8000
(302)748-8001
(302)748-8002
(302)748-8003

Call speaker Johnson and ask about the Epstein files.

Armcahir Activist Activate! Call in to Speaker Johnson on live tv taking questions about the Shitdown.

Spam in the Gears! Call in to Speaker Johnson and ask him about the Epstein files.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28m

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18h

In a Chicago suburb, Berwyn, IL, multiple ICE goons and a cameraman surrounded a resident who blew his horn and walked down the street in his own neighborhood. They demanded his ID and threatened to arrest him for impeding their audit.

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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 18h

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ACLU @aclu.org · 19h

Congress is considering a provision in the Intelligence Authorization Act that would end Senate confirmation of the chief lawyers responsible for secretly shaping policies on surveillance, detention, and interrogation at U.S. intelligence agencies.

Keep Senate confirmation for top intelligence lawyers, civil liberties groups urge

A provision in the 2026 annual intelligence community bill would lift Senate confirmation rules for the chief counsels of the CIA and ODNI. Advocates warn the change would weaken transparency and publ...

www.nextgov.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18h

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 13h

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10h

Destroying cybersecurity to beef up the gestapo

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

www.bloomberg.com

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, this seems like the Katie Porter who responded to losing a primary by calling it rigged.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

AP: “.. the administration has only pointed to unclassified video clips of the strikes posted on social media by President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and has yet to produce ‘hard evidence’ that the vessels were carrying drugs.”

@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/trum...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15h

🚨BREAKING: A right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Right-Wing Group Asks SCOTUS to Turn Pro-Voting Law Into Tool for Voter Purges

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18h

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14h

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said his government believed one of the boats recently bombed by the United States in its campaign against alleged drug traffickers had been carrying Colombian citizens, not drug traffickers.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Massive protests taking place right now in Chicago against Trump this evening.

Keep it up!

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cathyferron.bsky.social @cathyferron.bsky.social · 14h

Drumpf has no idea what’s being asked of him 😳🔥🤬

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16h

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 16h

The president's antifa expert tells Holocaust jokes and uses neo-Nazi codes like 1488. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

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cathyferron.bsky.social @cathyferron.bsky.social · 21h

Say what?! What if you’re a pregnant citizen rabble rouser? Who makes these judgments? Some MAGA guy in a mask and camo standing at the doorway of the ER? Blood on slimy Mike’s hands🔥🤬