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Michael Barber 🏳️‍🌈 🌊

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Quilter, Palm Springs, Atheist, #LGBTQ, Artist, Dance, EDM, R&B, New Wave. 35 year AIDSsurvivor BLOCKED: MAGAts/THE RELIGIOUS (you will be cited for harassment)/Crypto TechBros; Republicans/TERFs/Heteropatriarchy/FinanceAssholes

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Michael Barber 🏳️‍🌈 🌊 @ccdude8.bsky.social · 10d

Shitler has just green lit his Hitler Youth Program. @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @dscc.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @crockett.house.gov @sanders.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social

ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 10d

We were never overreacting.

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Michael Barber 🏳️‍🌈 🌊 @ccdude8.bsky.social · 2m

#FuckingMoron with our nuclear codes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

Michael Barber 🏳️‍🌈 🌊 @ccdude8.bsky.social · 6m

Unfortunately, he would cite the Speech and Debate clause that allows members to lie their asses off on the House and Senate floor. www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...

Speech and Debate Privilege

www.law.cornell.edu

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Jen🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ @jen.sheshed.rocks · 1h

Hawk nailed it.. 🤣

FULL STOP 🔥

Holy shit 🤭🤣
#SheShed

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Michael Barber 🏳️‍🌈 🌊 @ccdude8.bsky.social · 11m

This is what Nazis do.

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voteinthemidterms.bsky.social @voteinthemidterms.bsky.social · 47m

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Michael Barber 🏳️‍🌈 🌊 @ccdude8.bsky.social · 20m

They better get over it and start acting against it. If one is doing all one can to act for democracy, one doesn't have time to be afraid.

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🌻🌻Konabec🌻🌻 @konabec.sheshed.rocks · 1h

Bindi played to a party of one and never answered one legitimate question.

She will be one of the first to be prosecuted once this fascist regime is removed!

#DefendersOfDemocracy
#SheShed

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Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

www.thedailybeast.com

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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 1h

This is Reverend David Black, minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago. He was shot seven times in the head with chemical pellets by ICE agents as he was pleading and praying at a protest.

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DV1 #Pinks

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Jen🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ @jen.sheshed.rocks · 7h

This right here 🔥🔥

Facts ✅

Fuck ICE
#SheShed

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

In the country's richest city, more than 140,000 kids don't have stable or permanent housing.

"Every Child and Family Is Known" — a small pilot program that pairs school staff with students and families in shelters — has shown real promise. I will double its funding and scope.

Mamdani education plan would focus on helping NYC homeless students

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the New York City mayoral race, said Wednesday he wants to double the size of a program for homeless students at public schools in a plan shared exclu…

www.nydailynews.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h

Hello?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 2h

It's a bold new legal theory - treason is whatever you dislike,& the evidence is whatever a random influencer has on their phone. It really streamlines the whole judicial process, doesn't it? Who needs that messy Article III definition when you can just declare an enemies list & call it patriotic?

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 2h

📌UNDERSTAND: I'm a Navy vet and proud, longtime member of ANTIFA. I loathe fascist, anti-American thugs like Trump & Hitler.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 39m

One of the reasons the Jack Smith investigations seemed to take forever is because Biden's DoJ *did* have their hands around the evidence before they indicted. And they'd have convicted, too, if it weren't for those pesky SCOTUS fellas. 1/

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 50m

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if the prosecution is just getting its hands around the evidence *after* it criminally charged the former FBI director?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 8h

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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Moritz #Ukraine Supporter 🌊🌊🌊 @moritzbhv.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING: Ron DeSantis and his wife could face indictment and jail time in Florida in a major new investigation. /1

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Michael Barber 🏳️‍🌈 🌊 @ccdude8.bsky.social · 35m

Hey Mike, maybe he folded his arms to keep from knocking you into next week. Think about that shit.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 10h

Chicago PD: arrest these motherfuckers threatening civilians. Put them in jail. Let the courts sort it out

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Michael Barber 🏳️‍🌈 🌊 @ccdude8.bsky.social · 36m

WTF @indivisible.org ???

Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 37m

I have to agree: there is no better way to demotivate people for a mass rally than to require an email address (for various reasons). No Kings is really fucking up here by not even telling people where the various protests will be. You must make attending protests convenient.

Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 52m

You do you, but I guess I'm skipping the next one, because there's no point to a secret rally. I'm not going to RSVP to get an address. 🙄

Michael Barber 🏳️‍🌈 🌊 @ccdude8.bsky.social · 38m

Hope you've had your RSV vaccination.

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 1h

This is what resistance looks like. Courageous Chicagoans follow ICE cars to warn others in the community of their presence.

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Congressman Wesley Bell @repwesleybellmo.bsky.social · 4h

Cordial reminder that Arizona Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva holds the final signature needed to release the Epstein files. Speaker Mike Johnson continues to delay her swearing-in—canceling House votes for the second consecutive week despite urgent legislative business—

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Aura Wellness Center @aurawellnesscenter.bsky.social · 56m

Speaker Johnson Wants Shut Down to Delay Epstein Files
www.politico.com/live-updates...

Speaker clashes with Dem senators over Epstein files amid shutdown

Gallego accused Johnson of wanting to “cover up for pedophiles on the Epstein list."

www.politico.com

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 12h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 52m

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.
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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.

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Michael Barber 🏳️‍🌈 🌊 @ccdude8.bsky.social · 49m

I would like just 5 minutes alone with this woman to show her how a Nazi gets treated in a democracy.