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Schnitz

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Lifelong Progressive Liberal. Praying for the survival of our Democracy. 💙🇺🇸💙 The opposite of woke is asleep. I’m wokeity, woke, woke, woke! READ THIS! - No posts, no follow backs. NO DMs, means NO DMs!!!

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Schnitz @daschnitz.bsky.social · Jun 30

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Schnitz @daschnitz.bsky.social · 4h

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US strike in Caribbean may have killed Colombian citizens, president says

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday there were “signs” that Colombian citizens were killed in the last small boat attacked by the U.S. military off the coast of Venezuela. “A new front ...

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Schnitz @daschnitz.bsky.social · 4h

My nominee for the Not Batshit Crazy Award for common sense. 👍🏼

Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 7h

Oldham County board unanimously rejects off-campus Bible classes during school day
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Oldham County board unanimously rejects off-campus Bible classes during school day • Kentucky Lantern

Oldham County school board unanimously rejects an Ohio-based nonprofit’s proposal to offer off-campus Bible-based character education during the school day.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Schnitz @daschnitz.bsky.social · 4h

This is exactly how it started with AH. Waking people up. Pulling them out of their homes. Carting them off.
THIS. IS. HAPPENING.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

Schnitz @daschnitz.bsky.social · 4h

All good questions.

How are those grocery prices doing folks?
Cheeto is the greatest con man in history and really doesn’t give a shit about anyone.

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 6h

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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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This strikes me as pretty bad

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..."

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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

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Schnitz @daschnitz.bsky.social · 3d

But don’t you believe SCOTUS will probably enable him to do it?

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 3d

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Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."