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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

The @washingtonpost.com is now no more than a tabloid. Absolute tripe from the editorial board here.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 14h

Squeaker of the House Mike Johnson is a spineless, mealy-mouthed lapdog.

Seat Adelita, loser!
Do your job or lose your job!

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 22h

I see a lot of people saying that a person charged with a crime deserves the chance to prove their innocence.

Please stop doing this because you have it backwards and this is really important.

It is ALWAYS the government's burden to prove a person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 13h

Are these stick on decals (asking for real)

Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 13h

The Oval looks like Liberace’s bedroom

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🌹Weegie 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 12h

Chicago ain't gonna take y'all sitting down.
Neither is Seattle if they come here (try us).
Same for Portland.
This shit stops when enough of us say no.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMSAxRov/

live protest right now in Chicago @creator search insights @TikTok @Karoline Leavitt @President Donald J Trump #Trump #fypシ゚viral #trending #protest #chicago

TikTok video by I AM LIVEWIRE🔍

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 12h

Today, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell signed executive orders outlining how local police will respond if trump deploys troops to Seattle. The orders, in part, state- Seattle police will "report daily" to the mayor on any deployed federal troops, a city task force is to be created to prepare for 👇

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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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

The condescension of two-bit Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi today underscores that the only thing this administration excels at is a complete lack of self-awareness.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 14h

Make no mistake. This nonsense about Antifa is directly tied to the 2026 and 2028 elections. It’s the “crisis” they will use as justification to shut down key voting centers.

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Ellen K ⚖️ @datagoodies.bsky.social · 12h

What a loss.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ellen K ⚖️ @datagoodies.bsky.social · 12h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 13h

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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Ellen K ⚖️ @datagoodies.bsky.social · 12h

How can we get rid of this 💥 National Security threat?

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 13h

Hi. I’d like to report a deranged and delusional man in the White House who’s inciting violence and represents a danger to public safety. Can law enforcement please handle this matter?

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 14h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 1d

VIEWER FEEDBACK: One viewer says I won't read negative feedback and another viewer says I'm a lying viper from hell

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Ellen K ⚖️ @datagoodies.bsky.social · 12h

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 12h

The Trump administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is a "Faustian pact borrowing from the authoritarian playbook of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán." www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile....

HE leaders brand Trump’s compact for HE as ‘extortion’

The Trump administration’s compact offered to nine elite universities has provoked alarm among higher education leaders. It demands surrender of aca...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 12h

Trump Dangles Shutdown Paychecks, FAA Stretches Thin & FBI Looks for Amelia Earhart

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyMZ...

Trump Dangles Shutdown Paychecks, FAA Stretches Thin & FBI Looks for Amelia Earhart | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Ellen K ⚖️ @datagoodies.bsky.social · 12h

Also consider out-of-country medical care.

TaiwanMedTour.com @taiwanmedtour87.bsky.social · 13h

Here is an excellent back story on HC and why insurance is going up next year. youtube.com/shorts/Bo-s2...

Trapped - Open Enrollment

YouTube video by TaiwanMedTour

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Ellen K ⚖️ @datagoodies.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks

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Cheri Armstrong @cheriarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

In Chicago, a priest raised his hands in prayer and ICE shot him in the head at point-blank range as he crumbled to the ground. The ammunition was not lethal, but it was targeted at a man who only wished for the violence against law-abiding citizens to end.
youtube.com/watch?v=zeEx...

ICE violence caught on camera featured among evidence in new lawsuit

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 18h

Hey Bible boy:

"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me."

Matthew 25:35-36

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

“.. the debate inside the administration has shifted recently, from whether it makes sense to invoke the act to more deeply exploring how and when it might be invoked ..”

@nbcnews.com
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h

My latest: The fight for democracy is the defining battle of our generation. Within that struggle, protecting free and fair elections must be our top priority. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/why-...

Why My Law Firm is Litigating 63 Voting Rights Cases

Read here.

www.democracydocket.com

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