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Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 25m

This is what you're writing about instead of a criminal in the Oval Office who just said he did away with free speech?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

a high armhole allows for freer and more comfortable movement

Joey Mannarino in a dark brown tailored jacket. The low armhole is causing his jacket to lift.

Someone in an inflatable frog costume. The high armhole allows them to raise their arm without disturbing the rest of the garment

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 9h

No I don't believe anyone has. The media continues to fail us. They just did away with the 60-vote threshold not too long ago to slam through a whole slew of the orange menace's nominees. But they won't do it to end this shutdown because it's all about "owning the Libs".

Senate Republicans turn to 'nuclear option' to speed confirmation of Trump nominees

The change will allow certain nominees to be confirmed in groups rather than by individual vote. It follows months of GOP complaints that Democrats were dragging out the confirmation process.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 13h

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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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 10h

Gone is right. It's his brain though.

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 10h

"We took away the freedom of speech." JFC.

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 10h

in Congress who know what the right thing is to do and will do it. And that our courts will continue to stand strong. It'll take years to repair the damage and I'll probably be long gone but I have to hold on to something.

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 10h

that we have a criminal in the Oval Office and while courts are doing their best to hold him accountable, we have a rogue Supreme Court that is making up their own laws as they go along & they proclaimed that he is immune. Our only hope is that we somehow come out on the other side and have people

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 10h

I can only do what I've been doing. I live in a small town and I attend our protests here. I call members of Congress and express my views on what's going on. That's in my little corner of the world. I can only encourage other people to do the same. The unfortunate facts are

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 10h

Well, to be honest filling in that little oval with a pen for the overqualified black woman would have avoided all of this. She wasn't perfect, no one is. But the alternative was an obvious horror that people chose either to vote for or not vote at all. I don't know what people are going to do.

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 11h

"Suspending who?" How much more evidence do we need to know that his brain is fried.

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 11h

It is illegal for him to hold payback. Period.

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 11h

Lies. Nothing but lies. And will someone please tell him that he's confusing mental institutions with asylum for immigrants. How many times do we have to hear this?

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 11h

Somebody needs to get him out of there. He has no idea what's going on around him at all. Yes I know Vance will be worse because he's smarter, but when is enough enough?

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 11h

He's got the most slappable face I've ever seen. His lying efforts to blame this on Democrats is failing and rightly so.

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 13h

And guess what president made this requirement federal law? Ronald Reagan. Johnson doesn't know his history very well. He'd rather demonize Democrats.

Reagan's healthcare mandate - Salon.com

In 1986, the GOP icon signed a law that requires hospitals to treat poor people and undocumented immigrants

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 14h

They've been conceding since 2016 when they started normalizing the abnormal. And that's when I stopped watching them completely.

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Linda Thurman @lindashepherd.bsky.social · 15h

RELEASE TRUMP / EPSTEIN files

Fdt project 2025 holocaust America
He won’t be happy until America looks like Gaza
Record every terrorist because they lie

Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 15h

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The Oregon GOP just got caught using fake protest photos to make Portland look like it’s on fire. Their post about Trump sending National Guard troops featured stock and foreign images, not Oregon, not even America.

Manufactured chaos, wrapped in a lie to rile their base.

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 16h

Ask him why the Democrat guy who just won his special election recently, & who then drove to DC that night, was sworn in the NEXT DAY. He's delaying her for the sole reason that she's the 218th vote on the discharge petition to release the Epstein files and that is the only reason.

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 16h

Her only job in that hearing was to insult all the Democrat Senators and preen when the Republican senators fawned all over her. It was a disgusting display.

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 16h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20h

So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t.

And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks.

Did I get that right?

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 16h

for all that they are doing without getting paid.

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 16h

I had to call the Social Security office for the first time in my life. The lady I spoke with was extremely pleasant and helpful and apologized that what I needed to do would not happen until the shutdown ended. I immediately praised her for being there and thanked her repeatedly for