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Diamond Life @diamondlifeca.bsky.social · Mar 23

Black people hung by white crowds after Sunday Services didn’t get any due process either.

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StopLossMaxWin @stoplossmaxwin.bsky.social · 5h

The Republican Party has become infested with Komprumatic Kleptocratic Vatniks!!
tRUMPs put in place a Deep State Crime Syndicate that violates The US Constitution with an ongoing basis.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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Diamond Life @diamondlifeca.bsky.social · 15m

White people are broken.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 2h

There is conservatism. And there is Christianity. There is no such thing as conservative Christianity.

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Diamond Life @diamondlifeca.bsky.social · 16m

Stop pointing at Democrats. Voters need to get off of their ass and stand up for their rights. Voters are scrolling on their phones doing nothing but bitching and complaining. We donated, organized, voted and everyone sat around doing nothing. Republicans accountable for their LIES.

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Hittielove2 @hittielove2.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you for the reminder that they brought the migrants to Chicago that they're now targeting. Was that the plan all along, or just a happy coincidence for the party of cruelty and death?

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 4h

First, Texas buses thousands of migrants to Chicago as a political stunt. Now, Trump sends the Texas National Guard to "manage" the situation they helped create. The audacity is breathtaking.

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Diamond Life @diamondlifeca.bsky.social · 3h

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 4h

If this is how they treat unarmed priests standing in prayer, how do you think they'd treat you?

The Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar

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Diamond Life @diamondlifeca.bsky.social · 3h

Colossal waste of time. Seriously pathetic.

Diamond Life @diamondlifeca.bsky.social · 4h

a young man wearing a black and white checkered sweater is making a funny face .

ALT: a young man wearing a black and white checkered sweater is making a funny face .

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 4h

In December, Trump said a government shutdown wouldn’t happen if he was president

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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 2d

"Authoritarian propaganda, plain and simple" www.commondreams.org/news/portlan...

White House Responds With 'Authoritarian Propaganda' as Judge Blocks National Guard in Portland | Common Dreams

Top Trump adviser Stephen Miller accused Judge Immergut of "legal insurrection" for blocking National Guard deployment to Portland. Miller claimed left-wing terrorism and called for dismantling networ...

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Diamond Life @diamondlifeca.bsky.social · 4h

Republicans ruin everything!!!!

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

Jimmy Kimmel: this is all completely normal. Move along now. youtu.be/iy5o38VRjtE?...

Trump Has NOTHING to Do with Epstein Bday Letter, Pam Bondi Grilled & Federal Workers Go Without Pay

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

Nick Anderson, Tribune Content Agency

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution

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Diamond Life @diamondlifeca.bsky.social · 4h

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 5h

I mean read this, the Trump administration in an official document is saying that Americans won't ever pick crops and America won't have enough food to eat because of ICE raids!
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As a result, employers are facing significant economic harms, the filing claims. And incredibly, given the administration’s unceasing rhetoric to the contrary, the Labor Department definitively rejects the idea of Americans replacing the missing workers. “The Department does not believe American workers currently unemployed or marginally employed will make themselves readily available in sufficient numbers to replace large numbers of aliens,” the filing states, adding that agricultural work involves “a distinct set of skills and is among the most physically demanding and hazardous occupations in the U.S. labor market.” (For what it’s worth, nearly half of all agricultural workers are native-born, and significantly more than half are U.S. citizens, according to Department of Agriculture data.)

The Labor Department even claims that broadly advertising agricultural jobs, which is required under the H2-A rules, has not led to a boost in applications from U.S. workers. This is a bit of a fiction; workers who apply often do not receive jobs, and nobody is really checking to see if applications are coming in. “The system isn’t set up to prove that there’s a labor shortage of U.S. workers,” said Costa, of EPI.

In the end, the Labor Department concludes, the only way to protect agricultural employers from disaster and consumers from rising prices and food shortages is to slash wages in the H-2A program to make it more viable to bring in workers. This is an odd response to a workforce crisis, since cutting wages across the sector will likely drive existing workers to look elsewhere for jobs. In fact, farm employers in Florida fear that H-2A foreign workers won’t apply for these jobs anymore because the wages are so low. (There were 384,900 H-2A applications last year.)

But the filing states, “Without swift action, agricultural employers will be unable to maintain operations, and the nation's food supply will be at risk.”

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Diamond Life @diamondlifeca.bsky.social · 4h

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

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Matt Mulekezi @mulekezi62.bsky.social · 13h

The felon and his Nazi enablers will do everything to disrupt future elections. Shameful corporate networks will accept such authoritarianism.

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