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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h

🚨BREAKING: A right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Right-Wing Group Asks SCOTUS to Turn Pro-Voting Law Into Tool for Voter Purges

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14h

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 5h

Feeling down? Just keep watching these people exercising their constitutional right to dance in the streets.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 5h

No, not anyone. There are only a few qualified to lead in this moment and I think he's the best choice.

Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 5h

He should be leading the Senate Dems right now.

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 5h

We are way past word salads. This man has no idea what is going on. Yesterday he didn't even remember the name of his own book. Now he can't pronounce "speech" and is signing and then ad libbing whatever illegal crap is handed to him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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."

Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 5h

DJT is no Liberace.

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 5h

Exactly

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

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.
apnews.com/article/myan...

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.

apnews.com

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 6h

This is some next deep sewer level shit.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 6h

"may drag us into another war" with our own citizens.

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Michelle @michellesea.bsky.social · 7h

If you haven’t already done so, lease take a minute to call Governor Pritzker’s office and leave him a message of support.
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312-814-2121

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 6h

Beware the false flags. Right now it's our own gov. planting them.

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 11h

Another riot in Minneapolis was instigated by a right-wing agitator who was convicted of shooting into a police station and setting it on fire, in the hopes of starting a civil war.

A self-described "boogaloo boi," he drove up from Texas to create a false flag.

Texas man in 'boogaloo' movement pleads guilty to firing at police station during Floyd protest

Ivan Harrison Hunter, a self-proclaimed member of the “boogaloo bois,” is accused of firing 13 rounds from a semi-automatic assault-style rifle at a Minneapolis station.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 1d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 1d

Always follow the money.

Amano Jack @amano-jack.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case someone missed this detail:
Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck

Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs

A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 1d

Josh Hawley and Yale Law School, ladies and gentlemen.

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 1d

This guy is certainly not my hero or a viable future presidential candidate.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You?

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 2d

I can't read the replies b/c I quit X years ago but do you think he actually learned anything?

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 2d

"Whatever the hell the title" of the book I wrote? This is all anyone should be talking about.

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 2d

I asked my 95 yo mom what she thought of Stephen Miller and she said, "I can't say it out loud."

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 2d

What?!?!?

Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 2d

So, @revealnews.org / @motherjones.com first broke the story of foreign governments setting up massive farms in rural Arizona to suck up unregulated groundwater for export. (Also google "The Grab.") Independent newsroom @sentientmedia.org just re-upped the story, including this compelling video.

In the Arizona Desert, Where Your Neighbor Is an Alfalfa Farm

YouTube video by Sentient

www.youtube.com

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 2d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

MORE: You can find live video of press coverage of this situation, in which media confirms that rubber bullets are being fired at peaceful protesters who are not trespassing. It's merely unfettered fascist violence being unloaded on Americans for the crime of exercising their First Amendment rights.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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