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Lise 🇺🇦 @elee9.bsky.social · Feb 3

To understand what Musk’s endgame is - you need to watch this.

Please, share it widely - Musk is extremely dangerous. Call your Reps and let them know now!

youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no

DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America

YouTube video by Blonde Politics | The Silly Serious

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h

Yikes indeed. After multiple quarters of success in bringing down backlogs, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is taking a turn for the worse.

The latest data shows that in the first six months of 2025, total net backlogs rose 26%, up by 1.1 million pending applications (of all kinds).

A bar chart showing Total Net USCIS Immigration Application Backlog by quarter, Fiscal Year 2023 Q4 through Fiscal Year 2025 Q3. The chart shows that total applications pending dropped from a bit over 4 million in FY 2023 Q4 to 3.8 million in FY 2024 Q4. In FY 2025, every quarter there has been an increase, with the sharpest increase from Q1 to Q2 and then a smaller but still significant increase from Q2 to Q3, peaking at 5.4 million pending cases.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1h

Israel is buying TikTok to control the narrative

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ABQ Free Press @freeabq.bsky.social · 1h

The 10th Amendment is critical to preventing the current Trump power grab.

It reserves certain rights to the states (and their political subdivisions, like cities) and to the people.

It’s these rights Trump is abrogating by creating “emergencies” to call in troops and give himself more power.

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Olga Nenazhivina Art 👩‍🎨 @nenazhivina.com · 3h

My #VirginiaBeach small series.
Vocation-creation 🙃

#art

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Olga Nenazhivina Art 👩‍🎨 @nenazhivina.com · 7d

New piece 🤗

#art #drawing #ink #wip

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Olga Nenazhivina Art 👩‍🎨 @nenazhivina.com · 20d

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PoliticalNash @politicalnash.bsky.social · 11d

This gentleman is speaking at a #VirginiaBeach school board or council meeting, not sure, but he is spot on about what is happening at the local level. Elections have consequences and it starts with local elections #TheSmellOfRot #ElectDemocrats #DV1 #ProudBlue

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1h

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1h

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 1d

What are in the Epstein files that is worth keeping the government shutdown?

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Lise 🇺🇦 @elee9.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you!

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 2d

This is an Epstein shutdown

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 2d

House Republicans are on an Epstein vacation

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Lise 🇺🇦 @elee9.bsky.social · 1h

substack.com/@deanblundel...

SWALWELL’S BOMBSHELL EPSTEIN TWEET: "The Epstein Files Are Coming And The GOP Are Getting Ready To Abandon Trump"

218 or chaos: Inside the House moment that could shatter Trump’s grip

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Lise 🇺🇦 @elee9.bsky.social · 1h

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule newrepublic.com/article/2014... via @newrepublic.com

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Ed Hirsch @edhirsch.bsky.social · 2h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h

This is why Trump & Republicans went into the shutdown so confident. They banked on the Democratic Party’s weak reputation and assumed they would cave.

Well that’s not happening. Democrats are on the right side of the healthcare fight, and rank-and-file Dems want this battle because it’s worth it.

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Glenn Storm @glennstorm.bsky.social · 2h

A reminder:

This isn’t ideology
This isn’t incompetence
This isn’t business as usual
This isn’t temporary
This isn’t normal
This isn’t ethical
This isn’t legal
This isn’t meant to be popular
This isn’t meant to be good for anyone

This has been a strategic attack against the U.S.

Act accordingly

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Glenn Storm @glennstorm.bsky.social · 2h

When leadership hides, the reason is no good

Supreme Court reverses lower court rulings while hiding behind the shadow docket

Congressional Rs hide from press and negotiations, hide on vacation, then hide from constituents

The administration hides their intentions

Trump hides from accountability

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Glenn Storm @glennstorm.bsky.social · 2h

WSJ: Trump’s “Pam:” social media post Sept 20th urging AG Bondi to prosecute political enemies (Comey, Schiff, AG James) was admitted to be a DM and sent publicly by mistake;

… an explicit order to weaponize DOJ from a corrupt and incompetent President who Rs in Congress will not check.

Vote blue.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Jeffries: "Mike Johnson and this group continue to cover up for the pedophiles. That's crazy."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Jeffries: "The streets are hot right now on Capitol Hill because the Republicans are just falling apart. They cannot justify their position having shut the government down. They cannot justify their position in terms of hiding the Epstein files from the American people."

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 2h

Across the country, people keep asking the same question: "What do we do now?"

And my answer is always the same: UNIONIZE.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 14h

Great piece as always from @himself.bsky.social, on authoritarianism as a competitive instance of the coordination problem.

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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MissyOpposesFascism 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @fangirling0nly.bsky.social · 23h

I absolutely adore that TrumpMiller called in the feds so Portland called for more inflatable creatures.

I hope there's a whole puffy menagerie by this weekend!

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