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EmmaTK55 @emmatk.bsky.social · 4m

Temu Goebbels (via @georgetakei.bsky.social)

EmmaTK55 @emmatk.bsky.social · 18m

Thank you! We all appreciate an early post, though no one more than you, I’m sure. I hope your special day was wonderful! 🥳🎂

EmmaTK55 @emmatk.bsky.social · 6h

Ha! I’m a professional tour guide and that gets tourists every time 😏

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 6h

Kristi Noem is complaining that ICE and Border Patrol agents have it really tough in Chicago because the restaurants won't let them use their bathrooms or serve them food.

But I thought Republicans loved free market capitalism? 😅

Don't mess with Chicago! ❤️✊🏽

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EmmaTK55 @emmatk.bsky.social · 10h

WTAF 🤬🤬🤬

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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

Thanks, New Yorker

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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.

newrepublic.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14h

“Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar”

Never forget or forgive that Trump, Rubio, & Musk *chose* to inflict this monumental level of death and suffering on the poorest & most vulnerable people.

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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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine if Republican lawmakers worked as hard to give health care to poor kids as they work to cover up the Epstein files.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 14h

This is remarkable. The world added more solar and wind capacity in 2024 than we added demand. 100% of demand growth PLUS 9% to retire dirtier sources. Cheap energy keeps winning. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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EmmaTK55 @emmatk.bsky.social · 23h

Don’t forget this is the #GOPShutdown because they do not care about our healthcare! #resist #WethePeople #KeepNJBlue #MikieforGovernor #MikieforHealthcare

@hcrichardson.bsky.social @jbf1755.bsky.social @mikiesherrill.bsky.social @kim.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @repsherrill.bsky.social

michnutrish.bsky.social @michnutrish.bsky.social · 23h

@visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @jesscraven101.bsky.social @rosaliewong.bsky.social @karenb4good.bsky.social @emmatk.bsky.social @samschifrien.bsky.social @omzach.bsky.social @briantylercohen.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @velshimsnbc.bsky.social #nj #newjersey #fdt #resistance #insurance #nokings

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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EmmaTK55 @emmatk.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you for helping us stay encouraged! We will do this. We can take back the power that belongs to US, not to this corrupt and inherently weak regime.

#VisibilityBrigade @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @flvb.bsky.social #NoKings @indivisible.org

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 23h

LOL, she didn't bring any reference materials about what DOJ is actually doing, just a bunch of insult talking points.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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EmmaTK55 @emmatk.bsky.social · 1d

Any day now, but I’m think before this upcoming Election Day. The regime is worried about the off-year elections, even though they don’t mention them much at all. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social @repsherrill.bsky.social #MikieforNJ #voteMikieSherrill #KeepJerseyBlue

Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, Of Course, Trump Will Invoke the Insurrection Act

open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, Of Course, Trump Will Invoke the Insurrection Act

open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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KarenB4Good @karenb4good.bsky.social · 1d

Make Jack A 3x Loser
Jack Doesn’t Have NJs Back
👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 1d

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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EmmaTK55 @emmatk.bsky.social · 1d

@adelitaforcongress.bsky.social when do you want to be sworn in? The Speaker says he will do it when you ask.

Oh, and, THERE IS NOTHING TO DO!?

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 1d

Thugs

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Democrats @democrats.org · 1d

It’s been 15 days since @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social won her election.

Republicans still won’t swear her in.

She would be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Miles was chief of staff at DHS in Trump’s first term 👇🏽

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