Eric Christiansen
@erichristiansen.bsky.social
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Retired HS Theatre Director; Harley Rider. "I will not give in to the lies. I will not give in to the fear." 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️♀️⚖️🏳️‍🌈🟧✡️🟦 💙 #BLM #VoteBlue #Resistance #BlueCrew "Trumpum delenda est" - 8647
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NOTE: Sometimes I edit excerpts I am quoting from posted articles to fit BlueSky's character limit (rather than breaking quotes into separate posts, which is annoying for all). I try to preserve the sense of quotes, & always post a source link so readers can refer back. My apologies to the authors!
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2/2 "...Whether mocking his hysterical ranks or dissecting his racial rants, Democrats are wise to keep the focus on the most rabid person in the administration (where the competition is stiff)."

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Stephen Miller is the Poster Boy for the Rabid MAGA Movement
The more voters see of him, the more repulsed they’ll be
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1/2 "Democrats would be wise to make this snarling, racist, and unhinged character [Miller] the face of the MAGA party. (Which shouldn’t be too challenging, given the advantage of being true.) ...
Stephen Miller is the Poster Boy for the Rabid MAGA Movement
The more voters see of him, the more repulsed they’ll be
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1/2 "ICE and Border Patrol are using military-style tactics in civilian communities while distorting facts to defend their actions. The agency’s initial claim that Marimar Martinez posed a deadly threat crumbled under body-camera evidence....
Urgent: ICE is Lying to the American Public
The stories told by ICE officials in Chicago are being debunked in real time. Please share this far and wide.
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"Faced with the Trump administration’s lunatic policies and literal desire to crap everywhere and anywhere, the local and state response is increasingly 'no, you can not.'

That sound, that recoil, is getting louder."

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Kristi Noem, Denied the Dignity of Pretending She Matters
Denying ICE Barbie a Toilet is an Act of Resistance
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Reposted by Eric Christiansen
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"Repubs in Congress could have picked up power [Trump] let fall. But they have chosen not to exercise their Constitutional duties.... With their abdication, power appears to have flowed to unelected officials, ... operating according to deeply unpopular ideologies."
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October 7, 2025
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved.
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"Every awful act this adm takes sows more seeds of resistance & defiance. They can spew vitriol, send troops, & lie.... But they cannot have America’s heart; in fact they are losing more of it every day with their cruelty, lawlessness, and corruption."

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Chop Wood, Carry Water 10/7
We. Will. Get. Through. This.
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Picture of "hand-to-hand" combat does not appear in my original post - trying again here:
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"Stephen Miller talked about Portland on CNN today: 'ICE officers have to street battles against Antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building.'

… Here is the hand to hand combat outside the ICE building."

SOURCE: LINK in 1st Comment
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2/2 "...When armored agents zip-tie children and deploy chemical agents in American neighborhoods, it is not just a 'local story.' It is a national crisis that demands national attention."

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The Media Cannot Normalize This Moment
Tonight, I come to you with a simple message: we cannot normalize what is happening in this country, and especially not in the media.
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1/2 "There appears to be an unofficial blackout around the ICE raids, as if acknowledging them too directly would be politically inconvenient or too disturbing for audiences.

That is not journalism. That is complicity....
The Media Cannot Normalize This Moment
Tonight, I come to you with a simple message: we cannot normalize what is happening in this country, and especially not in the media.
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