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Eric Phares @ewpthecollective.bsky.social · 11h

They're doing the important work of avoiding townhalls and protecting pedophiles.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

TAPPER: I don't understand why you're not calling the House back in session

MIKE JOHNSON: Members are doing important work in their districts right now

TAPPER: But the work legislating is also important work

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Eric Phares @ewpthecollective.bsky.social · 13h

Retrumplicunts are intentionally escalating to cause something, anything, to happen that will then justify, in their minds, the Insurrection Act.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 14h

"The Federal Protective Service reports — which are prepared each day for law enforcement partners — offered no indication of a dangerous escalation of tensions, or unusual levels of protest activity that would prompt the level of alarm expressed by Trump..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Before Trump Ordered In Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’

www.nytimes.com

Eric Phares @ewpthecollective.bsky.social · 13h

I'll be in Farmington, Mo.

thewakan.bsky.social @thewakan.bsky.social · 13h

Eric Phares @ewpthecollective.bsky.social · 13h

He's either lying and knows it, or he's being lied to and thinks he's telling the truth. Either way, he's lying about Portland.

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Eric Phares @ewpthecollective.bsky.social · 13h

As a Humanist and self-described militant Atheist, it's weird for me to type this, but... I like Pope Leo.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 14h

"El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, who attended the meeting, said Chicago-born Pope Leo was visibly moved after being handed dozens of letters from immigrants describing their fears of arrest and separation under Trump’s enforcement policies..."

www.thedailybeast.com/pope-leo-ram...

Pope Leo Ramps Up His Trump Feud With Order to American Bishops

The Chicago-born pontiff has sharpened his criticism of the Trump administration and reportedly decided to take action.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14h

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.”

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Eric Phares @ewpthecollective.bsky.social · 13h

Trump and his gang of fascists have been setting the table so that they can invoke the Insurrection Act. Nobody that has stood up and spoken out is safe. We have all been declared terrorists and enemies of the state. Protect yourselves and your families.

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Eric Phares @ewpthecollective.bsky.social · 20h

This frightens me to my core.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 1d

If you think I'm not alarmed, read this.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

www.theatlantic.com

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Eric Phares @ewpthecollective.bsky.social · 20h

Retrumplicunts are trying to use federal employees as human shields as a way to manipulate the US public and Democrats.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Eric Phares @ewpthecollective.bsky.social · 20h

Retrumplicunts are trying to use federal employees as human shields as a way to manipulate the US public and Democrats.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

The "Abolish ICE" Banner is back outside of the Portland ICE detention center. It was removed by federal goons.

"Whose streets? Our streets!"

"Whose streets? Our streets!"

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Eric Phares @ewpthecollective.bsky.social · 6d

Because congressional retrumplicunts have castrated themselves and handed their balls to tRump so that he may play with them as he wishes. The lunatics run the asylum.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

“.. This is the risk of shutting down the government and handing the keys to Russ Vought,” the Senate majority leader said ..

@politico.com
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 6d

Gov is shutdown. Let’s see who picks it up this time 🤣

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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 6d

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Tammy @tlwdog.bsky.social · 6d

They are all seeing it now🤗

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 7d

Here's where we are:

Republicans have shut down the government.

Why?

They won't negotiate. They want to pass a bill that will allow the Trump administration to throw 15 million Americans off their health care & double premiums for 20 million Americans.

We won't let them.

Where We Are With The Government Shutdown | Sen. Bernie Sanders

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

youtu.be

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 7d

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

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Joe W @rikerjoe.bsky.social · 7d

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7d

ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Hundreds of Millions of Phones, Without Warrants

Trump is quietly building a surveillance state, and almost no one is paying attention.

ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Hundreds of Millions of Phones, Without Warrants

Trump is quietly building a surveillance state, and almost no one is paying attention.

olgalautman.substack.com

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Eric Phares @ewpthecollective.bsky.social · 7d

I hate to agree with Fetterman, but he may have a point about Retrumplicunts desiring this shutdown as a way to justify further Project 2025 implementation with more federal funding, program, and jobs cuts.

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Eric Phares @ewpthecollective.bsky.social · 7d

Then do it already!

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Eric Phares @ewpthecollective.bsky.social · 7d

That's how I took it. I read a comment on a different platform that condones what Isreal is doing because, "Thet are God's chosen..., God, himself, wiped out entire nations of "evil doers" that went against his children." It's insane.

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Eric Phares @ewpthecollective.bsky.social · 7d

Little Mikey "BOOTLICKER" Johnson stalled the swear-in long enough to shut down the show, didn't he?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

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Eric Phares @ewpthecollective.bsky.social · 7d

This ghoul, tRump, is a disgrace to the once venerable office of POTUS. He uses the office as his personal propaganda outlet, feeding his minions shit that they willingly and gleefully devour. We are truly living in Orwell's predicted dystopia of 1984.

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Democrats Betray Americans with Government Shutdown

Democrats have officially brought on a full-blown government shutdown — engineered by the Radical Left lunatics who control of their party. As the lives

www.whitehouse.gov

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