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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 29m

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 51m

The subtle implication that Trump v. U.S. has always been law and that a president's official acts weren't considered prosecutable when Smith started is disgustingly dishonest.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1h

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 33m

When exactly did SCOTUS provide Trump immunity for official acts anyway? Wasn’t most of Smith’s work done at a time when prosecuting Trump for official acts was entirely appropriate?

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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 4h

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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · Mar 18

I will once again note that Kamala Harris famously used wired earbuds rather than Bluetooth throughout her time as VP, because wireless signals can be intercepted. And because she’s aware of what OpSec fucking is!

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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 4h

Oh.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5h

NOTE: Leavitt says Trump will "stop by for his routine yearly check up."

But…Trump had his annual check up already. 5 months ago. On April 11.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5h

New — White House says Donald Trump will visit Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday.

David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 6h

Alex, everyone knows there’s unlimited money in homelessness. 🙄

David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 6h

Evergreen: bsky.app/profile/funm...

David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 2d

To be fair, people rarely call the police to tell them about things they like.

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The Mendocino Voice @mendovoice.bsky.social · 8h

📈 Covered California premiums could nearly double if federal tax credits expire — impacting up to 5,000 Mendocino County residents. Clinics warn that rising costs could lead to fewer services or closures.

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Mendocino County residents receiving healthcare insurance via Covered California may see premiums rise sharply • The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA

Medi-Cal recipients are not the only ones at risk for losing coverage. Federal cuts may make the state’s program unaffordable for workers not insured by their employers.

mendovoice.com

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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 7h

Even if this doesn’t dawn on you before you have kids: bsky.app/profile/funm...

David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · Sep 30

It’s pretty simple: even if you mistakenly believe that you couldn’t be happy if your kid was trans, any decent parent would choose their child’s happiness over their own.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14h

Donald Trump is calling for the jailing of his political opponents in Chicago. His DOJ lackeys have already indicted a NJ Congresswoman for conducting ICE facility oversight and James Comey. John Bolton's house was raided.

We must treat these latest threats seriously and all stand up against them.

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Motorhead @bradmunchen.bsky.social · 1d

"Putin couldn't do a better job" of attacking America.

How do we know this isn't Putin's doing?

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1d

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn't make any sense to conceive of due process as a right that individual people can have or not have at all tbh. Bad framing from the start. Due process is a restriction on the government's actions, and by definition it applies to either everyone or no one.

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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 1d

Faced with absolutely no threat, an ICE agent shoots a pastor in the head.

They are TRYING to cause a riot so they can declare martial law.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 1d

Had a client call the local homeless shelter Hostility House. (It’s Hospitality House.)

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

And... what would you say... *constitutes* this tradition he's bucking? What exactly is it *constituted* of?

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 4d

Brett Kavanaugh and his clerks need to read this --->

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From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 1d

Well she NEEDS to point that out to keep her job, so… mission accomplished. bsky.app/profile/stev...

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

Pam Bondi’s defensive attacks against Senate Democrats questioning her was not the flex she thinks it was. All it did was vividly point out how she has abandoned Justice Dept. independence to serve the desires of her authoritarian boss.

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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 1d

Well she NEEDS to point that out to keep her job, so… mission accomplished. bsky.app/profile/stev...

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

Pam Bondi’s defensive attacks against Senate Democrats questioning her was not the flex she thinks it was. All it did was vividly point out how she has abandoned Justice Dept. independence to serve the desires of her authoritarian boss.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 1d

The "antifa army" that Noem stared down 😂😂😂

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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.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d

Why won’t MAGA Bondi say whether or not Tom Homan returned the $50k the FBI gave him, cash in a bag?

Simple fact question.

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Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 2d

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

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