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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

If what Trump is doing is legal - if his loopholes are technically real loopholes - the laws need to change. An if it's illegal, folks need to go to jail. No other options unless you want *all of this* to be standard American politics from here on out.

@jvl.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 1h

If ANY other president had been caught DMing directives for the Attorney General to indict his political enemies it would have been game over.
Impeached. Removed.

But not Trump.
With Donald Trump, it’s just another fucking day ending in Y.

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 11h

The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act clearly requires that furloughed federal employees receive back pay after a shutdown. This wasn’t partisan when it passed, and it shouldn’t be a question now. Trump is spinning further out of control by the day. (1/2)

Shown Here:
Public Law No: 116-1 (01/16/2019)
Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019
This bill requires employees of the federal government or a District of Columbia public employer who are furloughed or required to work during a lapse in appropriations beginning on or after December 22, 2018, to be compensated for the period of the lapse. The employees must be compensated on the earliest date possible after the lapse ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates. Employees required to work during the lapse in appropriations may use leave.

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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 17h

Jeffries: “Republicans acted with great urgency to swear in two right-wing members of congress to do in the American people… What is the delay with respect to Representative-elect. Grijalva? Anything to do with Republicans continuing effort to hide the Epstein files? Inquiring minds want to know.”

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gcassady.bsky.social @gcassady.bsky.social · 14h

Consequences..

CNN @cnn.com · 14h

A soccer match between Argentina and Puerto Rico, originally scheduled for next week in Chicago, has been relocated to Florida amid the immigration crackdown in the city, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press.

Soccer match between Argentina, Puerto Rico moved from Chicago to Florida amid immigration crackdown | CNN

A soccer match between Argentina and Puerto Rico, originally scheduled for next week in Chicago, has been relocated to Florida amid the immigration crackdown in the city, a person familiar with the de...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Trump just threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act if governors/judges act *lawfully* within the constitutional system in ways that displease him.

Miller's statements reveal their real position: Trump's power to invent pretexts for emergency actions is limitless.

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

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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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

In general, we win by making sure that as bad things happen, and bad things are happening in lot of different ways, people know that they are happening and that they need to blame republicans.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

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

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 1d

I don't understand why I see things so differently. I see a health insurance industry that thinks it's entitled to charge people 1/3rd of their income for healthcare. That industry shouldn't be "fixed." It should be burned to the ground and its ashes pissed on.

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gcassady.bsky.social @gcassady.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly, I think it’s true.. (and I had some respect for Laura Bush)…

Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 1d

Be sure to listen for George and Laura Bush’s cries for our democracy.
Like, listen super closely.
Closer than that! Turn up the volume!
Whaddya hear?

Exactly. Nothing, nada, zip.

For those wishing for “traditional conservatives” to do something, that ship… is at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

gcassady.bsky.social @gcassady.bsky.social · 1d

Lying liars..

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Furloughed federal workers are not entitled to automatic back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration argues, adding that a law Trump signed guaranteeing back pay to furloughed workers in 2019 does no such thing.

Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims

Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 1d

Serious question: How is it legal for the governor of Texas to send his state's national guard into Illinois, when Illinois doesn't want them there?

In response, can the governor of Illinois call up HIS state's national guard to defend Illinoisans against the portly Lone Star occupying force?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Greg Abbott sends the elite Meal Team 6 from the Texas National Guard into Illinois.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 1d

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon’s National Guard General: They’ll defend America and protect protesters.

That’s leadership we need more of. 🇺🇸

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

There it is

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 1d

Do you smell a coverup?
There is so much more to these files than we know. Trump wasn’t just pedo friends with Epstein, he was in business with him.
These are very sick, disgusting men. Johnson covering up makes him 100% complicit in the rape & trafficking of children.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #OneV1

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 2d

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gcassady.bsky.social @gcassady.bsky.social · 2d

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem was the governor of South Dakota when Biden was President. Guess what she said regarding Biden potentially federalizing the Guard.

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 2d

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

The entire country is walking on eggshells because a madman is hallucinating about crime sprees and burning cities.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 3d

I guess we should have taken "The South will rise again" both literally and seriously.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3d

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

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gcassady.bsky.social @gcassady.bsky.social · 2d

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 3d

Tyranny isn’t American. Defiance of tyranny is.

Trump might think he’s warming people up to the idea of authoritarianism, but he’s encountering patriotic resistance at every turn.

From judges, governors, ordinary citizens…like us.

True Americans will not go quietly into the night.

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