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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 3h

Why they’ve had to settle sexual abuse and harassment lawsuits for more than 20 years, right Bill O’Reilly?

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 9h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 3h

Love my Senator and his wife, Gabby Giffords, former Arizona Congresswoman.

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 4h

Is this the secret part of a #Project2025 they refused to make public?

Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 8h

Did anyone else see this today and wonder wtf happened?

Oopsie, Stephen.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 8h

The ICE stories in this Reddit thread should shake every American, regardless of party, to their core. We no longer have a Constitution. This is fascism, pure and simple.

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

www.reddit.com

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 4h

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Matt Robold (rumdood) @rumdood.com · 7h

Especially with this particular administration and the oh so desperate to appear macho ICE goons. They want confrontation that sells the public on the idea that the city is under siege but all the confrontations just look like they would get their asses kicked by a kindergarten class.

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 4h

Lol.

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 1d

I’m super jazzed that @amymcgrath.bsky.social is going to run for the OPEN senate seat in Kentucky and that we’ll still have a strong candidate for this race!!!

McConnells record is so bad even KY Rs hate him.

McGrath says you’re not done fighting, and neither is she.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h

Wow 👇

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 14h

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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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 9h

Agree. Agree. Agree.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 9h

@hoppgroundkid.bsky.social Horrors.

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 9h

Keep the streak. 🥇

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 9h

Southwest Airlines enters the chat.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11h

Did Air Traffic Controllers just start the general strike?!?? 🤝

“…Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy claimed that many air traffic control workers were calling out sick.”

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

#GeneralStrike #ShutItDown #AirTrafficControllers #50501movement

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11h

I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19h

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 9h

He’s going to pardon the criminal Congressman who committed identity theft by stealing the credit card information from the cards people used to donate to him. FFS. For fun, Bob Menendez should sue him for unfair treatment.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 11h

This guy is such a dumb dipshit. How do you have “plenary authority” when you are using authority under power delegated by a statute (which you just cited) that contains specific conditions and limitations?? I am guessing he realized how idiotic he sounded the minute it came out of his mouth

Blanche Devereaux @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 16h

Miller oopsie doodled and said the quiet part out loud, talking about DT aka himself having “plenary authority”:

A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 12h

Here’s video of the incident

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

BEHN: “Feed kids. Fix roads. And fund hospitals. Instead of handing out corporate tax breaks.”

TN-07 Democratic nominee @aftynbehn.bsky.social puts her people-first priorities front and center in a high-energy victory speech

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

THIS is the energy we’ve been waiting for. Credit where credit is due.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10h

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 10h

While he has Miller and Vought firmly in place running day to day along with an out of control Cabinet, Susie Wiles and Heritage Foundation lawyers despicably stay invisible in the background working to make sure the fascism runs on schedule. So, you’re right, he has plenty of extra time to golf.

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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 10h

So dangerous in the war zone with hand-to-hand combat that she can’t be bothered to wear a protective helmet, cause fresh blow outs cost money, or even a bullet proof vest. Must be vicious for her in this Iraq-like savage war zone American city. Lori “badass” Piestewa would like a word.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13h

This from @jessicatarlov.bsky.social may be the most efficient use of 76 seconds of Fox News airtime I've ever seen.

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 15h

Jessica Tarlov: I'm stunned that Republicans want to draw attention to this because... the senators who were part of this investigation are not just random names that he picked off a list, but people who were named in Jack Smith's charging documents for trying to turn over a free and fair election.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13h

Remember, it was the Washington Post who gave Bondi a thumbs up to be confirmed. Democracy Docket made clear from day one that she was an election denying sycophant.

No surprise at their coverage of today. Support independent, pro-democracy media today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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