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GirlFuturist

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Artist with an MBA, dual American French citizen, seeker of wisdom. In search of art, politics (well, used to be), smart sane people, sustainability, orchids. Currently in Boise.

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GirlFuturist @girlfuturist.bsky.social · Aug 19

🤢 Watching the EU leaders sitting there, indulging fascism and narcissism and insanity, makes me vomit. All (except the Brit) articulately speaking a language not their own. Thank god they all realized, as did most watching, that they came to humiliate, and manipulate, the dangerous American fool.

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 8h

Voting away your own constitutional powers to a dictator. We cannot forget who these people are.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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GirlFuturist @girlfuturist.bsky.social · 8h

In 1977, John Mitchell, 63, became the first former U.S. #AttorneyGeneral to go to prison, in Montgomery, Alabama, for his role in the Watergate cover-up. #Bondi

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 8h

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

Johnson and Lauer are stalling.

If Grijalva isn’t sworn in, it gives them time to pressure one of the 4 Republicans who signed the discharge petition to flip.

The reason they’re working this hard to shield the Epstein files is because Trump’s name is all over them.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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Christian Thiels @christianthiels.bsky.social · 8h

"French President Emmanuel Macron will name a new prime minister within 48 hours, the Elysee Palace has said, fending off speculation that fresh elections could be imminent."
@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social
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Macron will nominate new French prime minister in 48 hours

Sébastien Lecornu, the outgoing prime minister, said MPs recognise the pressing need to pass a budget by the end of the year.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 10h

Seems more akin to martial law, as a usurpation of civilian authority by military force - since the idea of an opposing army/ enemy force is entirely imaginary unless they can, by these actions, provoke one into being.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

if this isn't civil war i'm not sure what is

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 8h

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 10h

I have a friend who owns a restaurant. He says tourism and travel to DC in recent months has devastated many restaurants in DC. So, yes, Trump is lying. Again.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "You can go and eat at the restaurants. The restaurants are booming. They were closing one after another and now they're booming, they're opening. Nobody has ever seen a transformation like they have in Washington DC. It's as hot as it can get."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Pritzker: "I think it's important to recognize that the Trump administration does not seem to respect any laws in the United States. They just do what they want to do and they'll keep doing it unless someone stops them. Here in Illinois we're stopping them."

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 12h

Examining the rise of the anti-science movement | Had a fantastic conversation with Major Garrett about my new book w/ @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, #ScienceUnderSiege, on @cbsnews.com #TheTakeout:
www.cbsnews.com/video/examin...

Examining the rise of the anti-science movement

Critics say Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Trump administration have been pushing an anti-science agenda. The new book, "Science Under Siege," argues it's not just the federal governme...

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 13h

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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GirlFuturist @girlfuturist.bsky.social · 13h

So #Bondi has a Burn Book, which she denied, in front of Congress, under oath www.instagram.com/reel/DPkDfiH...

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 13d

“There is simply too much shit. [Another] death in ICE custody, Homan’s bribery scheme, and American missiles striking foreign boats… It’s clear at present that this Trump [regime] doesn’t seem to believe it has any limits.” @marisakabas.bsky.social

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GirlFuturist @girlfuturist.bsky.social · 14h

#Dogs are the best. The best.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 14h

Public Service Commissions tell monopoly electric and gas utilities what they can and can't do, including whether they can raise your electricity bills. PSC election turnouts are often in the *single digits*. More than almost any other election, your PSC vote really matters!

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20h

Today on Volts: hey listen up! The most important election of the year is happening in Georgia next month. Two seats on the (currently all-GOP) Public Service Commission are up & rising electricity prices are on everyone's mind. This is a bellwether for next year's governor & midterm elections!

Pay attention to the most important political race of 2025

With energy affordability set to dominate national politics, Peter Hubbard and Brionté McCorkle explain why a down-ballot Georgia race is ground zero for the fight.

www.volts.wtf

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 21h

PASSIVE AGGRESSION TRANSLATED

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

Read this thread for a frankly breathtaking example of the utter garbage you get when Techbrahs try their hand at law.

Although if you say "I have an issue that's important to me, huh, I guess I will try Vibe Lawyering," I am basically ok with whatever happens to you.

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 15h

The bros are at it again! and make no mistake, they are LITERALLY calling it "Vibe Lawyering"

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14h

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, what a hellscape.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14h

Along with the fascism, the other way you know this is not OK is to imagine the hysterical National Conversation™️ about freedom of religion & the separation of church & state we'd be having if an observant Muslim or Jew in a Democratic president's Cabinet opened a government meeting with prayers.

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14h

So the truth is it’s my former political party - the Republican Party - that is the “defund the police” party.👇

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14h

It may be hard for Trump to get convictions, but winning in court isn’t his aim; it never has been in the past. trib.al/zlf5Pde

Trump’s instinct is to follow the money. He will target “individual and institutional funders, and officers and employees of organizations" to scare them into complacency.

How Trump Became the Ringmaster of Left-Wing Violence

He’s goading bad actors on the left to give him a reason to harass his law-abiding critics.

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GirlFuturist @girlfuturist.bsky.social · 14h

And there you go.
#ToldYa

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h

"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.

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GirlFuturist @girlfuturist.bsky.social · 17h

#ToldYa

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17h

BREAKING: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, five people with knowledge of the talks tell NBC News.

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

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GirlFuturist @girlfuturist.bsky.social · 17h

EXACTLY

GirlFuturist @girlfuturist.bsky.social · 19h

Remember, Trump said that it would be better if his disabled nephew just died. This is who Republicans are www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...

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