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We are a web of generations united for inclusive policies, compassionate spending, radical kindness, and sweeping, courageous love. We are fearless resisters, uncompromising in our quest for a society that is just and fair society for all.

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 5d

Anybody who sees this as a sigh of strength should remember that our nation was NEVER set up to give all power to one individual.

Trump asks 9 colleges to commit to his political agenda and get favorable access to federal money

The White House is asking nine major universities to commit to President Donald Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money.

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 48m

The day will come, given enought power (which the Courts and Congress seem determined to do,) when these threats will no longer be idle.

President Trump posts on Truth Social that Chicago Mayor Johnson, Gov. Pritzker "should be in jail"

"Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]" Officers!" President Trump posted. "Governor Pritzker also!"

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Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 50m

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 4h

There’s a reason federal prosecutors didn’t want this indictment to happen. They have insufficient evidence to indict Comey. Not that it can't happen anyway in a Nazi regime.

Prosecutors Warned Main Comey Witness Would Doom Entire Case

There’s a reason federal prosecutors didn’t want this indictment to happen.

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 23h

Legal experts agree recent messages by the Trump administration about the shutdown at least pose ethical concerns about government impartiality.

Does agency messaging blaming Democrats for government shutdown violate the Hatch Act?

Legal experts agree recent messages by the Trump administration about the shutdown at least pose ethical concerns about government impartiality.

www.govexec.com

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 23h

Trump says he can pick and choose which feds get back pay. Republicans in Congress mostly disagree that this nation is run by a king.

Trump says he can pick and choose which feds get back pay. Republicans in Congress mostly disagree

Asked if furloughed workers will get retroactively paid, Trump say “it depends.”

www.govexec.com

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 23h

In 2019, both Johnson and Thune both voted for a federal law guaranteeing back pay for furloughed federal workers during a shutdown. Now, they want to punish workers for the actions of Congress.

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 23h

I expect the day will soon come when newspapers will not be able to print articles like this, as it makes the VA look incompetent. I'm sharing it with you, paywall free, while we are allowed to see this kind of information.

VA’s disability program is an ‘honor system.’ These veterans are defrauding it.

Post investigation finds VA’s $193 billion disability program has turned into a rich target for fraudsters. Some fake blindness or paralysis to get as much as $1 million.

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 23h

What is the name for the situation where a government that kills over 18,000 children while the world stays silent?

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 1d

One week into the government shutdown, top Republican leaders appear to have lost the plot. This might have been expected: after all, they let a demented felon lead them to this place.

Trump's off-script comments cause shutdown headaches for GOP

President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are straining to project a united front against Democrats.

www.politico.com

Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 1d

What are you doing this weekend?

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 1d

Why would lawmakers NOT want a healthy workforce, or chronically unhealthy to receive life-affirming care, which is less costly than letting conditions fester? Who stands to gain $ from poor health?

Government shutdown drags on as health care compromise remains elusive

To hear party leaders talk, the seventh day of the government shutdown sounded a lot like the first.

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans complain about divisiveness, and then they proceed with divisive acts designed to make a population capitulate to their rules .

www.reuters.com

Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 1d

This DHHS military style operation happened in the early morning. Helicopters circled while Federal agents detained nearly every resident in a 130-unit apartment building —including children & babies. They were placed in zip ties and separated by race.
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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.

southsideweekly.com

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BlueVoter @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 1d

He followed the law.. #politics

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

All these headlines saying “Bondi Goes on the Attack.” Really? She wasn’t in the octagon, she’s a public servant who was at an oversight hearing. Her job was to answer questions. She refused to do her job. Stop glamorizing and whitewashing this moronic, performative bullshit.

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 1d

Ty Cobb, (remember him?) a lawyer who worked in the White House during President Donald Trump’s first term, said Attorney General Pam Bondi is now the most “reprehensible” person ever to hold that post.

Former Trump White House Lawyer Says Pam Bondi Is More ‘Reprehensible’ Than Nixon’s Corrupt Attorney General

A lawyer who worked in the White House during President Donald Trump's first term said Attorney General Pam Bondi is now the most "reprehensible" person ever to hold that post.

www.mediaite.com

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 1d

Who's weaponizing the DOJ? Depends on who's asking, but the public is not fooled. We can see that Trump lied about the 2020 election being stolen, and his efforts to protect himself. The felon is still guilty, no matter how he uses the DOJ and others.

3 takeaways from Bondi’s combative DOJ oversight hearing

Democratic senators had questions. Attorney General Pam Bondi wasn’t answering them.

www.pbs.org

Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has taken money directly from Chinese investors, meaning there might be foreign ownership in one of the United States’ most important military contractors.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

www.propublica.org

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 1d

Here's an explainer on the insurrection act.

www.reuters.com

Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 1d

Are Americans a collection of individuals assembled in a social contract, or a specific set of people who embody an 'Anglo-Protestant spirit' and 'have a tie to history and to the land.' www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 1d

In 1930's most Germans generally lived in a government bound by laws, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of an arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

Our Supreme Court is taking us to this system of government.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 1d

American distillers have gotten a costly cold shoulder from Canada, where their exports plunged 85% earlier this year due to Trump's tariff war.

Nazis like to control the economy but it rarely works out for the rest of us.

Cold shoulder from Canada is costly for American distillers struggling with global trade tensions

American distillers have gotten a costly cold shoulder from Canada. A spirits industry group says spirits exports to Canada plunged 85% earlier this year.

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 1d

The Judge ruled there are no facts to support Trump's claim of war zones in American cities, so the GOP jumped in the help convince us all of his truthfulness.

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 1d

There is no legal basis for sending in troops, said Judge Karin Immergut, "the president is acting in a manner that is untethered to the facts.”

So he responded by threatening to invoke martial law.

Trump open to invoking the Insurrection Act

The comments came a day after a federal judge blocked the president from sending National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.

www.politico.com

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump appointee accusing the president’s political foes of mortgage fraud skipped over his agency’s rules, meant to ensure that federal officials don’t abuse their power for partisan purposes.

Nazis use Federal Government for personal means.

www.reuters.com

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