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Graphic Granola

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Graphic Designer for NPs, Childless Cat Lady, Progressive & WOKE AF, Political Junkie, Feminist, Hippie/Punk Dichotomy, Oxford Comma Fan. Need bio & original content to follow back (🚫 just reposts). #RESIST #4amClub #SomethingIsWrong2024 #WakeUpAmerica

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · Jan 19

How cool is this? All my fave #4amClub brethren in one place. Woo-woo, #BlueLulus. Love all y'all!

#Lotus4Potus #EO13848 #KamalaHarris2025
#14thAmendment #ElectionIntegrity #ElectionFraud #RiggedElection #BeatTheCheat #SomethingIsWrong2024

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 12m

ICE agents will be asked to show up to work, deemed "essential workers," though they won't be paid until government funding is restored.

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The US government has shut down. Here's what to know

The federal government officially entered a shutdown at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday amid an impasse on Capitol Hill over competing congressional spending bills.

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 21m

Yeah, I've since been corrected that this is an old photo. Still funny.

Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 22m

Couldn't watch it. One's mental health can only take so much daily torture. But damn! Robin's synopsis paints a dystopian picture of where we are today. Pedo-protector Pam avoids any question with an unrelated insult. Had "gotcha" comebacks prepared. She's obviously taking lessons from Dear Leader.

Bondi makes a mockery of oversight since it's all a farce now

And MAGA Mike continues to lie about covering up Epstein

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 1h

Actually, no. They aren't. If the shutdown lasts, I'm sure they'll be dropping off dramatically.

Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 1h

It’s becoming clear that the administration’s extralegal assault on immigrant communities was just the beginning of a wider war, one that lately has targeted anyone who dares criticize the regime.

Attacking critics of ICE, DHS, & Trump's admin in much the same way that they attack immigrants.

Trump’s War on America Is Expanding

The president is now unleashing state violence at home and abroad, illegally and with impunity.

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 1h

Authoritarian government coups sure do make strange bedfellows.

Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene rolled a grenade into the GOP camp. She erupted on Twitter, demanding to know why Republican leaders have no plan to help millions of people who will be hurt when expanded Obamacare subsidies expire.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Just Wrecked Trump’s Entire Shutdown Strategy

As Greene admits the GOP is screwing the country on health care, a leading congressional scholar explains how Greene accidentally revealed the surprising weakness of Trump’s position in the shutdown s...

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 1h

Keep pointing out that FACTS MATTER.

The pattern is as consistent as it is brazen: declare a crisis, invent the facts to match, and dare the courts to stop him.

Fidelity to fact, she reminds us, is fidelity to the Constitution.

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A Federal Judge Shows How the Courts Should Deal With Trump’s Lies

District Court Judge Karin Immergut’s opinion shows that courage in judging doesn’t require rhetoric or defiance—only the quiet insistence that facts still matter.

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 1h

Miller believes there’s a latent majority that can be sleepwalked into authoritarianism. If Democrats sit this debate out, Trump’s lies flood public info spaces, persuading low-info voters that autocratic encroachments are an appropriate response to the civic unrest he keeps propagandizing about.

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.

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 1h

Trump’s war against “the enemy within” is grounded in lies.

The lying would be laughable if it weren’t propaganda with a deadly purpose.

Trump told the Navy to view 1/2 of the country as the enemy. Dangerous & un-American.

The Constitution can protect all of us only if we defend the Constitution.

Declaring War on the American People

In this op-ed, Peter Montgomery discusses the recent meeting between Trump, Pete Hegseth, and top military officials and what it means for our country.

www.peoplefor.org

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 2h

DHS staff responsible for civil rights & detention oversight have been laid off, leaving ICE’s expanding detention network unchecked.

Former watchdogs once investigated abuse, solitary confinement, & medical neglect, issues now going unmonitored. ICE detentions & deaths reach 6-yr highs.

Civil rights jobs have been cut. Those ex-workers warn of ICE detention violations

After layoffs, it's unclear how many people are policing civil rights violations inside the Department of Homeland Security, even as the Trump administration ramps up ICE detention.

www.npr.org

Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 2h

ICE. IS. ALWAYS. LYING.

Bodycam footage shows ICE agent taunting Marimar Martinez before shooting her 5x in Chicago’s Brighton Park, contradicting federal claims that she drove toward officers.

The footage blows apart DHS’s fabricated story about the shooting.

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 2h

I guess they're no longer our "REPRESENTATIVES."
—As if they ever were.

Rep. Miller-Meeks said she won’t hold town halls “when hell freezes over” after facing outrage over GOP Medicaid cuts & Trump’s spending bill. She mocked constituents who challenged her.

A swing-district Iowa Republican says she’ll hold town halls ‘when hell freezes over’ | CNN Politics

Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks told Johnson County Republicans in an August meeting that she’ll hold town hall meetings “when hell freezes over.”

www.cnn.com

Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 2h

"It could happen to your state next.”

Trump is pitting states against each other and turning the Guard into a political weapon. His power grab shreds the Constitution, and Republicans’ silence shows how normalized military occupation over U.S. cities has become.

‘It could happen to your state next’: Durbin appeals to GOP on Guard deployments

Illinois’ senior senator spoke out after President Donald Trump ordered troops to Chicago.

www.politico.com

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 3h

“We were kidnapped, stripped, zip-tied, blindfolded and sent to an internment camp on a police van without any access to food, to water, to legal support,” he said. “And for the next five days, on and off, we were psychologically tortured.”

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

US activist from Gaza flotilla alleges ‘psychological torture’ by Israel

David Adler says Sumud Flotilla activists were 'kidnapped, stripped, zip-tied, blindfolded' and sent to prison camp.

www.aljazeera.com

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 3h

www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/b...

Trump to cities: Drop dead | CNN Business

Fifty years ago this month, President Gerald Ford told New York City the federal government would not save it from financial collapse. The New York Daily News summed up Ford’s speech in an infamous fr...

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 3h

Not only is he illegally occupying cities with our own military. Now he's calling for the arrest of the city's leaders.

"Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?"

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump calls for jailing of Illinois governor and Chicago mayor in immigration standoff

The president, who sent national guard troops to the city, said local officials failed to protect immigration agents.

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 3h

Trump is "doing these drastic things against Americans’ will."

We seem to be reaching an inflection point, where Trump charges ahead despite the courts, despite the facts on the ground, and despite longstanding norms that guard against the politicization of the military.

Americans don’t want Trump’s federal troop crackdown. He’s barreling forward anyway. | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump is barreling forward with his administration’s heavy-handed efforts across the United States, in rather ominous and drastic ways.

www.cnn.com

Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 3h

Although the order has lapsed, hundreds of troops are still in DC.

23 states w/GOP AGs approve
22 states w/DEM AGs oppose
*60% of the citizens themselves oppose Nat'l Guard in US cities*

The deployment of Nat'l Guard units without the city’s consent is unlawful, unconstitutional, & undemocratic.

Lawsuit against Trump's Washington National Guard deployment exposes country's deep partisan divide

The case highlights deep divisions over Trump's use of military forces in cities. States that could face their own deployments are closely watching the case. Legal experts differ over how they think t...

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 3h

"I filed the complaint because we don't play politics with public lands," Achilles told NPR. "The Forest Service exists to serve all Americans, regardless of political affiliation."

www.npr.org/2025/10/07/n...

Retired federal land managers say that partisan shutdown language is chilling

A federal union argues that Trump administration language posted on federal agency websites and some emails blaming a shutdown on the "Radical Left Democrats" violates a 1939 federal law.

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 3h

Some 58% of Americans, 7 in 10 Democrats & 50% of Republicans. think the president should send armed troops only to face external threats. A sign of unease as President Donald Trump increasingly deploys National Guard troops to police American cities.

LINK: www.reuters.com/world/us/mos...

Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 13h

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... all of our freedoms for the holy dollar. We’re just NOT. In fact, the opposite is true. The more we get pushed (x3) up into a corner… The more we get threatened with the loss of our freedom…

Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 13h

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...the more we WAKE UP. The more angry people get— and the more willing people get— to RISK EVERYTHING.

Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 13h

#4amClub #BlueLulus

Feeling a big shift? Me too.

This clip from @ethicalpsychic.bsky.social spoke to me so much that I wanted to share it.

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Although we’re all little Capitalists in this country, we’re more than that. We’re not going to give up...

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The Desperate Acts of a Dying Empire

YouTube video by Jennifer Lisa Vest

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 21h

Whelp, here we go. #ConstitutionalCrisis

As if we haven't been in a Constitutional Crisis since January 20th. And what can we do when we have a rubber stamp #CorruptSCOTUS majority? The whole lot is taking us down a very dark path. #ItsACoup

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22h

Troops arrive despite active legal challenges from Chicago and the state of Illinois in the courts.

US National Guard troops arrive in Illinois as Trump escalates crackdown

Troops arrive despite active legal challenges from Chicago and the state of Illinois in the courts.

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