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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24m

The U.S. armed forces may soon face the choice of whether to refuse illegal and unconstitutional orders, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. What will they do? https://theatln.tc/MnJ75n1c

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24m

if you're rich beyond the dreams of avarice then you can marinate in horseshit conservative ideology re healthcare consequence-free. but even if you're just upper middle class, you probably know people who are going to get BONED by this ACA subsidy repeal

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 1h

Feds came with Black Hawks, explosives, and chemical weapons for illegal immigrants. And now they turn against the media and protesters.

See where this is going.

If they can make you afraid to speak out in the street, they can make you afraid to vote, too.

www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/federalism...

The ‘Chipocalypse’ is now

A training ground for the military?

www.ifyoucankeepit.org

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 53m

The Insurrection Act allows the president to deploy the military for civilian law enforcement. It’s also dangerously vague. bit.ly/3GsFBhL

The Insurrection Act Explained

The law, which lets the president deploy the military domestically and use it for civilian law enforcement, is dangerously vague and in urgent need of reform.

www.brennancenter.org

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Kathryn Ruud @kathrynruud.bsky.social · 11h

The hand-wringers: "Oh, what CAN we do? What CAN we do?"
Heather Cox Richardson: There are 52,000 candidates on various local ballots. PAY ATTENTION: Who is fighting for democracy? REGISTER, help those candidates in their campaigns, and most of all, VOTE!!

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 11h

Here’s where to go vote.gov #registertovote 🗳️

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 20h

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1h

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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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

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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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1h

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Ingots We Trust

Are soaring gold prices telling us something important?

open.substack.com

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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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CNN @cnn.com · 11h

Federal health officials late Monday warned people not to eat certain Hello Fresh subscription meal kits containing spinach that may be contaminated with listeria.

USDA warns that Hello Fresh meals may contain listeria-tainted spinach | CNN

Federal health officials late Monday warned people not to eat certain Hello Fresh subscription meal kits containing spinach that may be contaminated with listeria.

www.cnn.com

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 15h

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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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11h

Trump's America, 2025.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 14h

Ty Cobb, Trump’s former attorney, called Pam Bondi undisputedly the worst Attorney General in American history, surpassing Nixon’s AG John Mitchell, who ended up in prison for his role in the Watergate coverup.

History doesn’t always repeat, but it often rhymes.

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David Hart @hartdp2000.bsky.social · 14h

I’ve seen this movie…

Image from the movie “The Andromeda Strain”

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brennerfissell.bsky.social @brennerfissell.bsky.social · 15h

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 20h

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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David Hart @hartdp2000.bsky.social · 14h

Isn’t that a paintball gun (pepper ball)?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

SEN. KENNEDY: “.. it’s not up to the president. I mean, his opinion matters, but Congress has got to appropriate the money. Read the Constitution.” 🤡

@mediaite.com
www.mediaite.com/politics/rep...

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 16h

MAGA, MAGA.

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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 17h

2:15 pm - Speaker Johnson says Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva D-AZ can be sworn in 'as soon as she wants.'

Two hours later, GOP tells reporters Grijalva won't be sworn in until the government shutdown is over.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 17h

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 17h

The constitutional remedy for a president who is using public money contrary to congressional appropriations is impeachment, removal, and disqualification.

(And would have, before Justice Roberts got a bright idea, led to eventual criminal charges.)

George Pearkes @peark.es · 18h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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