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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 3h

@thenewrepublic.bsky.social
DOJ Barbie prepared canned come-backs, but not testimony...
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Photographer Captures Pam Bondi’s Notes—and They’re a Doozy

Attorney General Pam Bondi came to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing armed with nothing more than lame canned attacks.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 3h

Europeans no longer want to visit...

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 3h

This month's @theatlantic.com is the start of the 250th Anniversary celebration. @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social's introduction:

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The American Experiment

At 250, the Revolution’s goals remain noble and indispensable.

www.theatlantic.com

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 3h

Miles Taylor was the DHS chief of staff who in Trump's first term was "Anonymous" who spilled the beans about what was really happening around Trump.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

How it’s done.

🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 9h

👏👏

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

How it'd done....

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 6h

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 6h

Pritzker to Trump: Come and get me!

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 6h

But don't you dare call him "fascist."

President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for the jailing of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, accusing them of “failing to protect” Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who have been sent to the city.
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Trump says Chicago mayor, Illinois governor should be jailed for response to ICE

Trump, providing no evidence, said Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker should go to jail, accusing the two Democrats of “failing to protect” immigration agents.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 6h

What an appalling waste of DOD resources:

"Since taking office, Hegseth has routinely subverted those norms — saying as recently as last week that the nation’s generals and admirals should quit if they don’t support the Trump administration."
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Hegseth’s sprawling hunt for Charlie Kirk critics spans nearly 300 investigations

The inquiry, resulting in a smattering of disciplinary action so far, follows an extraordinary directive aimed at silencing criticism of the slain activist and Trump supporter.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 7h

What a waste of resources and failure to protect the nation!

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A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 10h

@jefftiedrich.bsky.social
"it’s so tragic. Pam Bondi can no longer remember that her job, when called upon to testify under oath in front of the Senate Oversight Committee, is to answer questions honestly"
www.jefftiedrich.com/p/pamnesia-p...

Pamnesia Pam can’t remember shit about Dear Leader’s dead pedo bestie

won’t you please help find a cure?

www.jefftiedrich.com

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 10h

@talkingfeds.bsky.social
In her appearance Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Pam Bondi delivered a display of puerile arrogance so complete it amounted to contempt for the rule of law.
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

A Ridiculous Attorney General

Bondi’s smug evasions revealed volumes about the Administration

open.substack.com

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

@theatlantic.com

“Trump clearly wants to use military power to exert more control over the American people, and soon, top U.S.-military commanders may have to decide whether they will refuse such orders from the commander in chief.”

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

No soup for you!
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Federal workers not entitled to back pay after shutdown, budget office says

Federal workers may not be entitled to backpay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up ten...

www.washingtonpost.com

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

@jefftiedrich.bsky.social
this spiffy new shutdown is dumbfuckier than the previous two/ back in 2018 and 2019
this time, the adults are all gone. the Republican party is morons all the way down.
www.jefftiedrich.com/p/a-shutdown...

a shutdown, but with morons

and grifters and crackpots, too, oh my!

www.jefftiedrich.com

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

@oliviaoftroye.com
"I spent my career protecting this country. Now I’m watching the machinery I once helped shape being turned against our own people...This isn’t homeland security. It’s federalized fear, cruelty disguised as law and order."
www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com/p/the-insurr...

The Insurrection Act and the War at Home

Fear, force, and the line America has crossed.

www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

@jojofromjerz.bsky.social
"He does not see soldiers as human beings. He sees props. He sees optics. He sees mirrors reflecting the hero he has always failed to become."
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

A Hollow Man and His Army of Mirrors

Trump doesn’t lead the military—he feeds on it.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Important insights from
@hartmannreport.com
"ICE operates today with a level of anonymity, impunity, and intimidation that closely parallels the Ku Klux Klan’s tactics as masked, semi-official enforcers."

hartmannreport.com/p/is-ice-tod...

Is ICE Today’s Klan?

From concealed identities to sanctioned violence, the echoes between ICE raids and Klan terror are too loud to ignore…

hartmannreport.com

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Miss Chanandler Bong @debbeec.bsky.social · 2d

I mean we've all had to wait in line for Voodoo donuts but its not a war zone.

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

An embarrassment on the world stage. @economist.com

Rappelling from helicopters, flash-bang grenades, kids in zip ties. All for show.

What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism
economist.com/united-state...

What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism

The worst excesses seem designed to produce content

economist.com

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

The brilliant @johnfugelsang.bsky.social with @velshimsnbc.bsky.social discussing his NYT best-seller Separation of Church and Hate. Just finished my copy. Must-read and must-watch!

youtu.be/5FvPa3ckZ-c

John Fugelsang: Right-wing Christians use the Bible ‘as a prop’ & ignore Jesus’ message

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Helio Fred Garcia @hfgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Yup. Not enough gold.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

It needs more gold.

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SugarHead @sugarheadco.com · 2d

This

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