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((Pro-Democracy Anti-Fascism))
@janetw58.bsky.social
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I thought my protest days were over after Vietnam, Watergate, Roe v Wade, and the women’s movement. I was wrong. But I’m tired. Love dogs and books.
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((Pro-Democracy Anti-Fascism)) @janetw58.bsky.social · Jan 5
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 18h
NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America
Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.
www.rollingstone.com
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 14h
Elon Musk said he was going to cut spending by $2 trillion dollars, but instead spending is higher this year than we thought it would be before Trump took office. Truly incredible stuff.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 14h
CBO fy2025 projections for deficit/spending/etc are out

Some issues make simple comparisons apples-to-oranges, so I'll do apples-to-apples & explain in the thread

Relative to pre-Trump projections:
-Primary deficits ⬆️ $34 bn
-program spending ⬆️ $97 bn
-revenues ⬆️ $63 bn
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
2025 (January estimate, adjusted to fix issues) 2025 CBO estimate (remove student loan one-time revaluation) 2025 (adjusted for student loans) vs. 2025 projection (adjusted to fix issues) Spending 7061 7166 105 Program spending 6108 6205 97 Interest 953 961 9 Revenue 5163 5226 63 Primary deficit 945 979 34 Total deficit 1898 1940 42
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 13h
Another riot in Minneapolis was instigated by a right-wing agitator who was convicted of shooting into a police station and setting it on fire, in the hopes of starting a civil war.

A self-described "boogaloo boi," he drove up from Texas to create a false flag.
Texas man in 'boogaloo' movement pleads guilty to firing at police station during Floyd protest
Ivan Harrison Hunter, a self-proclaimed member of the “boogaloo bois,” is accused of firing 13 rounds from a semi-automatic assault-style rifle at a Minneapolis station.
www.nbcnews.com
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 13h
There is no left-wing violence in Chicago or Portland. It simply is not happening.

It's so not happening, in fact, that Republicans in Oregon took footage from two South American countries to create a hoax photo about Portland.

They have no actual violent footage to put forward.
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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h
A window into how policy is made in this White House
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Q: Are you going to work with your administration to designate antifa a foreign terror organization?

TRUMP: You mean anti-terror?

Q: Antifa

TRUMP: Antifa?

Q: A foreign terror organization

TRUMP: Would you like to see it done? I'd be glad to do it. Does everybody agree? It sounds good to me
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 11h
Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12h
From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 15h
The vindictive prosecutions of political enemies are not a distraction from the Epstein files - they’re one and the same: wielding the power of the DoJ to persecute your foes AND to protect your friends.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
Good lord.

@apnews.com
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h
AP: “.. the administration has only pointed to unclassified video clips of the strikes posted on social media by President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and has yet to produce ‘hard evidence’ that the vessels were carrying drugs.”

@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/trum...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h
One thing @govpritzker.illinois.gov does here, which WE ALL need to do more often, is lead with Trump's crimes.

A sex assaulted fraudster serial felon who freed HUNDREDS of cop assailants--and some terrorists--on his first day is trying to claim Democrats are criminals.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h
If you come for my people, you come through me.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h
We need to ALWAYS highlight the ways the White House is a crime scene.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rten...
The White House crime scene
YouTube video by emptywheel
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h
WSJ reports that DOJ is going to charge John Bolton.

In case you needed anyone less sympathetic to rally behind than Jim Comey.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Prosecutors in Maryland are expected in coming days to charge one of Trump’s first-term national security advisers, John Bolton, now a top Trump critic, with mishandling classified information, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 9h
Trump going after Republicans Comey and Bolton is his dollar store Night of the Long Knives
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h
WSJ reports that DOJ is going to charge John Bolton.

In case you needed anyone less sympathetic to rally behind than Jim Comey.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Prosecutors in Maryland are expected in coming days to charge one of Trump’s first-term national security advisers, John Bolton, now a top Trump critic, with mishandling classified information, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 10h
It's been over 9 months since the Palisades and Eaton Fires tore through Los Angeles. We asked for federal support, but we haven’t heard a word from the White House.

Not a single offer.

Is this what leadership looks like? Abandoning the American people when they call for help?
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 10h
Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
"Maybe you can look into that, Pam" -- Trump directs Pam Bondi to try to stop a planned anti-Trump rally in Austin
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12h
At U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments Wednesday, the justices signaled they’re wary of making it significantly easier to challenge election laws, as a Republican member of Congress and his allies are urging them to do. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
SCOTUS Sounds Skeptical of Right-Wing Push for Flood of Election Law Challenges
SCOTUS Sounds Skeptical of Right-Wing Push for Flood of Election Law Challenges
www.democracydocket.com
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h
Senator Ruben Gallego calls Speaker Mike Johnson a "Pedo Protector" to his face for not swearing in Adelita Grijalva.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10h
🚨BREAKING: A right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Right-Wing Group Asks SCOTUS to Turn Pro-Voting Law Into Tool for Voter Purges
Read more here.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11h
“This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” said @govpritzker.illinois.gov. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head … He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.”
Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations
Democratic governor’s comments came as he continues to oppose President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago area for deportation efforts.
www.chicagotribune.com
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
TAPPER: I don't understand why you're not calling the House back in session

MIKE JOHNSON: Members are doing important work in their districts right now

TAPPER: But the work legislating is also important work
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h
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.
apnews.com/article/myan...
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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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12h
Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.
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