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jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · 1d

More of this please. Over and over and over again. Please 🙏

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · 2d

Uhhhh, what?!

jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · 3d

Also, Jane’s spaceship is full of exactly all the same people I would choose…

jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · 3d

THAT’S RIGHT!!!!

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 3d

BREAKING: We just won in court — again.

A federal judge BLOCKED Donald Trump’s unlawful attempt to DEPLOY 300 OF OUR NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO PORTLAND.

jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · 3d

“If you lose all hope, you become apathetic and do nothing”. Rest in Peace Jane🙏

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 3d

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

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jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t believe we are here. I pray that one day this is over and our country learns from this and never lets it happen again.

Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 3d

Things to consider:

Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter

Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed

You are a witness.
Expose it.

jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · 6d

We are in the upside down.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 6d

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · 7d

Wait Ted, did you just say…. Oh, yes you most definitely did….

🤔🤔🤔

sasha @krassotkin.bsky.social · 8d

Ted Cruz, in a Senate hearing, slipped saying "Let's stop attacking pedophiles" while urging bipartisanship on crime. The remark came amid debates on Jeffrey Epstein files and crime policy reforms.

jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · 14d

…and what a valuable swamp creature you are to democracy!

jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · 18d

He knows he’s posting on social media and not writing her an email, right?

jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · 21d

Okay so this is trend should scare us all.

…but shocked? I mean, did any of us honestly think money grubbing corporate media cared about free speech?

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 21d

On social media Wednesday night, after Kimmel’s suspension was announced, The Onion’s Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social wrote: “[it’s] Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love.”

Who’s after Kimmel?

Corporate-owned media is bending the knee to our dim-witted dictator

www.thealtmedia.com

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jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · 23d

YESSSS!

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jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · 23d

This is absolutely disgusting. Absolutely no shame. Didn’t even blink.

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jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · 24d

Makes me so mad the media just skims right over this stuff. Almost the entire US population died last year of drug overdoses, Don?!

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 24d

Why didn’t anyone immediately follow up with “what’s the population of the United States?”

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jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · 26d

This.

Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 26d

James Talarico: Our division is not by accident. The social media platforms, the algorithms, and the news networks tear us apart. We have got to find our back to each other. That is the only way we can continue this experiment in democracy

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jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · 28d

So we should become just like him? Is that the point some here are trying to make by parroting his words? Shall we all just lose our humanity together?

jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · 28d

What happened today is terrible. Regardless of how you may feel about Kirk, this is horrible on so many fronts, and no one deserves that. Of course, immediately this act of violence gets turned into an us versus them political ploy. Stop. Just stop it. Let’s literally just stop all this insanity.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28d

👇🏽

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jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · 29d

Remember when Kamala Harris called Trump a fascist and people lost their minds?

jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · Sep 6

Read Pritzker’s message a few times over. This is pure insanity.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 6

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

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jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · Sep 3

Oh he knows.

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jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · Sep 1

The very man demanding world leaders nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize is about to rename the Dept of Defense the “Department of War”. 🤔 We’re living in an alternate universe, ya’ll.

Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 30

White House moves forward on plans for a Department of War, WSJ Reports reut.rs/4nbuv4b

White House moves forward on plans for a Department of War, WSJ Reports

The Trump administration is advancing plans to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing a White House official said.

reut.rs

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jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · Aug 25

Vance is owned by billionaires. Thiel is his mentor and got him into the White House. Vance could be SO much worse.

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jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · Aug 24

Wasting time on hypothetical scenarios that would never happen is a giant waste of time.

jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · Aug 22

I’m in love.

jessleighc.bsky.social @jessleighc.bsky.social · Aug 22

Are Americans this dumb or does Trump just assume we’re all this dumb?

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Aug 21

Well, you know the streets of DC are truly dangerous if they're letting the president go out at night for a photo op.

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