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Peace @dogsmile.bsky.social · 12h

Call them!!
Vote them out!

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 13h

Most of Dem Senators did not attack Bondi yesterday as they should have. Among other things they should have said, "You're lying again, Ms. Bondi" and "That's a bald-faced lie, Ms. Bondi."

The rapid rise of authoritarianism is no place for etiquette.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 13h

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

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Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 14h

My friend f/ NY received this 😔 message today.

NY's Essential Plan was established under an optional ACA provision that allows states to create a Basic Health Program for low-income residents who don't qualify for Medicaid. The Essential Plan used ACA premium tax credits, to finance the program.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11h

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 14h

@drericding.bsky.social

ICE stormtroopers shot an unarmed priest, wearing clergy cloth, in the head with pellet ammo in Chicago. Someday there will be a reckoning for this.

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jhirri.bsky.social @jhirri.bsky.social · 14h

Can’t root them out. It is what makes them patriots, just like the ones that fought in the American Revolution. They aren’t organized. They just are.

jhirri.bsky.social @jhirri.bsky.social · 14h

Also true for the various Food & Meat Inspectors. (Which we have fewer of anyway due to Doge firings.)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

75% of Labor Department workers are furloughed during Trump’s shutdown.

That means millions of workers will have fewer watchdogs on the beat to ensure job safety, crack down on wage theft, and enforce labor protections.

And the so-called “pro-worker president” is to blame.

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jhirri.bsky.social @jhirri.bsky.social · 14h

Dozy Donny strikes again.

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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 14h

If people preventing the Epstein files from being released are named in them, or trying to indefinitely delay their release at the direction of some who is named, how is that not obstruction?
Add it to the growing list of illegal behavior by the Regime.

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jhirri.bsky.social @jhirri.bsky.social · 14h

I had a friend who spent time in one of these. She was one of the lucky ones, she survived.

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 15h

It's tempting to treat "the American right is a death cult" as rhetorical hyperbole, but when you look at e.g. their enthusiasm for executing people who are *clearly* innocent, no actually these people really do just worship and revel in death and murder

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Ernesto O. @ernest33141.bsky.social · 14h

@resist4harris.bsky.social
Totally calm …Fully allowed.
…That's the best approach!!!
#FuckKristiNoem #FuckICE
@mlipsitt.bsky.social #Resist
@bluestormcomin1.bsky.social
@tonyhq1985.bsky.social
@lemonadegirl.bsky.social
#StrongerTogether
@terriresists.bsky.social
@dpsl.bsky.social

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

Remember this as Trump goes on about being "tough on crime."

@publiccitizen.bsky.social

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Julio Perez @jperez78.bsky.social · 18h

Boycott Fox News!

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 19h

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 21h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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@LuLuRoche @luluroche.bsky.social · 23h

AGREED

@JohnBGilman.bsky.social @johnbgilman.bsky.social · 23h

It is high time for pro-democracy Americans to stop buying new crap from the high tech oligarchs' companies that they do not need. Your current phones & computers work just fine. Stop financing democracy's sworn enemies because "it has as better camera"... Starve the beast.

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 16h

WATCH EVERY MINUTE OF THIS!

Bourdain is ON POINT.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 18h

🚨 This is protecting the American people. “Full force” is not defined by the military. More of this!

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 19h

Merrick Garland green-lit the search of Mar-a-Lago. It happened in August 2022 three months before Jack Smith was appointed. Jack Smith was in the Netherlands at the Hauge prosecuting Kosovo war crimes when Mar-a-Lago was searched. Eric should have listened to my podcast.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

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jhirri.bsky.social @jhirri.bsky.social · 14h

So, the secret is to bring all your families? Then you get sworn in?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

Sickening.

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 17h

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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