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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 1d

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“But they detained everyone in the building, smashed their doors, zip-tied their children, and ransacked their homes.
This was a wildly disproportionate and illegal response, even if the raid had actually had anything to do with crime.”

State Terror, American Style

Forget about “soft autocracy”

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 2d

“As much as the White House is trying to blame this on Democrats, who have refused to give Republicans the eight votes they need in the Senate to reopen the government, a survey by The Washington Post showed that a large plurality of Americans are holding Trump and the Republicans responsible.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 4d

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 7d

U S Senator Mark Kelly added that the silence of the generals when Trump entered was telling - and that Trump’s speech was often “incoherent”.

Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 7d

Lawrence O’Donnell is noting multiple examples of Trump’s mental decline — just today.
Where is Bandy X Lee?

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 8d

“Haass described Trump’s latest statements on Ukraine as those of an “observer in chief. It was almost as if he were observing U.S. foreign policy, rather than making it.””

Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 9d

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 9d

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 25d

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25d

There is no excuse for political violence in America. And no excuse for a U.S. president using a heinous killing as an occasion to treat his political opponents as accomplices to murder and threatening to use the full power of the government to attack them.

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 25d

Trump failed W Bush 101 on Uniter vs Divider

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 26d

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I could see Trump receiving the No Bell Pizza Prize.

Trump wants a Nobel Peace Prize. I think his cruel policies make that unlikely. | Opinion

Trump and his minions are shamelessly campaigning for the honor, but he is the very opposite of past Nobel Peace Prize laureates.

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 28d

J D Vance in his role as
Vice Apologist

Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · 28d

Homan should not be confused with human.

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Gregory P. Wilson @newguardsrising.bsky.social · Sep 4

CLOSE THE SKIES OVER UKRAINE NOW! Thank you for your attention to this matter. 🇺🇸🇺🇦

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · Sep 4

🇺🇦🇺🇸✈️ Ukraine has proposed to the US to consider a special format to protect Ukrainian skies, – Zelensky.

"As long as there is no peace, Ukrainians should not depend on constant Russian attacks, Russian missiles and drones should not take lives."

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · Sep 3

Caution: RFK Jr., as Secretary of HHS, may be hazardous to your health.

Deborah Sharp @saneresponz.bsky.social · Sep 3

More than 1,000 current, former HHS employees sign letter calling on RFK Jr. to resign - ABC News share.google/TcXpReAYI16f...

More than 1,000 current, former HHS employees sign letter calling on RFK Jr. to resign

More than 1,000 current and former employees across HHS signed a letter on Wednesday morning calling for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s resignation.

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · Sep 3

Trump Signals Imminent Supreme Court Appeal to Protect Tariffs www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
Trump’s latest, utterly absurd, comment on tariffs:

“If you took away tariffs, we could end up being a third-world country,” Mr. Trump said at the White House.””

Trump Signals Imminent Supreme Court Appeal to Protect Tariffs

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hard to fathom that Todd Blanche was once a partner at New York’s venerable, oldest law firm — Cadwalader.

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Good explanation.

The Posse Comitatus Act and using military as a police force

Visit President Rutherford B. Hayes' wooded estate named Spiegel Grove, home of America's first presidential library. Tour the president's 31-room Victorian mansion, see his tomb, visit the newly reno...

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · Sep 1

Looks like Nate should have stuck to election and baseball stats.

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · Aug 28

Trump will soon make a tender offer for Acme Corporation.

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · Aug 26

Rachel Maddow refers to how Trump pulls back nominees and sends them to his idea of Siberia: ambassadorships.

Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · Aug 26

“Uganda, a random bizarre country chosen by Trump.”

Expect even more.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Aug 24

The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.

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Jim Pavle @jimpavle.bsky.social · Aug 25

Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
“Trump wants to mothball billions of dollars in investment and cancel one of the best new sources of American-made, renewable energy,” …Trump and his enablers will own the resulting cost increases for ratepayers.”

Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built

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