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Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a video from Chicago of ICE shooting a pastor in the head with a pepper ball as he leads people in prayer. We WILL force a reckoning for this evil. We must rise up and stop this. It's time to get in the streets. #Resist #Courage

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From the illinois community on Reddit: Chicago’s Broadview ICE Targets Pastor in Prayer: Opens Fire from Rooftop, Shooting Him and Causing Him to Collapse

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Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · 1d

It's hard if you're homebound. I'm sure you have a deeply vested interest in stopping the #AssholeInChief. If you can't make it, convince those who care about you to attend. I recruited the mailman, the 7-11 clerk, a kid who helped me move. Phone bank if that's all you can do. We've gotta try.

Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · 2d

Right now, your primary job is to recruit. We need a huge turnout on #NoKings on #October18 to fight this Fascist takeover. Set a target to get everyone directly in and adjacent to your network to attend. Most people don't know what's going on. #Resist #WeAreTheJedi

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Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · 2d

There they go again, saying the quiet part out loud. Plenary authority?! Nothing Fascist about that. Move along. Nothing to see here. #Resist

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From the law community on Reddit: Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

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Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · 3d

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No pay for Congress during the shutdown

Since October 1st, hundreds of thousands of middle-class federal employees have been furloughed due to irresponsible members of Congress who refuse to govern for the well-being of the American people....

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Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · 4d

A beautiful, posthumous message of hope from Jane Goodall. What an amazing person!

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From the justgalsbeingchicks community on Reddit: Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. In it, she discusses...

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Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · 6d

Sitting bedside as someone is dying of old age really brings to life the Buddhist precept of universal suffering. Death is inevitable, and it hurts, no matter how it happens.

Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · 6d

I can't believe #SCOTUS has enabled the #undemocratization of America. So many great judicial minds wore those robes. But we know the court can do #evil. #DredScott, anyone? It's just the pace of the Constitutional decay that hurts most. #Resist

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7d

"With almost every passing day, it feels like the Trump administration further erodes our democracy." -- Rachel Rossi
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The Supreme Court Is Poised to Further Undermine Access to the Polls

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Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · 7d

The parallels with Versailles are pretty spot-on!

Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · 8d

In case you needed proof that Capitalists don't give a fuck... #resist

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Jack Daniel's cuts off free cattle feed to Tennessee farmers after 45 years

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Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · 8d

Let's stack two planes. It's not practical. Okay. How about side-by-side. And so the 747 was born.

Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · 8d

Since the beginning of this crazy play, I've been saying this will come down to whether the military follows the orders of a #tyrant, or protects the #Constitution and #ThePeople. What are you betting? #Resiat #AssholeInChief

Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · 8d

I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. #Resist

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 8d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · 8d

I really can't believe what an utter #ASSHOLE he is! The fact that I don't have to specify who says it all. They're all assholes. #NoKings #Oct18 #ShowUp

Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · 8d

This really is insane. I truly hope the military will not support this tyrant. That's always been the only end game. #Resist www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Trump and Hegseth Recount Familiar Partisan Complaints to Top Military Leaders

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Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · 28d

Authorities found a rifle with engraved anti-Fascist, pro-trans ideology. The discovery makes the #assassination of #CharlieKirk start to smell like a #FalseFlag operation. Who would bother to engrave that unless they wanted to create targeted outrage at the left? Very suspicious.

Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · 28d

You know things in America are bad when a political assassination vies with a school shooting for the attention of the country on a given day. These are dark times. #Resist

Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · Sep 8

It speaks volumes when a party politicizes a cataclysmic fire just to score points with its base. They maintain outrage to distract from the manifest destruction and suffering caused by their devastating policies. It's so utterly cynical.

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Republican Senators Investigate Palisades Fire Response

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Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · Sep 7

@ezraklein.bsky.social makes a cogent argument. These are not normal times. The government is acting against the people and consolidating power. It is time for extreme measures. #ShutItDown #Resist
#Courage

Show: If Democrats Have a Better Plan, I’d Like to Hear It
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Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · Sep 5

Installing #RFK as leader of the #HHS is irrefutable proof that #BLOTUS has utter contempt for the American people. #Resist

Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · Aug 29

@muellershewrote.com I started rewatching #TheWestWing after you mentioned it on #TheDailyBeans. It pains me to be made more aware of the contrast between a rational, beneficent government, and this evil administration. I miss having confidence in our leaders. There's so much work to do. #Resist

Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · Aug 26

I'm really not enjoying living in a #post-truth world. #Resist

Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · Aug 21

The battle for hearts and minds in the California special election has begun. I just received my first misleading flyer from a coalition of right-wing organizations with Orwellian names. Can we save Congress from a national power grab by GOP state assemblies and governors?
This should be exciting!

Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · Aug 21

When I watch this administration starve the clean energy industry in this country, I feel like we're being governed by a bizarro President. Every choice seems to be the opposite of what we should be doing.

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Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · Aug 21

The enforcement of what purports to be state-sanctioned Christianity is not about religion at all. It's about control, and subjugation, and oppression. Jesus was tolerant and kind. He would not recognize what is being done in his name.