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Joanne @jmgchi.bsky.social · 3h

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Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision isn't expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

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Christopher Mootham @chrismootham.bsky.social · 4h

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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · 4h

"Trump’s threats are no longer bluster. The guardrails of his first term are gone. He is instead surrounded by enablers... Retribution is here.” New from @jonlemire.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Retribution Is Here

The president’s threats of revenge are no longer bluster.

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The Shadowdancer @chados.bsky.social · 1d

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If this is true, it is outrageous. It means that Lindsey Halligan misled a grand jury to induce it to indict and still damn near failed to do so-and did fail on one count.

Central witness undermines case against James Comey, prosecutors concluded: Sources

Ex-FBI Director James Comey is set to be arraigned Wednesday, but prosecutors investigating him determined that a central witness would prove "problematic," sources say.

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Joanne @jmgchi.bsky.social · 7h

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Trump's 5-point plan to 'rule forever' exposed by senator

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, one of the most outspoken members of the Democratic Party, took to the Senate floor to explain what he says is President Donald Trump “enacting a well thought out plan so he an...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

"For the first time since the civil rights era, the president of the United States is sending in troops over the objection of a local state. The big difference between now and the civil rights era is that the president is doing that based on their desire for power only."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16h

This powerful JB Pritzker response to Trump's lawless threats is another reminder of what I tried to argue this morning: Pritzker understands Stephen Miller's theory of this moment, and he's responding accordingly:

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14h

it’s all just a grift

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 11h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16h

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.”

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

Good lord.

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Joanne @jmgchi.bsky.social · 12h

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump’s ‘Antifa roundtable’ was so much worse than you’re imagining

Holly Baxter reports on a meeting which, at one point, appeared to position people protesting against Nazis in the Weimar Republic as the bad guys, and at another saw the president declare, ‘We got ri...

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Joanne @jmgchi.bsky.social · 12h

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Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Joanne @jmgchi.bsky.social · 13h

Really?

Joanne @jmgchi.bsky.social · 15h

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Trump is Turning ICE and the National Guard Into His Militia

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 16h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Joanne @jmgchi.bsky.social · 16h

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 19h

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Thomm53 @thomm53.bsky.social · 1d

It seems the SCOTUS is about to rule that Christians have a 1st Amendment (?) right to torture gay kids into denying their true nature.

The USA's morph into Gilead is almost complete.

Supreme Court skeptical of state bans on conversion therapy aimed at LGBTQ kids

The court heard arguments in a case brought by Kaley Chiles, a Christian talk therapist in Colorado, who argues that the state's ban violates her First Amendment rights.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 19h

This is NOT making Chicago safer. And this must NOT be what America is.👇

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19h

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h

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