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Winter @winterpolitics1.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek just took back control of the national guard.

She is sending the Oregon national Guard back home and is directing the California national guard to leave the State.

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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 5h

These are the people who supported and voted for Trump, and he is treating them like their Democrats. Will they ever wake up?

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 10h

MAGA policies are a full on assault on rural America. They are closing down rural hospitals, clinics, schools, entire small towns. And with a few decades Wall Street will own the vast majority of good farm land.

John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 6h

Not true because you have never done your job.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

"I'm attacked every time I do my job" -- it's the victimhood olympics today at the White House

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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 6h

Nowhere in that book does it say, "Answer truthfully and honestly."

April @apriljoy.bsky.social · 9h

Pam Bondi brought a written list of insults to use against senators during her Epstein hearing the other day.

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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 6h

The Insurrection Act has always been on the table, and so has Martial Law. Pretending otherwise is willful naivete or a lack of understanding. Trump is a dictator, nothing less.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

“.. the debate inside the administration has shifted recently, from whether it makes sense to invoke the act to more deeply exploring how and when it might be invoked ..”

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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 7h

Trump is babbling like an idiot. He should be removed from office for all kinds of reasons, and worsening dementia is right up there.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 8h

Yuck.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

It’s nice to have an unofficial “Chief of Staff” who likes to travel everywhere with you to provide advice and counsel. bsky.app/profile/patr...

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem brought Corey Lewandowski along on her work trip to Portland

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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 8h

Just one more indication that Trump now puts himself above the law. Those who think elections will happen because of this or that or the results will stand are not reading the signs. Trump has no intention of allowing Dems to take over Congress.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8h

"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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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 8h

Portland is proudly a Weird Zone, not a War Zone.

sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 8h

These are the vibes I needed today!

#Portland you rock!! This is not a war zone, this is the hottest club in the US!

Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.com · 8h

“War ravaged” Portland, OR
LOL 😆 my kinda vibe!
👇👇👇👇

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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 8h

Allowing government thugs to wear masks makes this deviousness possible. Blue state governors need to outlaw masks for law enforcement.

Michael Barber 🏳️‍🌈 🌊 @ccdude8.bsky.social · 8h

Now #47s goons are pretending to be "antifa" and using violence to get media and right wing outlets to blame Democrats for the violence they are causing (false flag ops).

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 8h

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 8h

This is how stupid they think MAGAs are (and may be). They will believe anything FOX news puts out no matter how ridiculous.

Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 8h

🤣🤣 seems legit!

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 9h

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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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 8h

This is Trump lying. Again. Video shows Kristi Noem on a roof at the Portland ICE Center looking down on a handful of peaceful protestors. We have receipts.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

"Ore-gone" -- Trump

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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 8h

What's happening in America is a fascist blitz, Trump and company are attacking us on so many fronts in so many ways we almost paralyzed from the onslaught. And it is intentional. We need to stay focused on October 18 and turn out in the millions.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h

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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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 11h

His plan is working, and will continue to work until we the people rise up en masse and take back our country.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11h

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 11h

There are many culprits and appeasers to share blame for Trump, and the Democratic Party is no exception. Their lack of courage, their unwillingness to stand up for what's right, helped bring us to this point and, so far, they continue to let us down.

Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 11h

What began as a routine investigation became a propaganda gift...proof that caution without courage is a weapon aimed at yourself. Arctic Frost isn’t the scandal...it’s the mirror.👇

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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 11h

Johnson is a little man in every way possible.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 11h

This is an excellent idea. We can't get funding for mass transit under Trump, so make buses free and reliable. 👍

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 13h

Canada vs. America

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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 11h

So MAGAs, this is your 'Christian' president in action. So Christ-like.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 11h

This has been Miller's dark dream all along, a president with unlimited power, a dictator, a ruler. He's been whispering this into Trump's ear for the past nine years and he is making it happen.

paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 11h

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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 11h

Trump is once again promoting violence by painting a huge target on the back of the Governor of Illinois and Chicago's mayor. He is inviting knuckle-dragging MAGAs to take the law into their own hands. It's beyond irresponsible. It's criminal.

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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 12h

What we deserve is a Democratic Party that will actually stand up and fight for us, not post on social media about things we already know.

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 13h

Healthcare premiums are about to double or triple for millions of Americans.

House Republicans don’t give a damn.

You deserve better.

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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 12h

They are making this all up. It is all being pulled out of thin air without serious pushback from the media or the Dem Party. This is how you start a civil war. We either bow in obedience or we fight back.

Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 1d

they have lost their ever loving minds

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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 12h

FOX News is, and has always been, right-wing propaganda.

JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 17h

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