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K8tracy @k8tracy.bsky.social · 1d

Go, Mark Hamil! May the Force be with you!

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

IN HONOR OF FRIENDSHIP MONTH:

djt: "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey."

Epstein: "Yes we do, come to think of it."

djt: "A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday- and may every day be another wonderful secret."

And by "wonderful secret", he means raping children.

#PedoPrez

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K8tracy @k8tracy.bsky.social · 5d

Guess Howard isn’t in the files🤷🏻‍♀️

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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K8tracy @k8tracy.bsky.social · 10d

Isn’t @wyden.senate.gov the one leading the deep dive into the financial transactions related to Epstein? 🤔

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10d

LOOK ALL AT THE GRAFFITI, SENATOR!!! WE MUST CALL IN THE 101ST AIRBORNE!!!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!! #WarRavagedPortland

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K8tracy @k8tracy.bsky.social · 12d

Oh Eric…

K8tracy @k8tracy.bsky.social · 13d

There it is👇🏻

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 13d

Is this supposed to be a threat? They did this exact thing while the government was open

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

the Tom Homan bribery scandal is the latest example of how a felon in the White House is making crime legal

A felon in the White House is making crime legal

Meanwhile, he's creating fake crimes to punish the law abiding.

www.publicnotice.co

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K8tracy @k8tracy.bsky.social · 18d

Right…🙄

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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 19d

"Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors."
U.S. Supreme Court
Unanimous 9-0 decision
NRA v Maria T. Vullo
May 30, 2024

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Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 20d

This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20d

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20d

👀

FCC Chair Carr’s post from 12/30/23:

Free speech is the counterweight—it is the check on government control. That is why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 21d

It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents.

But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20d

Look who came with

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21d

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24d

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

ML @mlpoole.bsky.social · 24d

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K8tracy @k8tracy.bsky.social · 26d

They vastly over-estimate the influence of educators on college age adults.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 26d

This is even dumber now that we know he went to college for one semester then dropped out.

Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 26d

The man arrested for Charlie Kirk’s murder is a White 22 year old named Tyler Robinson. This is how prominent MAGA pundit Dinesh D’Souza is reacting - blaming professors.

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K8tracy @k8tracy.bsky.social · 26d

We humans in the current timeline are so insignificant in the long arc of time. Dinosaur eggs that are 86 MILLION years old. Wow.

CNN @cnn.com · 26d

A clutch of dinosaur eggs found in central China is about 86 million years old, according to scientists who used an “atomic clock” method to date the sample. https://cnn.it/3I9dloW

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 26d

New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's.

If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too.

It's just a question of political will.

New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free

The program, which is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.

19thnews.org

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K8tracy @k8tracy.bsky.social · 26d

This is all cosplay to them.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28d

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

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K8tracy @k8tracy.bsky.social · 28d

She’s not wrong.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28d

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

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K8tracy @k8tracy.bsky.social · 28d

We have no information about the shooter. What we can infer is that it was someone with a high level of skill.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29d

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor

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K8tracy @k8tracy.bsky.social · 28d

Am I the only one wondering what unique position could’ve been taken by the shooter that was 200 yards away but offered a clear sight for a single shot of CK into the bowl of an amphitheater? It doesn’t feel like an amateur.

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