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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11m

Bondi also wouldn’t answer whether she’d seen photos of Trump in the Epstein files around half naked girls, as a witness alleged they’d seen. She must resign.

Tweet from Acyn showing a quote exchange:
Padilla: “Do you believe government officials are obligated to follow court orders whether they agree with them or not?”
Bondi: “I wish you loved your state of California as much as you hate President Trump.”
Padilla: “I asked a simple yes or no question.”
Below is a C-SPAN screenshot showing Sen. Alex Padilla (D-California) speaking during a Justice Department oversight hearing. A lower third graphic shows a countdown to a government shutdown.

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 2h

Adam Kinzinger’s tells MAGA they got duped! Trump protects pedophiles, including himself. He wants to pardon Maxwell because she has all the goods on him and will talk if he doesn’t! He’s all over the files!

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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MAGA Got Played by Trump Over Epstein...Here’s How #shorts #politicalnews

YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 11m

#CNN is into fascism. What a shame.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15m

If you obey the administration’s demands to use its NewSpeak vocabulary, why would I ever trust you to describe its actions objectively?

Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 16m

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 39m

Fear is the foundation of Trumpism. He knows that getting people to fear for their own safety activates their most primal—and manipulable—instincts.

Most Americans have never seen pure fascism before. Pritzker and Newsom are 100% right to describe what Trump is doing and why.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 34m

Trump is melting down cause what he is doing is really unpopular and so is he: www.reuters.com/world/us/mos...

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oddmediapro.bsky.social @oddmediapro.bsky.social · 8h

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 17m

Absolutely.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

Miller has a real theory of the case: A latent majority out there can be sleepwalked into authoritarianism with enough numbing agitprop. Polls show majorities reject the autocratic abuses but Miller plainly thinks voters in the middle lack conviction about any of it.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

This attracted oddly little notice, but Stephen Miller was recently asked directly if he has discussed invoking the Insurrection Act with Trump. He evaded the question.

Miller, a master manipulator of Trump, is clearly nudging him in that direction right now.

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 18m

I believe it is the R’s who are engaged in information warfare, full out! It’s about time, past time all D’s recognize this and fight fire with fire…as with Newsom and Pritzker. There is no other choice.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 25m

Spoiler: It’s illegal.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30m

"Either what Trump is doing is legal, or it is illegal. If it is legal, then Trumpism must be defeated and there then must be a concerted effort to reform the law....If it is illegal, then eventually, someone has to go to jail." www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

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.

www.thebulwark.com

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 57m

Elon Musk said he was going to cut spending by $2 trillion dollars, but instead spending is higher this year than we thought it would be before Trump took office. Truly incredible stuff.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1h

CBO fy2025 projections for deficit/spending/etc are out

Some issues make simple comparisons apples-to-oranges, so I'll do apples-to-apples & explain in the thread

Relative to pre-Trump projections:
-Primary deficits ⬆️ $34 bn
-program spending ⬆️ $97 bn
-revenues ⬆️ $63 bn
www.cbo.gov/publication/...

2025 (January estimate, adjusted to fix issues) 2025 CBO estimate (remove student loan one-time revaluation) 2025 (adjusted for student loans) vs. 2025 projection (adjusted to fix issues)
Spending 7061 7166 105
Program spending 6108 6205 97
Interest 953 961 9
Revenue 5163 5226 63
Primary deficit 945 979 34
Total deficit 1898 1940 42

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 26m

Absolutely he is! 🚩🚩🚩

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Andreas 🇨🇦 fella (fuck you, make me) 💙 @andreasor.bsky.social · 29m

MeidasTouch: #bondi #oversight

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

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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Laurel Davila @laureldavilacpa.bsky.social · 2h

#Pinks

Thank you ladies for the hope you give me!

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Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 3h

More info here. 2/2

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote

The U.S.

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 1h

Yeow. That’s a huge increase. Keep fighting FOR the people, D’s.🫶

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21h

Murray: I talked to a family that’s paying about $300 a month for their health insurance. It’s going to jump to over $1,800 per month.

Many people will turn away and not pay for it—obviously, they’ll lose their health insurance. The fewer people who have insurance, the more everybody pays.

Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 1h

Yep

Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 3h

Stephen Miller goes on camera saying ICE is fighting Antifa on the streets because the country is a war zone with dangerous criminals out to destroy America and then the video will just cut to a video of a group of ICE officers suplexing a 110-year-old blind nun

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 2h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

Setting aside the absurdly xenophobic framing, once again, there is ZERO truth to any of this. Everyone qualifies for Emergency Medicaid equally. Hospitals do not receive more for treating undocumented immigrants in an emergency than Americans. Speaker Johnson is flatly wrong.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 8h

#Pinks #ProudBlue
You can say a lot about MTG but she can recognize a sinking ship when she see’s one. Republicans are going to lose on the health care issue. It’s not sustainable for anybody except billionaires.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene doubles down on her unexpected break with Republicans over health care in shutdown fight

The MAGA firebrand sparked criticism from GOP leadership after giving voice to a key Democratic demand — extending expiring Obamacare funding to avoid premium hikes.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2h

Brutal.

Stephen Miller's Cousin Reveals Family Disowned Him After He Became The 'Face Of Evil' In Resurfaced Viral Post

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Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 1h

Coming soon to a theater near you, America, if you don’t stand up, speak out and tell this autocratic regime to fuck off!