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Another day of outrage...make it stop! Life is fragile #JusticeMatters #Resist #AdoptDontShop #EndCitizensUnited Winston Churchill: "If you're going through hell, keep going." 💙Protect Democracy💙 I know a little about a lot of things. #INFJ

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Linda 💙🦋🦭🐸🐕🐈‍⬛🦌🐘🦥 @lindafromct.bsky.social · Nov 12

Save our freedom!

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1h

Nothing to see here, just Trump going for his second “yearly” checkup this year.

Anyone ready to admit that something is wrong with POTUS yet?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1h

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🎉 ZELD🅰️ 🎊 @zeldazellzelda.bsky.social · 1h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @adamzyglis)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6h

Anyone else remember that old SNL sketch in which Jon Lovitz is playing Michael Dukakis and Dana Carvey is playing George H.W. Bush and they're debating and in mid-debate Dukakis turns to the camera and says, "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy"?

Yeah, *that*

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Jennїe Jonzen🖖LLAP🤟😈 🍀 ⭐️🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻💙💛☘️✴️✳️✡️🌟🧿유 @astartiel.substack.com · 9h

Portland is the best of us.

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 9h

Portland knows how to peacefully protest and have fun while doing it.

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Patrick Lovell The Producer @patricklovellpresentsthecleannewdeal.com · 7h

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 9h

It's so important to nip the framing of this reporting in the bud right now.

Don't accept the narrative that Trump and his team only just started discussing invoking the Insurrection Act. January 6 happened because his White House was in conversation with radicals about what it'd take to invoke it.

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.

www.nbcnews.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 8h

The war in Gaza ended 6 to 9 months ago. It’s been pure genocide—a straight-up slaughter-and-starvation campaign—since then. Under no circumstances should anyone pretend that Netanyahu is still fighting a “war” just so that Trump can get a photo op and say he “ended” it.

Do better, corporate media.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 8h

Trump’s Gaza peace plan does not resolve all the issues, @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social argues. "But Trump is counting on the force of his personality, the exhaustion of the parties, and the momentum created by the initial agreement to ultimately end the war entirely."

The Gaza War Isn’t Over Yet. But It Could Be Soon.

Trump may have ended the Gaza hostage crisis. Can he end the Gaza war?

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Hairball @hairball-redux.bsky.social · 10h

America is now a pathocracy (rule by the disordered). And every American citizens are being held hostage by these psychos.

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Fancy Free @footloos.bsky.social · 10h

I’m in Portland! It is NOT a war zone. The only thing burning is the Constitution! The only violence is coming from ICE!!!

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Mr. Sidis @wjsidis.bsky.social · 8h

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 21h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Indivisible Oregon @indivisible-oregon.bsky.social · 10h

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Want to know if Portland is 'burning to the ground'? There's a website for that

Is Portland "burning to the ground?" A new website has the answer.

www.oregonlive.com

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Indivisible Oregon @indivisible-oregon.bsky.social · 10h

According to the Worst "President" Ever,
Portland is “burning to the ground.”

The reality feels a lot different.
But how can you be sure?
A new website, isportlandburning.com
answers the question.

How?
Live cameras of the city,
fact-checked claims &
a live map of fire incidents in the city.

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11h

Just one grifter winking at another.

Remember, Musk is the largest GOP donor in American history.

He donates 1000% more money to the GOP than a man (George Soros) who Republicans preposterously claim is the puppeteer of the Democratic Party rather than just a donor.

So what does that make *Musk*?

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 11h

“He’s incredible at everything he does. We need 200 Elon Musks,” the president’s 41-year-old son said.

Eric Trump Insists U.S. Needs ‘200 Elon Musks’

The president’s son also weighed in on the volatile relationship between his father and the tech billionaire.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

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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Linda 💙🦋🦭🐸🐕🐈‍⬛🦌🐘🦥 @lindafromct.bsky.social · 11h

Serenity now...

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Cami 🦋🌎📚☕️🐶🦜🌳🏞 Mom 👩 Good Troublemaker 💙 Truth Matters 🚫 No DMs 🚫 @cami4change.bsky.social · 16h

Broadview, Illinois citizens can't breathe when they leave their homes because of ICE thugs overuse of tear gas.

This is Trump's America.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17h

Federal officers are firing so much tear gas at protesters outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, that some nearby community members who aren’t even protesting are struggling to breathe when they leave their homes to run errands.

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

www.motherjones.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14h

My latest: The fight for democracy is the defining battle of our generation. Within that struggle, protecting free and fair elections must be our top priority. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/why-...

Why My Law Firm is Litigating 63 Voting Rights Cases

Read here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 14h

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12h

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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