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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Lisa V Gray @lisavgray.bsky.social · 7h

"Given the knowledge and the resources and the privileges that so many of us have, we can’t afford to hope somebody else does the truth-telling for us." Thank you, @eji.org!

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

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Lisa V Gray @lisavgray.bsky.social · 1d

And great strategy to issue press release on covert tactics.

greentim2.bsky.social @greentim2.bsky.social · 1d

The sickness.

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

they have lost their ever loving minds

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

Tariffs ended what wars, exactly?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I've ended seven wars. At least half of them was because of my ability at trade and because of tariffs. If I didn't have tariffs to throw around a little bit, you would have at least 4 wars waging with thousands of people a day being killed ... we're getting close to settling 8."

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Lisa V Gray @lisavgray.bsky.social · 5d

Wheee, he said. I killed some people and made up stories about them.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5d

Pete Hegseth: “Earlier this morning, on President Trump's orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed..”

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth # @
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@SecWar
Earlier this morning, on President Trump's orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike, and no U.S. forces were harmed in the operation. The strike was conducted in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela while the vessel was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics - headed to America to poison our people.
Our intelligence, without a doubt, confirmed that this vessel was trafficking narcotics, the people onboard were narco-terrorists, and they were operating on a known narco-trafficking transit route. These strikes will continue until the attacks on the American people are over!!!!

Lisa V Gray @lisavgray.bsky.social · 5d

And when a human being doesn't get the care s/he needs, does a Republican get his wings? Good people don't hate those in need.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government.

They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights.

We must fight back.

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Lisa V Gray @lisavgray.bsky.social · 7d

Benevolent

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

BASH: Do you think the executive branch should use this shutdown as an excuse to permanently fire federal workers?

MIKE JOHNSON: Well I can tell you right now that the president has been a benevolent president. He is mitigating the harm right now.

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zensoul.bsky.social @zensoul.bsky.social · 8d

It’s Trump & the GOP’s shutdown!!

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 8d

Republicans will try to blame the Government Shutdown on Democrats, MAKE SURE EVERYONE on every platform & in your text circle sees this.

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Lisa V Gray @lisavgray.bsky.social · 10d

His whole career he's steadfastly declined the job of telling white people how not to be racists. Respectfully, he's suggested we can figure that out if we really want to.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 10d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

www.nytimes.com

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Lisa V Gray @lisavgray.bsky.social · 10d

Nikole Hannah-Jones, going straight to the point, as ever. Racism is not a policy perspective to be debated. It's hate speech.

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

www.nytimes.com

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Dustin @hareandthere.bsky.social · 11d

War ravaged Portland.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 11d

War-ravaged Portland

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 11d

💀

Amy Young @ayoung.bsky.social · 11d

This is Portland right now. We’re“under siege” by pollen and potholes, that’s about it. We have a ton of live webcams if you want to watch us go to the farmers markets or walking our dogs, we love dogs.
Release the Epstein files.
www.camscape.com/webcam/pione...

Pioneer Square Webcam in Portland

www.camscape.com

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Lisa V Gray @lisavgray.bsky.social · 11d

Just spent a couple of delightful days there, drinking craft cocktails, buying books, enjoying outdoors. No bombs, no unrest, no violence.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11d

Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.

Lisa V Gray @lisavgray.bsky.social · 14d

Pro-science

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 14d

Newsmax host: “Libs are now pro-autism”
www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/news...

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 14d

Mallory Lewis

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15d

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15d

House Judiciary Democrats are demanding Pam Bondi and Kash Patel release of the explosive recordings that reportedly show Trump border czar Tom Homan accepting $50,000 in cash bribes in exchange for steering future gov't contracts to undercover FBI agents posing as businessmen. tinyurl.com/5eddfb67

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Lisa V Gray @lisavgray.bsky.social · 15d

Oof - that is the question

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 15d

Trump didn't write this... who's driving?

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Lisa V Gray @lisavgray.bsky.social · 16d

#cognitivedecline

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 18d

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash.

Pam Bondi knew.

Kash Patel knew.

Emil Bove knew.

And they made the investigation go away.

A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 19d

They took away a woman’s right to choose

Then they took equity from Black people

Medicaid benefits from people of limited means

Food from schoolchildren

The right of Hispanic people to live without fear of persecution

And now they want to take our First Amendment rights

WE
MUST
FIGHT
BACK

Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 20d

What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.

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