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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · Mar 13

Someone needs to tell me why the (unqualified) Cabinet Secretaries
hired to gut/eliminate the Departments they now head
get a TAXPAYER-PAID salary for doing it?
WHY ARE WE TOLERATING THIS? 😠

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 4h

Please watch. Share. Be ready.

How can this be where we are?

Trump's plan to invoke the Insurrection Act

You need to be aware of his four-point plan

open.substack.com

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 4h

Mark Bray's book is actually pretty valuable in a world where 90 percent of the politicians and media professionals using the term "antifa" have no fucking idea what they're talking about

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/565063...

Antifa by Mark Bray: 9781612197036 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The National Bestseller “Focused and persuasive... Bray’s book is many things: the first English-language transnational history of antifa, a how-to for would-be activists, and a record...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 4h

What we need to know about trump’s plan to invoke the Insurrection Act. ⬇️

dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 4h

rbreich
Trump wants to invoke the Insurrection Act to punish anyone who opposes him, and he’s following a four point plan to do it.

Here’s what you need to know about it — and some thoughts on how to respond.

Watch & share:
www.instagram.com/reel/DPkK9Gu...

Oct. 18th
nokings.org

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 6h

Pam Bondi’s notes from her Senate hearing were attacks from social media posts.

Nothing substantive worthy of the dignity of the nation’s AG.

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 7h

Omg

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 7h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds and you end up with riots."

lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 7h

I totally remember this.
Hubris and hypocrisy at every turn.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when?

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 7h

lol

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 7h

Photographer Captures Pam Bondi’s Notes—and They’re a Doozy…

Photographer Captures Pam Bondi’s Notes—and They’re a Doozy

Attorney General Pam Bondi came to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing armed with nothing more than lame canned attacks.

newrepublic.com

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 7h

No notes on her DOJ work.
Instead, “Bondi had collected screenshots of social media posts, prewritten comebacks, and handwritten notes she hoped could give her a good ‘gotcha’ moment.”

Photographer Captures Pam Bondi’s Notes—and They’re a Doozy

Attorney General Pam Bondi came to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing armed with nothing more than lame canned attacks.

newrepublic.com

lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 9h

Yes. Absolutely.

A.Better.World @skyladsy.bsky.social · 16h

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 1d

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 9h

Yep

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 10h

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.

lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 13h

Another cosplay reality-show day of the trump regime.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 13h

Journalist/ activist Wayne R. Besen of Truth Wins Out:

“I wanted to show that their vision of America is hideous and terrifying. I would say it would be the equivalent of the Christian version of Iran.”

Meet the Enemy: Project 2025 is bad enough – but wait till you see what the shadow groups behind it want to do. Behind the Mask lays it all bare.

Longtime LGBTQIA+ journalist and activist Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out releases a huge Who’s Who list of Christian right groups and leaders – to help progressives fight back.

open.substack.com

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 13h

The voices of starving children. Fvck trump, rubio, musk, and doge.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Kash was begging for a Community Note

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This strikes me as pretty bad

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, more

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 3d

More messaging like this please

lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 3d

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3d

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 3d

The hubris is despicable.

A.Better.World @skyladsy.bsky.social · 3d

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d

January 6 was basically a training session for upcoming ICE agents.

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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 3d

Gov Newsom nails it. Demented & deranged Orange Turd loves making US suffer. He’s brutal and a coward, too!
#Resist
#BlueCrew

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lkivett @lkivett.bsky.social · 3d

Yep

Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 3d

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

Referring to the abuse visited upon over a thousand girls as a “red herring” is nasty work, you asshole.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Welker: They say the house is not in session because you don't want to swear in the newly elected democratic congresswoman who would be a critical vote to releasing the Epstein files.

Johnson: It's totally absurd. This has nothing to do with that. It's another red herring.

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