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Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Morons Are Governing America

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Again, this is the way American politics is supposed to work. Not this tribalism bullshit that we've been living through.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

This is why Trump & Republicans went into the shutdown so confident. They banked on the Democratic Party’s weak reputation and assumed they would cave.

Well that’s not happening. Democrats are on the right side of the healthcare fight, and rank-and-file Dems want this battle because it’s worth it.

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JD's future VP @lngnstrt.bsky.social · 4h

Wouldn't a tariff, if it were to be used, be *more* powerful if the rest of the world knows the whole US govt is behind it?

Now, everyone knows he's a lone wolf. Many countries will choose to just wait it out.

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 4h

MUST WATCH: Senator Ruben Gallego calls Speaker Mike Johnson a "Pedo Protector" to his face.

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JD's future VP @lngnstrt.bsky.social · 4h

I was going to go with Jesse Owens as a Blazing Saddles reference.

a man says " and now for my next impression " in a movie scene

ALT: a man says " and now for my next impression " in a movie scene

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JD's future VP @lngnstrt.bsky.social · 6h

Not gonna happen

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I become "agitated and irritated" when Trump speaks.

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Newsom said the same thing and they never came and got him.

JD's future VP @lngnstrt.bsky.social · 7h

The best part is she runs away from that one so fast it's like she's Usain Bolt.

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JD's future VP @lngnstrt.bsky.social · 7h

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That can't be real?

JD's future VP @lngnstrt.bsky.social · 7h

Or in a Pam Bondi voice.

"One thousand percent"

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8h

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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JD's future VP @lngnstrt.bsky.social · 9h

Uniform Code of Military Justice.

It'll take balls, but it's un-American not to question an unlawful order.

I may be wrong, but I think they can report it to the inspector general.

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JD's future VP @lngnstrt.bsky.social · 9h

From the same article they pulled quotes.

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JD's future VP @lngnstrt.bsky.social · 9h

Because the end it talks about the uniform code.

Lawful orders

JD's future VP @lngnstrt.bsky.social · 9h

You're leaving out the last part, which means they need to obey lawful orders.

JD's future VP @lngnstrt.bsky.social · 10h

That's fair.

I think he's probably going to have to get himself arrested to bring it to a head.

JD's future VP @lngnstrt.bsky.social · 10h

Actually, there's ongoing legal action against the Federal government, it's more than "a media circuit."

What else should he be doing?

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street.

Separating children from their parents.

Creating fear.

Taking people for “how they look.”

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 11h

Well, here we are.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

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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JD's future VP @lngnstrt.bsky.social · 11h

I like the pivot towards calling it "authoritarianism" vs "fascism". The general public can much more easily grasp that concept.

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