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Dan @pittsburghdan.bsky.social · 1d

"and I wish you loved the Constitution as much as you love being a lackey for Donald Trump, we can do this all day"

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Marcia C. @marciaclearwater.bsky.social · 1d

We enjoyed ours! Big giant moon up in the Eastern Sierra.

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Angry Byrd @tylerbigbyrd.bsky.social · 2d

Would a real trained police officer zip tie a child out of fear

Would any man zip tie a child for any other reason than to just be cruel

Would any free people allow big bro to door to door invade looking at PAPERS

Should ANY government or it's people tollerate these men or these behaviors

TBD

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

This guy sounds like a fucking lunatic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

CNN: Isn't that hyperbolic to call them terrorists?

STEPHEN MILLER: No. If anything I'm understating the severity of the situation

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 2d

It is not insurrection to disagree with the president.
It is not insurrection to call the president a soulless piece of shit.
It is not insurrection to say a damp dishcloth would be a less destructive occupant of the Oval Office.
It is not insurrection to demand a better president.

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Marcia C. @marciaclearwater.bsky.social · 2d

She's our very own Mildred Gillars.

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Marcia C. @marciaclearwater.bsky.social · 2d

Thank goodness for Ketanji Brown Jackson. She's not afraid to truly stand up.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

When the Supreme Court blesses the Trump administration’s disregard for the law while maintaining the appearance that the law still applies, it enables a "dual state."

As @pemalevy.bsky.social writes, the "dual state" framework is how dictators exercise power while life appears mostly ordinary.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 3d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d

JD VANCE: "My mother got the drugs that almost killed her from Mexicans."

REALITY: JD's mother got the drugs that almost killed her from her hospital patients, whom she stole from.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3d

He seems to have literally gone mad with power, thinking he can just bluster the country into some kind of Fourth Reich with the power of screechy Twitter posts written with all the forced bombast that an insecure dweeb imagining himself as Goebbels can muster.

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 4d

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

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jepip.bsky.social @jepip.bsky.social · 4d

Anyone who would handcuff a toddler should go straight to jail

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Marcia C. @marciaclearwater.bsky.social · 3d

Because they're sociopaths.

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Detroit Breakdown @detroitbreakdown.bsky.social · 4d

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Marcia C. @marciaclearwater.bsky.social · 3d

Best name for Miller yet

H Mabe @hmabe.bsky.social · 4d

Pee Wee Goebels is on an angry rant. Truly brat-child hysterical tantrum as if mom said no to candy.

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Marcia C. @marciaclearwater.bsky.social · 3d

The colon polyp is apparently inflamed.

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Marcia C. @marciaclearwater.bsky.social · 3d

Oh FFS. @schumer.senate.gov needs to retire.

Rep Richard Dangler @rdangler.bsky.social · 4d

Just retire @schumer.senate.gov

You are embarrassing yourself.

Go.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 4d

CHUCK SCHUMER: "New data came out today from KFF - and that is not Kentucky Fried French Fries ... the Kaiser Family Foundation"

Marcia C. @marciaclearwater.bsky.social · 4d

Sooner is better, and in a cloyingly kind way, rip his throat out.

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 5d

In a nation of laws, political elites cannot do any lawless thing they want and face no consequences. Elite impunity is fundamentally at odds with the rule of law.

Reestablishing the rule of law will thus require that the current rulers be made to pay the steepest possible price for their crimes.

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Marcia C. @marciaclearwater.bsky.social · 4d

Sociopaths. Probably militia members. Disgusting and incredibly sad.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Marcia C. @marciaclearwater.bsky.social · 4d

Italians know how to do this.

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Marcia C. @marciaclearwater.bsky.social · 4d

Untethered from reality is more like it, but of course she can't say that.

Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 4d

A really stirring opinion from Judge Karen Immergut (Boalt 87!) blocking Trump’s military assault on Portland, calling it, elegantly, “ untethered to facts.”
“Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates …goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the US.”

Marcia C. @marciaclearwater.bsky.social · 4d

Nobody likes this shit, but it looks to me like they're moving people to the sidewalk.

Marcia C. @marciaclearwater.bsky.social · 4d

This makes them more violent. I think this Portland case could help:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

Judge Blocks Trump’s Deployment of National Guard in Portland, Ore.

www.nytimes.com