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Martha 🥄 near Seattle

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Born-inside-the-Beltway politics nerd, public education advocate, Xitter refugee fighting despair. I AM ANTIFA; come at me, bro!

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · Jan 31

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Trump’s Final Term Ends in: - Countdown Timer

Trump’s Final Term Ends in: Countdown Timer

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 7h

Oh shit, ANTIFA is suiting up

From the sound of music. Seven children stand in a line inside a grand house, wearing identical light blue sailor-style uniforms with dark collars, neckties, and knee socks. They are arranged from tallest to shortest, standing at attention on a patterned rug with a staircase and ornate wall paneling behind them.

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 4h

Please listen to this.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 13h

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 5h

My rebuttal to this absurd take from The Atlantic: qasimrashid.substack.com/p/journalism...

You don't compromise with fascists, you run on a proven values that the American people want, and you fight for them.

Journalism Without Justice: Jonathan Chait & the Collapse of Media Integrity

From Iraq to Trump to Gaza, America’s pundit class has perfected the art of being wrong and profiting from it. It’s long past time we hold them accountable.

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 4h

Which is why every single patriotic American should be declaring I AM ANTIFA.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13h

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 5h

<sigh> This should not be a hard vote. SMDH

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 8h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 5h

Cognitively, since his stroke, I think.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 7h

Ha, ha, perfect! And the evidence will be all the written and video statements by this Klown Kar badministration.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19h

The judge also set an initial schedule for pre-trial motions.

The first set is expected by Oct. 12. Per Comey’s defense counsel, that batch will include motions to dismiss for selective and vindictive prosecution, as well as a motion challenging the legality of Halligan’s appointment as US attorney

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Androo Downie @adownie.bsky.social · 15h

So, the government is shut down, but there are funds for Saucy Pete to fly around on a little bird and cosplay as an operator?

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 7h

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10h

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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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 7h

Have someone else swear her in. You don’t need Squeaker Johnson.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 7h

Done. I am Spartacus.

Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 7h

Great idea! Thanks.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17h

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 7h

😳 Nothing at all ominous about that‼️

Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 9h

China constructed a large-scale replica of Taiwan's central government buildings to conduct special forces exercises aimed at simulating an assault to neutralize Taipei's seat of power.

Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 7h

Many people are saying so. Big guys. With tears in their eyes.

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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 9h

Trump’s regime knows exactly what kind of gov’t it wants: punitive, spectacular, built for content. Our job is simpler & harder, stop funding the show, build boring, beautiful democracy, and refuse to bankroll a state that gases its critics. #uspolitics #fascism
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The Price of Legitimacy

When government becomes theater and citizens are the props, the only question left is why we keep buying tickets.

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Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 7h

An embarrassment of good choices, though?

Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 7h

Six months after his last “annual“ checkup⁉️

Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 11h

Time for an oil change

Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 7h

Because any of it that is real should have to be paid back when the tariffs are declared unconstitutional … in a rational world.

Martha 🥄 near Seattle @marthawt.bsky.social · 7h

@pbump.com, I shared your piece on Arctic Frost on Facebook. It made the link look weird, so I reposted it in a comment, and it STILL made it weird, altho now folks could see the URL, at least. Sure looks like CENSORSHIP to me!