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@maverickhammed.bsky.social

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True Blue Democrat. Patriot. 👍 Bluesky. Retired I.T. Professional. California Native. Progressive Democrat with a NEWS addiction. Dog lover. Fighting MAGA. LGBTQ. #LGBTQ 💙 🫂 🌈 ✨ 📸 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇸 #Democracy #Truth #Patriot #BlueSky

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Jeffrey Winfield 💙 🌈 🫂 🫘 @maverickhammed.bsky.social · Nov 16

My girl Ayşe is 7 (seven) years old today. Happy birthday girl !

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

"There's truth underneath all this fake outrage. Conservatives really are at a disadvantage in pop culture because most creative people are liberals, which has always been true & probably always will be. While MAGA has had some success building a culture machine, what it produces is mostly banal."

Whiny MAGA freaks out over Super Bowl halftime show

Songs in Spanish? In America?

www.publicnotice.co

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 5h

Squeaker of the House Mike Johnson is a spineless, mealy-mouthed lapdog.

Seat Adelita, loser!
Do your job or lose your job!

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 5h

🤔 So Republicans don’t understand why releasing the Epstein files is such a big deal either?

Confirm Adelita Grijalva &
Release the EPSTEIN FILES!

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 5h

The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act clearly requires that furloughed federal employees receive back pay after a shutdown. This wasn’t partisan when it passed, and it shouldn’t be a question now. Trump is spinning further out of control by the day. (1/2)

Shown Here:
Public Law No: 116-1 (01/16/2019)
Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019
This bill requires employees of the federal government or a District of Columbia public employer who are furloughed or required to work during a lapse in appropriations beginning on or after December 22, 2018, to be compensated for the period of the lapse. The employees must be compensated on the earliest date possible after the lapse ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates. Employees required to work during the lapse in appropriations may use leave.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 8h

Trump has a surprisingly bleak and accurate view of his chances in heaven

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 8h

Actor Jeff Bridges as The Dude: “ICE? Let’s get ICE off our streets and into our beverages man. This aggression will not stand. Let’s just abide, together. Now that’s just like, my opinion”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

I’m pretty sure if we designed an assisted living facility to look like the WH and put lots of gold all over it and a ballroom with his late 70s playlist on a loop we could coax him in there and he wouldn’t know the difference. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Maggie Reed @mermaidmamamaggie.bsky.social · 7h

Hypocrisy in its lowest form

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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 6h

Oooh People are so mad about Bad Bunny’s Halftime

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

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Jeffrey Winfield 💙 🌈 🫂 🫘 @maverickhammed.bsky.social · 3h

My girl Ayşe...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5h

Still waiting on that health care plan, Donald.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 5h

WATCH: "People at a deep level understand that what they are seeing in Chicago is wrong. They know that they are free citizens of a free country," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the backlash to Trump's takeover in Chicago.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Colo. AG Phil Weiser (D) isn't optimistic that the Supreme Court will uphold Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for minors. It would be the third SCOTUS loss for Colo. on free speech/religious liberty grounds. I asked Weiser if Colo. is hostile to conservative Christians. #copolitics

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 4h

WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social explains precisely why Mike Johnson is stalling the new Dem rep's swear-in over the Epstein vote: "Right now, Johnson can pressure the four Republican signers to change their minds. He has time to do it—as long as he keeps Adelita Grijalva out of Congress."

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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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Does AG Pam Bondi think she’s auditioning for the VP slot in Trump’s unconstitutional third term?

Here’s the mashup from today’s shitshow you definitely didn’t ask for. But this important point: she’s reading off a script. Someone actually wrote this garbage and thought it was good to go.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16h

So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t.

And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks.

Did I get that right?

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 16h

Jimmy Kimmel put together an amazing compilation of Donald Trump saying all the words from the birthday letter he wrote to his best friend Jeffrey Epstein

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 1d

US Attorney General Pam Bondi was left speechless while testifying about whether the FBI had found photos of Trump with naked, possibly underage girls among Epstein’s possessions.

Subscribe to zeteo.com for more.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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