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"Augustus uncorked the jug and took a modest swig. By the time the shade had reached the river, Augustus would have mellowed with the evening and be ready for some intelligent conversation, which usually involved talking to himself. ..."

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 7h

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SaveDemocracy123 @savedemocracy123.bsky.social · 6h

IT'S ABOUT F-ING TIME that at least SOME GOP find their balls and adhere to our Constitution and Law; if only to no longer criminally protect the worst pedophiles in American history, Epstein/Maxwell/Trump. GOP are too cowardly to protect our Democracy & Law from Putin/Trump, but NO ONE LIKES PEDOS!

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jenny1lk.bsky.social @jenny1lk.bsky.social · 8h

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 21h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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mccraephilosophies.bsky.social @mccraephilosophies.bsky.social · 4h

Pritzker, also on X, said” 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?”

mccraephilosophies.bsky.social @mccraephilosophies.bsky.social · 4h

Johnson, in a post on X, said, “This is not the first time Trump has tried to have a Black man unjustly arrested. I’m not going anywhere.”

mccraephilosophies.bsky.social @mccraephilosophies.bsky.social · 4h

The Republ. president made the comment in a social media post, the latest example of his brazen calls for his opponents to be prosecuted or locked up — a break from longtime norms as the Justice Department traditionally has strived to maintain its independence from the WH.
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Trump says Illinois governor and Chicago mayor should be jailed as they oppose Guard deployment

President Donald Trump says the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor, both Democrats, should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops for his immigration and crime crackdown in ...

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mccraephilosophies.bsky.social @mccraephilosophies.bsky.social · 4h

Please read this article all the way to the end!

mccraephilosophies.bsky.social @mccraephilosophies.bsky.social · 4h

Trump and his valet at the Defense Department, Secretary of Physical Training Pete Hegseth, are now making a dedicated run at turning the men and women of the armed forces into Trump’s personal and partisan army. ...

mccraephilosophies.bsky.social @mccraephilosophies.bsky.social · 4h

Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and Trump’s threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the commander in chief. But for how long?

mccraephilosophies.bsky.social @mccraephilosophies.bsky.social · 4h

Trump and his circle of would-be autocrats have made rapid progress toward seizing these institutions and detaching them from the Constitution and rule of law. The intelligence community has effectively been muzzled, the nation’s top lawyers & cops are being purged & replaced with loyalist hacks.

mccraephilosophies.bsky.social @mccraephilosophies.bsky.social · 5h

To capture a democratic nation, authoritarians must control three sources of power: the intelligence agencies, the justice system, and the military.
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The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

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mccraephilosophies.bsky.social @mccraephilosophies.bsky.social · 5h

The Department of Labor’s new rule cutting farmworker wages bluntly states that souped-up immigration enforcement has devastated the agricultural workforce and created a significant “risk of supply shock-induced food shortages” ...
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Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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DeedsMcDeeDee @deedeedeeds.bsky.social · 9h

Bondi makes no attempt to pretend she’s the attorney general for the United States. She’s Trump‘s attorney, put in office to protect him and punish his detractors.

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RalphLoeffler @ralphloeffler.bsky.social · 9h

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 7h

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 6h

Canada vs. America

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porterhaus82.bsky.social @porterhaus82.bsky.social · 6h

Sadly the American people don’t care. What happens to USAID matters not one wit to most Americans.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

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...