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Michele Dotson 🇺🇸🫶🏾⚖️🗳📬🇺🇦✌🏾🦾 @michelesgreenbook.bsky.social · 4d

CORRECTION:
Americans and the world can ONLY blame Trump and Republicans for this government shutdown AND the last one.

1. They shut it down.
2. They own it.
3. They MUST re-open it.

#WorseThanWatergate the
#TrumpEpsteinShutdown
#Kleptocracy

#TrumpShutdown
#TrumpShutdown2
#RepublicanShutdown

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 5h

Today in Politics Chat, I talked about how power sloshes around when a president is checked out, and noted that right now unelected officials like Stephen Miller are trying to grab it. But instead, We the People can take it back and create a better nation.

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 4h

Full video: Jacob Soboroff's @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social powerful reporting on how ICE agents are terrorizing suburban Chicago neighborhoods:

youtu.be/9dx266qOOic?...

Neighbors push back as Trump's ICE army terrorizes Chicago suburbs

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Michele Dotson 🇺🇸🫶🏾⚖️🗳📬🇺🇦✌🏾🦾 @michelesgreenbook.bsky.social · 1h

NEVER. Our democracy, federal government, Obamacare, aka the ACA, and the healthcare of every American, afforded coverage because of it is far too critical to be ignored.

Democrats, Independents, and everyone in the #ProDemocracy Coalition must fight to the last nanosecond and breath.

Michele Dotson 🇺🇸🫶🏾⚖️🗳📬🇺🇦✌🏾🦾 @michelesgreenbook.bsky.social · 1h

I’m with your first part. It’s an excellent summary of the GOP-created healthcare debacle and why Democrats are in the fight to win.

We’ll agree to disagree on the second part. But, this isn’t the time or place.

We MUST stand united as a #ProDemocracy Coalition #ForThePeople.

Michele Dotson 🇺🇸🫶🏾⚖️🗳📬🇺🇦✌🏾🦾 @michelesgreenbook.bsky.social · 1h

• I’m NOT a Schumer fan. My receipts calling for his ouster go back to 2022.

• I became an Independent voter after 40+ years as a Democrat, partly because of Schumer.

YET, this is the time to hold our noses and stand united WITH Schumer, Democrats, and the #ProDemocracy coalition #ForThePeople.

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Data4Miles @datafourmiles.bsky.social · 7h

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Michele Dotson 🇺🇸🫶🏾⚖️🗳📬🇺🇦✌🏾🦾 @michelesgreenbook.bsky.social · 1h

I do not think about an unelected B-lister like Stephen Miller until someone mentions him.

Miller is already in my rearview mirror. He’ll run scared back into the hole 🕳️ he crawled out of when Trump’s Terror State is peacefully and resoundingly ended.

Miller must face accountability, period.

Michele Dotson 🇺🇸🫶🏾⚖️🗳📬🇺🇦✌🏾🦾 @michelesgreenbook.bsky.social · 2h

Seattle: 🎼🎵 The Best Music City.🎵🎶

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h

Those with the scar tissue are keen on avoiding getting thrown back into the ring for another Obamacare battle royale. Those who don't remember the old days aren't so averse. www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...

The Obamacare Repeal Movement Is Dead. Long Live Obamacare Repeal.

“It’s probably gonna happen after the midterms.”

www.thebulwark.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14h

If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.

We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

Pete Hegseth was busy ignoring his job and doing pushups as part of a show for the Guinness Book of World Records while Illinoisans are being invaded by Trump’s military troops.

Pentagon chief Hegseth more interested in pushups than talking with Illinois leaders, Pritzker says

The governor said the Trump administration is keeping him in the dark about immigration enforcement and National Guard deployments.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18h

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

WATCH — @whitehouse.senate.gov : “What became of the $50,000 in cash in that Cava bag? Did the FBI get it back from Homan?”

AG PAM BONDI: *LASHES OUT aggressively, avoids answering entirely* 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 7h

So Well Done @schumer.senate.gov !

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 9h

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 7h

Justice Dept has 10 days left to respond to civil lawsuit filed by Jan 6 police responders who are seeking court order to require display of Jan 6 law enforcement honorary plaque at US Capitol

Plaque was required to be hung by 2023 under federal law

It hasn’t been hung

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Data4Miles @datafourmiles.bsky.social · 9h

House of cards.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 9h

"The deals also involve circular arrangements between the world’s most valuable start-up and its partners, as well as complex financing terms that have in most cases yet to be agreed."

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Michele Dotson 🇺🇸🫶🏾⚖️🗳📬🇺🇦✌🏾🦾 @michelesgreenbook.bsky.social · 9h

Sen. Peter Welch should have called out AG Pamela Jo Bondi:

If Bondi is NOT a liar, she’s demonstrating her complete incompetence by being unable or unwilling to answer questions about the Homan Investigation that HER FBI reported as closed.

Trump & GOP’s #WorseThanWatergate Cover Up

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

Welch: "Is there a tape of Mr. Homan that has audio and video of the transfer of the $50,000?"

Bondi: "I don't know the answer."

Welch: "You do know the answer."

Bondi: "Don't call me a liar!"

Welch: "I didn't call you a liar?"

Bondi: "You just said I know the answer!"

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

If we're seriously discussing *whether* the military will support Trump in a coup or fire on civilians, the hour is later than we think.

Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/legal-orde...

“Legal Orders” and Trump’s Military

Authoritarians don’t take power by openly flouting the law. They look for pretexts and legal theories.

www.thebulwark.com

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Clay Nobles @claynobles.bsky.social · 11h

Pam Bondi hearing - After yelling and obfuscating to senators for hours, Dick Durbin hit her with this one: "Eventually you are going to have to answer for your conduct in this. You won't do it today, but eventually you will." Suddenly, she went SILENT.🔥 She knows.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"In 1964, while reporting from the Republican National Convention just south of San Francisco, Ms. Davis and a Black male reporter were hounded from the hall by fans of the nominee, Barry Goldwater. The crowd snarled racial epithets and tossed garbage at them..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/b...

Belva Davis, West Coast Trailblazer in TV News, Dies at 92

www.nytimes.com

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Michele Dotson 🇺🇸🫶🏾⚖️🗳📬🇺🇦✌🏾🦾 @michelesgreenbook.bsky.social · 17h

Fox “News”: Always weaponizing hatred, lies, and division

You MUST NOT be talking about the #BlackVoters who helped propel VP Kamala Harris’s NEW book “107 Days” to a #1 hit.

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 5d

This was always the plan.

Project 2025 was Donald Trump's blueprint to seize unchecked power within the federal government and restrict Americans' freedoms. And he is implementing it right in front of our eyes.

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System Working As Intended @systemnotbroken.bsky.social · 3d

Free Press.
My ---

Only a Billionaire Could Look at Network TV News and Say: We Need More Bari Weiss

Billionaire David Ellison installed conservative ideologue Bari Weiss atop CBS News, dropping any pretense of independence at the network.

theintercept.com

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Data4Miles @datafourmiles.bsky.social · 1d

Where is Sean Duffy?

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

The FAA is delaying flights at Newark and Denver airports because they haven’t got enough air traffic control. Burbank has zero ATC from 4.30-10pm.

Lots of controllers who aren’t being paid during the government shutdown are calling in sick.

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