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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 21h

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.

If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

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...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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TenaciousEye @tenaciouseye.bsky.social · 23h

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 3h

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 20h

"Many of the CEOs I spoke with didn’t care about democracy per se. For them, democracy wasn’t a moral good. It was a source of volatility. What they wanted was stability... "

But "The evidence is overwhelming: countries that weaken democracy do not gain more stability and security, they lose it."

The Illusion of Order:

Business leaders think a little autocracy might bring stability. History and data say the opposite.

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 1d

National Guard in Oregon ordered to PROTECT protesters! Woot WOOT! Fvck ICE Gestapo n Taco! 🖕🏼😁 #oregon #iceout

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Bad Atheist @badatheist.bsky.social · 1d

Air traffic controllers aren’t “calling in sick.”

They aren’t showing up bcs they aren’t getting paid.

The basic equation of employment isn’t being met.

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Joseph Young @jayoung3292.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

Yet another incident that would’ve gotten any other president immediately impeached that is only the 127th worst thing Trump has done in 2025.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 11h

They obviously had to look really hard to dredge these two up & nobody at all in EDVA was willing. What a mess she’s bought into. “Halligan was the only lawyer for the government listed on the docket until Tuesday, when 2 federal prosecutors from North Car entered their appearances alongside her.”

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 11h

We cant trust Trump or Netanyahu. But want Gaza for their own purposes. Jared Kushner is involved in the peace talks. He was the first public figure to describe Gaza as “ great real estate”. These are people with ZERO compassion

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14h

Oh this is not great

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 13h

"The U.S. should not be blowing up boats without even knowing who’s on them. There’s no due process in that — no names, no evidence, no oversight."... No shit, Rand Paul is right

Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 13h

From that commie-pinko Rand Paul: No debate. No vote. Just endless war. That’s what they’re pushing—again.

I took to the Senate floor to say not this time. The American people deserve a voice before we're dragged into another forever war.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 12h

"The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote"

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine to limit absentee voting & impose voter ID requirements.

Important reporting from Zeteo's new political reporter @andrewperez.bsky.social

The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine that would limit absentee voting and impose voter ID requirements.

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Resistor Sister @sistergf.bsky.social · 22h

Pam Bondi has removed 5300 FBI officials that kept US safe.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 14h

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

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Millie @millicentrandy.bsky.social · 9h

She did not “testify” anything. She defied and instructed and lied.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12h

🚨BREAKING: A right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Right-Wing Group Asks SCOTUS to Turn Pro-Voting Law Into Tool for Voter Purges