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Debs Girl💙🌊Save 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇹🇼 @olepal.bsky.social · Mar 26

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 1h

@rbreich.bsky.social adds to the discussion of American Samizdat...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

REPORTER: Why not put a standalone military pay bill on the floor?

MIKE JOHNSON: We have already voted to pay the troops. We did it three weeks ago.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson tries for an Academy Award: "I'm upset. I'm a very patient man but I'm very angry right now."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1h

ICYMI: Speaker Mike Johnson is second in line to the presidency, but he wants you to know he has no opinion on anything and takes responsibility for nothing. His go-to line is “not in my lane.”

Jen Psaki last night…

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1h

To be clear, 20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke this information is the acknowledgement that Stephen Miller is driving the invocation of the Insurrection Act.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2h

invocation of the insurrection act will be the key moment for everyone. the white house, any state where it's invoked, especially the supreme court. all public officials are ultimately responsible for acting in line with the constitution. a false invocation of the insurrection act, itself a ...

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on polls showing Republicans are getting blamed for the shutdown: "I'm not putting the blame on the president. I'm actually putting the the blame on the Speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate. This should not be happening ... we control the House & Senate & have the WH."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on the bad advice Trump is getting: "I don't think it's good advice that Republicans ignoring the health insurance crisis is gonna be good for midterms. I actually think it's going to be very bad for midterms ... costs have not come down."

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Greene on the Epstein files: "I can't conclusively say that's why the House isn't in session, but the House should be in session...there is a new Democrat that's been elected that deserves to be sworn in...if it's to avoid the discharge petition, why drag this out? It's going to have 218 signatures"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I'm talking about the Epstein list. I genuinely don't understand why there's been any effort to hide this & prevent it from coming out. But b/c of the efforts for years now to hide it, it certainly makes you feel afraid when you're one of the ones truly on the frontlines."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h

Why has the media become so vulnerable to Trump, and what can we do about it?

Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-has-the-media-become-so-vulnerable

Why has the media become so vulnerable to Trump, and what can we do about it?

Even after Disney's reversal on Jimmy Kimmel, the vulnerability remains — unless we change the rules.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

"The only issue is whether SCOTUS will allow the president to lie that there is an insurrection, then use his own patently false proclamation to justify flooding American cities with soldiers to 'fight crime.' Considering the recent behavior of SCOTUS's 6 conservative justices, the vibes are rancid"

Trump is the insurrection

And the Supreme Court's conservatives are his shock troops.

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 1h

@mollyjongfast.bsky.social is right.. Want to be inspired by how it was done in the past? Check out:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 15h

Marco Rubio not just a liar. Accessory to mass murder of children.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18h

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
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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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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 15h

Somebody please ask him what he’s doing to stop the war in Fredonia

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

“Have you given any more thought to suspending habeas corpus?”

TRUMP: “Suspending who?” 🤷🏼

Aaand scene.

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 15h

This is a disgrace. Bezos and his publisher have turned the editorial page over to a Trumpist.

Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 15h

Word. I spent a few years there as well. The amnesia of the country about one of the most important & righteous prosecutions in our history is remarkable.Of course you had to try to figure out about the communications b/t Mark Meadows and members of Congress. It remains a terrible gap in the record.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Jeffries to Lawler: "You're a complete and total embarrassment. You're embarrassing yourself and your district right now. And you're going down to defeat next year."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Jeffries: "The streets are hot right now on Capitol Hill because the Republicans are just falling apart. They cannot justify their position having shut the government down. They cannot justify their position in terms of hiding the Epstein files from the American people."

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 14h

Know your rights. Guard your tone. Protect your neighbor. Panic is surrender in advance; knowledge is armor.🔥👇
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Jeffries: "Mike Johnson and this group continue to cover up for the pedophiles. That's crazy."

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14h

The FBI took personnel action against three special agents who worked in connection with former special counsel Jack Smith's probe of Donald Trump, firing at least two of them.

FBI fires special agents who worked on Jack Smith's probe into Trump

The FBI has fired at least three special agents who worked in connection with former special counsel Jack Smith's probe of now-President Donald Trump.

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