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osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 5h

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 7h

Some cases take on outsized importance, with issues that transcend the decision the parties ask the courts to make. This is one of those cases. The stakes are high: the integrity of the Justice Department and the ability of a president to corrupt the rule of law. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Slow Death Facing The Comey Prosecution

This morning at 10 a.m., former FBI Director Jim Comey was arraigned in federal court.

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osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 5h

Sorry to disagree.

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osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 5h

Seems like that has already happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

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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osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 5h

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7h

YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏

Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

#Oregon #Portland #50501Movement

@WinterPolitics1
The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

And a photo of the Oregon National Guard General

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osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 5h

Billie Etchison @sybilte420.bsky.social · 15h

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osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 5h

In a country far far away.

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osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 5h

repugfascistrebel.bsky.social @repugfascistrebel.bsky.social · 17h

AND NOW...A REMINDER!

osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 5h

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

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osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 6h

Moon just now off my back deck.

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osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 13h

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 14h

🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 14h

osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 16h

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 16h

DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 16h

D.C. has a judge or two that could swear her in, right?

DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 1d

If Republicans can casually ignore precedent, so can Democrats.

Speaker Johnson has no right to stop duly elected representatives from taking office.

Call a press conference on the capitol steps, and swear in Democratic Representative-Elect Adelita Grijalva - NOW.

osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 16h

DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 16h

D.C. has a judge or two that could swear her in, right?

DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 1d

If Republicans can casually ignore precedent, so can Democrats.

Speaker Johnson has no right to stop duly elected representatives from taking office.

Call a press conference on the capitol steps, and swear in Democratic Representative-Elect Adelita Grijalva - NOW.

osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 16h

Who’s going to investigate? The DOJ? What is the state’s Attorney General doing?

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osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 16h

Doctor Science ❌👑#NoKings2 Oct18 @doctorscience.bsky.social · 1d

Bingo. As soon as I heard Homeland was claiming they were after "Tren de Aragua", I said, "Hold on, that's a landlord scam, who owns that building? Who might want all the tenants out?"
Racism in the service of crony capitalism.

osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 16h

Ron Garrett @justthefactsman.bsky.social · 1d

Another fine reason to never do business with a well documented criminal enterprise like Wells Fargo.

osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 16h

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 16h

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21h

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 16h

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

Imagine that.

www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

osbeachwalker.bsky.social @osbeachwalker.bsky.social · 16h

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 16h

Merrick Garland green-lit the search of Mar-a-Lago. It happened in August 2022 three months before Jack Smith was appointed. Jack Smith was in the Netherlands at the Hauge prosecuting Kosovo war crimes when Mar-a-Lago was searched. Eric should have listened to my podcast.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"