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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine

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I want what is best for others. #Resist Forever D in R state. Love 🐅 Democracy Now or Dictatorship Forever Call Your MOC Now (202) 224-3121 Started 🦋 Jan 2025 No fundme, No DM except friends #Voices4Victory #ONEV1 #DEMCAST

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 17d

People Born Across The Bridge Live 20 Years Longer. Why?

A Black child born in Windsor, Ontario, will likely live into her eighties.

A Black child born the same night in Detroit, visible across the river, is not likely to reach her seventies.

Policy is deadly.

open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

The Cost of Preventable Suffering: Why Americans Die Younger Than Canadians

From a bus ride in Connecticut to a bridge in Detroit, inequality decides who survives

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you
Great list.

Pete Buttigieg J
@PeteButtigieg

Donald Trump Is way less
popular than he wants youto
believe.

Andyou are significantly more
powerfulthan he wants youto
think.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 22h

Try UK, it's easier to spell than Britain.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 21h

Gregg Abbott Declared War On Illinois

When a state’s army marches into another state, uninvited, armed, and there to harm, what do you call that?

A military occupation? A violation of state sovereignty? A Civil War?

An Armed Invasion?

open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...

Greg Abbott Declares Civil War On Blue States At The Behest Of Trump

Texas governor authorizes Trump to deploy 400 Guard troops into Illinois and beyond, without state consent, without precedent, and without shame.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 21h

Confederate Greg has turned his so-called sovereignty crusade into an exportable army for a felonious president.

The man who spent years ranting about state rights just volunteered his state to violate another’s.

The hypocrisy is breathtaking, but the danger is worse.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 21h

ICE and DHS are lying about this incident, as you can see the video here and find the full unedited video on social media (including on my Threads account).

Nothing from ICE, DHS, FBI, or Trump’s government can be trusted. They’re all liars.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 21h

Now Criminals are imitating and exploiting Trump’s Gaestapo tactics.

Reports of fake ICE agents are emerging from all over the country.

Immigrants are being raped and robbed.

Back to Abbott sending our sons and brothers to commit war on American citizens under Trump's orders.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 21h

Abbott’s move isn’t unprecedented. It’s the logical next step in a years-long pattern of militarizing politics.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 21h

Abbott’s move isn’t unprecedented. It’s the logical next step in a years-long pattern of militarizing politics.

Through Operation Lone Star, he already turned the Texas border into a campaign backdrop of razor wire, drone footage, and body counts.

Now he’s exporting that drama across state lines.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 21h

It’s a spectacle and an endless audition for Trump’s approval, paid for with Texas taxpayers’ dollars and Guard families’ lives and safety.

National Guard endlessly patrolling on the Texas border with no assigned duties have resorted to suicide or drugs and alcohol on duty.

Suicides on Abbott.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 21h

Legally, the ground beneath this stunt is rotten.

The Posse Comitatus Act limits the use of US troops for domestic law enforcement.

The Insurrection Act allows exceptions only in extreme cases, rebellion, invasion, or the obstruction of federal law.

None of that applies here.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 21h

Illinois didn’t request aid.

There is no insurrection, no rebellion, no riot to quell.

What’s happening is political theater masquerading as federal duty, a test to see how far Trump can stretch the military chain of command and how willing Abbott is to play the good soldier.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 21h

Good Soldier, I should say

Willing Sycophant

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 21h

Another great article by Michelle Lone Star Left. Please read her Substack

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 19h

Sooner than later, asking for a country.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 18h

With Election Day Nov. 5 2024 rapidly approaching, many voters began discovering they've been removed from the votor rolls by top Texas officials.

www.kut.org/politics/202...

Texas has removed a million people from the voter rolls. Why are we finding out now?

From Greg Abbott touting removals from Texas’ voter rolls to Ken Paxton initiating raids over allegations of vote harvesting, here’s a breakdown of what you should know.

www.kut.org

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks Maple Mamma
Great group!

Impeach TACO!

I WOULD
LIKE THAT

TACO
TO GO
Please

Trump
Always
Chickens
Out!

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 15h

Trump Is Openly Taking Bribes

Trump got $1.2 Billion to make 47 federal investigations into fraud, monopoly abuse, wage theft, and consumer deception vanish.

He didn't Drain The Swamp, he is selling forgiveness for crimes.

Corporate Crime Became Legal By Default

The $1.2 Billion Bribe That Bought Trump

by @DigitalWarfare1

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 15h

The message is unmistakable: write a big enough check, and your legal problems disappear.

Justice wasn’t blind. it was auctioned off to the highest bidder.

These weren’t harmless cases.

They included wage theft, consumer fraud, monopoly abuse, discrimination, and even securities violations.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 15h

Let's Not Forget About Musk

Elon Musk: Proof That Cash Buys Immunity

Musk spent $352 million backing Trump’s rise.

In exchange, Musk’s companies - Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, xAI - saw case after case disappear.

Musk's DOGE targeted agency investigators and departments for termination.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 15h

At Tesla, investigations into racial discrimination at its factories were dropped.

At SpaceX, a federal lawsuit accusing the company of discriminating against refugees and asylees was tossed aside.

Neuralink’s probes into animal abuse and safety concerns?

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 15h

Agencies like the Department of Labor, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Securities and Exchange Commission were gutted.

Workers lost protection from wage theft and discrimination.

Consumers were left defenseless against predatory loans, junk fees, and corporate fraud.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 15h

Investors were exposed to manipulated markets and corporate deception.

This is a betrayal of the American people who rely on those protections to survive in an economy rigged against them.

This is the destruction of justice itself.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 15h

When corporations can buy their way out of accountability, democracy collapses.

Law becomes meaningless.

Cruelty becomes policy.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 12h

Fear is all they have. They don’t have respect, or popular ideas, or the support of a majority of Americans. Deny them the power of fear and we win.

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KittyAKAJody @kittywestmeow.bsky.social · 12h

Hey #VenturaCounty #VC friends!!! Please join this #NoKings event if you’re in the ‘hood! It’s gotta be a big one… get out there!!

Raffle Victor Solis ❌👑 @tacomentarian.bsky.social · 17h

Back by popular demand - Join us in #VenturaCounty CA to say Remove this Regime - No kings in America.

Glad to be collaborating again with #Indivisible Ventura, #JusticeForAll, 50501 VC, and local orgs dedicated to community.

Fellow SoCal friends, thanks for boosting this across the 805.

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