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Paul Amirault

@paulamirault.bsky.social

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Los Angeles TV producer, writer, and Resister/Opposer happy to be breathing the clean air here at BlueSky I'm not usually such a potty mouth, but fascists piss me off. Also, I just binge watched Ted Lasso.

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Paul Amirault @paulamirault.bsky.social · Feb 11

My 5th Great Grandfather, whose brother was lost at Bunker Hill, didn't spend three years of his life in the 1770s/80s marching all over the Northeast in George Washington's army, for me to stay silent while foreign fascists and traitors try to take over this country. Not on my watch.

Minuteman statue at Lexington Battle Green, Massachusetts, shot from below, with a stormy sky and American flag seen fluttering in background

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Paul Amirault @paulamirault.bsky.social · 9h

It should really be called the GrOPe party.

Paul Amirault @paulamirault.bsky.social · 9h

Such a corrupt bastard. He needs to be shown the door.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

(Published July with @texastribune.org)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers

Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 11h

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Paul Amirault @paulamirault.bsky.social · 14h

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16h

Federal officers are firing so much tear gas at protesters outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, that some nearby community members who aren’t even protesting are struggling to breathe when they leave their homes to run errands.

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15h

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Sickening.

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Paul Amirault @paulamirault.bsky.social · 16h

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Paul Amirault @paulamirault.bsky.social · 16h

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 18h

Imagine knowing – being absolutely sure – that when you die, 65 or 70% of the country and the world will celebrate your death like nothing they've ever celebrated anything before.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t.

And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks.

Did I get that right?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, indeed — what is Mike Johnson's
Grindr handle?

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Paul Amirault @paulamirault.bsky.social · 20h

The guilty always lie.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

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Jeffrey Sens @jeffreysens.bsky.social · 1d

My alt text will suck, but this is going around now. Portland frog facing off ICE really has become a mascot here.

A painting of a lone green and white belly frog wearing a blue scarf is facing off a line of feds, who are in helmets and faceguard and carrying batons. A line of tear gas flows up into the sky from the cops.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

She’s been reading off a script her whole pathetic life.
Nothing real or important about her.

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Paul Amirault @paulamirault.bsky.social · 1d

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Geneva 🇨🇦 @geneva1111.bsky.social · 1d

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia info

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

Lawless Russell Vought thinks he can nullify a law by deleting it from an FAQ

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

www.govexec.com

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Paul Amirault @paulamirault.bsky.social · 1d

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Paul Amirault @paulamirault.bsky.social · 1d

Am I bad for laughing at this?

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Paul Amirault @paulamirault.bsky.social · 1d

So happy to help! Easiest way to get rid of tons of maggots at once! 😀👍

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CrazyMary1964 @crazymary1964.bsky.social · Jan 7

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 1d

California, the ballots are out, vote yes on prop 50.

BALLOIS AREOUH
THE ELECTION BEGINS NOW.
HOTEVES ON PROP 50
BY NOUEMBER 4

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 1d

Fox and Jessie Watters specifically are useless trash. They make Jerry Springer look serious. This really does look like they masked up Robert O'neill for these fictional "interviews". This fits right in with right wing influencers showing up in Portland pretending to be Antifa.

tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · 1d

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Paul Amirault @paulamirault.bsky.social · 1d

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 1d

CBS reports ICE agents have repeatedly made fake 911 calls. Each time, police found no threat. In Illinois, that’s a felony.

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Paul Amirault @paulamirault.bsky.social · 1d

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.