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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

Trump is running the government and the economy just like he ran his businesses — straight into the ground. https://youtu.be/zbh9SW5Cgqg?si=AXCJAp8jz78ySvJi

How Trump Killed Every Business He Touched | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8h

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.”

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6h

Posobiec isn't a nazi in some generic rhetorical sense of having fascistic impulses or simply being far-right. He is a full-blown Hitler-loving Jew-hating mask-off literal capital-N Nazi, with a longstanding public record to match.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

NEW: Comey is going to challenge the legality of Lindsay Halligan's authority. Here's an explanation from my show this past Sunday. You can watch the whole show here: www.youtube.com/live/PkEOK7J...

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 8h

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Yayger @yayger.bsky.social · 7h

The Digital Surveillance State is coming together quickly and it’s gonna really suck

ACLU @aclu.org · 9h

ICE has bought access to an “all-in-one” surveillance tool that gives it updated location data from hundreds of millions of phones, putting us all at risk of being tracked.

The government can’t be allowed to surveil us simply for having a cell phone.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Pelosi: "Democrats who created Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, all of that, are now being asked to reject that so we can give a tax cut to the rich. We're not doing it. It isn't a question of, 'let's come back together so we can discuss it.' That isn't going to happen."

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

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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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9h

The vindictive prosecutions of political enemies are not a distraction from the Epstein files - they’re one and the same: wielding the power of the DoJ to persecute your foes AND to protect your friends.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 1d

@nytimes.com survey of 50 legal experts: “Every single one of the 50 respondents believe that Trump and his attorney general, Pam Bondi, have used the Justice Department to go after the president’s political and personal enemies and provide favors to his allies.”

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Marilyn Munster @heyfren.bsky.social · 2d

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 1d

This is what authoritarianism looks like.

Screenshot of headline reading: Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois, as Gov. Pritzker calls for end of Trump administration's 'authoritarian march'

Gov. JB Pritzker accused the president of using troops for political gain.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

Pam Bondi’s defensive attacks against Senate Democrats questioning her was not the flex she thinks it was. All it did was vividly point out how she has abandoned Justice Dept. independence to serve the desires of her authoritarian boss.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

500 hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics are at risk of closing because of the Trump-Republican big, ugly bill. Many are in rural areas.

Meanwhile, Republican-held US House districts and states Trump won in 2024 rely more on ACA coverage.

They're selling out their own voters.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 1d

Your constant reminder that bribe for hire Pam Bondi isn’t an attorney general by any means, she’s a criminal who was installed by a criminal to cover up his crimes and the crimes of other powerful rich criminals. Any testimony she gives is a complete bullshit perjury rant.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Broadview police are investigating.

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump has never sounded guiltier than this and that's a high bar

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

COLLINS: Pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell -- is that something you're open to doing?

TRUMP: Who are we talking about?

C: Ghislaine Maxwell

T: I haven't heard the name is so long. I can say this -- I'd have to take a look at it ... I will speak to the DOJ

C: She's convicted of child sex trafficking

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently, Pamela Jo Bondi took this as a challenge.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

It really is an amazing accomplishment to be able to stand out for your callous awfulness in this Trump administration.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Whitehouse: "It obviously makes a big difference when you have a professional DOJ and there's no alleged involvement of the president in a sex trafficking operation. This is different. This is a MAGA DOJ conducting an investigation into a trafficking operation in which POTUS may well be implicated"

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