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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · Jul 31

Republicans are drawing illegal maps! California wouldn't have to draw illegal maps to gain multiple seats. In fact, we could draw very fair maps & win many more House seats. Illinois, NY, NJ, Maryland & Michigan should do this, too & redistricting state legislative seats as well!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jul 31

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jul 31

It’s time to get ruthless🔥

If California holds a special election on redistricting, I’m voting “yes” for new maps. And I promise you I’m bringing friends and family with me to vote.

The Supreme Court already made it clear it’s fine with gerrymandering. So screw it. LFG.

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Susan Perri @perri4health @perri4health.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thank you @dougjones.bsky.social for speaking truth to power.

The Republicans fear the truth .

The same party that passed, “The Big Ugly Bill” stealing from the poor to give to the rich, is now afraid .

Release the Epstein for files, cure the fever , cowards !

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk cutting a piece of paper .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk cutting a piece of paper .

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · Jul 23

IMPORTANT: Bondi also told president at the meeting that Justice decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents

𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙨

There's a paywall, but it's all in the headline.
www.wsj.com/politics/jus...

Exclusive | Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files

Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president that the department also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victim...

www.wsj.com

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Doug Jones @dougjones.bsky.social · Jul 23

OMG folks! Espstein fever has gripped DC!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jul 23

Members of Congress are being denied proper access for oversight.

Call, especially if your Rep is Republican.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jul 23

Members of Congress are being blocked from oversight.

At 26 Federal Plaza, ICE crammed migrants into holding rooms for days. Men sleeping on floors, wrapped in foil, slumped on benches, no toilet privacy.

Lawmakers want answers. Trump’s team is denying everything.

But the images don’t lie.

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · Jul 22

Jim Acosta: What we are seeing in Texas with them threatening draw redistricting lines to give repubs more seats, is there anything you can do in New York to combat what they are doing?

Gov. Hochul: (with a smile) More on that to come, stay tuned.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jul 23

Speaker Johnson sent the House home early, hoping the pressure to release the Epstein files dies off.

They’re planning to subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell. But look out—Trump might be cooking up a pardon deal. Pay-to-play. She gets freedom, and in return, she says exactly what he wants her to say.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jul 23

Check out my Substack for more…
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Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline)

Welcome to the Police State Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” just made ICE the most powerful law enforcement agency in America With the stroke of a pen, Donald Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill” d...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jul 23

ICE, already unaccountable, just became the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency, outpacing the FBI. Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill” dumps $170 bill into immigration and border enforcement. More than what many countries spend on their entire military.

Authoritarianism in the U.S.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jul 23

Watch every second of this.

Our worst fears are here. With Trump’s new bill, the police state is no longer looming—it’s official.

Expect more raids on a massive scale, shattered families, and a brutal crackdown on humanitarian protections.

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · Jul 22

🚨👇🏽

Important 🧵 on winning back Latino voters.

Having been on the same call, I guarantee that the Democratic Party has a window to do this with simple tools - AM/Spanish radio, TRUTH, etc.

This is DOABLE.
The DNC and leadership must finally invest in us.🌻

Fight for us, we’ll fight for you!

WE SUPPORT DEMS IN THE FIGHT!

THE REFORMERS
We ARE the Democratic Party

Graphics by @RogueCitizenOne

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · Jul 22

The DC area is in one of its most humid summers ever recorded:

𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝟲𝟱𝟬 hours with a dew point over 70° since June 1, per Reagan National data.

The average # of hours with dew points over 70° from June 1 to mid-July is usually appx 𝟮𝟳𝟲 hours.

Climate change isn’t coming. It’s HERE.

Humidity Cool GIF

Alt: The DC area is in one of its most humid summers ever recorded: 𝟲𝟱𝟬+ hours with a dew point over 70° since June 1, per Reagan National data. The average # of hours with dew points over 70° from June 1 to mid-July is usually appx 𝟮𝟳𝟲 hours. Climate change isn’t coming. It’s HERE.

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · Jul 22

A lot of people who voted for Trump did so because they believed he would help fix the economy and immigration.
Thats not what’s happening, in fact he’s doing quite the opposite — his attacks on immigrants are backfiring and impacting our economy.

Let’s talk about.

A 🧵

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · Jul 22

Speaker Johnson said he will shut down the government until September to block a vote to release the Epstein files.

There can only be one reason why.

🎁 link

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Johnson Shutting Down House Early to Block Epstein Vote

www.nytimes.com

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · Jul 22

...when “the official employs means which he cannot honestly consider reasonable in discharging his duties or otherwise acts out of malice or with some criminal intent.”"

Meanwhile, all Dems in Congress need to demand hearings on ICE excesses and lack of ID

Call your Rep and Senators 202-224-3121
INVESTIGATE ICE
We need answers on why ICE agents are masked and refusing to ID themselves

THE REFORMERS

We ARE the Democratic Party

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · Jul 22

A 53 yo California case against overzealous DEA agents provides local law enforcement means to disrupt ICE excesses

"In his Clifton v. Cox ruling, U.S. Judge Stanley Conti wrote that federal law enforcement officials could be prosecuted for state & local crimes...

share.google/wRixvo5bCXvC...

How can California stop ICE overreach? The answer might lie in a 1972 case from Humboldt County

OPINION: Might the answer to Los Angeles’ present emergency — how to stop masked federal agents from seizing its people — lie in a half-century-old story from Humboldt County?

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · Jul 22

You will be missed! 🙏💕

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🔥Harry Potter Resists Fascism🔥 @harrypotterresists.bsky.social · Jul 22

Right you are, my Friend !!!!

86M idiots did not show up to vote last November.

trump's "landslide" was a tiny 1% over Kamala Harris.

The rest of the other idiots, either voted for that monster, or for a third party.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · Jul 22

Such great points here.
An associated one: By simply taking over the AM airways in Iowa, Republicans turned a swing state into a solid Red one.
Much the same happened in Missouri.
Democrats have ideas that take the country forward, and a communication strategy that is stuck in a ditch.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jul 22

Real Talk…

Not a day goes by when folks aren’t trying to pin Trump’s win on Latino voters. Let’s clear that up: Latinos make up about 14% of the electorate. So if you’re blaming them, you’re missing the real story.

If there’s blame to place, it’s on Democrats for not showing up. Hear me out.
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Susan Perri @perri4health @perri4health.bsky.social · Jul 21

Superman stands for tolerance and anti-racism .

Superman would be really pissed at Trump’s rounding up of people who have committed NO CRIME ,flying them out with NO due process.

He would be calling Jimmy Olsen or Lois Lane to do the reporting.

Where are OUR reporters?

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · Jul 21

Superman isn’t “woke.”

This design was created in 1949 by DC Comics for school book covers that the Institute for American Democracy (an ADL offshoot) distributed to schools.

Superman stood for justice then - and he still does.

It’s not Superman who changed. America changed.

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · Jul 21

Superman isn’t “woke.”

This design was created in 1949 by DC Comics for school book covers that the Institute for American Democracy (an ADL offshoot) distributed to schools.

Superman stood for justice then - and he still does.

It’s not Superman who changed. America changed.

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