Michael Gillespie
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Michael Gillespie
@saddemocratsf.bsky.social
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This is what “moving fast and breaking norms” looks like at 0.3 mph.
December 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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December 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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This plaque was to be hung in the Capitol in honor of the police officers who served to protect our country’s elected representatives and our democracy- this regime has a total disregard and disrespect for those who defended our democracy-
#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Pinks #DV1
December 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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77M Americans voted for this buffoon.
December 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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I'm searching Getty Images and found some photos credited to the Boston Herald that redact the faces of ICE/federal agents. They don't redact the face of the guy they're arresting.

I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.
December 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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They would never let me into this country if I weren't already here
In addition to 5 years of social media history, CBP would also require tourists to provide all phone numbers used over that period, any email addresses used in the past decade, DNA and iris scans, and the names, addresses, birthdates and birthplaces of family members
Including children
December 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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In 1993, Trump signed mortgages for 2 homes in Florida, claiming each as his principal residence.
He does not appear to have ever lived in either, let alone used them as a principal residence. They were investment properties & rented out.
Yet he accuses others of fraud?
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal — ProPublica
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
apple.news
December 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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NEW: Just hours after ordering for Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release from ICE custody, a federal judge barred the Trump administration from re-arresting him. The new order marks the latest setback in the White House’s lawless campaign to deport the Maryland man.
‘Flagrantly Corrupt’: Judge Again Bars Abrego Garcia’s Arrest After Highly Unusual DOJ Move
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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For the first time in decades, I handed my successor an air traffic controller workforce that was growing instead of shrinking.

Disturbingly, the Trump administration can't or won't say whether that’s still the case.
December 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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San Francisco deserves safe, clean, vibrant streets. That’s why I authored the SAFE Streets Act, which gives cities like San Francisco the tools they need to stop illegal fencing operations while protecting hardworking, permitted vendors who have been asking for help for years.
December 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
This is so tragic and unnecessary
SHAMEFUL
Measles for the Holidays
But could also lead to extreme illness
I truly despise RFKJR and others with their conspiracy insanity
VACCINES WORK
VACCINES SAVES LIVES
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
www.nbcnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Congratulations to every House Democrat and 20 Republicans for voting to restore the constitutional right to a union for over a million federal employees. The Senate must pass this bipartisan provision immediately.

All workers, including federal employees, have the right to be in a union.
House votes to repeal Trump order ending union rights at federal agencies
Twenty Republicans joined with Democrats to overturn the order, but it faces steep odds in the Senate.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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The question is, though, who will enforce those criminal provisions. Because somehow I don’t see Pam Bondi looking to indict herself
Q: If DOJ doesn't release the files it has by next Friday, is there anything Congress can do to compel that to happen?

MASSIE: It's a crime if they don't. This is a new law with criminal implications if they don't follow it.
December 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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"A woman who was four months pregnant and experiencing bleeding had not been seen by a doctor for months. Another had a miscarriage and was deported while still bleeding."

The most pro-life, pro-family president ever.

ICYMI @monacharen.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3Yl0Tqn
Trump’s Deportations Are Ripping Mothers from Their Babies
The president’s immigration policy is “beyond inhumane.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Trump appears 4 times in newly released Epstein photos released by House Democrats. Here they are. www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/p...
December 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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House Judiciary Committee Democrats on Friday pressed the Justice Department and Attorney General Pam Bondi to release special counsel Jack Smith’s report on President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents. @benjaminweiss.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/house-democr...
House Democrats demand Bondi release special counsel report on Trump classified documents case
Though the classified documents case is long defunct, an order from a Trump-appointed judge earlier this year has kept Jack Smith’s report on the president’s handling of such material under wraps.
www.courthousenews.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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BREAKING: Trump is sued by preservationists who are seeking architecture review and congressional approval over his White House ballroom project.
Trump sued by preservationists seeking architecture review over White House ballroom project
President Donald Trump has been sued by preservationists seeking an architecture review and congressional approval over his White House ballroom project.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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This drivel from The Atlantic is asinine

Racism leads to injustice. To repression. To segregation, lynchings, concentration camps

It leads to ICE attacking Brown and Black people in a country whose citizens once thought they were above that

It deserves no tolerance in the workplace

At all
December 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Is someone going to ask Trump and/or Karoline Leavitt about the Trump condoms.
Trump appears 4 times in newly released Epstein photos released by House Democrats. Here they are. www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/p...
December 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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In the California Senate, Scott Wiener has spearheaded legislation to:

🪪 ensure nonbinary Californians have accurate IDs
💊 expand PrEP access & decriminalize HIV status
🏳️‍⚧️ protect trans youth seeking health care

We are proud to endorse @scottwiener.bsky.social in CA’s 11th congressional district.
December 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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I see no reports of Trump releasing FEMA aid to my state. Blue states must rely on each other. Thank you, California.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has dispatched more than 100 California first responders to Washington state, where surging floodwaters have forced tens of thousands of residents to evacuate as back-to-back atmospheric river storms drenched the region
California sends rescue teams to Washington state due to severe floods
Gov. Gavin Newsom has dispatched more than 100 California first responders to Washington state, where surging floodwaters have forced tens of thousands of residents to evacuate.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I hope this will spread widely:

Liam Neeson chose to narrate an antivax documentary which backed RFK, said vaccines cause autism and called lifesaving Covid vaccines “dangerous experiments”

www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...

Shame on him. His career won’t end over this but it should.
Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary
The Taken actor can be heard calling COVID vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news
December 12, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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tbf, the whole country is sickened by anti-vax
More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of unvaccinated school-aged children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.
Hundreds Quarantined in South Carolina as Measles Outbreak Shows No Sign of Slowing
The outbreak shows no signs of slowing, likely because of the affected area’s “lower-than-hoped-for vaccination coverage,” a state health official said.
nyti.ms
December 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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A majority of Indiana Senate Republicans stood together to reject Trump’s mob-boss politics.

There is more power in standing up to a corrupt, unpopular administration rather than playing its game.

Law firms, universities, foundations, and media companies should take note.
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM