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✨️🌈 Julie Walker 🌈✨️

@saltyafmermaid.bsky.social

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I'm a feminist progressive Texas dork who loves video games, dragons, coffee, cheap wine, fantasy books, fighting fascists and hating bigots. I ❤️ causing trouble. A bit of blue hair stuck in a red state.

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✨️🌈 Julie Walker 🌈✨️ @saltyafmermaid.bsky.social · 29d

It's time to party! And by party, I mean grab a book and a glass of wine and throw myself on my reading couch.

#BookSky 💙📚

My favorite part of the day is when I get to read.

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✨️🌈 Julie Walker 🌈✨️ @saltyafmermaid.bsky.social · 5h

Good. The ICE Gestapo should be indicted for their crimes.

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 23h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

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✨️🌈 Julie Walker 🌈✨️ @saltyafmermaid.bsky.social · 5h

Oh look, more corruption

Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 6h

The Trump administration is loudly, proudly lawless, and real attorneys with any sense of ethics just get in the way.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Deputy CIA director has a new side gig as his own lawyer

In a move that reaches a breathtaking level of WTAF even for the Trump administration, the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Ellis, just sidelined the agency’s general ...

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✨️🌈 Julie Walker 🌈✨️ @saltyafmermaid.bsky.social · 5h

I really love this guy. He's a real fighter

HuffPost @huffpost.com · 6h

The Democratic governor of Illinois stared down the camera when asked to respond to the president's jail threat.

JB Pritzker Dares Trump: 'Come And Get Me'

The Democratic governor of Illinois stared down the camera when asked to respond to the president's jail threat.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12h

Canada vs. America

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23h

Artemesia Gentileschi,
Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1620 #womensart

Painting featuring two white women in the act of beheading a white man with a sword as he lies in his bed

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✨️🌈 Julie Walker 🌈✨️ @saltyafmermaid.bsky.social · 10h

And a timeline cleanser because we need it

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10h

A rare bloom in Chile's Atacama desert has briefly transformed one of the world's driest places into a dazzling carpet of fuchsia-colored wildflowers.

The world's driest desert blooms into a rare, fleeting flower show

A rare bloom in Chile’s Atacama desert has briefly transformed one of the world’s driest places into a dazzling carpet of fuchsia-colored wildflowers.

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✨️🌈 Julie Walker 🌈✨️ @saltyafmermaid.bsky.social · 10h

These fascist fucks need to be stopped. Fuck ICE

Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 10h

House Dems Launch Probe Into ‘Violent, Heavy-Handed’ ICE Raid of Chicago Apartment Complex

House Democrats launch probe into controversial Chicago raid by federal immigration officials, demanding answers from Homeland Security and Attorney General.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 13h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 13h

“Now is our moment in time to fight for the change that we want to see, and fight for the future that we know we deserve," Pearson tells Rolling Stone.

More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Banned Books Week! 🗃️

For more information on Book Bans, check out this recent report from @penamerica.bsky.social

pen.org/report/the-n...

Read Banned Books under a shelf of books.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 13h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Mike Johnson only wants Lee Greenwood to perform the halftime show at the Super Bowl because Lawrence Welk is dead and therefore unavailable.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 13h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

#WarRavagedPortland

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✨️🌈 Julie Walker 🌈✨️ @saltyafmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck this asshole. Seriously. I've been saying this for awhile but FUCK THIS TERF BITCH.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

not only is the whole "the left is organizing against us" thing just bullshit for suppressing speech and dissent, its also hilarious because if you've spent 10 seconds on the left you can see there isnt the power to organize a bake sale let alone an antifa plot to take down the govt

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Careful, Jenn Bites 🧛🏻‍♀️🩷🧛🏻‍♀️ @alldolledup44.bsky.social · 2d

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EDC 🇺🇦🇮🇱 @simplyedc.bsky.social · 2d

Old Skool #Audio Stack. #Audiophile

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

i’ll never get over how some people pointed out trump was going to do project 2025 and then eventually the media asked trump if he was going to do project 2025 and he said “never heard of it” and the media decided he surely couldn’t be lying about that one

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✨️🌈 Julie Walker 🌈✨️ @saltyafmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

As always, they only have money for evil shit.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Exclusive: The Trump administration said immigration enforcement will “remain unchanged” through the government shutdown.

But at least one team at ICE isn’t going into work: the office that ensures detention centers meet federal safety standards.

ICE kept most offices open in shutdown — but not the one inspecting detention centers

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s entire Office of Detention Oversight has been placed on furlough, despite surging numbers of detainees.

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✨️🌈 Julie Walker 🌈✨️ @saltyafmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

They are kidnapping and *possibly* murdering people

Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 1d

In one of the country’s most notorious detention centers, detainees are disappearing from court records and ICE’s online locator system.
www.jezebel.com/hundreds-are...

Hundreds Are Disappearing from Alligator Alcatraz

In one of the country’s most notorious detention centers, detainees are disappearing from court records and ICE’s online locator system.

www.jezebel.com

✨️🌈 Julie Walker 🌈✨️ @saltyafmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson saying that he doesn’t think furloughed employees will get back pay likely won’t have ATC’s rushing back the the tower, either.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

No air traffic controllers were expected at the tower at Hollywood Burbank Airport in L.A. because of staffing issues, a source familiar with the situation says.

FAA reports staffing issues at airports as government shutdown continues

There were no air traffic controllers expected at the tower at Hollywood Burbank Airport in the Los Angeles area, and Denver and Newark airports were experiencing delays due to shortages.

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✨️🌈 Julie Walker 🌈✨️ @saltyafmermaid.bsky.social · 1d

Disgusting attempt to destroy the future, which seems to be a common desire by the gop.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Outcry as Trump plots the plunder of US forests: "You can almost hear the chainsaws" [via
@theguardian.com]

Outcry as Trump plots the plunder of US forests: "You can almost hear the chainsaws"

Public comments suggest repealing the Clinton-era "roadless rule" is wildly unpopular.