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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3h

Chicagoans are furious that a convicted felon has sent his thugs here to commit violence against our community. Join us in fighting fascist Republican assholes.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 6h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 3h

Harris and Hillary were right about it all. Every shocking prediction is coming true.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h

The simple truth is that Trump is a criminal. Now he and his accomplices are back in power, and they’re using that power to smear the honest agents and prosecutors who investigated them. www.thebulwark.com/p/bondi-host...

Bondi to Congress: 🖕

The attorney general came to the Hill to deliver a message to Democrats: Your ‘oversight’ couldn't matter to us less.

www.thebulwark.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2h

“Senior military leaders should have stepped in to prevent Trump from turning addresses at Fort Bragg and Norfolk into political rallies; the silence of the Army and Navy secretaries, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and some top generals and admirals is appalling…”

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2h

It's so important to nip the framing of this reporting in the bud right now.

Don't accept the narrative that Trump and his team only just started discussing invoking the Insurrection Act. January 6 happened because his White House was in conversation with radicals about what it'd take to invoke it.

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision isn't expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2h

“America’s senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, must approach Trump now and make clear to him that they will not obey illegal orders to act against American citizens or disrupt the American political process.”

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2h

Bari Weiss "is a self-described 'Zionist fanatic.' The idea that a 'neutral media organization' is led by someone who has a long history as a pro-Israel ideologue...is really worrying. I think there will be a lot more censorship of Palestinian voices." - me to Piers Morgan about CBS News and Weiss:

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Cindy 🇨🇦⚢🏳️‍🌈 @bilbow.bsky.social · 17h

Report released Monday, says U.S. booze exports to Canada are down a staggering 85% in 2nd quarter compared to the year before.“This shift may reflect a broader sentiment that US tariffs are unfair, prompting consumers to seek nonUS products”

#blackoutthesystem
#Pinks
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Canada is buying 85% less U.S. booze than last year amid trade war: report - National | Globalnews.ca

'This shift may reflect a broader sentiment that U.S.-imposed tariffs are unfair,' the report noted in its assessment of falling exports around the globe.

globalnews.ca

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 8h

California is the first state to define ultra-processed foods and phase them out of school meals.

DC politicians can talk all day about "Making America Healthy Again," but we've been walking the walk on boosting nutrition and removing toxic additives and dyes for decades.

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Landry Corkery 💙🌈 🇩🇰 🇵🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @landry76.bsky.social · 1h

If every blue state withdraws from the National Governors Association, and implements laws to unmask ICE, enforcing them with the help of the National Guard, these little authoritarian games will come to an end.

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Sharon Carbine @sharoncarbine.bsky.social · 2h

"Pam Bondi More 'Reprehensible' Than Nixon's Attorney General: Ex-White House Lawyer."
www.huffpost.com/entry/pam-bo...

"Ty Cobb say he’s floored by the level of corruption in ... Donald Trump’s gov, calling the people at the top of today’s Dept of Justice more crooked than those of Watergate era."

Pam Bondi Crowned Most 'Reprehensible' Attorney General By Ex-White House Lawyer

Former Trump insider Ty Cobb said today's Department of Justice is looking worse than the Watergate era.

www.huffpost.com

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Sharon Carbine @sharoncarbine.bsky.social · 2h

"Senate votes down war powers resolution aimed at blocking [fascist felon Donald] Trump's strikes on alleged drug boats."

- Un-American Trump MAGA Republicans eunuchs & traitor John Fetterman crushed the resolution. They are complicit with serial murderer Trump.
www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-...

Senate votes down war powers resolution aimed at blocking Trump's strikes on alleged drug boats

Senate Democrats forced a vote under the War Powers Act aimed at blocking continued U.S. strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats off the coast of Venezuela.

www.cbsnews.com

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Sharon Carbine @sharoncarbine.bsky.social · 3h

JD Vance is highly indebted to billionaire Peter Thiel for his VP position & Thiel's earlier financial backing.

Vance also wants to please Vladimir Putin. There is a lot to that story I don't know.

Hoping Democrats prosecute some of Trump's worst pitbulls (e.g., Stephen Mill & Pam Bondi) ASAP.

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Sharon Carbine @sharoncarbine.bsky.social · 3h

Fascist felon Donald Trump has mostly appointed grossly unqualified, malignant people to top positions in Trump Admin 47.

Big question is what would happen to those people, who are "loyal" to Trump, if Trump died. I'm speculating JD Vance would replace many of them with people his "owners" prefer.

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Sharon Carbine @sharoncarbine.bsky.social · 3h

My impression is many people are worried about what'll happen if fascist felon Donald Trump dies in near term.

Short of incident where both Trump & JD Vance die, Vance will become president. Vance is widely hated & distrusted. I think he won't command the fear Trump has. Ergo some relief for world!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17h

We must all stand up and speak out.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17h

Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers.

Invading our state with military troops.

Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night.

Arresting elected officials asking questions.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 9h

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12h

Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...

Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action

Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...

www.help99.co

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7h

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 15h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Sharon Carbine @sharoncarbine.bsky.social · 3h

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 6h

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said his government believed one of the boats recently bombed by the United States in its campaign against alleged drug traffickers had been carrying Colombian citizens, not drug traffickers.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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