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Sean OFarrell @skofarrell.bsky.social · 21m

Screenshot from Twitter by then SD Governor Kristi Noem
@KristiNoem

If Joe Biden federalizes the National Guard,
that would be a direct attack on states
rights.
Over the last several years, we've seen
Democrats try to take away our Freedoms
of religion, assembly, and speech. We can't
let them take away our right to defend
ourselves, too.
s9th Dakota defends the Constitution.

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Sean OFarrell @skofarrell.bsky.social · 24m

She’s seen the files.

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Sean OFarrell @skofarrell.bsky.social · 24m

WWJD

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 3h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 10h

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Sean OFarrell @skofarrell.bsky.social · 3h

Why? January 6th participants all received pardons.

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Sean OFarrell @skofarrell.bsky.social · 19h

And she has a pardon in her pocket.

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Sean OFarrell @skofarrell.bsky.social · 19h

The Exec branch enjoys plenary power, remember?

Who's going to stop her? The Roberts court?

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 21h

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 1d

Starve them out. Don't make their life easy.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

"You cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming" says man who once hid and escaped when justice was coming.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home to avoid being served with subpoena, court record says
In an affidavit, a process server said that the state’s top attorney tried to evade him as he attempted to deliver a subpoena from an abortion fund’s lawsuit against the state.

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Sean OFarrell @skofarrell.bsky.social · 19h

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Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) to Pam Bondi: "I think it's valuable that the American
people get a sense of what you have refused to answer today. So, these are just
some of the questions you refuse to answer, but or have answered with personal
attacks on members of this committee. You were asked whether you consulted with
career ethics lawyers, as you promised you would do during your nomination
hearing. When you approved the president receiving a $400 million gift from the
Qataris, you refused to answer that question. You were asked who or what role you
may have played, or who played the role in asking that Trump's name be flagged in
any of the Epstein documents gathered by the FBI? You refuse to answer that
question. You were asked whether Homan kept the $50,000 bribe money. You
refuse to answer that question. You were asked whether Homan paid taxes on the
$50,000 bribe money. You refused to answer that question. You were asked, did
career prosecutors find insufficient evidence to charge James Comey. You refused to
answer that question. You were asked, how are military strikes on these boats in
the Caribbean legal. And you refuse to even answer that question. You are asked,
excuse me, excuse me? You are asked, did you discuss indicting James Comey with
the president. You refused to answer that question. You were asked, did you
approve of the firing of antitrust lawyers who disagreed with the Hewlett Packard
merger. You refused to answer that question. You were asked whether you support
a restoration fund for violent insurrections, insurrections to attack the Capitol on
January 6th. Refuse to answer that question. You were asked whether you were
firing career professionals, career prosecutors just because they worked on January
6th. Question January 6th investigations. You refuse to answer that question. You
were asked by my colleague whether you believe government officials, like
immigration officials, have to abide by court orders. You wouldn't answer that
question."

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Sean OFarrell @skofarrell.bsky.social · 19h

The important thing is he didn't take any money away from the billionaires.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Hirono: "I have to conclude that, since no wrongdoing was determined, that Homan kept the money. And I hope he will put that on his tax returns as income."

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Sean OFarrell @skofarrell.bsky.social · 20h

Still don’t get the "why." Other than the normal gop cruelty fetish. N

Sean OFarrell @skofarrell.bsky.social · 20h

Understood. But the Bsky code doesn't have to respect the list when a block is invoked, right?

In other words: Can't it suppress the list entry in the same manner it respects my block of a user?

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Sean OFarrell @skofarrell.bsky.social · 20h

a man in a white shirt stands in front of a crowd wearing a hat that says ' sx ' on it

ALT: a man in a white shirt stands in front of a crowd wearing a hat that says ' sx ' on it

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Rob @robwagner.bsky.social · 20h

Johnson this afternoon - “we’ll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants”

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Sean OFarrell @skofarrell.bsky.social · 20h

The plenary executive branch doesn't have oversight, right?

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 21h

Pam Bondi is simply no match - intellectually or ethically - for Adam Schiff.

Watch this must-see clip as he dissects and exposes her pathetic performance today.

When she realizes how badly he is rolling her, she tries to interrupt. But it’s to no avail. She knows that he has her dead to rights.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Do you even hear yourselves?

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Sean OFarrell @skofarrell.bsky.social · 20h

Puzzled as to why they care? Other than the standard cruelty fetish, of course. It's not like the workers have any say in this.

It's not like anyone gives a shit about the deficit.

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 1d

again, vought’s divorce remains the most bizarrely unreported story in DC

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

This is rampant lawlessness

The law says what it says, and Russ Vought doesn't get to unilaterally change that

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

www.govexec.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 22h

NPR amplifying Trump's false premises.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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DEMSEC @demsec.bsky.social · 22h

Stephen froze like a deer in the headlights and pretended to have connection issues because he unintentionally gave away the game plan.

“Plenary authority is complete, absolute power over a specific area or issue, with no significant limitations."

Show people this clip. This is an insane slip up.

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