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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 4h

2025 is about reading the most dystopian bullshit you've ever seen and then having to still go to the store.

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 1d

I'm really glad more people are realizing how brutal ICE has been in Chicago but it's really weird to see people talking about Rev Black getting attacked like it happened yesterday and not 3 weeks ago. Like, I'm glad people are catching up! But it's very weird.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 15h

Anyway state and city governments need to do everything they can to block and/or nullify federal tax collection yesterday

www.bannedinyourstate.com/p/the-point-...

The Point Of No Return

We Are At War, Whether We Want To Be Or Not

www.bannedinyourstate.com

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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 19h

Just to be absolutely clear:

The President of the United States has absolutely no power to “take away” any right enumerated in the Constitution from any person.

And that is how every single article, blog post, and social media commentary should start when discussing this ludicrous statement.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Brittany @starremnants.bsky.social · 13h

Why are they asking him these things?! What's next, "have you given any more thought to killing your enemies?"

Madness. @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @morelle.house.gov we have WAY bigger problems than a few Healthcare provisions.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Brittany @starremnants.bsky.social · 13h

Alas, my elbow is still being a shit, so I wonder if I got tendinitis again.

Now, getting tendinitis in my sleep would be a bit new, but I likely rolled my rib in my sleep a few years back so I'm not shocked.

Hypermobility: 2/10, fun party tricks, not fun lifelong pain and injuries

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

There's been a fair amount of talk, some I think a bit overeager for what it would really mean, of Guard units refusing unlawful orders, of open defiance. But there's a radical escalation here in the White House and Pentagon openly sending the message to them, acting as though it were happening.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20h

I think the Dems have done a good job on hammering the GOP into a corner on health care. But in the grand scheme that’s a safe space/easy pull for them. They need to replicate that consistency with the other issues.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.

American citizens are being detained & brutalized.

This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

www.pbs.org

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Brittany @starremnants.bsky.social · 17h

That being a Reptar costume makes this ten times better. What a time we're living in...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18h

Industrial Revolution Provides Millions Of Out-Of-Work Children With Jobs https://theonion.com/industrial-revolution-provides-millions-of-out-of-work-1819571223/

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Brittany @starremnants.bsky.social · 17h

TSA, ATC, all of them should stay home if Trump can't be assed to pay them.

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Brittany @starremnants.bsky.social · 17h

Good.

If you aren't being paid, don't put in the work. And we shouldn't cross the picket line: @groundtheplanes.bsky.social .

Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

As the government shutdown moves into its second week, air travelers can expect longer airport security lines—as TSA employees call out sick in higher numbers.

Hundreds Of Unpaid TSA Agents Are Calling In Sick—Expect Longer Airport Security Lines

As the government shutdown moves into its second week, air travelers can expect longer airport security lines—as TSA employees call out sick in higher numbers.

www.forbes.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 19h

Disabled people are not the enemy

Immigrants are not the enemy

LGBTQ+ people are not the enemy

Minorities & people of colour are not the enemy

These division tactics only work because there’s one group who needs to feel superior to the rest of us

They will “other” anyone to advance their agenda

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Brittany @starremnants.bsky.social · 18h

Woke up to my right elbow shrieking and while it's now willing to move, it still complains when fully straightened.

Bodies: 0/10, do not recommend.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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Brittany @starremnants.bsky.social · 18h

Wow he's actually on his feet and walking around instead of melting into a chair. Now if only he would mention ICE kidnapping people and troops in our cities.

Brittany @starremnants.bsky.social · 18h

God I feel this way too much and my state doesn't have troops (yet). Buy keeping up with everything and amplifying votes and keeping my mind stretched for any way to help that I can manage.

No matter how much I sleep, I'm still exhausted. But I can't look away either.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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go loud @stillicides.bsky.social · 1d

MOTABILITY CARS

ARE NOT

FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you need to apply for one, they take a portion of your benefits in return, and most people with one have physical disabilities not just anxiety

Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 1d

Helen Whately said on stage at Tory Conference that "millions" of people with anxiety and ADHD are getting benefits and a free mobility car.

Hands up anyone with ADHD or anxiety who got a free car?

No? No one? Didn't think so. #

Lying Tory bigot.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21h

The sigh I expel when you undermine the whole “without fear or favor” part by using Trump and Hegseth’s make-believe name for the Defense Department.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 22h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Ground the Planes @groundtheplanes.bsky.social · 20h

Yes and the only way out is to keep relentlessly changing the subject back to accountability and consequences—meaning impeachment, removal, prosecution, now.

(Most leftwing commentators now understand the “flooding the zone” tactic but no more than 1% understand how to fight distraction with focus)

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Brittany @starremnants.bsky.social · 21h

So, yes, it IS an argument to do nothing, if those are our only two options.

(They aren't our only two options. But they ARE the two options that let people justify doing nothing)

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

Feds were actively arresting people just a few miles away while he was giving this interview.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

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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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 22h

Are you stopping them? Doesn’t look like it.

Analysis is 100% right but it’s important not to blow smoke when your citizens are getting brutalized. Maybe all the people saying the governor has no legit way of actually stopping them are correct! But if you can’t, then don’t claim you are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Pritzker: "I think it's important to recognize that the Trump administration does not seem to respect any laws in the United States. They just do what they want to do and they'll keep doing it unless someone stops them. Here in Illinois we're stopping them."

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