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Susan
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Susan @susanoca25.bsky.social · Jan 6
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"We should never forget it is our democracy that makes everything possible — our freedoms, our rights, our liberties, our dreams. And that it falls to every generation of Americans to defend and protect it."
Opinion | Joe Biden: What Americans should remember about Jan. 6
Four years ago, our democracy was put to the test — and prevailed.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h
Data centers are receiving billions in state tax exemptions.

These centers, many owned by Big Tech giants, are driving up electric bills and sucking up huge amounts of water.

AI is boosting the stock portfolios of the richest Americans while everyone else pays the price.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 4h
If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 4h
CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 4h
Imagine knowing – being absolutely sure – that when you die, 65 or 70% of the country and the world will celebrate your death like nothing they've ever celebrated anything before.
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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3h
The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE
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Nikki Budzinski @budzinski.house.gov · 2h
The Trump administration’s decision to DELAY the clean up of PFAS from the drinking water in and around Scott Air Force Base is unacceptable. Our military servicemembers and communities near the base deserve to know that the water coming out of their tap is clean and safe.
‘Deeply concerning.’ PFAS cleanup delayed at Scott Air Force Base
The Department of Defense recently released new timetables for the cleanup with no explanation.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2h
What happens now that Republicans shut down the government?

- Federal workers stop getting paid
- Air travel could be delayed
- Food inspection services may be delayed
- Head Start services may be disrupted
- Passport + Visa applications could slow
- National Parks may shut down
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3h
Hoping these federal agents are held accountable, breaking the law should have real consequences. A federal judge has ruled that federal immigration agents illegally arrested more than two dozen people.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3h
White House officials have held increasingly serious discussions in recent days about President Donald Trump invoking the Insurrection Act, a rarely used 19th century law that gives the president the power to deploy active-duty troops inside the U.S. for law enforcement purposes
Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say
A decision is not 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.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3h
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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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 9h
JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6h
JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h
Sickening.
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 5h
JUST IN: Feds say they are incapable of moving Kilmar Abrego Garcia from PA to TN for court session Friday in his criminal case. A week lead time isn't enough, prosecutors say, plus there's a hearing on one of his civil suits Friday in Maryland. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."
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Motorhead @bradmunchen.bsky.social · 20h
"Putin couldn't do a better job" of attacking America.

How do we know this isn't Putin's doing?
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ACLU @aclu.org · 4h
ICE has bought access to an “all-in-one” surveillance tool that gives it updated location data from hundreds of millions of phones, putting us all at risk of being tracked.

The government can’t be allowed to surveil us simply for having a cell phone.
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h
So federal workers are working without pay, and furloughed workers will only get the back pay required by law IF Trump deems them worthy?

Did I get that right?
#TrumpShutUSDown
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 5h
Today's arrest of 29-year-old Florida resident Jonathan Rinderknecht marks an important step toward determining how the horrific #PalisadesFire started and bringing closure to the thousands of survivors whose lives were upended.
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 5h
Authorities have made an arrest in connection with the deadly Palisades Fire that ravaged part of Los Angeles earlier this year, now believed to have been caused by arson, officials said.
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God @thegodpodcast.com · 5h
What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and I start with this clip of me from 2024 on Jimmy Kimmel Live and we talk about how Trump told us for years what he was going to do to the country now.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d
"Part of what frustrates me is how much people just didn't listen to the things that he said he was going to do."

"He was telling us he would do these things....he's a sick man."

ICYMI, @gtconway.bsky.social and @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social in the latest episode of George Conway Explains It All:
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h
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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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 5h
When paychecks stop during a shutdown, bills don’t.

My Emergency Relief for Federal Workers Act would allow our civil servants to tap retirement savings without penalty to get through tough times during a government shutdown. We owe them that much.
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Don Beyer's Emergency Relief for Federal Workers Act
YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 7h
You’ll never be able to convince me ripping an American citizen out of their Chicago apartment in the dead of night, zip tying their hands and refusing to let them call their lawyer is ‘America First’
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 7h
Canada vs. America
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