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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h

🚨BREAKING: The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified in federal court Wednesday that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, he received no such direction when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander this summer.

Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 8h

Some cases take on outsized importance, with issues that transcend the decision the parties ask the courts to make. This is one of those cases. The stakes are high: the integrity of the Justice Department and the ability of a president to corrupt the rule of law. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Slow Death Facing The Comey Prosecution

This morning at 10 a.m., former FBI Director Jim Comey was arraigned in federal court.

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Sylvie @sylviaakabibi.bsky.social · 7h

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

Johnson and Lauer are stalling.

If Grijalva isn’t sworn in, it gives them time to pressure one of the 4 Republicans who signed the discharge petition to flip.

The reason they’re working this hard to shield the Epstein files is because Trump’s name is all over them.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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Sylvie @sylviaakabibi.bsky.social · 7h

"We have a lot of stupid people in this country running things,” tRump said during a press conference last month.

A remarkable self own 😉

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Sylvie @sylviaakabibi.bsky.social · 7h

"The stupidest president in American history." - Lawrence McDonnell.

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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 12h

These people vote too,

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Sylvie @sylviaakabibi.bsky.social · 9h

Or ... "Do you know where you are, AG ondi?"

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12h

🚨BREAKING: A right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Right-Wing Group Asks SCOTUS to Turn Pro-Voting Law Into Tool for Voter Purges

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Sylvie @sylviaakabibi.bsky.social · 10h

Felon tRump pardoned felon D'Souza.

Are all MAGAt's sexually deviant? 🤮

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Sylvie @sylviaakabibi.bsky.social · 10h

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 12h

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

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Sylvie @sylviaakabibi.bsky.social · 11h

Not this year, Satan tRump.
Nobel Committee will announce winner(s) this Friday, Oct. 10 ... as far as I know.

If he should get it for one of his other 7 "imaginary" peace deals, the Nobel Peace Prize will be forever stained.
Just sayin'

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12h

Seriously, is this a trick? It’s everyday now.

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Sylvie @sylviaakabibi.bsky.social · 11h

She seems desperate to hold on to her seat in Congress ...

Meet Shawn Harris, the Democrat who seeks to oust Marjorie Taylor Greene share.google/p96BdKT71ZvN...

Meet Shawn Harris, the Democrat who seeks to oust Marjorie Taylor Greene

'I wouldn't be running unless I thought I could win'

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Sylvie @sylviaakabibi.bsky.social · 12h

America's #1 disgrace ... tied with the dumbazz MAGAt voters. 🤪

Sylvie @sylviaakabibi.bsky.social · 12h

Via even dumber ppl...if that's possible.

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Sylvie @sylviaakabibi.bsky.social · 12h

I bet the dotard believes it's a Hispanic guy his ICE Gestapo detained...🙄

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

I’m pretty sure if we designed an assisted living facility to look like the WH and put lots of gold all over it and a ballroom with his late 70s playlist on a loop we could coax him in there and he wouldn’t know the difference. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

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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Sylvie @sylviaakabibi.bsky.social · 13h

All of these MAGAts - who take advantage and depend on Democrats' created & hard fought social programs - "thank" the Dems by continually voting for the GOP that only works to cause them harm & hardship ... namely the "only-working-for-the-rich" Republicons.

#Insanity
#Dumbazzes

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17h

So far, Republicans would rather shut down the government. So Americans face flight delays, reduced services, and mounting economic damage.

It's time for Trump and Republicans to change course on health care and reopen the government.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17h

In a few days, you may be notified that your health insurance premiums will double, because of Republican cuts to health care. Democrats are fighting to change that before it's too late.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17h

McGovern: Republicans love to advocate for more work requirements for poor people… Let's have a work requirement for Republicans to show up to congress and do your god damn job.

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