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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 21h

This is personalism. It's the Charles I scenario -- the king rules without the a legislature and simply taxes and spends in whatever way he feels like.

Impeach, remove, disqualify.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 22h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22h

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Travis R. Eby @travis-robert.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like New York has a waaay higher frequency of “group of dudes jackhammering a random hole in the street/sidewalk for weeks and leaving behind a shoddy patch job when they’re done” than any other city I’ve been to. Feels like this whole damn city is held together by duct tape sometimes.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is made up of men who have failed the human test and have nothing of value to offer this nation.

Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.

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Travis R. Eby @travis-robert.bsky.social · 1d

My indoctrination ♥️ I still have it

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

You gotta love Queens

Map of Queens showing 60th Ave, 60th Ct, 60th Dr, 60th Ln, 60th Pl, 60th St

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Travis R. Eby @travis-robert.bsky.social · 2d

Oh god “debate brain” is spreading

The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

‘Any day this week in primetime’: Hakeem Jeffries just challenged Speaker Mike Johnson to a live debate over shutdown

Hakeem Jeffries just challenged Speaker Mike Johnson to a live debate over shutdown

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries challenged House Speaker Mike Johnson “any day this week on prime time,” as the country enters its first full week of a government shutdown.

www.independent.co.uk

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Travis R. Eby @travis-robert.bsky.social · 2d

This lying son of a

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 2d

curtis yarvin seems somewhat unhappy

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Travis R. Eby @travis-robert.bsky.social · 2d

🎯

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Jordan 📚 @jaaaygilbert.bsky.social · 2d

“Public means I share this space with other people” vs “public means this is my space”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

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Travis R. Eby @travis-robert.bsky.social · 2d

“You are asking to be subjected to constant awful behavior by venturing out into public so I might as well be rude myself”

Ma’am you are at best a cynical anti-social weirdo and at worst a psychopath

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Travis R. Eby @travis-robert.bsky.social · 2d

Someone on another social media site posted (paraphrasing here) “turn your phone speakers off in public” and someone else replied “why? It’s a public space”

And man it explains a LOT that (some) people think that way about public space

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Travis R. Eby @travis-robert.bsky.social · 2d

The G train from

Court Sq to Metropolitan
Metropolitan to Hoyt-Schermerhorn
Hoyt-Schermerhorn to Church Av

…is three separate trains. I will not be explaining further

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3d

When President AOC federalizes the National Guard in 2029 to protect abortion clinics, Ilan is going to magically discover an English treatise written in 1610 that proves Matthew Kacsmaryk can issue a nationwide injunction against her.

Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 3d

We don’t have to carry water for dictators. Just my thought.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3d

The regime’s playbook:

Launch militarized raids in America’s cities to provoke a reaction.

Then claim the reaction is insurrection to justify even more authoritarian action.

The regime is using state-sanctioned violence to create a crisis.

There is no justification for violence by anyone.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Travis R. Eby @travis-robert.bsky.social · 3d

Every. Damn. Time.

Travis R. Eby @travis-robert.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, that time-honored tradition of sitting on a dark, stuffy Amtrak train at Washington Union Station because the locomotive changeover is 30m late

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 4d

increasingly convinced preventing americans from getting their little packages is the thing that will take this government down

Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 4d

How bad are tariffs going?

I paid for $32 of shaving cream from Canada. Unique stuff I’ve used for years, nothing like it in US. Small family business.

UPS guy came to my door today with box and said I have to pay additional $120 before he can hand it to me.

That makes it 5x more expensive!!! 🤯

Screenshot of message from UPS:

Hi Adam,
All import fees must be paid prior to delivery.
Save time - prepay online for your FREIGHTCOM shipment. If import fees are not paid before delivery, an additional surcharge will be applied.
Total Amount Due
119.20 USD
Additional charges may have been applied based on recent tariff policy changes.
Pay Now ›

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