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Sissy Rufus 🌏🌎🌍 @unkaren.bsky.social · 4d

To thine own self be true.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7d

We've always had a real set of American virtues and values, and we've always had brutality and political violence. So far, the former has always kept pace and eventually won out.

Ken Burns joins @timmiller.bsky.social in the latest Bulwark Podcast:

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Sissy Rufus 🌏🌎🌍 @unkaren.bsky.social · 9m

We all know Speaker Johnson worships his Pedo King Don, same as House GOP. #Epstein

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 27m

Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat?

Adelita Grijalva won a landslide election for her Arizona seat. But Mike Johnson is defying the will of the voters

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Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat? | Moira Donegan

Adelita Grijalva won a landslide election for her Arizona seat. But Mike Johnson is defying the will of the voters

www.theguardian.com

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Sissy Rufus 🌏🌎🌍 @unkaren.bsky.social · 22m

Silence from AZ Gov Hobbs?! What's the harm in public complaints from your platform, Katie?

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jhmtuc.bsky.social @jhmtuc.bsky.social · 27m

Speaker Mike Johnson, the professed Christian, is protecting pedophiles by refusing to allow Grijalva to vote on releasing the Epstein files.

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Sissy Rufus 🌏🌎🌍 @unkaren.bsky.social · 24m

Complacent Gov Hobbs is too busy working with MAGA to use her platform to get Congressional representation for AZ CD7. #Grijalva

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 15h

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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Sissy Rufus 🌏🌎🌍 @unkaren.bsky.social · 26m

Why isn't AZ Gov Hobbs drawing attention to this injustice? I'm not in CD7 but I'm ticked off. Of course, I have King Don's jock sniffer Eli Crane as Rep.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21h

Mike Johnson said he would swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva "as soon as she wants." His office then backtracked — saying Johnson would only swear in the duly elected Grijalva once the government reopens. Grijalva won her special election more than two weeks ago.

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Chris2fur1943 @chris2fur1943.bsky.social · 18h

It is shocking that the U.S. penal population of 2.2 million adults is the largest in the world.
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The growth of incarceration in the U.S. Causes and consequences. National Research Council 2014 | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse

Preservation of Knowedge, peak oil, ecology -

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

Trump is running the government and the economy just like he ran his businesses — straight into the ground. https://youtu.be/zbh9SW5Cgqg?si=AXCJAp8jz78ySvJi

How Trump Killed Every Business He Touched | Robert Reich

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Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto.bsky.social · 2d

Pay attention: So what, if not the courts, would be the remaining check on presidential power?

New: Trump says he could use Insurrection Act to bypass court rulings blocking use of troops in US cities

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Live updates: National Guard deployments and Trump administration lawsuits | CNN

The state of Illinois and Chicago on Monday sued the Trump administration over its move to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago. Follow here for the latest.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

The people who are sincerely in favor of freedom of expression will speak out now for the reporters.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 3d

🚨THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Chicago journalists are suing the Trump administration for using excessive force against reporters & protestors in violation of the 1A.
The press here is doing astounding work documenting how ICE is out of control. The violence they face in doing so is obscene.

The protests at the Broadview ICE facility and the federal government’s violent
attempts to silence the protesters became a story of great interest to the local Chicago media and
was also covered in the national press. Much of the coverage described the federal officers’
abusive tactics. Defendants sought and are seeking to quash this coverage by attacking and
intimidating members of the Press on the ground there.
85. Federal immigration officers at the Broadview ICE facility have repeatedly and
intentionally singled out persons whom they know to be members of the Press for violence,
assault, and intimidation. These assaults are not incidental or unintentional. They are undertaken
by design to intimidate journalists on scene and to frustrate and suppress coverage of the federal
officers’ actions toward protesters and immigration detainees

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Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, it’s significant that the president is repeatedly discussing invoking the #InsurrectionAct

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17h

United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has increasing influence over President Trump, sources say

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "CNN is dying like a dog."

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SecularAZ @secularaz.bsky.social · 18h

Join us Saturday evening in Tucson to hear from Mo Goldman and Margot Cowan on immigration issues in #Arizona and beyond. RSVP here: secularaz.org/single-event...

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Local opinion: ICE detention center in Marana? Not in my back yard!

The Marana prison is only 10 miles from the Pinal Air Park. How can we be sure individuals won’t be swiftly flown to places where they will never be heard

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Sissy Rufus 🌏🌎🌍 @unkaren.bsky.social · 18h

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WATCH: The loves that made James Baldwin

Author Nicholas Boggs on his new book, "Baldwin: A Love Story," how the political is personal, and whether America can learn how to face — and love — itself.

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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 20h

Chino Valley, north of Prescott, is the latest. Its Town Council late last month voted to prohibit large scale solar and wind projects. Wayne Schutsky from KJZZ's Politics Desk has reported on this, and he joined The Show to talk more about it.

6 rural Arizona towns, counties have limited renewable energy projects. More are looking into it

Chino Valley, north of Prescott, is the latest. Its Town Council late last month voted to prohibit large scale solar and wind projects.

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HELL-azear @lazear.bsky.social · 19h

Really hammering the party of Guarding Old Pedophiles (GOP) is insanely good politics.

Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov · 20h

Ran into Speaker Johnson and told him exactly how I feel about Republicans shutting down the government to protect pedophiles and jack up health care costs for 24 million Americans.

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Liberty @kakistocracy-usa.bsky.social · 20h

Grijalva should be shown on a live feed standing on the steps waiting to be sworn in. Day after day.

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Sissy Rufus 🌏🌎🌍 @unkaren.bsky.social · 18h

Skimming post, at first thought of Sen Ron Johnson, another rotten excuse for a human being. MAGA Ron from Wisconsin was blathering on NPR this a.m. with no excuse for his Anti-Healthcare legacy.

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Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov · 20h

Ran into Speaker Johnson and told him exactly how I feel about Republicans shutting down the government to protect pedophiles and jack up health care costs for 24 million Americans.

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AZPM @azpm.org · 20h

President Trump is floating the possibility that some of the roughly 600,000 furloughed federal workers could be denied back pay once the government reopens, despite a 2019 law intended to ensure federal employees are compensated after a shutdown.
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AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social · 19h

Hey, Benson! 📣

I want to hear your thoughts on the planned aluminum recycling facility. Join me for a discussion tomorrow evening to make your voice heard. RSVP: bit.ly/BensonTownHall

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Sy Nakamura @electricaikido.bsky.social · 18h

Realize the Post went full throttle Resistance with "Democracy Dies in Darkness" then basically reversed themselves during the election and gave Trump every advantage they could resulting in a crippling reader backlash and now they are desperately chasing non existent conservative Post subscribers

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1d

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 18h

Democrats are ready to fix this crisis, but Republicans would rather keep the government shut down.

Their allegiance to Trump outweighs their duty to you—the American people.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 18h

Under this admin, family separation is considered “essential.”

“All core immigration enforcement operations — from Border Patrol to Immigration and Customs Enforcement — will continue without interruption, according to two administration officials granted anonymity to discuss agency planning …”

Yuna @yunao08.bsky.social · 18h

The White House's priority during the shut down?

It isn’t to secure the backpay of federal workers, it isn’t to work together to expand ACA credit… or to even stop the shutdown.

NO, it is to kidnap our neighbors and friends and militarize our cities and states.

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ICE Rages On During Shutdown As Federal Workers Go Without Paychecks and American Kids Face Potential Hunger

Priorities.

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