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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 3h

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Deranged Trump Lawyer Pam Bondi Says Americans Who Oppose Fascism Will Be Treated Exactly Like Foreign Narcoterrorists—Meaning That Summary Execution Via Domestic Military Strike Is on the Table

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Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 19h

Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 9h

When we have prevailed...(and...we will)...and are engaged in a vigorous and unending process of protecting what we saved, doing so with a ferocity we hadn't been for decades, be one of those who is unquestionably able to say, "I never gave in. I didn't allow my position to slip so much as an inch."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump smiles along as Sortor refers to the White House press as "the garbage standing over here"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9h

Believing the lie is a test of commitment, the wilder the lie, the more intense the commitment. As I keep saying, all this stuff is obviously paving the way for violence. “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities,” etc.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9h

Part of the transition from conservatism to authoritarianism is the shift from lies with some veneer of plausibility (wink wink) to lies that are demonstrably, obviously lies, such that accepting them involves an almost total subjugation of individual discernment or judgment.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 9h

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

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Inequality Media Civic Action @imcivicaction.bsky.social · 10h

Folks — this is not a normal government shut down.

Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 10h

Trump is a dick to basically everyone at all times and he won elections and radically transformed American politics in less than a decade, so look I really don't understand the whole "Katie Porter must now be canceled because she was a tad snippy" thing

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

75% of Labor Department workers are furloughed during Trump’s shutdown.

That means millions of workers will have fewer watchdogs on the beat to ensure job safety, crack down on wage theft, and enforce labor protections.

And the so-called “pro-worker president” is to blame.

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 11h

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 12h

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

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 10h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

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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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 10h

"El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, who attended the meeting, said Chicago-born Pope Leo was visibly moved after being handed dozens of letters from immigrants describing their fears of arrest and separation under Trump’s enforcement policies..."

www.thedailybeast.com/pope-leo-ram...

Pope Leo Ramps Up His Trump Feud With Order to American Bishops

The Chicago-born pontiff has sharpened his criticism of the Trump administration and reportedly decided to take action.

www.thedailybeast.com

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brgooley2.bsky.social @brgooley2.bsky.social · 11h

www.cbsnews.com/news/low-inc...

For older Americans, the cost of poverty is 9 years of life, study finds

Low-income older Americans on average die nearly a decade earlier than wealthier people, a new analysis finds.

www.cbsnews.com

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 11h

An interviewer asked me about America's "cost of living crisis," and I was struck again by how casually we've let such profoundly nightmarish phrases slip into our everyday lexicon.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

Obviously there is minority support for Trump here...but this is also shockingly low opposition for the idea that the President can turn the military on American cities on a whim.

70% of Republicans think the President should be able to send troops into a city even if the Governor objects!

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 11h

58% of Americans - including half of Republicans - think the president should send armed troops only to face external threats, a sign of unease as President Donald Trump increasingly deploys National Guard troops to police American cities, a @reuters.com poll found.

www.reuters.com/world/us/mos...

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 11h

Like @nbcnews.com, don’t take their framing at face value

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 11h

They are pouring gasoline all over the place. This is not “last resort“ stuff, this is, “we need to make the pretext better” stuff.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 12h

There’s a strain of brain rot where people begin to see everything as a “false flag.”

Such paranoia voids reality itself because all things become extremely suspicious. Good news is bad news, etc.

Skepticism is healthy, but False Flag Brain—aka 4D Chess Brain—is political dementia.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 13h

I'll be holding another livestream with my Senate colleagues today at 5pm ET to update the American people on the government shutdown and discuss the devastating impact of Republican health care cuts.

Do you have a questions for us? Comment below.

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