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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇}

@aquariusing.bsky.social
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I'm socialist, American 🇺🇸 (📍KY), Muslim, political scientist, polyglot, trying my best. • dsausa.org/join • Doomers & anyone else complying in advance with fascism get blocked here. Be a bootlicker elsewhere.❌👑 (DMs limited to people I follow)

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 13h
Jack Smith: Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation. If asked to prosecute a former president today based on the same facts, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here's Trump saying tariff money is the Republicans' "income" and they can do what they want with it. The Republican Party is a Mafia-style gang, not a political organization.
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our guy Andy doesn't fuck around when it comes to being an LGBTQ+ ally. He's a real one
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Aminata Seck was taken by ICE at Louisville’s Airport on August 7 during a trip to attend the HBCU all-star game in New York. She is a senior and last year started 20 of 26 games, earning 3rd-team all-conference honors and an SIAC Elite 16 award for academic achievement.
theguardian.com
ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fascists hate the arts and try to destroy them. People who hate fascism do things like this for the arts:
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There's A LOT to find offensive and be pissed off about in regards to this demented asshole who shits himself all day, but....man, stealing the power of the purse from Congress is UP THERE for me, to be honest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump cancels nearly $1bn in funding approved by Congress
President using rare power to revoke expenditure with bipartisan approval to aid immigrant services
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
✅ no notes www.whas11.com/article/news...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#BREAKING: #SCOTUS once again freezes the lower federal courts’ rulings in the Missouri redistricting case—and affirms that, as the Missouri Supreme Court held earlier this month, Missouri will use the 2022 map in the November elections. There were no public dissents.
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is, for the record, my opinion all the time, not just when SCOTUS or the GOP in general pulls some shit! (It's why I block doomers on sight; take the unproductive work to someone else's page, folks.)
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This court is such a fucking joke. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
nbcnews.com
Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use expanded database for potential voter purges
Critics have said the data could lead to U.S. citizens being kicked off the voter rolls, but the justices noted the law prohibits broad voter purges in the weeks leading up to an election.
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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One of the things that annoys me about people speculating that the current form of the GOP will be back in, like, 2030 is that I don't think people realize the current form of the GOP is struggling to avoid ceasing to exist, both on the individual level (HI MITCH) and as an entity.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
To be clear, this appears to be DOJ literally addressing the actions of Justice Jackson. In another recent application out of the First Circuit — the USPS mail ballot rule applications (TRO and PI) — Jackson set briefing schedules there (26A297 and 26A305) without addressing the admin stay requests.
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm moving this weekend and I'm about to fill a box and label it "miscellaneous: sorting this is a problem for future me because right now I dont give a fuck"; that's what stage of madness I am on from packing too many boxes
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1. I can't believe this was approved to ever be named this begin with, even 20+ years ago, but ok. 2. I love that this vote to rename happened when Trump is desperately trying to plaster his name on shit that isn't his in the US. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Ottawa to rename Trump Avenue | CBC News
Ottawa city council voted Wednesday to rename a street that was named after U.S. President Donald Trump more than 20 years ago.
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
But sure tell me again how no court ever follows the law in the US anymore and we're all cooked and everything is terrible and America's over blah blah blah
Press access restored
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: Media outlets ask judge for an immediate hearing to address the White House's continued ban on journalists despite court order to restore access.
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Judge orders White House to restore access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico. Reporters still blocked
A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s ban of three news outlets from the White House.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026
every day for the next six weeks we are going to be treated to a bunch of Republicans going “oh god oh god we’re so fucked” and I think we should all take some time to savor it
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
!!!
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is what happens when the doofus in charge of the relevant department wants to call himself Secretary of War because he's so insecure
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Governor Andy Beshear @govandybeshear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
During Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Gov. Andy Beshear and First Lady Britainy Beshear are recognizing the commonwealth’s leading role in the fight against this illness, the leading cause of death by disease for American children. Read more: tinyurl.com/t2axfmue
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yeah no shit. Even watching something as basic and fiction as Age of Ultron in the Marvel Cinematic Universe could have told anyone this
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 23/09/2026
R+15 district shot and chaser. #ky06
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No one wants to hear what this war criminal has to say. Netanyahu was forced to give his speech to a nearly empty room as the majority of the UN General Assembly walked out in protest and disgust.
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And this is happening because Trump decided it was okay to start with the same kind of rhetoric when he speaks about Greenland and Canada the way he has and when he says he doubts NATO would "be there" for the US again
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/09/2026
JUST IN: In a deeply embarrassing and un-American court filing, the Trump regime is now arguing that CNN, MS NOW, and Politico can be stripped of White House access in the name of “national security.” 1/
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DOJ has responded to CNN, MS NOW, and Politico’s lawsuit over White House access, trotting out Trump’s new favorite defense—national security! First the ballroom, then the arch, now pesky reporters! Didn’t work in Pentagon Papers case. Won’t work here.
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is human trafficking on a massive scale.
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I find this absolutely hysterical, especially being the proud Kentucky socialist I am. 🤣
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
⬇️ this is EXACTLY what is happening
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT: @nytimes.com
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
She needs to be next on the list of people we primary. Get somebody from Chicago DSA to do it
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How more people don't have him higher up on their personal lists of "people I think are the top worst cabinet members in this terrible cabinet", I don't know
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At least two Republican candidates in Kentucky have also done this, if anyone wants that info from other red states 👀
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Governor Andy Beshear @govandybeshear.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
About 98% of Kentucky families have access to safe drinking water from public or community water systems– above the national average. We’re investing in PFAS testing, treatment and infrastructure to protect our water resources for generations to come.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s not just weird; it’s delusional. HE. IS. PSYCHOTIC. If your grandpa said things like this, you’d take him in for a full neuropsychiatric workup. And it’s time the media starts interviewing psychiatrists and psychologists to talk about it. DO. YOUR. JOBS.
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
⬇️ still
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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why is every photo of them such a jumpscare?
Posted on Katy Perry's IG"

Photo of Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry looking down at the camera underneath what looks like some sort of UFO-looking thing.
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is literally the last thing on earth Kentuckians want
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump at 29%!!!!
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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 21/09/2026
Russia’s anti-war Yabloko party is set to enter the Novgorod regional legislature with 6.2% of the vote. It was the only one of eight regions where the party’s candidate list was allowed onto the ballot. meduza.io/en/news/2026...
meduza.io
Russia’s antiwar Yabloko party was barred from seven of eight regional races. In the one where it made the ballot, it’s set to enter the regional legislature. — Meduza
With 96.86% of precinct tallies counted, Yabloko is on track to win seats in the Novgorod regional legislature’s eighth convocation, according to data from Russia’s Central Election Commission.
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You know, when I said (and continue to say) "the next attack on US soil is a when not if because of Trump", I didn't mean quite like this. I was thinking a "because he gutted our intel agencies and the state dept" kinda thing. Great. This is just. Awesome. Fantastic. Well done folks. (/s)
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
statesman.com
Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have never been more ready for something in my life, y'all. I've been thinking about this for months. Let's go
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
First eyewitness accounts from this afternoon’s ICE shooting in Austin is here, from freelance reporter Emiliano Tahui Gómez.
Emiliano Tahui Gómez
@emilianotahui
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Here in North Austin, where ICE agents appear to have shot an individual in his car. I spoke to two of the only witnesses.

Nedevia Bolaños and her husband, Carlos, own a business just off the intersection where the shooting happened. Shortly before 1 pm they says they heard what sounded like two gunshots. Carlos ran out first. A blue Toyota sedan and a black Escalade were stopped under the highway.Combined tweets, cutting tags and other such
 
He said he saw an olive-skinned man, seemingly in his 30s, leaning backwards against his seat. A masked agent was standing outside the car. The agent refused to answer questions. Within a few minutes as many as 10 other ICE agents arrived.

Carlos asked the victim if he was ok. "Yes," the man said in Spanish, but he looked exhausted. Carlos asked why they had shot him. "Because I didn't stop."Combined tweets, cutting tags and other such. 

Bolaños ran up next. She said she continously asked the ICE agents about why they'd shot him and if they were going to render aid. They didn't answer her. It was an APD officer who later arrived and cut open the young mans shirt, revealing a deep hole between his shoulder blades. The ambulance arrived about 10 minutes after and carried him off. "I've never seen all this. Thank God I'm a citizen," Bolaños said in Spanish. "Or I'd be living like this. In a dream of terror."
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump voters after they can't vote for him again (per the constitution): "I'm DONE supporting him" No, sorry babes, that doesn't count.
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Tessa 🌹{⚜️🏇} @aquariusing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And YET again, I say: Smoot-Hawley retribution. will. look. like. rookie. numbers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqkr...
youtube.com
Kornacki: 43% of voters want midterm vote to ‘signal opposition to Trump’
YouTube video by NBC News
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