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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death. Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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adjudicating this case. But if this Court wishes to permit the Government to flout the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause, it cannot avoid accountability for that lawlessness by tasking the lower courts with inventing a rationale. The Court's continued refusal to justify its extraordinary decisions in this case, even as it faults lower courts for failing properly to divine their import, is indefensible.
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"In a democracy, power implies responsibility. The greater the power that defies law the less tolerant can this Court be of defiance. As the Nation's ultimate judicial tri-bunal, this Court, beyond any other organ of society, is the trustee of law and charged with the duty of securing obedience to it." Mine Workers, 330 U.S., at 312 (Frankfurter,
J., concurring in judgment). This Court continues to invert those principles. Today's order clarifies only one thing:
Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial. Respectfully, I dissent.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

ICYMI: “Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social has filed a bill to ban law enforcement officers in Tennessee, including ICE, from wearing masks while making arrests (and ID themselves) — the “Stop American Gestapo Act” www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/07/2025

I think members of congress should have to comply with a work requirement to get healthcare.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This is 100% true.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Marco Rubio’s infamous legacy will be MILLIONS of needless deaths of innocents — mostly children. Damn him to hell.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This bill is a declaration of war on American families. It's the largest transfer of wealth in history from poor and middle-class Americans to the ultrawealthy, a wishlist made by the most awful people in the world.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Fuck Lisa Murkowski.

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Tom @thomfromla.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Why not? Look at all of Trumps other appointments. He's not significantly worse than the rest of them.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The so called "Alligator Alcatraz" is a concentration camp, call it what it is. Use your adult words. The goal is to isolate victims so they can freely abuse them. #3E #EndImpunity

The facility is located at an isolated airfield about 45 miles (72 kilometers) west of downtown Miami and is surrounded by swamps filled with mosquitoes, pythons and alligators. Dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" by state officials, supporters say the reference to the notorious federal prison and the harshness of the conditions at the facility are meant to be a deterrent.
"There's really nowhere to go. If you're housed there, if you're detained there, there's no way in, no way out," Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in an interview with conservative media commentator Benny Johnson.

Aerial view of workers constructing large white tents at Dade-Collier Training and Transportation Airport for the Alligator Alcatraz project.

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Sandi Bachom 📹🎥🎬 @sandibachom.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Donald Trump and his republicans are voting to kick a 102 year old woman out of her nursing home in Peekskill NY, along with all her friends. She's Mike Lawler's constituent @lawler4ny She remembers hearing FDR announce Social Security on the radio

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102 Year Old in Danger of Losing Medicaid at Mike Lawler Empty Chair Peekskill Town Hall 3/22/25

YouTube video by Sandi Bachom

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

If the GOP bill passes, a lot of folks who have grandma in a nursing home will need to take her back home. Do voters across the rural states this will impact the most understand that?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/06/2025

Hassett blatantly lies: "The bottom line is we are not talking away anybody Medicaid."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

If the Senate's budget is enacted, millions will lose health insurance, millions will fall into poverty, and the national debt will increase by $3.3T. All of this to provide a major tax cut mainly to the rich and big corporations. There is no justification for this.

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Judith of York @judithofyork.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This is what pure evil looks like. No compassion, no empathy, no soul.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Let’s be clear MILLIONS of disabled people are going to suffer and die because of Medicaid cuts. Chronically ill and disabled folks rely HEAVILY on medical care to survive and they also have the highest rates of poverty in the country. Cutting Medicaid is a death sentence for many.

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StacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎 @stacescases2.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

#History has a funny way of remembering these things no matter how many books you burn.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 01/07/2025

Right now in Maryland, there's a mom whose son relies on lifesaving chemotherapy treatments. She told me that if he loses access to his health insurance, it would be a "death sentence." If this bill passes, people will die. Keep calling. Keep fighting. We must stop this bill.

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If this bill passes, people will die

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BlueCrew community @libertyovergov.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

🚨BREAKING: Stephen Miller has a full meltdown on Fox News as Republicans continue to struggle to get the votes for Trump’s big bullshit bill: “I am sick and tired of the lies about this bill…This is the most conservative bill in my lifetime.” Cry more! #BlueCrew #KillTheBill #SaveMedicare

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

“Workers are so lazy!” —Republican, talking about people who pick vegetables in 98 degree heat, while sipping an icy vodka tonic at his $200,000/year golf club on a Tuesday.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2025

Elizabeth Warren: "There is one human being in the United States who is causing interest rates to stay high, and his name is Donald trump."

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 30/06/2025

I just forced a vote to try to strip out Republicans' defund Planned Parenthood provision from their Big Ugly bill. Republicans voted NO. They voted to shutter some 200 health clinics and deny women basic health care like cancer screenings & birth control. KILL THE BILL!

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David @david414.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

It does expose the unexpected weakness of democracy. The uneducated and ill informed are the cause of this weakness.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/07/2025

Just so incredibly embarrassing

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

75-year old Cuban man in the US for SIX DECADES dies in ICE custody. Convicted in the 1980s for 2 counts of federal possession of controlled substances. Acting ICE Director, Tom Homan, in response says, “I mean, people die in ICE custody.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/06/2025

Ossoff: "If we allow Affordable Care Act benefits to expire, as this bill would, more than a million Georgians will pay more for health insurance next year. A family of 4 in Clayton County making $65k a year - that's a $2,600 increase...the AJC reports 300k Georgians would lose insurance altogether"

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God @thegodshow.com · 30/06/2025

Was watching Karoline Leavitt talk about Zohran Mamdani before and I suddenly, very loudly shouted out at the top of my lungs “FUCKING NAZI!!!” This is the only appropriate term for her.

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#VeryAsian Eric @ektaka.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Cutting funding for cancer research and renewable energy to give tax breaks to billionaires...🤬🤬🤬

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all. It comes at a time of near-record inequalities of income and wealth. This budget bill is a nightmare.

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The Worst Bill in History

Trump’s giant budget-busting, Medicaid-shattering, shafting-the-poor-and-working-class, making-the-rich-even richer bill

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Call your Senators at (202) 224-3121 — NOW!!! ☎️

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

“An Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for 47 years, has no criminal record, and is married to a US citizen was detained by ICE as she gardened outside her New Orleans home.” ht: @timmiller.bsky.social www.nola.com/news/politic...

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Iranian immigrant who has lived in New Orleans nearly 50 years arrested outside Lakeview home

Federal agents arrested an Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for more than four decades outside her Lakeview home Sunday.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Warnock: A budget is not just a fiscal document. A budget is a moral document. Show me your budget and I'll show you who you think matters and who doesn't. And if this awful budget were an EKG, it would suggest that our nation has a heart problem and is in need of moral surgery

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/06/2025

Millions of people gathered on Sunday for the New York City Pride March, the largest of its kind in the U.S. Attendees said that filling the streets was now more important than ever as the rights of LGBTQ people come under increasing attack.

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New York City Pride March Arrives Amid Growing National Backlash

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Josh Hawley acted like he was going to fight the Medicaid cuts that will hurt many thousands in his state - most his voters in rural areas. Then he ran away.

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stat-monkey.bsky.social @stat-monkey.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Keep resisting, keep fighting

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/06/2025

That’s right. The billionaire bailout bill forces your tax dollars to pay for concentration camps and masked thugs to disappear your neighbors without due process. 16M people will be thrown off healthcare to pay for that, along with tax breaks for the rich.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Fuck Trump's July of 4th deadline. Fuck all of Trump's fake deadlines. Fuck all of Trump's shit supporters. Fuck Trump's Big Authoritarian Deadly Bill. Fuck you for voting for Trump. Any questions?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The 35 richest Republican members of Congress have a net worth of $2.5 billion. They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich. Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Angus: We have American officials claiming that Canada is some kind of terrorist haven. They’re saying we’re sending massive gangs of El Salvadorans over the border. I’m sorry—have you ever visited Canada? Could you show us where these El Salvadoran gangs supposedly are?

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