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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei... Let this article go viral!!!
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The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI
Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
open.substack.com/pub/luciantr... Excellent read….
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I refuse
There is a house that was built around the turn of the century – 20th, that is – just off the corner of 3rd Street at the end of our block.
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu... “Despite feelings of disappointment and cynicism, we cannot give up. Defeat is not an option…Stay strong and keep the faith!”
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Supreme Court capitulates to Trump (again).
June 28, 2025
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Trump is underwater and sinking… Be prepared for another headlines grabbing overreach.
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June 26, 2025
This morning’s press conference with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth featured an apparently angry Hegseth yelling at the media for contradicting President Donald Trump’s claim that last weekend’s strik...
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu... We need to hold the media accountable too!
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A day filled with lies.
June 26, 2025
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Here’s a corner TACO man can’t back out of…he has single handily ended all nuclear proliferation diplomacy.
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June 25, 2025
At The Hague, a city in the Netherlands, today for a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Trump showed that he cannot let go of the intelligence assessment that his military strike...
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... “Republicans are about to tell us if they still believe in the rule of law. Let’s make sure they know we’re waiting for the answer, and we will hold them accountable for it.”
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Packing the Courts
Civil Discourse offers a unique perspective on issues at the intersection of law and politics based on my 25 years at the Justice Department and service as a U.S.
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... “It seems to me long past time to question the 79-year-old president’s mental health.”
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June 24, 2025
At 6:02 last night, President Donald Trump announced on his social media account that Israel and Iran has agreed to “a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE” that would lead to “an Official END to THE 12 DAY W...
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
open.substack.com/pub/robertre... Absolutely amazing message from Liz Chaney Must read…
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A remarkable message
You need to read this.
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... “President Donald Trump has done what he swore he would not do: involve the United States in a war in the Middle East.”
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June 21, 2025
At 7:50 this evening, Eastern Time, President Donald J.
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Taco Don Taco Donnie Little Taco Donnie Don Taco Hmmmm…? Can’t decide which one I like better?
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Taco Don …. Say it over and over again..
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
www.facebook.com/share/r/15dH... MAGA racism! I love it
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Redirecting...
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
www.facebook.com/share/p/1C4X...
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Redirecting...
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
open.substack.com/pub/robertre... Corruption
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Don’t call them “potential conflicts of interest.”
They’re corruption.
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... What we didn’t hear in the News this week…. DOJ dismantling civil rights…
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Losing DOJ’s Civil Rights Division
On Tuesday, Reuters reported that leadership at the Department of Justice has reassigned “about a dozen senior career attorneys” in the Civil Rights Division to perform perfunctory tasks usually assig...
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... “This U.S.-backed plan echoes almost entirely the plan Russian operatives presented to Trump’s 2016 campaign manager Paul Manafort in exchange for helping Trump win the White House.”
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April 23, 2025
After previously suggesting that the U.S.
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... “Project 2025 is a ‘wish list’ for the oil and gas and mining industries and private developers. It promotes opening up more of our federal land to energy development, rolling back protections on federal lands, and selling off more land to private developers.”
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April 22, 2025
Today is Earth Day, celebrated for the first time in 1970.
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
www.facebook.com/share/p/18N4... Calling all veterans and families of veterans … This is our moment to defend all the courageous men and women who fought and died fighting fascism.
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Redirecting...
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/statusku... About time! The house of cards is starting to waver….
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Hegseth v. Head of Lettuce
Pete Hegseth, you in danger
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu... “We will defeat Trump's agenda. We will do so by banding together in common cause. The sooner that everyone understands that fact and gets on board, the sooner the day when Trump's agenda will collapse.
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The Resitance is Rising!
April 21, 2025
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... “a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime.”
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April 20, 2025
Yesterday, on the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Americans across the country protested against President Donald J.
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... “Cleanup of orange vomit on Aisle 3.”
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April 17, 2025
Today, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) posted a picture of himself with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whom the Trump administration says it sent to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador t...
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... “We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.”
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April 16, 2025
In El Salvador today, authorities denied Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) a meeting or a phone call with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man the Trump regime sent by “administrative error” to the terrorist p...
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/statusku... “We don’t resist because we think we will win every fight. We resist because it is the right thing to do. The way to defeat a common thug or bully in the White House is to stand up to him at every turn. He cannot win if all of us are determined to fight”
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Thugocracy
With Trump starting so many fights with so many different parties, how do we make sense of it all, and how do we proceed?
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... “Chinese officials stopped accepting Boeing jets or U.S. airline parts…stopped accepting U.S. beef…beef exports to China have been worth $2.5 billion annually. “fund managers quietly fear Trump doesn’t have a tariff plan and that he ‘might be insane.’”
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April 15, 2025
A large crowd of protesters calling for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man the Trump administration sent to a notorious terrorist prison in El Salvador, milled around the courthouse ...
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"The Promise Of American Higher Education"- Harvard's Powerful Response To Trump open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc... So proud
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"The Promise Of American Higher Education"- Harvard's Powerful Response To Trump
"We proceed now, as always, with the conviction that the fearless and unfettered pursuit of truth liberates humanity"
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... “ We want to do homegrown criminals next…. The homegrowns.”
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April 14, 2025
Today, U.S.
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back.
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April 13, 2025
This evening, lawyers for the Department of Justice told a federal court that the administration does not believe it has a legal obligation to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States,...
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... Very powerful - A must read “our job is to be well informed, to understand what’s going on. Pick the issue that matters to you the most… But don’t be complacent. That’s the dictator’s trap, and we are not going to fall into it.”
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The Week Ahead
April 13, 2025
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/contrari... Excellent article…
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Here’s why Trump ignores traditional media: He has his own media ecosystem now.
And Democrats not only don't have the same network, but they don't seem interested in building one.
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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April 12, 2025
It was just 20 days ago—on March 24—that editor in chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg reported that the most senior members of the Trump administration discussed a military strike on the Houthis i...
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/statusku... Kinda Sorta it is
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SCOTUS Kinda Sorta Pushes Back
It was a unanimous ruling, but it comes with a catch
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... Update
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The Abrego Garcia Case: A Quick Update
I usually try to avoid riding the waves of the news cycle on a minute-by-minute basis, but for the reasons we’ve discussed, the Abrego Garcia case is important not just for his future but for all of u...
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/contrari... “1) Democracy does not defend itself; 2) An attack on one person/entity or one tactic never stops there; 3) If you stand up to bullies, who often are unprepared or unqualified to defend their position, your chances of winning are high.”
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Undaunted: The Associate Press
Stand up to bullies, and you just might win
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Shockingly, some D.C. judicial pigs have taken wing
Our alleged Supreme Court tonight upheld a district court’s order to return the Salvadoran migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, whom the government had wrongfully deported to El Salvador, where he h...
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... Be very scared none of us are safe. “Treating people like animals is a dangerous warning of where this administration is willing to go.”
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The Supreme Court Finally Rules
Late this afternoon, the Supreme Court issued a 9-0 response to the government’s application to vacate federal District Judge Paula Xinis’ order that the Trump administration return Kilmar Abrego Garc...
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu... “Senator Adam Schiff and others have begun investigating the possibility that administration officials used advance knowledge about the tariff policy reversal to reap huge profits by trading on inside information.”
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Trump caves on tariffs but still manages to threaten the economy
April 10, 2025
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/luciantr... “comparing Donald Trump with Adolph Hitler may have previously seemed an exaggerated description of our political reality.” That reality is now here!
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This shit is getting real
It goes without saying that Donald Trump is a bully.
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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April 9, 2025 (Wednesday)
On April 9, 1865, General Robert E.
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Wow!!! ““Boys will be boys.” Wtf!!! “MAGA performs an identity that fetishizes “rural life, manual labor, and a kind of fake rugged masculinity.” They’re all crazy!
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April 8, 2025
Stocks were up early today as traders put their hopes in Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s suggestion that the Trump administration was open to negotiations for lowering Trump’s proposed tariffs.
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/luciantr... Wow! He nailed it!
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Trump's tariffs: They’re not bait and switch, they’re bait and ditch
It’s a sunny day in April — a little cold perhaps, but cheerful and spring-like enough to bring forth hopeful dreams of beaches and umbrellas and colorful drinks in whacky containers shaped like cocon...
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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A Case to Watch
Programming Note: Wednesday evening at 8:30 ET/7:30 Central, Marc Elias will be joining me for a Substack Live to discuss the North Carolina Supreme Court case and the other critical legal issues of t...
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu... The people the streets across America is our last defense
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Profiles in courage and cowardice
April 8, 2025
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/robertre... It’s a clear choice between courage and greed.
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In unity, there’s strength to confront Trump. In disunity, cowardice
Why didn’t the nation’s top 20 law firms sign a friend-of-the-court brief against Trump’s vindictive executive orders? What their associates, coming associates, and law school deans ought to do.
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/populari... This is outrageous!
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The five-month campaign to steal a North Carolina Supreme Court seat
In November, Allison Riggs (D) won election to the North Carolina Supreme Court.
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... “Seven Republican senators have now signed onto a bill that would limit Trump’s ability to impose tariffs. The power to levy tariffs belongs to Congress, but Congress has permitted a president to adjust tariffs on an emergency basis.”
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April 7, 2025
Major indexes on the stock market began down more than 3% today when, as Allison Morrow of CNN reported, a rumor that Trump was considering delaying his tariffs by three months sent stocks surging upw...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Does anyone remember Signalgate?
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/contrari... Next up: April 19, 2025, the 250th anniversary of the start of the American revolution. Mass demonstrations everywhere and bigger than April 5th. Contact your local networks or start your own demonstration.
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We are All in this Together
Now we all have a responsibility to keep the momentum moving forward
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jerryt5185.bsky.social @jerryt5185.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu... “We must do it again. And again. And again. We must strive to make each successive protest larger than the last. We must build momentum. We cannot allow April 5, 2025, to be the high water mark of the resistance.”
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"This is what democracy looks like!"
April 7, 2025
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