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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Just got word that Secretary Noem is asking for an addition to her budget - a new private Gulfstream 5 jet for her personal national photo op tour. She's already got a private plane but wants a tricked out new one. All while she supports kicking 13 million people off Medicaid.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Dereliction of duty.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/05/2025

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

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Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.

The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.

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Jimmy Knuckles @jimmyknuckles.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Then the Dems wonder why they can’t muster a majority. Trump despises the poor. We might as well just have a single party with all the capitulation. Oh wait, that’s going to happen if 47 and his nazis have their way. #GavinNewsomHatesHomeless #JailTheHomeless #CriminalizeHomelessness #CAuberalles

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Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Please don’t fall for the head fake. The only reason Trump is talking about raising taxes on the rich is because he knows the Republicans in Congress won’t do it. (And they know he really doesn’t want them to)

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Jimmy Knuckles @jimmyknuckles.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Some say the start of #authoritarianism is near. I say the “start” has long past.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 05/05/2025

“They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have 5.”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 02/05/2025

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are turning our government into their own slush fund. Attempting to cut Medicaid and Social Security, all while chopping up essential departments and agencies — just to make themselves and their friends even richer.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Trump and DOGE are making devastating cuts to agencies and programs that serve the public — all in the name of rooting out "fraud and waste." Meanwhile, the regime is reportedly planning a military parade for Trump's birthday that could cost an estimated $92 million. Hello?

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 02/05/2025

Billionaires like Trump and Musk don’t have a clue what it means for working families when it becomes too expensive to buy your kid a birthday present.

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Jimmy Knuckles @jimmyknuckles.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Says a great deal. Vote MAGA and let everyone else suffer. Well welcome to the show…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I agree with Bernie Sanders. Trump and his billionaire buddies just don't care if working families can't afford more expensive groceries or dolls for their kids.

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Jimmy Knuckles @jimmyknuckles.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The pillaging of America continues… #HelpUS

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Cal-Maine, the biggest egg producer, has been accused of using bird flu as cover to jack up prices and triple its profits from a year ago. It also received $22M in federal aid. While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.

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Jimmy Knuckles @jimmyknuckles.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Billionaire’s children can have any toy doll in the world… #TrumpGrinch #BlueChristmas #ScrewThePoor

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Another one for @senschumer and his fellow brave letter writers

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 29/04/2025

Let me be clear, we're in a perilous moment in this country. Donald Trump is taking away our economic and civil rights — and Americans are feeling helpless and powerless. It's time to step out of your comfort zone, into the streets, and make your voice heard.

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Jimmy Knuckles @jimmyknuckles.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Sound familiar? Learn from our misery and don’t do it #Canada! You will become the #51state!

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Jimmy Knuckles @jimmyknuckles.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Lost a great deal of respect for #SaquanBarkley. Gained even more though for #JalenHurts

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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 25/04/2025

This will not stop with immigration enforcement—this will be Trump’s playbook for punishing judges when they don’t fall in line. Our nation’s system of separation of powers has stood up to tyrants and despots before, but the grievous threat we face today demands we in our generation act.

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Jimmy Knuckles @jimmyknuckles.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I surmise that many are struggling to let go of their early school days when they were taught “it can never happen here because we have checks and balances” etc, finding it unfathomable that we are heading for totalitarian govt. I hope there is a “Great Awakening” of sorts. For democracy’s sake.

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Jimmy Knuckles @jimmyknuckles.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Remember- “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country… In either event it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth…” -Theodore Roosevelt

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Todd Eubanks @toddeubanks.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

“I expect the legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them but they are here for the nation… From now on, I shall intervene in these cases and remove from office those judges who evidently do not understand the demand of the hour.” - Hitler At Reichstag on April 26, 1942

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Jimmy Knuckles @jimmyknuckles.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The time for “voting out” is fast disappearing, and the time for “overthrowing” is fast approaching. #Trump #judges #facism #Trumpdictator

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Jimmy Knuckles @jimmyknuckles.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This is a VERY bad thing! A major escalation to dismantle checks and balances and cripple judicial oversight… #TrumpFacism #EndofDemocracy

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Jimmy Knuckles @jimmyknuckles.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

#AlGore is right. We need to stop this madness. Democrats primary job right now is to preserve democracy. They are failing. Contact your reps and tell them to place democracy at the top of their list. If they are a dem remind them that their approval rating is at an all time low. Solidarity!

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16/04/2025

I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.

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Just landed in El Salvador to discuss release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 15/04/2025

If you paid $1 In federal income taxes, you paid more than: Tesla in 2024 & 2022 AT&T in 2021 Nike in 2020 FedEx in 2020 Dish Network in 2020 Amazon in 2017-2018 Elon Musk in 2018 Jeff Bezos in 2007 & 2011 Carl Icahn in 2016-2017 Yes. It’s time to tax the rich.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

NEW: Trump to USA: There is no rule of law. Today, Trump signaled he would not abide by court decisions and return to the US a Maryland father who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. He won't even ask El Salvador to send him back. This is cruel & dangerous. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Trump to the USA: There is no rule of law

What might he try next? Illegal arrests or deportations of American citizens?

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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

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Jimmy Knuckles @jimmyknuckles.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Do we see the similarities to #Nazi Germany and other #dictatorships? El Salvador=concentration camp Fake News=control information Immigration=don’t you love your country University control=keep population uneducated Deport protesters=dissension will be punished Tariffs=isolation Dems=Chamberlain

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