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Living through the end of the third Reconstruction 2016 - ...

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The administration needs to be asked directly how many J6ers, and anyone convicted of seditious conspiracy, are now ICE agents with a badge and a gun.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Things are pretty grim here in Chicago, but we at least have the advantage of getting a lot of national coverage. There are other places that aren't... like this case in Durango, CO. coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/p...
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Hundreds protest outside ICE building in Durango after 2 children, father detained
Federal agents used pepper spray, rubber bullets on peaceful protesters. The family was detained on their way to school, according to local nonprofit
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Justice for Justin (STILL!) @ish-not.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
He is correct. But let me tell you why this dude also makes my buttcheeks pucker in a non-pleasant way: Dude has actively twirled the “both sides bad” purity baton for YEARS. The current times are the results of the impact of that… So the “this is bad” schtick NOW is 🗑️
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Page One. @washingtonpost.com
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Having read and legally briefed Project 2025, I assure you: violence against MAGA will be incorporated into their justification for formal Martial Law and the suspension of even more rights than they already have. It’s all happening.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
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America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
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MAGA IS LOUD BUT FRAGILE @reesetheone.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This black man knew better. Y’all don’t care about minorities…. You just see them as lab rats in your progressive experiments. Inflicting pain to try to force them left is part of your plans.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
It's the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, and two things are true at once: The law has never been more under threat, and it's more important than ever to fight for its promise of an equal voice for every citizen.
Hillary Clinton in a crowd marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, flanked by Cory Booker and Jesse Jackson
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 04/08/2025
The Trump administration is undertaking an unprecedented strategy to try to undermine our elections. They are doing so by rewriting election rules, targeting election officials, supporting election deniers, and retreating from protecting voting rights. bit.ly/4l1lUPP
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The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election
The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Sidewalk art getting real
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God @thegodshow.com · 27/04/2025
You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
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MAGA IS LOUD BUT FRAGILE @reesetheone.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Dems passed comprehensive immigration reform in 2013…. Its time to remind America of that.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This is exceptionally well reported: in case after case Trump has surrendered long time US interests to favor Russia and gained nothing in return. When you put it all together it a staggering surrender. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/u...
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How Trump Plays Into Putin’s Hands, From Ukraine to Slashing U.S. Institutions (Gift Article)
Many of President Trump’s actions have been seen as benefiting Russia either directly or indirectly, so much so that Russian officials have celebrated some of his moves.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Donald Trump isn’t just illegally removing U.S. citizens from the country without due process. He’s illegally removing U.S. citizens who are literal children undergoing care for cancer. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Rolling Stone headline: Trump has now deported multiple U.S. citizen children with cancer
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2strong2silence.bsky.social @2strong2silence.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Again everyone all over the world marveled at the Biden economy but to the media? Nah chaos & clicks were all they thought about. Our economy was the envy of the world & countries wanted to do business with us. Fuck your ratings.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/04/2025
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Remarkable. A whole article that might be titled how all us super powerful people turned out to be Donald Trump bitches www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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jontek @jonteksghst.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
His deputy chief of staff is a literal Nazi FOH
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Lithuanian president & people paid their respects to 4 American servicemen who died during training exercise. When the soldier’s remains arrived at Dover Air force Base, no US president was there to honor them on behalf of a grateful nation. Trump was golfing & will dine with rich Saudis
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/04/2025
"We have the government we deserve. The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it."
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The American Age Is Over
Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“We must dissent because America can do better.” Good to hear Wisconsin Judge Susan Crawford quote Justice Thurgood Marshall in her victory speech tonight.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Assigning Sen. Thurmond’s “longest filibuster” of the Civil Rights Act to the dustbin of history is a powerful part of the story. Because no matter what, that’s where they’re all going, no matter how hard they fight it. Men who fight the future are the most foolish of all men.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/03/2025
they want worldwide jim crow
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Magdi Jacobs @magdi.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Vance gave his comments re: Greenland in front of US troops. NatSec Teams in EU will absolutely start planning war games that involve both a hostile--even aggressive--US, along w/ RU. I'm not saying what will happen in terms of US actions. I'm saying the EU will begin to prepare for this possibility
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Important to realize that Trump’s approach to Canada and Greenland is like his approach to Ukraine. It’s not even simply American imperialism. It is America enabling Russian imperialism. (1/3)
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
There is no way this massive cut in HHS employees is predicated on a careful and deliberate evaluation of the department’s resources, needs, and missions—and what’s best for the public.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Just a reminder that America will in fact crush fascism. It will take a while and it will be messy. But bet on it.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
When you erase the history of the code talkers, you are erasing the history of the Second World War. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser
Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.
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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Happy ides of march! Today it is tradition to give the gift of stabbing to would-be dictators 🫶🏻
A painting of the assassination of Julius Caesar
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/03/2025
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
NEW: Trump's speech this week was a reminder that he's running a disinformation operation to impose a mix of oligarchy, autocracy & kleptocracy. And the Democrats just don't seem to get it. I explain all in my OUR LAND newsletter. link.motherjones.com/public/38917... Subscribe at davidcorn.com.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 07/03/2025
Tadaa.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
She told you.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Then-VP Kamala Harris with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy: "...My support for the people of Ukraine is unwavering. I've been proud to stand with Ukraine. I will continue to stand with Ukraine and I will work to ensure Ukraine prevails in this war." www.youtube.com/live/60I18rw...
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Vice President Harris and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy deliver remarks — 9/26/24
YouTube video by CNBC Television
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
lol
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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Nailed this too.
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
“Freedom of speech for me and not for thee,” sounds like something a king would say. As many of us have noted this week, we don’t do kings in America. Some thoughts on the AP’s lawsuit: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
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Score 1 for 1A: AP Takes Trump to Court over "Gulf of America" Ban at White House
In its lawsuit, the Associated Press rightly accuses the Trump White House of violating its First Amendment rights
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
✅ DEI Employer of the Day™ Volkswagen "This commitment to Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) forms a central foundation for the economic success of our company" 200+ corporations state commitments to diversity, equity & inclusion. Thanks for suggestions to the list: www.impactivize.org/dei-employer...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
By replacing a black 4-star general with a white 3-star general, we are finally bringing meritocracy back to the Department of Defense. by Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I shared this with friends who unlike me, aren't political junkies or history nerds. Figured others may have those in their circles. From 2018...still applies...more than ever. www.startribune.com/good-germans...
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'Good Germans,' 'Good Americans': Where are we headed?
To take the right route, we must defend the values that made America great and resist the lies that undermine it.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/02/2025
hey @mattyglesias.bsky.social, the piece that you link to here — my piece — does not say that “all DEI critics want to reimpose segregation” and i would appreciate it if you didn’t lie to your audience about what my work says.
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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
nice work, everyone.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/02/2025
gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.
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