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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

More fascist mythmaking by the VP.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

“This thin-skinned tyrant is determined to strip the White House of actual reporters & threaten media companies if they dare to question him. It’s an appalling sign every reporter in the Oval Office didn’t speak up or get up and leave in support of NBC’s Alexander.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

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How Much More Stupidity Will Americans Endure?

Reflecting on the escalating hostility to America values, principles and decency in a 24-hour period

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Israel must let aid into Gaza. Now.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

“Rich man wanna be king.” It’s up to us to make sure it doesn’t happen.

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Events have revealed much of the Trump administration’s agenda to be illegal, immoral, incompetent, or idiotic. Looks like they may have checked all four boxes with the arrest of the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey.

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

The daughter’s shreiks of agony in the X videos embedded in this article need to become our collective shrieks against the Trump regime’s repeated attacks on our Constitution and cilviled society. Every time a human being is brutalized by this Administration, we the people become less free.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Multiple lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of ICE officers in masks arresting people excercising their constitutional rights should be filed. Dictators (Nazi Germany, Putin’s Russia) use thugs in masks to arrest opposition leaders, not patriotic Americans. No Kings, No Masks.

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Every single American should speak out against this, loudly and forcefully.

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Fight fascism wherever it rears its ugly head.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care? There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

A man who holds the title of President of the United States, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, who then says he doesn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution, is unfit to be president and should be removed.

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

More cruelty and lawlessness directed at U.S. citizens by ICE. We the People must find a way to hold the Trump administration and ICE accountable.

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I dislike hyperbole, it cheapens rather than enriches conversations. But let me be clear: the Trump regime’s treatment of immigrant families is an abomination. That it doesn’t surprise me doesn’t make it any less monstrous. Conscience requires that we oppose their unconstitutional agenda full stop.

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Resist: We have endured a wave of unconstitutional actions… “raids without warrants, prolonged detentions without hearings and retaliatory deportations…And each one brings us closer to the authoritarianism we once believed could never take root on American soil.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...

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Opinion | We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention

The Constitution is only as strong as our willingness to defend it.

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

From the list of grievances in the Declaration of Independence against King George: “He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledeged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation;” Sound familiar?

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... An Executive Order attacking the Civil Rights Act. Only We the People can put an end to this cruelty and lawlessness. Show Up at Protests, Call your Congressional Representatives and Senators, Boycott the Oligarchs, and Vote. We Shall Overcome!

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Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. A

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

American democracy is holding up & pushing back better than expected under Trump's authoritarian assault--from SCOTUS to the streets I offer a comprehensive assessment of why Trump is failing to achieve his aims in my latest @contrariannews.org column open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Trump’s autocracy is growing—but patriotic opposition is growing faster

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Mayor Wu “Do the next right thing for history…” We are with you Mayor Wu!

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Not Antisemitism (according to MAGA): - Firebombing a Jewish governor‘s house during Passover - Doing a Sieg Hitler salute - Eating dinner with neo-Nazis Antisemitism (according to MAGA): - Saying Israelis and Palestinians deserve rights and dignity - Using freedom of speech on campus

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

20 lessons to put to work as we confront tyranny.

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Senator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov · 11/04/2025

If the President is serious about law and order, then he will follow this 9-0 Supreme Court ruling with urgency and return Kilmar to his family here in Maryland.

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

To Senate Dems: NO UNANIMOUS CONSENTS

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Charlie Chaplin has a message for our time.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 06/04/2025

If President Trump continues on this path of blatant disregard for our Constitution and basic freedom, we the people will hold him accountable in the courts, in halls of power across the country, and at the ballot box.

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Defying the Courts Will Backfire

The public has not responded kindly to other politicians who have tried this in the past.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

None of the top 10 Big Law firms have committed to signing an amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie. As Ben Wittes writes in his column for Lawfare today: “[A] very happy Liberation Day to all the law firms that have liberated themselves from their dignity.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/b...

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In Trump’s Fight With Perkins Coie, the Richest Law Firms Are Staying Quiet

None of the nation’s top-10 firms by revenue have signed a legal brief demonstrating support for the law firm that is resisting an executive order.

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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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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Target foot traffic falls for the eighth consecutive week after the retailer ended its DEI programs. Meanwhile at Costco, which kept its DEI programs, foot traffic has been up for 13th straight weeks.

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Target can't get its footing after its DEI program demise and a 40-day boycott against the retailer. Foot traffic at stores is down for the eighth consecutive week

For the week that began March 17, foot traffic fell 5.7% YoY for Target, according to data from Placer.ai.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 31/03/2025

The president is not a king. The Constitution could not be clearer: No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice. Donald Trump would rather fantasize about a fictional third term than do anything to lower costs for working families.

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The U.S. has had the world’s most dominant economy since the late 1800s. China covets that position. This Administration’s policies may make it easier for China to overtake the U.S. Perhaps MAGA stands for “Make America Great Again like we were in 19th century.”

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Instead of stealing Greenland, let’s steal some of their policies

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Mr. Rubio thinks foreign students writing editorials pose a national security risk. What do you think?

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Fight the authoritarians on everything. Attack their latest failure — it’s their fault. Turn “flood the zone” against them.”

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

We got our eyes on the prize and we will build the nation we want for ourselves.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/03/2025

Schools are meant for education and creativity – not fear and censorship. 📸 Scout Tufankjian

A cardboard sign with text written on it "Cops and ICE off campuses"

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mark1960.bsky.social @mark1960.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

What is the U.S. Secretary of Defense doing with a Russian email address? If true, this needs investigating Senator Thune, even if the truth challenged WH Press Secretary denies it.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam. It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.

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