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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

10/10 … no notes

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/06/2025

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

A bad President, for
instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to
revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous
power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the
dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you
succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and
you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will
pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government;
I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure
but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done
with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How
inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent
power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked.
He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of
securing allegiance to the government.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Crockett: Right now, it seems like you don’t care about the constitution unless it’s the second amendment and that’s misinterpreted as well. There’s other amendments.. And we don’t get to just change it because our fearless leader says that he doesn’t like it

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Your School House Rock moment......

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Will @willstewart.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

My best guess is the “fire Powell” Rhetoric is not really about actually firing Powell, though I’m sure he would love to do it. I think it’s more about turning Powell into the new Fauci and the Fed into the CDC. He needs a scapegoat so his followers never blame him for the failures ahead.

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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/04/2025

The next step for Trump is to send a US citizen convicted of something like child murder and rape to CECOT in El Salvador. It'll set the precedent to send citizens there while neutralizing outrage over it because of the heinous nature of their crimes. Then it'll any felony and then protestors.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

If Stephen Miller can lie about Abrego Garcia and his case on national TV, he can do it in federal court under oath. Judge Xinis should demand his appearance, question him under oath, then jail him for Contempt when he commits Perjury. This lawless administration has to be subjected to rule of law.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2025

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I am but a humble cable news host with a bachelor’s in philosophy, but I feel like at some point the bond market is also going to notice that the GOP is going to pass a deficit financed 5 trillion dollar tax cut. Maybe?

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/04/2025

🎶 Because the list (the list) does not exist Because the list does not exist 🎶 ~ Hall and Oates on tariff deals

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 07/04/2025

When this is over, no forgiveness for those involved. There will be trials. There will be consequences. 😡😡😡

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”. He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”. The job was helping people with disabilities.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Breaking, per NBC News @garygrumbach.bsky.social -- Judge Paula Xinis in the District of Maryland has ruled that the United States Government must return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by April 7 at 11:59p

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I spoke to an expert in authoritarianism, who explained to me that things like this are extremely meaningful and they help protect democracy, even if there’s not a straight line between this and actual legislating

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/03/2025

Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/03/2025

So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

so, see how bernie is passing the torch to the younger generation? see how he's creating space for AOC by using his name, then allowing her to lead? see how SOME older people act like caring elders, and others act like half-dead, out-of-touch narcissistic control freaks? be more like bernie.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Sanders: I'm not a mathematician but I do know that 99% is a hell of a lot bigger number than 1%. I do know that if we stand together, we are the vast majority of people. We can defeat trumpism

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Something to think about

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

To be fair, Putin needed easier access to the WH

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The argument the administration seems to be settling on – that the planes had gone into international airspace – is ludicrous. If the executive had power to act, the judiciary had power to enjoin. But even setting the merits to the side, it makes it look as if the administration was playing games.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Do you know why rural and working people are listening to Walz and AOC and Bernie? Because they tell the damn truth. Because they are passionate about people. Because they are authentic. Because they care. They are the new face of the opposition.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

You ever notice how people who say the tariffs will cause "some disturbances" and "some discomfort" are people with a net worth in millions and billions WHO WILL NEVER FEEL THE FUCKING PAIN? YOU will feel it. I will feel it. But our pain is a sacrifice they're willing to make.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Republicans: [hands giant piece of their constitutional authority and dignity to Trump] Trump: [cackling, starts to walk off] A DOOR SLAMS OPEN. The DEMOCRATS are standing tall in the door, their shadows cast long and defiant. Chuck Schumer: STOP! Trump: ? Schumer: you forgot this piece

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Per @johnleguizamo.bsky.social: “Medicaid is called by different names in different states! Stay awake America you lose everything you rely on!”

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Trump is STILL - RIGHT NOW - tweeting about Tesla. He's spent more time protecting the richest man in the world's profits than he has protecting healthcare, education, jobs, or veterans in the last 6 weeks as president.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

He was always a used car salesman at heart.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/03/2025

If you were really looking for fraud at SSA, you wouldn’t need write access. You WOULD need write access if you wanted to CREATE fraud where none existed as a pretext to shut down Social Security.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

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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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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

They are going to kill Americans. Stop couching this with the lie it’s about efficiency. This has nothing to do with making government better. It’s about destroying it.

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