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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

“Shocking and appalling”

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I keep shouting about how the federal agents scooping people off the streets cannot be sued for their constitutional violations:

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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

🚨🚨Holy Shit!! Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is not fucking around with this fiery speech on the Senate floor.💥🔥💥We need this from every Democrat if we are going to push back on fascism and save our fragile Democracy!! More of this please!! Bravo Senator Booker!!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Russia was never a hoax The 2020 election wasn’t stolen Tariffs are a tax on you Haitians didn’t eat pets The Epstein files exist

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

What CBS' disgraceful termination of Stephen Colbert illustrates is how quickly a Republic can fall when the media chooses cowardice instead of courage.

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Free Speech For Peace @freespeechforpeace.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Tax the rich, stop robbing the poor. #SocialistSunday

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

"Questioning is the way of learning," Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

The richest family in the United States, the Waltons, made money by not paying Walmart employees enough. This forced employees to seek government assistance for food and healthcare. Republicans’ response is to take away that assistance because the Waltons aren’t rich enough.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

NY Times: “A former F.B.I. agent who was charged with encouraging the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to kill police officers has been named as an adviser to [DOJ] task force that Pres Trump established to seek retribution against his political enemies.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

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Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept.

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Indivisible One New Jersey ❌👑 @njindivisible.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

So much that was once unimaginable now coming at us multiple times per DAY. 👇 Where will we be in another four months?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2025

McGovern: "A family making less than $50,000 a year? They get less than $1 a day in tax cuts. You can't buy a damn cup of coffee with that. But those making a million dollars or more? They'll get more than $250 a day in tax breaks ... that's how rigged this bill is to benefit the wealthy."

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode deficits. 3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Rinse and repeat. ~ Robert Reich

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The modern US right was built out of outraged responses to a handful of stories about federal actions like Ruby Ridge & Waco. What we're witnessing with these vicious ICE attacks is dozens of sadistic, draconian, & often fatal actions PER DAY, & it's that same US right that's now cheering them on.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Again, I’d like to encourage the people who think it’s a good idea to embrace a cruel and capricious dictatorship, while making it clear no legal or legislative authority can stop them from ruining ordinary people’s lives, to keep on reading to see what usually happens next.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Nice dog whistle, JD. His name is Sen. Alex Padilla. You served with him in the Senate. But of course you called him “Jose.”

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.

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Danielle ❌👑 @danielleloveswords.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Talk about “political theater”! This wankpuffin appears to have scripted himself a racist “mistake” and scripted his staff a racist excuse for it, all to feed his audience the type of insult-tainment that keeps their hate muscles strong. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jd-...

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JD Vance refers to Sen. Alex Padilla as 'José Padilla' in remarks blasting Democrats during L.A. visit

The vice president, who is touring federal facilities, attacked Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov. Gavin Newsom over protests against ICE raids in the city.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Had to mute the Nazi paper thread. Once again (1) no the KKK did not correctly interpret the Constitution, by any methodological lights (2) no paper that argued for the KKK’s interpretation of the Constitution should have received a passing grade, let alone an award (3) what the fuck

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

IT'S. NOT. A. BITTER. DISPUTE. It's a one-sided authoritarian assault on a private institution. What are we doing here, and what is journalism, anyway?

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OB1Knabe @ob1-knabe.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Workers’ rights were bought in blood. #solidarity

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

To be really clear: The reason members of Congress can't just walk right in is because of the guns. Armed DHS personnel won't allow entry. In other words, DHS is using armed force to *break* laws. Democrats need to wrap their minds around that. Accept that the frog is boiled.

New York Times: ICE Imposes New Rules on Congressional Visits

The policy specifies that ICE field offices are not subject to an existing federal law that allows members of Congress to make unannounced oversight visits to immigration facilities that “detain or otherwise house aliens.”

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Daily Stories @dailynewsstories.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

The reporter’s name is Mario Guevara - Atlanta Georgia Not behind a paywall. atlantaciviccircle.org/2025/06/18/d...

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DeKalb police hand journalist Mario Guevara over to ICE

DeKalb commissioner calls for his release, but county CEO stays silent

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now. www.latimes.com/california/s...

A 37-year-old U.S. citizen who was tackled to the ground and arrested after filming federal agents at Home Depot on Thursday said he was held for more than an hour near Dodger Stadium, where agents boasted about how many immigrants they arrested.
"How many bodies did you guys grab today?" he said one agent asked.
"Oh, we grabbed 31," the other replied.
"That was a good day today," the first agent responded.
The two high-fived, as Job Garcia sat on the asphalt under the sun, he said.
Garcia was released on Friday from a downtown federal detention center. No apparent criminal charges have yet to be filed. He is one of several U.S citizens arrested during enforcement operations in recent days. Department of Homeland Security officias sav some trave ilegaly

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"You wanted it, you got it," the man yelled.
An agent handcuffed him so hard "that there was no circulation running to my fingers," Garcia said.
Pinned down, Garcia had difficulty breathing.
"That moment, I thought I could probably die here," he said.
The agent put Garcia's phone back in his pocket. The recording kept running.
As Garcia was put into a vehicle, his video captured an agent twice saying: "I've got one back here."
"You got one what?" Garcia shot back. "You got one what?"
He said an agent told him in broken Spanish to "wait here,' though it could not be heard on the video. -

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"I f- speak English, you f- dumbass," he clearly shouts back.
No agent asked if he was an American citizen, he said. Nobody asked for identification.
"They assumed that I was undocumented," he said later in an interview.
The video ends after about four minutes, while he is waiting in the van.
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Garcia asked an agent to get his wallet from his car, so he could prove he was a U.S. citizen. Another agent retrieved his ID, but he remained handcuffed.
They were so tight, his hands hegan to swell.

Garcia asked an agent to get his wallet from his car, so he could prove he was a U.S. citizen. Another agent retrieved his ID, but he remained handcuffed.
They were so tight, his hands began to swell.
The agents switched him to handcuffs that looked like shoelaces. They took off around a corner, stopped to shuffle him into another van and sped off down the 101 Freeway.
"I smeared my blood in their seat," he said.
And he thought, "They're going to remember me."

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

And Vance intentionally calling Senator Padilla "Jose" when he knows his name is Alex is pure political theater for his racist base. If they're happy about the racism, they may not notice their constitutional and civil rights being violated. 🙄 Everything about Vance is fake.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

See you at 1 AM, yes, you read that right, when Republicans take up the spending bill, which includes a provision that would restrict courts from holding gov’t officials in contempt for violating court orders—possibly explaining the subterfuge. www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...

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A Terrible Idea

Dean Chemerinsky discusses the reconciliation bill’s provision that would restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt for violating court orders

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 20/05/2025

The GOP's budget would make brutal cuts to food assistance and our colleagues won't shield veterans from their cruelty. Veterans are not waste. They're not fraud. And they're not abuse.

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OB1Knabe @ob1-knabe.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This is the entire ballgame, folks. All the batshit-crazy distractions are cover for this.

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Sec. 4. Using National Security Assets for Law and Order. (a) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the heads of agencies as appropriate, shall increase the provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions to assist State and local law enforcement.
(b) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Attorney General, shall determine how military and national security assets, training, non-lethal capabilities, and personnel can most effectively be utilized to prevent crime.

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

Trump's executive order to gut funding for public media (including NPR and PBS) will cut off news sources for millions. That’s exactly what he wants: to exert even more control over the information that the public receives – or doesn’t even receive at all. It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Picard management tip: Fight for what you know is right. Only arrogant bullies think resistance is futile.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Q: “Everyone gets due process. Right?” TRUMP: “They get a process where we have to get them out.” This President yet again shows he has zero concern for the constitution. 🇺🇸

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

1/🧵 It’s not dysfunction. It’s design. The GOP uses a ruthless disinformation playbook to confuse, divide, and exhaust the public. They don’t want you informed—they want you disoriented. Here’s how their machine works—and how we expose it. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

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OB1Knabe @ob1-knabe.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Once again making America less safe, less secure—

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 27/04/2025

We must stand up and speak out, not because something is left or right, but if it is right or wrong.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

A lot of very distinguished people who swore an oath to preserve the Constitution are watching it get cut to pieces.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Gov. Tim Walz State Address: "We have university students shoved into unmarked vans and fathers being tossed into Salvadorian gulags without a hint of due process. If you say you love freedom, but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn't freedom, it's privilege."

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OB1Knabe @ob1-knabe.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

We were right. “The stark reality is that if even a few more people hadn’t dismissed us alarmists out of hand we wouldn’t be here. This was all predictable. It was all preventable.”

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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OB1Knabe @ob1-knabe.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Americans United for Separation of Church and State @americansunited.bsky.social Freedom From Religion Foundation @ffrfaction.bsky.social American Civil Liberties Union @aclu.org

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Hannibal Chau @hannibal-chau.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

People keep telling me this isn’t a joke and we shouldn’t be laughing about it. Let me say this: The USO is an organization whose entire existence has been to entertain troops in war zones since WWII. It keeps morale up. It’s important. Being bitter all the time WILL crush your spirit.

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