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Lorna @orneryjo19.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I have attempted multiple times since January to get a HUMAN on the phone from either one of the obviously ball less Senators from OHIO Today's actions by OUR federal government attacking a Senator from California is disgusting GOP Senators STAND UP NOW ! PROTECT DEMOCRACY

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

This confirm that effective immediately and continuing until new guidance on “social media screening” is issued, no new appointments for F, M, or J visas may be scheduled at consulates without high-level approval. However, current appointments are not impacted.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Aside from the illegality, corruption, and dysfunction, this is what happens in fascist regimes. They eventually begin turning on each other.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Desantis loses it after he gets heckled about ripping off $10 million from FL taxpayers for Casey’s charity.

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

And burned 130+alive

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BlueCrew community @libertyovergov.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Damn, even the Swiss hate his ass. #BlueCrew #BlueCircleFamily🌈🦋 #BluePetPatrol💙💛🐾 #ProudBlue #Resist #Resistance #TruthWarriors #antitrump #antimaga #ImpeachTrumpNOW

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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Pentagon has been ordering the removal of web site references to General Colin Powell and the Tuskegee Airmen and one of the flag-raisers at Iwo Jima as part of a crackdown on DEI. Have you no shame Pete Hegseth?(hat tip to Task and Purpose, WaPo for reporting) youtube.com/shorts/0HJpe...

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Pentagon removes web references to Colin Powell and others as part of DEI purge. Have you no shame?

YouTube video by Jim Acosta

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

We have overcome near-death experiences before. We shall overcome this one too. Not by denying we are in a constitutional crisis. We are. But we can and will prevail if we face the truth unflinchingly and never abandon the long twilight struggle against evil. open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...

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Yes, we still have a constitutional democracy

March 18, 2025

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John W Dean @johnwdean.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The GOP is pathetic. Gill of TX is engaging in something less than Alice In Wonderland politics. Like the Mad Queen off with Judge Boasberg’s head, impeach him for not ignoring the law and constitution. Clearly Gill’s not attorney and not a good MC! www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Brandon-Gill-impeachment-Boasberg

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Over 100,000 seats are up for grabs in 2025 — governors, mayors, city councils, state representatives, judges, school boards, and more. Taking back our power starts now.

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Oeishik 🐸 @oeishik.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Donald is going to do his best to sell Ukraine to Russia. But if Ukraine & Europe stand strong, that will not happen. Only thing that'll happen is that America will be cut out of the negotiating picture. And that's what's best for Ukraine right now. Americans can't be trusted. youtu.be/KfijTwMIrEI

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Betraying Friends & Befriending Enemies

YouTube video by Law & Society

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

For all those people who think “the left got more radical,” this is what the evolution of the GOP has looked like over the past few years.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A top French politician is calling for the Statue of Liberty to be returned to France now that Trump is siding with dictators like Putin. “We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home.”

politico.eu

Give back the Statue of Liberty, French MEP tells US

French Socialist MEP says Washington’s embrace of dictators negates the values that led France to bestow the iconic statue some 140 years ago.

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

If you're furious at Dems who are not fighting, help the Dems who are. We're going up against Elon Musk and the GOP machine in Wisconsin on April 1. Throw yourself into electing Susan Crawford and beating Brad Schimel—and you'll send a message to the whole country.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A memo has just leaked revealing that the Trump administration is planning to sabotage the Social Security Administration. Their plan would gut the agency’s claims process, potentially preventing millions of Americans from getting their earned benefits. Per @juddlegum.bsky.social:

An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency, cause sign...

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Chavah @evecuyen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A true reflection

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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 18/03/2025

By Arthur Caplan: "many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years." "the only way forward is speaking truth to power."

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

#econsky. Add it to your feed

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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

washingtonpost.com

Opinion | Trump upending world order will cost America dearly

The decline of American influence is a gift to Russia and China.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Judge Alsup is not amused by reports that people he ordered reinstated were put on admin leave. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Court has read news reports that, in at least one agency, probationary employees are
being rehired but then placed on administrative leave en masse. This is not allowed by the
preliminary injunction, for it would not restore the services the preliminary injunction intends
to restore. Defendants shall state the extent to which any rehired probationary employees are
being placed on administrative leave by MARCH 18, 2025, AT NOON.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

My thanks to His Majesty King Charles III for his warm welcome and gracious hospitality today. Canada is fortunate to have a steadfast defender in our sovereign.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is received by His Majesty King Charles III in an audience at Buckingham Palace.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 18/03/2025

Toronto is no longer providing financial incentives for Tesla vehicles purchased as taxis or ride shares due to trade tensions with the United States, the city's mayor, Olivia Chow, said reut.rs/3DPWR2O

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Toronto excludes Tesla from EV incentive due to US trade war

Toronto is no longer providing financial incentives for Tesla vehicles purchased as taxis or ride shares due to trade tensions with the United States, the city's mayor, Olivia Chow, said on Monday.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

More of: I can do whatever I want because I’m President. He is daring someone to challenge him. How far off can, “and I’m sticking around for a third term”, be?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Ditch fascism, one Tesla at a time.

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Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Dems need to fight back.

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The folks at Fox News like to create villains out of anyone left of center. Jesse Watters invented a new group - "Trantifa" or transgender antifascist activists. Step out of your home and Trantifa might show up with a blue, pink & white flag and call you a fascist. 😲

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/03/2025

An Irish Blessing on St. Patrick's Day May those who love us, love us; And for those who don't love us, May God turn their hearts; And if He doesn't turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles, So we will know them by their limping.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 18/03/2025

The Trump administration has likely exceeded its authority in invoking rarely applied laws to justify parts of its wide-ranging immigration crackdown, legal experts said reut.rs/4hlamVZ

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Trump administration likely overstepped authority in immigration crackdown, experts say

The Trump administration has likely exceeded its authority in invoking rarely applied laws to justify parts of its wide-ranging immigration crackdown, legal experts said.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD
...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

A screenshot from a court filing reads, in part:

"Julio Noriega is 54 years old, was born in Chicago, and is a U.S. citizen.

On January 31, 2025, he was walking near the corner of Cermak Road and Harlem Avenue in Berwyn, Illinois, handing out his resume to local businesses.

As he walked out of a Jiffy Lube, he was approached by ICE officers who grabbed and handcuffed him and put him into a van, without an opportunity to explain his citizenship.

The officers drove Julio and others around for more than an hour before bringing him to an ICE processing center, where he remained, still handcuffed, for several more hours.

All the while, Julio had a wallet containing identification that ICE had confiscated.

The officers never showed Julio a warrant, and they did not ask him any questions to ascertain whether he was a noncitizen or a flight risk.

After about 10 hours, ICE officers reviewed the contents of Julio’s
wallet, realized he was a U.S. citizen, and released him with no money and no paperwork."

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...

axios.com

Leaked memo: DOGE plots to cut Social Security phone support

Changes could break the system, former officials say.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I love #econsky. They bring facts that tell us what we should be paying attention to Going to be some upset companies it it continues

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KatherineHawkins @krhawkins.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Our Secretary of Defense almost certainly has more threatening/extremist tattoos and has more credibly been accused of sexual assault than almost all of the people being sent to El Salvador. No exaggeration.

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

Well that’s a headline I did not except to see. Ever.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The TESLA (a/k/a "TESLER") TAKEDOWN is working... WORLDWIDE! Turns out people really resent an unelected weirdo running our Government & creating economic chaos. Hit Elmo where it really hurts: in his big, fat wallet. If we #TankTesla, It's Ex-X! (a/k/a Twitter) #WinWin Visit www.takedowntesla.com

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CNN @cnn.com · 18/03/2025

The dramatic escalation follows the Trump administration’s Friday gutting of the organization’s board and tees up another court fight between the administration and an independent organization.

cnn.com

DOGE gains access to US Institute of Peace after Trump administration overhauls board | CNN Politics

Personnel from the Department of Government Efficiency, accompanied by DC police officers, gained access to the US Institute of Peace Monday after being turned away last week.

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