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Democrats @democrats.org · 12/06/2025

This is what Trump's government thugs are willing to do in broad daylight, to a US Senator, with cameras on. They are sending the message that anyone who disagrees with Trump isn't safe in America. This is authoritarianism.

Image of Senator Alex Padilla being physically dragged away by the DHS secretary's security.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

<Thread> I figure I need to explain how extreme and irresponsible is the June 7 Memorandum federalizing the National Guard and authorizing regular armed forces. Those saying anything in support of this action may not realize what they’ve gotten into. (It will also escalate from here.) Preview⤵️

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Since the New Deal, conservatives have been arguing that the U.S. faced an existential crisis. It was always, to borrow one of their favored phrases, “5 minutes till midnight.” Many took proposed expansions of the safety net or of civil rights as portending socialism or civilizational collapse./1

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/04/2025

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Apropos of nothing, my Supreme Court superlative for John Roberts has long been, “Most likely to vote that slavery is constitutional so long as it’s called, ‘indefinite-term contract labor,’ or similar.”

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Karl Friedhoff @kfriedhoff.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Whenever this all ends, and who knows when that will be, the United States is going to need a Truth & Reconciliation Commission. There has to be a full accounting of the wrongdoing and the collaborators.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 03/04/2025

My schadenfreude for the day is that Bitcoin's down basically as much as the NASDAQ, and if Bitcoin did what its fans said it did it would be the opposite.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/04/2025

traveling in and reporting on the Nordics has really soured me on American style subcultural bohemian leftism. actually existing egalitarian institutions rely on a lot of dutiful, virtuous, boring ass bureaucrats

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

So that $10B bailout for farmers. Is it a payout for political support? Yeah. Bold move for an industry that talks so much about hard work & independence! But it's also worse than that. This is a US food crisis in the making. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n... Let's talk about the payoff part first?

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a man wearing glasses and a black shirt is sitting in front of a window .

Alt: gif of Dwight Schrute shaking his head in disappointment

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

"A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy." — Samuel Adams

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

the reason that the democrats need to get the fear of god put into them by their constituents is that we are going to get one bite at the apple in terms of fixing this and if we do not play constiutional hardball -- by, e.g., packing the Supreme Court -- we will lose American democracy.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/02/2025

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Man, you are going to have to speak more plainly than this. "He's firing watchdogs so he can steal from you."

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Nadine Smith @nadinesmith.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

As a cadet at the Air Force Academy in the 80s, we underwent combat survival training with experts in survival, evasion, resistance, and escape. It was as miserable as it sounds, but one lesson has stayed with me: a pilot said people die because they fail to accept pain as the price for survival.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/11/2024

if she wins and it is a blow out my column will be pure “i fucking told you so.” “i told you people this dude was just a fucking guy and that there is no reason to think he is some kind of man of destiny”

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Kamala getting near an Obama 08 level electoral performance would be so delicious for not just the Trumper tears but also the "we need an open primary"/"she shoulda picked Shapiro"/"shes blowing it by not being anti-trans" centrist crowd. how fucking great would that be to see them repudiated

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Alexandra Filindra @afilindra.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

It is the privilege of not having lived in an authoritarian country and not being able to imagine what the worst can be. If you don't know, ask someone who has.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/10/2024

simply blocking everyone who thinks voting for the Democrat makes you evil, it is very relaxing

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 26/09/2024

This is basically how we got Milton Friedman, how we got Ronald Reagan, and how we got the up-by-your-own-bootstraps, winner-take-all, profits-over-people economy that's leaving so many Americans (and especially women and moms) still struggling today. Let me explain... 🧵 1/

The University of Chicago just received $100 million from an anonymous donor. Donations of that size fundamentally shift an institution’s programming and priorities, and we know that donors exert influence on campus policy. So this is—as one of my colleagues put it—basically dark money, it should be illegal to stay anonymous when exerting this much influence on an institution that’s publicly supported through tax exemptions, federal grants, non-profit status, etc.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Please, lord, tell me that Bob Menendez has a whole lot to say about this

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Politics is just the way we make society together. Whenever someone says "I am apolitical" I hear "I am not vested in the shared project of making society" and I have to wonder why.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

A lot of reasons this debate was night and day from the last, but Linsey Davis and David Muir deserve so much credit for actually calling that man’s crap.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

I have the whiff of an idea of a notion of a plan, everybody!

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Oh, that was half a second from, “this motherf***er!” 😂

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Ah yes, no one has ever thought about Russia having nuclear weapons. It really slips under the radar.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

STRONGMAN MEANS TOUGH, RESPECTED GUY, EVERYBODY! I just can never get over how fundamentally stupid this man is. He is dumb. He is a dumb, dumb, moron-idiot.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

“Well, I’ve seen people on television!” The man who wants the nuclear codes, ladies and gentlemen.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

THANK CHRIST THEY ACTUALLY SAID AFTERBIRTH ABORTION IS NOT A THING!!! Moderators moderating… never thought I’d see the day.

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Patrick Alexander @ravensroost.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

I’d make a Jesus joke, but it wouldn’t be very consubstantial.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

JD Vance's net worth is estimated at $5-10 million. His money comes from the book he wrote & also his work as a venture capitalist which he secured thru his connection to billionaire Peter Thiel. Tim Walz, meanwhile, is estimated to have a net worth of ~$13,000. Not a typo. time.com/6999522/jd-v...

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Here's What We Know About J.D. Vance's Net Worth

J.D. Vance, who penned a memoir titled 'Hillbilly Elegy,' is Trump's VP pick. Here's what to know about his net worth.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 19/07/2024

Ilhan Omar is playing a way higher stakes game than any of the clowns who have been trying to organize a backroom revolt over the past three weeks, and it really, really shows.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

I hope this reminds people of what I have said all along. Trump is beyond beatable whether it’s Joe, Kamala, or someone else. Fucking act like it.

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