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Bill Corbett 's avatar Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social
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This is the way. Won’t pass the GOP House but still 100% worth doing. Spreads idea, puts these shitstains on defense.

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Stephen Wolf's avatar Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social
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A reminder that if Trump wins & purges the civil service to replace it with loyalists as planned, all sorts of govt data will become totally untrustworthy. The House GOP is already trying to rig the census to screw Democrats in redistricting after Trump's first-term attempt failed

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Yair Wallach's avatar Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social
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This is from today. IDF expels the entire population of Gaza city - orders them to go to Dir al-Balah. That's the tens/hundreds of thousands who stayed behind in previous "ordered evacuations".

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John Outwater's avatar John Outwater @johnoutwater.bsky.social
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It’s the right thing to do but Biden is so dead set on not rocking the boat. Unfortunately, the boat in question is the fucking Titanic.

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Holly Brewer's avatar Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social
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Seven times between 1801 and 1869 Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of ten in 1863. In most of those cases, as in 1801 and 1863, the size went up and down in order to fix an imbalance or overreach by the Supreme Court. My latest

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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TPUSA ambassador and speaker Evan Kilgore has now taken the “brave” stand of denying the Holocaust.

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Jill Weinberger's avatar Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social
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This is also a nice reminder that when conservatives say, "Judeo-Christian" they mean "Christian," because you know nobody at Project 2025, including the person who wrote "Judeo-Christian" below, means anything but Sunday when they talk about deciding what people can & should do on the Sabbath.

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Gabe Ortíz's avatar Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social
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“The evidence assembled thus far plainly suggests that Justice Thomas has committed numerous willful violations of federal ethics and false-statement laws,” they write, “and raises significant questions about whether he and his wealthy benefactors have complied with their federal tax obligations.”

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) 's avatar Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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Sen. Josh @HawleyMO: "Some will say now that I am calling America a Christian Nation. So I am. And some will say that I am advocating Christian Nationalism. And so I do." Christian nationalism is fascism and Nazism as politics-and hawley is a proud fascist.

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David Waldman's avatar David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social
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Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro are both in prison right now because they preferred incarceration to telling what they know about Donald Trump and what they helped him do on January 6th.

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Dr. Samantha Montano's avatar Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social
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Today I was delayed getting to New York from Boston to do an interview about climate change because we haven’t adapted our transportation systems to climate change. *chefs kiss*

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Gabe Ortíz's avatar Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social
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Immigrants have been so essential to disaster recovery that a statue in New Orleans honors the Latinos who helped rebuild after Katrina. “In some areas of the country, such as the Southwest, all work crews are immigrants.” These are the workers he wants to deport: americasvoice.org/blog/baltimo...

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Randall Gross's avatar Randall Gross @randallgross.bsky.social
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Project 2025 will double down on protections for fossil fuel industries while killing clean power initiatives, while this is going on, but the media is mostly focused elsewhere for some idiotic reason
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Mark Joseph Stern's avatar Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social
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Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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Melanie D’Arrigo's avatar Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social
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If you steal $1000, you can be sent to prison. When health insurance companies steal $50,000,000,000, they get tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts, while the people they steal from die or go into debt. But keep blaming immigrants and poor people for rising crime.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى's avatar Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com
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The Lancet report is sadly not that unlikely. At least 21,000 children are still missing and thousands more adults too, and tens of thousands will likely die sooner rather than later due to the forced starvation Israel has imposed onto Gaza.

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Saeed Jones's avatar Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social
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“Dozens of Palestinian civilians are killed and wounded after Israel’s air force attacked another school sheltering the war-displaced.” “Another day. Another month. Another school hit,” UNRWA’s chief says.”

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Gillian Branstetter's avatar Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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Still remember when they compared a family moving to California to maintain their trans kid's access to health care to a guy who left California because he was afraid of offending liberals at work

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Melissa Gira Grant's avatar Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com
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I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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Joshua Erlich's avatar Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social
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about once a week, i have to explain to someone on the phone that the police have no obligation to do anything for you and, even if their refusal literally leads to your murder, the courts have been clear that there's no case to pursue

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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The gang of six runs the country until someone stops them.

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Dave Levitan's avatar Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social
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I keep thinking about how the SCOTUS justices, who have proven they care a TON about their media coverage, issued the worst decision since Dredd Scott and then got to happily watch outlets spend the next week running 10,000 “Biden in Trouble” stories and like 5 “Hm, Immunity is Interesting” stories

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wade of mutilation's avatar wade of mutilation @waderockett.bsky.social
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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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Joshua Erlich's avatar Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social
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very hard to figure out what this use of DEI could mean other than the n word

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) 's avatar Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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I really don’t think most people realize just how hard the boot will come down if Trump and the Republicans win the election. Most people have never experienced the totalitarian surveillance state with the power to reach into their homes and minds at will they are telling us is their plan.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough's avatar Kaitlin Has Had Enough @gothamgirlblue.com
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Kathy Hochul bravely defending the rights of New Jersey drivers to kill New Yorkers under their irresponsibly huge trucks for FREE because why come to the city and drink and then take the PATH home when you could just murder people

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Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎's avatar Maya🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🚊🚝🚞🚋🚌🚎 @trains.bsky.social
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the real way to fight climate change is public transit and bikeable/walkable cities. not cars made for individuals that are still expensive consumer products at the end of the day

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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This is the editorial view of the guy who controls which posts get shown on Vichy Twitter and which get buried. Insane that journalists continue to use it as a source of information and contribute to its legitimacy

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Compare this to when Trump says something like “we’re gonna catch Goofy and execute him for his crimes folks” and people in the press go “Mr. Trump seemingly analogized criminals to a Disney character as he called for harsher legal penalties”

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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy's avatar Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy @ugarles.bsky.social
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AND he can pardon them proactively! He can give blanket pardons for categories of officers before he leaves office that the next President can't revoke.

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Paris Marx's avatar Paris Marx @parismarx.bsky.social
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Johnny McEntee, one of Trump's most loyal deputies who is in regular contact with him, is literally one of the people collecting resumes for staffers who would implement Project 2025. Shame on any journalistic outfit who takes this "truth" at face value.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى's avatar Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com
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This is a campaign to exterminate Gaza's ability to thrive.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى's avatar Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com
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Satellite images analysed by Al Jazeera's digital investigation team, Sanad show that more than half (60 percent) of Gaza's farmland, crucial for feeding the war-ravaged territory’s hungry population, has been damaged or destroyed by Israeli attacks. A genocidal campaign in clear view.

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ProPublica's avatar ProPublica @propublica.bsky.social
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The NYPD Commissioner Responded to Our Story That Revealed He’s Burying Police Brutality Cases. We Fact-Check Him. Commissioner Caban identified no inaccuracies in our investigation but instead argued it was unfair and that he’s “in compliance” with the guidelines. Our reporting shows otherwise.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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one thing democrats need to understand is that in this moment transparency is their ally

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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seems newsworthy, can’t wait to hear about it showing up in paragraph 47 of another piece about how biden is old

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li's avatar Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.bsky.social
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really cannot emphasize enough how plainly all this proves that the first priority of the next Democratic administration needs to be democracy reform --filibuster --electoral college --court reform --dc and pr statehood --new voting rights act --gerrymandering

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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Just at the most basic level it is really unhealthy to have to thought about Donald Trump as much as everyone in America has over the last nine or so years. Spending a decade of my life thinking about a super boring, super shitty crook and all the bad stuff he's doing or might do. It's embarrassing.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald 's avatar Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayamcdonald.bsky.social
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This is literally the same shit the Nazis did before industrializing murder. They would get soldiers to just shoot people into pits. They sent Jews en masse via train to camps to starve and die. It was disgusting in the 40s and it's disgusting now.

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Jonathan Ladd's avatar Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social
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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

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Mitchell Epner's avatar Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social
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1/ Let me explain one way that today's Trump immunity decision threatens the survival of the Republic. Under today's ruling, a President would be immune for any way in which he used the military (a "core function"), even to kill American citizens in America. Theoretically, the soldiers who . . .

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1

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Emma Evans's avatar Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social
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It's important to note that Trump tried to order this at least twice we know of during his regime.

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