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burlydee.bsky.social
Director of Policy for the ACLU of AZ. Views are 100% my own. Maybe they'll be yours one day too. I talk AZ politics, national politics, Chicago sports, music, 90 day fiance, and the endless void.
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Oh 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦!!!!

I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.

🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

If you're an elected Dem and your entire resistance plan is to just post on Twitter and Bluesky until midterms to roll around: you are actively accelerating the destruction of our democracy and you're as big of a problem as Musk. Just resign and let someone who will fight every day take your place.

if you are a US citizen over the age of 25 and you have a Democratic representative who is not screaming from the rooftops right now, a cool thing you can do is run against them next year

This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

This is Brian admitting his reporting will be state approved and not worth reading.

Inaccurate IDs can expose transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people to harassment and discrimination. We're taking the Trump administration to court to defend our freedom to be ourselves.

Bipartisan bills attacking the 1st amendment rights of students and teachers are in House Ed #azleg next week. HB2867 prohibits criticism of Israel in classes, clubs, and coursework. HB2880 prohibits encampments on campus. These bills seek to punish protesters & stifle speech. Call your legislator!

"Manhattan federal prosecutors were prepared to bring a new bombshell indictment charging Mayor Eric Adams with destroying evidence and instructing people to lie to the FBI, a bombshell letter obtained by The Post reveals." nypost.com/2025/02/13/u...

Thank God she's here! Everyone go follow sp she doesn’t post at that other place.

Watching Dems in AZ forgo anytime work on education or jobs to chase moral panics around kids is depressing. We have repeated school closures in AZ but all dems at the legislature want to do is censor websites and schools and pretend they are helping kids that way. True race to the bottom stuff.

The Trump administration is 0 for 3 in court defending the President's attempt to end birthright citizenship. The Constitution is clear: People born in the United States are U.S. citizens.

They moved on. They'll never admit how they contributed to this moment.

Congratulations to Super Bowl LIX champion Kendrick Lamar

Some don't want posts like this on @bsky.app. I want more. Why ? This is a moderated platform. Which means unbridled hate is removed. And blocked. Making this is a platform where we can engage and have real discussions on real issues. @bsky.app w 100m users changes political discourse.

The Harrid campaign wasted months trying to win this person's vote.

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

Sending immigrants to Guantánamo and cutting them off from any contact with the outside world opens a new shameful chapter in the history of this infamous prison. We're demanding answers from the Trump administration.

this type of smug cynicism is corrosive to the very core of democracy

And it begins. FBI class action lawsuit against the retaliatory purge. First Amendment Violation of Due Process Rights to Privacy www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

Biden voters who did not shoe up for Harris cited Gaza and the economy as the top two reasons. Now, you're too scared to talk Gaza bc your position is indefensible. The voters told you were wrong on the economy. It's up to liberals to listen.

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

I demand that Chuck Schumer be digitized and uploaded so he can take back control of government systems from inside the computer realm

Trump supporters don't care about high prices. The basis of his support is identity politics.

This is essentially what Pritker and Newsome are doing. Don't always agree with their politics but it's clear their positioning themselves to be face of Dem party simply by doing their jobs.

YET ANOTHER STUDY shows that a tiny number of children are diagnosed with gender dysphoria and an even tinier fraction receive puberty blockers or hormones. Anyone still pretending there is a "debate" about this is willfully ignoring all of the available data. gidmk.substack.com/p/gender-dys...

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

I can't help to think about the stark contrast between how Republicans treated J6ers versus how Dems treated peaceful Palestinian protesters. Rs have embraced J6ers and brought them in as part of base. Dems spent last year demonizing protesters turning off their own voters. Will Dems learn? Doubtful

Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed

worries me a bit that we can’t get beyond arguing the semiotics of a gesture anyone can see, done by a guy who spent billions on bringing the nazis back to twitter, who endorsed the AfD, etc etc

This is very reminiscent to the conservative response to covid. If you listen to conservatives, you would never know they actually ran the country during the main parts of the pandemic, including tge lockdowns. It's memory-holed as a progressive policy.

Both parties have spent the last 5 years characterizing immigration as a crisis causing everything from a housing shortage to fentanyl in schools. The people are just following their lead.