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Listen to Jake. Everyone from your fave local dog walker to City Hall, to your safety, schools, civil rights, freedom...policies the extremist christianist forced birth oligarchs don't like but you need... Are threatened by this coup of our constitution & Democracy.

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I’m going to again post my stance on Trump and fascism from my campaign site. A lot of local Dems seemed spooked by this kind of talk, told me to “fight the far right as a private citizen and don’t attract attention to us.” But how much better would Dems be polling if they were talking this way?

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Spread the truth, not muskyDrumpf lies. Gifted wapo.st/3DcnJcP #DemocracyNotDictatorship #USDemocracy #DemVoice1

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Alt headline: Hegseth's racism on full display as he fires accomplished Black general, replaces him with unqualified white man. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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New, from me @theatlantic.com: No, the federal government is not too big It has real human capital needs Firings are indiscriminate, weakening state capacity Creating a toxic and politicized workplace is driving away dedicated employees www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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A full-on purge of the military leadership, targeting women and people of color. This perfectly captures where we are: An escalating authoritarian takeover of the state, combined with an aggressive program to re-segregate the spheres of influence and power and restore complete white male dominance.

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No conflict of interest to see here folks

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People with doctorates are the most liberal and progressive. The entire mission of destroying academia is to eliminate entire voting demographics. They explicitly spell this out. Shutting down PhD programs isn't an accident, it's the goal.

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Trump's DOJ is preparing to put all incarcerated transgender women into men's facilities as early as next week, and according to NPR "the bureau is well aware of concerns about potential risks of assault, sexual violence and suicides"

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Republicans are planning to slash billions from Medicaid & SNAP. 80M 🇺🇸's (adults & children) rely on Medicaid for their healthcare and could be devastated! According to this source, 18.6% of North Carolinians rely on Medicaid & SNAP programs! #ncpol #PeopleOverProfit www.kff.org/interactive/...

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Alexander S. Vindman is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and former director for European Affairs at the National Security Council (NSC).

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Remember when tRump was delighted with hang Mike Pence Or that one when they posted President Biden being tied to the back of a truck Now that was a threat Trump posted it ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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i am going to fucking lose my mind, this is not an actual proposal, it’s brain poisoned nonsense drawn up by some musk toady on twitter, it assumes savings that are totally implausible and being contested in federal court, stop responding as if they’re real

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This is who Republicans just made FBI Director. Kash Patel calls for “offensive operations” to jail Americans who they consider “the enemy.” “We will go out and find the conspirators... Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media”

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They’re going to try and prosecute their political enemies

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There are so many things that were so obviously going to happen, and so many people insisting that this person who has put himself on full public display for a decade now isn't actually that person. Trite as it may be, the statement's true: when someone tells you who they are, believe them.

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Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

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I want to hear a lot more from JB Pritzker and AOC, and a lot less from Schumer and Jeffries

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I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

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VF: “In private, Republicans fear Trump might incite his followers to commit violence against them if they don’t rubber-stamp his actions… scared shitless about death threats and Gestapo-like stuff...” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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People are fleeing Florida and Texas. As of Jan. 2025, those states collectively accounted for over 30% of ALL homes for sale in the US. Florida had 157,221 active listings—the highest in the country—followed by Texas with 102,552. Repressive state governments and rising insurance are to blame.

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Fossil fuel firm’s $300m trial against Greenpeace to begin: ‘Weaponizing the judicial system.’ Experts warn victory for Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a Trump donor, could have a ‘chilling’ effect on free speech. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The game is this. They're going to make the largest cuts to Medicaid ever. They're going to uninsure millions if not 10s of millions and they're going to say they're just adding work requirements. They'll kill thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, with paperwork. punchbowl.news/archive/2202...

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Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

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Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.

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Musk: “If the central pillar of western civilization that is 🇺🇸 falls, the whole roof comes crashing down, and there is no escape.” This sound like a threat to anyone else?🫤

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@raskin.house.gov gives advice to fired federal workers: "Federal workers need to stay in very close touch with their unions and with the litigation that's going on, because we're wining in almost every case. In more than a dozen cases, there have been TROs and PIs issued against the Trump admin."

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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

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We have reached out to the company who was awarded this contract and they have confirmed the ceiling was $8 million—NOT billion. Here is their statement. The federal government is cooking the books.

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🗣️ @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.” 🇺🇸

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TODAY: The Senate is scheduled to vote on Kash Patel’s nomination for FBI director. This MAGA extremist has salivated about prosecuting journalists, government officials, & ordinary Americans. Call your senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Or email instead: act.indivisible.org/sign/demand-...

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We’re only a month into Trump’s second term and it’s already long past time to impeach him again. We’re one of the first and only major organizations to call for Trump’s impeachment in his second term. Here’s why: 🧵 1/15 pathtoprogress.us/impeach

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This seems like the point where maybe the people who swore to uphold the Constitution and who have access to all the guns, tanks, drones, and highly-trained soldiers should be stepping in.

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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

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As a 10th generation American, I am super disturbed at the number of foreign-born immigrant billionaires pulling strings at the White House right now People like: • Elon Musk • Peter Thiel • Miriam Adelson • Rupert Murdoch • Patrick Soon-Shiong These Oligarchs don't give a damn about democracy

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Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

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BRING IT ON TOM Oh yeah bring it on, vile man WE ALL WILL STAND BY AOC .... @aoc.bsky.social

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The relevant political cleavage is not policy, it is constitutional order. We can fight bitterly over every policy once we agree that the rules must endure in order to protect the republic

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Despicable beyond words. Heartbroken for this Minnesotan and our LGBTQ+ friends and neighbors seeing news of this disturbing violence.

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNDER ASSAULT: They’re coming for our history. The US archivist & staff resigned after Trump officials pushed to replace them w/loyalists. Not just records you’d expect—slave records, immigration records, Native American treaties—all at risk. Will they rewrite or destroy history?

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