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May I gently remind you that in the Budapest memorandum where Ukraine gave up the nukes, 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇷🇺 guaranteed “to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.” 🧵

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who’s gonna do it, who will be the hero we needed

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Obviously this is not the correct answer to “what did you do last week,” but if you knew it was a bunch of junior gamergaters asking you to justify your real job in public service, it would certainly be tempting to respond “yer mom”

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Hi, Tim Walberg! 👋 Barb Byrum, here! What you're describing is a poll tax, and hasn't been legal since the 24th Amendment was ratified in 1964. Be better.

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Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

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At the next #ElmoMagalomaniac presser, when he appears intoxicated or is wearing sunglasses, he should be asked the following q's: 1 What drugs are you currently taking since it appears that you are under the influence? 2 Are you wearing sunglasses bc of your ketamine use? Be direct. Do your jobs.

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I heard someone compare Trump’s mass firings to him being a bull in a china shop. I disagree. Trump is a like a bull in a VA hospital. Trump is like a bull in an assisted living facility. Trump is like a bull in an Alzheimer’s research center. Trump is like a bull in a NICU.

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Trump gangster government

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Only cis white guys are good at things

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What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

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BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732. Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.

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How much is Congress cutting from their $6.5 billion/year budget? Don’t you think congress can operate on say, maybe, $5 Billion? And each congressman has 18 staff, they could operate on say, 14? What about the White House?

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To this list I would add using ResistBot. It is a legitimate tool - 501(c)(4) social welfare organization - that makes it fast and easy to write to your representatives. Use it and use it often. Text RESIST to 5049 to get started. 30 Actions You Can Do:

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If you’ve been scolded by the Pope AND by the Auschwitz Memorial in the same week, it’s time to take a minute and reconsider your choices.

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Guess who Hitler & his Nazis called "parasites", and guess what happened to these people.

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Bondi says politics won’t play a role in her DOJ. Yet her first move is suing New York’s Democratic leaders on Trump’s favorite issue—immigration. If this isn’t political, why did she threaten other states with “you’re next” instead of focusing on actual law enforcement?

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The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

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"Protests by military families against a defense secretary are extremely rare..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Dems should propose a law that immediately requires every fed agency to post on @bsky.app account, every outlay with a detailed description, $, and a link to existing gov sites with in depth details Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.

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Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

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“NO CRUISE SHIPS were in the area of the 7.6 magnitude earthquake in the Caribbean Sea. However, many oil/chemical tankers and bulk carriers were in the area.” - Meteorologist Max Velocity

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With all due respect, you're a United States Senator and that's a rent-a-cop from a private security firm with no authority to stop you. You can't just take no for an answer here.

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TRIGGER WARNING: If you are someone who likes to clutch their pearls because of obscenities, this post is not for you. I knit a hat full of f*%ks and you might want to scroll on by. Thanks! I finished my FUCK hat! Read all about it on my Substack: januaryone.substack.com #knitting 🧶

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This was the motto of the civil society movement to resist Bolsonaro’s right wing authoritarianism in Brazil. I learned it from @annagalland.bsky.social and love it. Would love to see American designers do their own interpretations.

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I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

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Saw this today and seems it will be relevant every day for the next 4 years…

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What you see now is a suit and tie version of January 6th -Lawrence O’Donnell We are once again under attack

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Use the Senate hold!!!!

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Senator Chuck Schumer has called what's happening “an unelected shadow government … conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government.” I'll just note that another way to describe that is treason.

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So we have a guy in charge of our lives who drove his wife to suicide? We have a guy in charge to defense that didn’t allow women to defend themselves? We have an Attorney General in charge of respecting laws that took a bribe to ignore laws? Everything seems fine.

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The rush to destroy things like USAID and other agencies before lawsuits can stop them is to make it moot. When our stupidly slow judicial system finally moves to stop them it will be far too late. If all 10,000 USAID employees are home and projects abandoned it’s done. It’s evil.

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Worth watching from @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social "Trump is acting like a king because he's too weak to govern like a president. He's trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him" www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QL...

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Dear #DNC, #DSCC, and #DCCC: I don't want to see another fundraising text or email asking for a dollar of mine until I see an actual plan to meet this moment. Y'all had 11 weeks between the election and inauguration, and there's still no plan. There's no excuse for that. No plan, no donation.

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A grieving father sets the record straight. Gary O’Hara, who lost his son in the DC plane crash, shuts down Trump’s DEI scapegoating: “You don’t get to do something in the Army unless you’re qualified.” Blaming diversity for a tragedy is disgraceful.

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This is a coup. Unelected, unvetted civilians are “shutting down” government agencies. That’s a fucking coup. Act like it.

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Trudeau invoked John F. Kennedy. He spoke of sending water bombers to LA He spoke of one of US darkest days, 9/11, when Canada welcomed planes & passengers that could not fly home for several days. Thank you again, Gander Newfoundland, and all of Canada, for being good neighbors & friends.

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