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purplesgem.bsky.social

Looking for immunity from some aspects of the Twitter universe. Interested in national and international politics. New York, USA. Supporter/friend of Canada. We need a miracle now or many miracles to save democracy. Sue M.@purplesgem on X

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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Tuesday that she signed an executive order seeking greater transparency from federal immigration officials. She said the city will submit regular Freedom of Information Act requests to find out who ICE is detaining and on what grounds.

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Tanks in the streets. A $45 million ego trip. And a dangerous slide into authoritarianism. The Big Picture has two must-reads this week, one on Trump’s birthday travesty, and one on how we can stop it. Now’s the time to get informed. buff.ly/DbA0NVk

submitted 12 hours ago • 38 comments

Coming soon: MTG introduces a bill to outlaw being a Democrat.

submitted 11 hours ago • 70 comments

This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. statuskuo.substack.com/p/just-for-s...

submitted 14 hours ago • 19 comments

A fair question!

submitted 8 hours ago • 13 comments

Keep protesting. Keep going, everyone.

submitted 4 hours ago • 31 comments

Wait. That military parade is supposed to make other countries fear and respect us more?

submitted 6 hours ago • 718 comments

We should make June 14th No Kings Day permanently.

submitted 5 hours ago • 256 comments

Trump Accidentally Reveals a Dark MAGA Truth—and Hands Dems an Opening newrepublic.com/article/1968... via @newrepublic.com

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At their best, parades are boring. But to make a parade orders of magnitude more boring than a regular parade? That takes work. And, apparently, $45 million.

submitted 6 hours ago • 66 comments

OMG… this is priceless… it’s past grandpa’s bedtime 😂😂😂😂

submitted 7 hours ago • 88 comments

What if he threw a $45 million parade and nobody came? Boring. Low energy. Sad!

submitted 7 hours ago • 664 comments

In a Gangster State, the dear leader wastes other people's money on military parades to broadcast his fake strength, attacks the legislative branch and destroys programs that benefit the people.

submitted 12 hours ago • 222 comments

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

submitted 6 hours ago • 161 comments

Best image of the day:

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More than 1 million in Boston! www.wcvb.com/article/more...

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Reporter: I'm going to show you what 20,000 people in the streets of downtown Los Angeles looks like

submitted 11 hours ago • 484 comments

The East Coast has shown up, 2.4 million and counting, with massive turnouts in small towns across the country. Shoutout to the Carolinas, Georgia, and Ohio for showing up strong!

submitted 15 hours ago • 631 comments

A 34 felony convictions man, who pardoned all the insurrectionist, is telling us he wants to go after the criminals and calls himself a "law and order" president.

submitted 19 hours ago • 13 comments