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@pawsi-tivepaws.bsky.social You're a fraud. I can prove it! Several organizations are here in Indianapolis with that name, but none are shelters. A Google check shows NOTHING BY THAT NAME in Miami. I'm reporting & blocking you, providing my proof to Bluesky, & hoping others do, too.
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
I’m old enough to remember when we had 47,000 congressional hearings over Hunter Biden allegedly making money off his father’s name. Meanwhile, Trump’s corruption, in the billions, gets openly celebrated.
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🚨Governor Pritzker is calling Stephen Miller OUT! 👏🏻The👏🏻Cruelty👏🏻is👏🏻the📌
If I were Susan Collins, I’d be “concerned.”
Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson says “Chicago will continue to have a violence problem as long as red states continue to have a gun problem.” Mayor Johnson points out if Trump really cared about violence in America, he would work on gun reform not militarizing cities!
“well this is certainly a bold departure from political norms!” as they are marched to the gulag
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
Definitely a lost battle under this admin, but if we do eventually return to normalcy, would really appreciate a hard requirement that every announced use of force by the state be accompanied by stating the authority under which it occured
We are filing a request for a preliminary injunction to block the extension of soldiers’ deployment in Los Angeles through Election Day. There was never a need — and there is certainly no need now — for troops to be deployed against their own communities.
The red state im currently sitting in has a higher violent crime rate than Illinois, this is Not About Crime
Exhibit 248,926 proving that MAGA politicians believe their voters are morons.
I know my odds of winning the Powerball are lower than the odds of being hit by lightning while being struck by a bus driven by Bigfoot, but they’re still better than Congress doing its job.
See through it.
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
@raynabronco1165.bsky.social Any fool who falls for illiterate solicitation deserves what they get. You can't write a coherent sentence. And if you're looking for a man to share your life with, why did you choose to cross my path. Reporting, blocking, and warning others.
I question both the quantity and the quality of these people who supposedly “expressed interest.”
Looks like Kristi Noem’s de facto Chief of Staff thinks he’s lined up the kind of “judges” that they want.
SCOOP: Sources at the House Oversight Committee confirm documents posted by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna are the same ~33,000 pages of Epstein documents they received — 97% already public — and part of a broader plan to block transparency.
So they re-released most of the same shit they gave the GOP binder crew in February? Color me shocked. Never thought I’d say this, but I’m with Massie. Release the rest of the damn Epstein files, not this cherry-picked bullshit.
I know this sounds crazy, but shouldn’t the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?
Okay, he's not dead Back to the topic at hand: where are the Epstein files?
Another protest in Washington, D.C.!!! Women dressed in red lined the street for almost a block!! What a strong statement by women who took time off to protest on a Tuesday!! Thank you so much!! 💗
Not a single reporter has asked about Trump’s health yet. Doocy asked how “he found out he was dead” this weekend, and that’s as close as it’s gotten.
HAKEEM JEFFRIES HAS BECOME A BAD JOKE! He's one of the worst curses that Nancy Pelosi inflicted on America and the Congress!
HAKEEM JEFFRIES HAS BECOME A BAD JOKE! He's one of the worst curses that Nancy Pelosi inflicted on America and the Congress!
Oof. The Dems need to stop pretending, based on some imaginary focus group, that there’s some common ground with Trump. The key is to fight everywhere. You should go study Neville Chamberlain’s attempt at “common ground.” It didn’t end well for his historical reputation. Or the world.
Trump just said he is “cleaning up” American cities at his news conference. He’s not wrong. With nothing else to do, National Guard soldiers are quite literally picking up trash in DC…
RELEASE the TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES‼️ #TrumpEpsteinFiles #Pinks
Trump: "We've taken in almost $17 trillion of investment." (That would be more than half the entire US GDP, so no.)
I’m sorry this guy sucks
Repeat after me: Trump CANNOT deploy the National Guard to Chicago. He does not have the constitutional authority to do so. National Guard troops, outside of DC, are NOT his to command. So Chicago & my home state of Illinois need to tell Trump to fuck right off.
Trump claims a video showing people throwing bags out a White House window is "probably AI generated." Doocy then plays the clip for him. Trump still insists it's AI.
Women dressed as Handmaids raise their voices: 🗣️SHAME
Those pupils. In a bright ass room.
HE VOTES BY MAIL!!!
Trump: "Without the United States, everything in the world would die ... I settled seven wars."
Well this much we know He didn't spend the last week at a psychiatrist's
BREAKING: President Donald Trump said he will order federal law enforcement intervention in Chicago and Baltimore, despite local opposition.
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
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Trump announced he assassinated a boat full of civilians in the Caribbean that he alleges were drug smugglers (no evidence provided and even so, not a proportionate strike if true). Marco Rubio also used his social media to boast of the war crime.
Pentagon, moving Space Farse, to AL, it will take 5-10 years of a TOTAL BONDOGGLE and costing US the tax payers Billions! And, where will the Fed Govt Employees come from? AL is like 48th in Education and there's not one Employee wants to Move to AL from CO. Here's an Answer, SCRAP THE SPACE FARSE!!
One thing Trump has really done a great job of is exposing Jake Tapper as a gutless pussy and a partisan.
Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.
Studies repeatedly show that most people age out of "hardcore" crime by their late 30s and 40s. And nobody is "born to be" a criminal. Even Trump, who is a hardcore criminal who has not aged out of his illicit behavoir, was not born like this. I blame his parents.
Words are magic
When someone tells you both parties are the same…
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Release the Epstein files.
Pritzker: "We've gathered information from unauthorized, patriotic officials inside the government and from-sourced reporters about Donald Trump's plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."
Pritzker on Trump's plan for Chicago: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Pritzker: "We have reason to believe that the Trump administration has already begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois."
Pritzker is doing two things here that are smart. One, he's describing this forcefully and unapologetically and in his own terms, not adopting the Admin/media frame. Two, he's making clear that he will blame the Admin for any violence or disorder sparked by their invasion of his state.
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
“The terror and cruelty are the point.” Illinois Gov. Pritzker says WH Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller chose a potential federal takeover in Chicago during the month of Mexican Independence Day.
The last CR (allowed to advance to a vote by several democratic senators including Chuck Schumer) defunded DC by $1.1B to include law enforcement. I'll be writing and calling and screaming that the next continuing resolution IS NOT PASSED without FUNDING DC (among other things.)
Texas loaded busses with desperate migrants and dropped them off in Chicago like trash in the middle of winter. We welcomed them into our communities. Now Texas is sending its National Guard to terrorize them on our streets. In our neighborhoods. What the fuck.
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Jesse Watters accidentally declared that the Fox News merch is made in China. So much for America First and made in the U.S.A.
"It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try and disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear, the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here." JB Pritzker
"Be loud for America."
"I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime." Gov. JB Pritzker
"Russia has never had, does not have, and will never have any desire to attack anyone" -- Putin in Beijing. He simply keeps mocking all those who, for 25 years, have bent over backwards for this petty creature, tiptoeing around him in fear and granting full license to his megalomania and sadism.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Brian Stetler just told CNN that we were memeing about Trump's health this weekend to monetize speculation and make a quick buck on Bluesky. Are we supposed to be getting checks?
Glad to see Pritzker standing up forcefully against the current tyrant in chief. Needless to say, none of this is normal, and every day it’s pushing us closer and closer to an outright shooting war. If you’re a member of the military, remember you swore an oath to the Constitution above all else.
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
Let’s make sure the Epstein victims get the attention they deserve. REPOST all the Epstein/Trump content you see and make it trend! #Epstein #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #Trump-Epstein mdavis19881.substack.com/p/epstein-xi...
We’re back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)
It’s time for these victims receive justice. It’s time for Trump to stop protecting the rich & powerful & to start telling the truth. It’s also time for Republicans in Congress to find the courage to sign the discharge petition that would force a vote to release the Epstein files. (2/2)
"When did we become a country where it's okay for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything – especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation – that we treat this as normal?" Gov. JB Pritzker
California refuses to be scared into submission by the small men in the White House. No one in their right mind thinks the Trump Administration should launch yet another failed LA militarization.
It’s corruption, plain and simple.
Like a 1980s televangelist, Trump is now asking his supporters to send him $15 to help him get to Heaven. meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...
Sure. Trust the former heroine addict who had a brain worm eat what was still left in there.
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
🚨Regarding the #Pentagon and #SpaceForce announcements: Reps @rokhanna.bsky.social (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) are holding a press conference tomorrow, 9/3, 10:30am, with ten victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking. Link to watch live: youtube.com/live/q6fUosr... 🗣️ Release the Epstein files
Ladies & gentlemen, we have a MAGA propagandist in our midst! Hiding behind a benign profile, this is a supporter of fascism, the MAGA regime & provable lies. The violence in Chicago, particularly the per capita murder rate comes in way below cities in red states, exposing the lies. Blocking.
Pritzker understands the assignment
Great speech. Everything he said was 100% true. He implored the press not to normalize Trump’s unconstitutional overreach, and here comes Scott Jennings on CNN to do exactly that. 🤬
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" '...the danger of sacrificing fundamental freedoms for fleeting security, suggests that such a compromise ultimately leads to the loss of both.'
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
This guy gets it. This is the way.
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
The US military will conduct a flyover of the White House and wider DC at 11am tomorrow (Wednesday). Epstein’s victims will be holding a press conference on Capitol Hill around the same time.
Dozens of community leaders and unions in Chicago came together to reclaim Labor Day and fight back against the Trump administration’s attacks on the working class! They refuse to stand by while Trump threatens to take over their cities!
The tolerance for lies is killing our country. Trump just called Chicago “the most dangerous city in the world, by far.” But its homicide rate isn’t even in the U.S. Top 20. Will major media call out the lie – and call it “a lie” – or will they talk about his “tenuous relationship with the truth”?
Trump will do all he can to “fix” the 2026 and 2028 elections to secure MAGA victories by every method he can muster, however blatantly illegal and unconstitutional, whatever the courts might say. If every eligible voter shows up, we can overwhelm his schemes. Otherwise, our way of life is doomed.