Did you have this on your bingo cardโฆLowering the requirements for join the FBI to no college degree, training from 18 weeks to 8 weeks and firing 5,000 veteran agents? Sounds like the take over is well underway.
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Did you have this on your bingo cardโฆLowering the requirements for join the FBI to no college degree, training from 18 weeks to 8 weeks and firing 5,000 veteran agents? Sounds like the take over is well underway.
President Trumpโs federal takeover of D.C.โs local police is unprecedented. โThe last person who asserted the authority to use military personnel for routine law enforcement anywhere in the country for any reason was King George,โ a legal scholar said.
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
Everybody enabling this shit, every rank and file ICE bozo, needs to understand the possibility that their side will not, in fact, be in power in perpetuity and that some day they're going to have to answer for their actions.
We shouldnโt trust a thing that lying sex trafficker says, all so she can get an easier sentence or even a pardon.
Good morning everyone. โ๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธ
Pritzker gets it.
We now have an economy subject to the whims and desires of one person, unaccountable to anyone else. Call it what it is: a dictatorship.
Hello patriot governors! More please! ๐๐ผ๐ช๐บ๐ธ #SpreadTheWord
BREAKING: @marcelias.bsky.social's law firm is seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent Texas' map (which violates the Voting Rights Act) from going into effect once signed into law by Abbott
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
I hope it is chalked FULL of names!
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
Texas is a bloody bloody bloody bloody bloody bloody state
We were warned and nobody believed herโผ๏ธ
Virginia Giuffre, the sex trafficking victim who accused the Duke of York of sex crimes, wrote an autobiography which will be published posthumously later this year. Giuffre claimed she was forced to have sex with the Duke when she was 17. She died by suicide at the age of 41 in April.
The whole list, whoever is on it, should be tried. I donโt care what political affiliation they are!
That one person in the zombie movie who doesn't tell the rest of the group they got bitten.
I grew up in Escambia County (located in the western part of the panhandle) where this book ban is and the Jewish population is very small. The majority of Floridaโs Jewish population is located is South Florida so they (in Escambia Co) probably donโt feel like they have a large enough voice.
Florida banned The Diary of Anne Frank. Whoever signed off on that should have to eat every page of that book โ one by one โ and choke on the lesson theyโre trying to erase. ๐๐ฅ #BannedBooks #AnneFrank
A โwe were wrongโ correction would be nice.
This is fantastic!
Ok that took a second for me to find the mental file on this. Good one! ๐
"To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country โ I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story." Governor JB Pritzker
Tyrants govern through fear. Dictators take their power from the acquiescence of the good people who don't speak out. It is our obligation as citizens to set aside fear and take a step forward not a step back.
$ Billions spent on the wall. They paint it black so itโs too hot to touch, but on the American side, and now this. That wall is more propaganda than a barrier. If you saw this anywhere else, youโd call it a gate or a fence.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
This is classic!
It's all a charade
Sending troops into US cities against their will. Strong-arming corporations and extracting gifts in exchange for tariff exemptions. Calling on state governments to gerrymander in his favor. Trump is the "big government" nightmare conservatives have always warned us about.
Veterans to Union Station! Defend democracy. Resist authoritarianism.
Is @katieporteroc.bsky.social on here? White board this one would ya?
The people around him are so afraid of him that they wonโt even tell him how math works
I suck at math, so, Iโm gonna need Katie to get out her white board!
Between Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the DOJ official who tried to extort a plea out of him with threats of trafficking him to Uganda, there is someone who committed a crime. But that someone isn't Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
THIS AINT A FUCKINGGGG KNIFE FIGHTTT!!!!! THIS IS A FULL BLOWN MILITARY OCCUPATION AND COUP THAT IS QUICKLY TURNING INTO A CIVIL WWWAARRRR!!!!!
New Jersey Attorney General Platkin: As I sit here today, I donโt know who is in charge of the U.S. Attorneyโs Office in my stateโฆ
Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
Every Vet and active duty serviceman needs to remember their Oathโฆ Foreign and Domesticโผ๏ธ
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." Admiral William Adama Battlestar Galactica
I understand some people must work. If you can call out, please support the Blackout. The spending part should be easy, and if you've embraced the strategy of VOTING WITH YOUR DOLLARS, you know retail sales are lagging for the big boxes. When you do spend, shop local small businesses. โ๏ธ
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
After while Crocodile!
Release the health records
I think I peed! ๐๐ซฃ
I feel you! I have these thoughts and then feel guilty fir having these hateful thoughts immediately followed by โfuck itโโ, he started this shitโ!
Kidney failure? Probably getting infusions for his heart failure. We would never notice if he had jaundice because he is perpetually orange!
The Colorado House of Representatives on Sunday passed a bill that would use state money to fund Medicaid reimbursements for reproductive health care providers, namely Planned Parenthood, that have recently faced federal funding cuts.
Letโs be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no senseโitโs not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.
๐คฃ๐๐ Repost please or quote. Just spread the truth ๐
BREAKING: VETERAN'S BEGIN A SIT-IN IN WASHINGTON DC AND WON'T STOP UNTIL THE MILITARY LEAVES TOWN
How dare that POS SOB call these women a Hoax! It is bad enough that he calls every single piece of news/facts a hoax, but to call the Epstein files a hoax is the same thing as calling these SURVIVORS liars.
Whatโs the term for this again? Ah, yes. โSnowflakes.โ
I know this is not a unique observation but public health was basically created to deal with the Spanish flu, and then a century later COVID hit and killed twice as many people and our response was to destroy public health
Truth Art! #arresttrump #art
Iโve heard military law experts advise, if you are given an illegal command as a soldier, do not blindly obey. Call your attorney. Obeying an illegal command can result in a court martial.
Itโs an important time to begin honestly asking Trump supporters; โIs this what you wanted?โ youtu.be/hPwDLib0YYA?...
Kamala Harris nailed it. We warned everyone the stakes were too high to hand the guy built for Project 2025 another shot โ but noooo. Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.
Lately? Every damned day!
โOnce a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.โ Harry Truman
A row is brewing in the US over the first human case of the flesh-eating screwworm in Maryland, Reuters reports. Agriculture officials say the CDC is not being forthcoming about the case. Screwworms normally infect livestock. An outbreak in Texas would cost the economy more than a billion dollars.
Amazing!!๐คฉ
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www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025... Vought took FEMA funds gave them to Miller to build more concentration camps gutted the FEMA staff put incompetent people in leadership roles leaving the US vulnerable and ill prepared for future natural disasters ๐ฟ๐๐ผ๐คจ
1) ABC/NBC should lose license or pay hefty fees because their reporting is mean to him. 2) MD should maybe lose bridge repair funds because Wes Moore was mean to him. 3) The feds should investigate Chris Christie for Bridgegate because he was mean to him.
No surprise whatsoever, the number of abandoned babies in TX has skyrocketed. Weirdly, the number of people willing to adopt these babies, many of whom are not white, has NOT kept up with surge. GOP policy is always stupid and cruel. Always.
โIdentify or dieโ, that was the mindset of a terrified Texas homeowner as masked men in tactical gear tried to raid his house. The intruders ended up dead after a fatal shootout. Police later confirmed they were not #ICE or law enforcement officers.
He is correct ๐ฏ
Over a quarter of all homes sold in the first three months of 2025 were bought by real estate investors. If we want to make housing affordable again, we must get Wall Street out of our homes. https://youtu.be/q9TOGxDJ0TE?feature=shared
This is what autocrats say and do. Some threats he intends to carry out, others are just meant to intimidate to produce a change in behavior caused by fear. Every day we move closer to autocracy. Who will be fearless & fight, who will ignore it and hide, & who will bend the knee?
Must be nice to have no oligarchs on your supreme court.
Letโs be clear about what is happening: This man is being punished โ and disappeared โ because he embarrassed our pretender king. They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
KILMAR IN BALTIMORE: โNever lose hope. Promise me youโll continue fight for freedom โ not just for me, for everybody.โ He was just taken into ICE custody.
"I pray / oh my God do I pray / I pray every single day / for revolution".
So now it is The โstupid republicansโ who are on the ๐ฉ list? Hoaxes, raids, and arrests, filling his pockets with our tax ๐ฐ He is full on slippery slope dictator now. Wake up people! It wonโt stop with starving foreignersโ children. Collect seeds, Start a garden, he will be starving us next.
Exactly this! It really pisses them off to see just how stupid they look and sound.
As Natโl Guard troops begin carrying weapons as they patrol DC, we have to ask ourselves โWhat is next?โ Are we in the beginning of ๐คฌ๐คก locking out lawmakers so that he can take over our govermt institutions, museums,monuments and WH for a permanent takeover? To install him as a permanent Dictator?
Better yetโฆ HOW?
THANK YOU FOR WATCHING THE LYING LIARS & NEWS STINKERS OF FOX "NEWS" SO WE DON'T HAVE TO! IT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED BY THOSE OF US WHO VALUE HONESTY, INTEGRITY & DECENCY WHILE ALLOWING US TO CONSUME ACTUAL FACTS WITHOUT THEIR BRAINWASHING TECHNIQUES & ABILITY TO TRIGGER BOUTS OF VIOLENT NAUSEA. ๐คฎ
Even as oppression descends, a democratic education campaign can uplift.
Centrists are beginning to suspect everyone is getting tired of their bullshit.
The are marching right over us like we are Paris and it is June 14, 1940!
Weโre watching an entire political party actively protect the single most infamous sex-trafficking operation of our time. This isnโt just silenceโitโs complicity at the highest level.
Who knew that QANON was real all this time? They just pointed the finger at the wrong Party!
They want us fighting so we never notice who is stealing from us all. Donโt get lost in the circus.
What we really need more than EVER BEFORE is for EVERY registered voter to show up. Ten Million eligible voters stayed home in Texas. TEN MILLION. In the US, the world even, there are way more prog/dems than there are MAGA/GOP/con. This may be OUR LAST election. We have to accept that, fight it.
That was my question!
Having Hakeem Jeffries in a position of leadership in this moment is like intentionally having an alarm clock that doesnโt actually wake you up.
Release the Epstein files!
It's not just a sorry spectacle, it's a stab in the back to every single victim of Epstein and Maxwell. Release the Epstein Files1
Just walking around the hellscape that is my Chicago neighborhood this morning
I had no idea they were Native! Growing up, I only heard this song on the radio a bazillion times. This is the first time I am seeing video of them! Very ๐