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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us

Trump's dictator moves like calling in the national guard or ballooning the ice budget are designed to enrage you, but also to desensitize you to his authoritarian behavior. As Rick Wilson says, we can't let that happen:

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aug 31, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1,599 453

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Agent O Double No @guidotoons.bsky.social

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aug 31, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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Kat ‘Beans’ @katbuns.bsky.social

What’s going to come out of all of this is that people will eventually see that the majority of our country is good. The question will be, what to do with the evil and ill-informed. #CancerousTraitors

aug 31, 2025, 7:10 pm • 1 0 • view
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gbond25.bsky.social @gbond25.bsky.social

@cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy Pay attention!!

aug 31, 2025, 7:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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debi58.bsky.social @debi58.bsky.social

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aug 31, 2025, 7:04 pm • 14 3 • view
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Tired Aphid📎❌👑 @tiredaphid.bsky.social

He's such a POS. I just can't anymore. He's insufferable. 🤦🏼‍♀️

aug 31, 2025, 7:43 pm • 6 0 • view
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joshuaseattle1 @joshuaseattle1.bsky.social

Don't give up now....and don't forget that we wouldn't be IN this situation had so many sexist Democrats not failed to vote for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

aug 31, 2025, 9:56 pm • 5 2 • view
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Whisper “democracy” daily 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 @stef47.bsky.social

Expublicans mansplaining to US what to do about the democracy they wrecked.

aug 31, 2025, 7:48 pm • 1 2 • view
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Vic Lake @viclake77.bsky.social

I really love Tim Miller and Nicole Wallace too chiming in after their CIA-connected benefactor family arent in command any more

sep 1, 2025, 4:16 am • 1 0 • view
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Vic Lake @viclake77.bsky.social

I like the cut of your jib 👉

sep 1, 2025, 4:11 am • 0 0 • view
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aegeanjohn.bsky.social @aegeanjohn.bsky.social

Rick Wilson is right. "What Trump Touches Dies"!

aug 31, 2025, 8:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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Marsh Views @khshan.bsky.social

The US military used psyops against Manuel Noriega in December 1989 to encourage him to surrender. How The U.S. Military Used Guns N' Roses To Make A Dictator Give Up www.npr.org/sections/the...

aug 31, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sun Lion ⛩ @sunzion.bsky.social

Most of this is not trump - it’s the project 2025 republicans who are orchestrating all of this.

aug 31, 2025, 7:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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Tired Aphid📎❌👑 @tiredaphid.bsky.social

It's Trump 100%. Make no mistake. He goes wherever the wind blows in his favor. He has no morals. But I do agree with you that the brains guiding him are the Project 2025 #GOP fellowship.

aug 31, 2025, 7:52 pm • 1 0 • view
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backlash00.bsky.social @backlash00.bsky.social

Trump clearly trying to turn America into an authoritarian state. Fortunately for America, Trump consistently fucks up everything he tries to do.

aug 31, 2025, 7:44 pm • 2 0 • view
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dreadpiraterob69.bsky.social @dreadpiraterob69.bsky.social

Don’t play trumps game. Play offense and bury these motherfuckers!

aug 31, 2025, 7:03 pm • 1 0 • view
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Hal Carver @halcarver1776.bsky.social

Taco might just as well complain to a traffic cap. “what do you mean? I can’t go 140 in a 35 zone? I’m me dammit. Laws don’t apply to me!“

aug 31, 2025, 9:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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Hal Carver @halcarver1776.bsky.social

Taco & his fourth Reich minions continue to attack judges who find his illegal actions illegal. It’s like a 4 year-old telling his mom you can’t punish me because I did it. 74% of all tacos executive orders are illegal. About half those are also unconstitutional. Ignorance, blatant evil or both?

aug 31, 2025, 9:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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NorthByNW @northbynw.bsky.social

'Blue States Bloc' would counter Trump charisma: assign issues to top voices i.e. Warren on economy, Whitmer on healthcare, Newsom on climate etc. as a TEAM. Press would know who to call & Americans would see not a muddle but a disciplined gov-in-waiting hartmannreport.com/p/from-silen...

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elanc.bsky.social @elanc.bsky.social

It's not enrage. It's not desensitize. It isn't designed. It isn't theater any more. It's the real thing. It's full blown dictatorship, and he doesn't care what people think any more. He and his goons have no intention of ever relinquishing power, therefore public opinion doesn't matter.

aug 31, 2025, 7:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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RoxieLynn @roxielynn.bsky.social

Talking to like-minded people on Blue Sky 💙 is not enough. Talk to your friends, neighbors, co-workers, and elected representatives; especially those who disagree with you some or most of the time.

aug 31, 2025, 7:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bob K @rskist.bsky.social

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❌ 🤡 Alex ❌🌮👑 @alex08071996.bsky.social

Seems more like he is a useful idiot for the likes of Musk & Thiel to desensitize us to everything & usher in an era of techno-fascism. See, e.g., www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-... and youtube.com/shorts/Xg6de...

aug 31, 2025, 7:04 pm • 8 2 • view
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timetostandupnow.bsky.social @timetostandupnow.bsky.social

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timetostandupnow.bsky.social @timetostandupnow.bsky.social

LOL - Remember this Trump post?

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timetostandupnow.bsky.social @timetostandupnow.bsky.social

These were posts by Musk before he gave Trump close to $300M to continue being 'THE KING OF CORPORATE WELFARE'. He laid the EPSTEIN FILES against Trump, is hated around the world by everyone, has no interest in being around his kids, and is now back sucking up to TRUMP to be part of gang.

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timetostandupnow.bsky.social @timetostandupnow.bsky.social

Watch Musk try to suck up to Trump now: The hypocrite, KING OF CORPORATE WELFARE, who stole everything with DOGE for his xAI, is beyond disgusting. youtu.be/uiefJUh_hHE

sep 2, 2025, 7:34 am • 1 0 • view
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Tired Aphid📎❌👑 @tiredaphid.bsky.social

That's EXACTLY what he is! 🎯

aug 31, 2025, 7:48 pm • 3 0 • view
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ArendtFan @arendtfan.bsky.social

Like LAST NIGHT & TODAY when Trump DOJ put 600 Guatemalan children who have been living in 🇺🇸 foster homes onto ✈️s in El Paso Texas (without any hearings or representation for the kids.) Judge stopped them this afternoon. Temporarily. See @annabower.bsky.social & Lawfaremedia.org.

aug 31, 2025, 7:14 pm • 3 1 • view
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jeffw @jeffow.bsky.social

its murder by thousands of pin pricks.. slowly, deliberately, orchestrated. . look at 1930's germany..

aug 31, 2025, 8:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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missanthrope24.bsky.social @missanthrope24.bsky.social

He’s getting the National Guard accustomed to being deployed & getting us use to seeing them. Just practice for the elections.

aug 31, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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eddie0028.bsky.social @eddie0028.bsky.social

Taco47 bragged about TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS coming in to our treasury and yet the deficit and debt continue rise.

aug 31, 2025, 7:07 pm • 1 0 • view
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sgw73072.bsky.social @sgw73072.bsky.social

This is not a political party issue! This is a Donald Trump issue! There is a huge difference. Trump is not Republican, Democrat or independent. Trump is in the Windbag Poser Party. CA has more to lose than gain by what TX did because Trump is trying to exclude CA from emergency funds.

aug 31, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Hal Carver @halcarver1776.bsky.social

I think it is a save the children, country, and democracy issue. If W were around, he would say, “Yer either fer us er yer agin us! Merica!” That argument would be correct today, although it was BS regarding Iraq II.🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇫🇷🇪🇺

aug 31, 2025, 9:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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Tammy Dzw @tdzwilewski.bsky.social

Exactly, this!☝️💯

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llkrantz.bsky.social @llkrantz.bsky.social

And if he’s as bad as things seem to point to, then who’s calling these shots?

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langcow.bsky.social @langcow.bsky.social

Also he is a pedo #pedopotus

aug 31, 2025, 7:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social

Look at MSM, treating these Trump urban occupations by the military as NORMAL. Unconscionable.

aug 31, 2025, 7:03 pm • 5 0 • view
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Kent Brockman @johnlscott.bsky.social

As I hear Rick speak and describe Trump, I am compelled to think of his actions, consistent with his sexual behavior, forcing himself on women and children. He's raping America.

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sadieClyde @sadieheartsclyde.bsky.social

Right.

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Steven @steventenraa.bsky.social

ICE is to Trump as the SA was to Hitler. Street thugs doing the dirty work and cleansing the cities.

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Atomic Bum @atomicbum4real.bsky.social

A forward positioning before commencing action.

aug 31, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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timetostandupnow.bsky.social @timetostandupnow.bsky.social

Bullet fragment found in neck of boy who went viral for saying his friend shielded him from school shooting: Weston Halsne's father said the fragment stopped short of the 10-year-old's carotid artery, which a doctor described as a "miracle." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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papa714chef.bsky.social @papa714chef.bsky.social

EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN

aug 31, 2025, 7:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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Sawyer @tollinginpolitics.bsky.social

Rick Wilson would be the first in line to allow this to happen if his chosen people were the ones doing it. He has no room to tell anyone what to do.

aug 31, 2025, 7:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mike @blownmotor.bsky.social

I’m not enraged that I’m watching the world’s only sane superpower glide unopposed into a dictatorship , that is terrifying, what I’m enraged at is those who could oppose and don’t. The Republicans who are complicit.

aug 31, 2025, 7:08 pm • 8 0 • view
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caroltesa3.bsky.social @caroltesa3.bsky.social

We can't let the stupidest administration in the history of our country bring down our democracy. Wake up, America! #ITMFA #25THHISASS

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alan @spacexecadet.bsky.social

Wake up, it's already almost 50% gone

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newblue25.bsky.social @newblue25.bsky.social

Hiding this. Who are these people?

aug 31, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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joemcph51.bsky.social @joemcph51.bsky.social

Quackery, incompetence, hostility to science & the rule of law as well depraved indifference to human life are qualification for high office in Trumpworld. www.youtube.com/watch?v=87JN... Guard are getting important raking practice so they're prepared to fight wildfires? bsky.app/profile/ronf...

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Tired Aphid📎❌👑 @tiredaphid.bsky.social

Never stop, Rick. Never stop. 🇺🇸

aug 31, 2025, 7:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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Concerned (Half-)Human Being @humanexistence.bsky.social

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Marc Grambo @marcgrambo.bsky.social

I’m not paying for this chit! I will vote for no president of the United States ever again. It is infuriating enough now to fund our own oppression. It will be even more of my money if we continue to support the United States. Never again. Separatism over loyalism. Let the red states pay the bills.

aug 31, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mark Kastenmeier @markkastenmeier.bsky.social

"government inducement of the crime, and (2) the defendant's lack of predisposition to engage in the criminal conduct" are the two key components of the entrapment defense in U.S. law,

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Mark Kastenmeier @markkastenmeier.bsky.social

which argues that law enforcement manipulated an otherwise innocent person into committing a crime they would not have otherwise committed.

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Mark Kastenmeier @markkastenmeier.bsky.social

To successfully use this defense, a defendant must prove that the government originated the idea for the crime and persuaded them to commit it, and that they themselves were not already inclined to commit such an offense.

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Mark Kastenmeier @markkastenmeier.bsky.social

Liberals can take a punch without fighting back (turn the other cheek) while Conservatives prefer to punch back (eye for an eye). Political independents do not follow party rules, and their behavior is complex and unpredictable.

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Mark Kastenmeier @markkastenmeier.bsky.social

www.quora.com/How-many-Ger...

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Mark Kastenmeier @markkastenmeier.bsky.social

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dano1961.bsky.social @dano1961.bsky.social

He wants any excuse to declare Martial law, so he can become a full fledged dictator!

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astrastarstrider⚡️ @camelshitonthewall.bsky.social

September 1-3. Washington DC. Join the Removal Coalition. Show up. Speak out. Let yourselves be seen, heard, & felt where it matters the most! You can't afford to wait, as that will make things only far, far worse. You are M I L L I O N S . USE that power‼️ bsky.app/profile/clif...

aug 31, 2025, 7:02 pm • 3 1 • view
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astrastarstrider⚡️ @camelshitonthewall.bsky.social

Join up & show up, all you freedom-loving, democracy-appreciating people. It is up to you to recover & protect those freedoms/rights & that democracy, not only for yourselves but for your children! Get rid of the tyrannical pedo-regime, ASAP. bsky.app/profile/sons...

aug 31, 2025, 7:02 pm • 2 0 • view
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trickledownfailed.bsky.social @trickledownfailed.bsky.social

ICE GOONS IN BLUE CITIES ARE DOING 2 JOBS: 👉1. Immigration crackdown 👉2.Voter Suppression💯 IT’S GOING TO GET WORSE‼️‼️ ARE YOU ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE‼️CHECK NOW.

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Amblin @amblin6363.bsky.social

He will simply invent a fake emergency, declare martial law, and cancel the elections .

aug 31, 2025, 7:05 pm • 4 1 • view
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Cindy Ann Pedersen @cindyannpedersen.com

@lincolnproject.us For every post the Trump Troll posts.. just add this under: (with no comment).

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rhyasuda.bsky.social @rhyasuda.bsky.social

Absolutely

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