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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Donald Trump has assumed full federal control of Washington DC's Union Station and has taken it over from Amtrak. Trump isn't "fixing" anything - he's consolidating POWER in the nation's capital, one takeover at a time.

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aug 27, 2025, 2:18 pm • 330 152

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Blue Doggy @bluedoggy.bsky.social

They are going to call it Trump Trak or perhaps TrumpRail. The trains won't run on time, but there will be lots of fake gold decorations. Oh, in case you didn't hear me the first time, "PAPERS, please.

aug 27, 2025, 2:46 pm • 4 0 • view
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minkymonkey.bsky.social @minkymonkey.bsky.social

Uhm, how? Just ‘cause he says so? People, he is a toddler. Say no!!!

aug 27, 2025, 2:27 pm • 6 1 • view
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jhalp2.bsky.social @jhalp2.bsky.social

Wait what???? Can he do that? Will this be challenged in court?

aug 27, 2025, 2:20 pm • 3 0 • view
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patronusss.bsky.social @patronusss.bsky.social

Like that would matter. Maggats don't obey court rulings that they don't like.

aug 27, 2025, 3:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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Enomis @simone3.bsky.social

The courts aren’t going to be able to keep up with these lawsuits

aug 27, 2025, 2:26 pm • 4 0 • view
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Joe @joeinkm.bsky.social

Aaaaaaamd we've reached the "trains run on time" point of our fascism.

aug 27, 2025, 2:21 pm • 22 1 • view
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Faire Comments @fairecomments.bsky.social

Except to do that, he’d have to take over control of the tracks from freight rail companies.

aug 27, 2025, 2:30 pm • 6 0 • view
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Socius @socius.bsky.social

Still in your comfy chairs, typing angry posts? When they’re done destroying you, spare us the tears.

aug 27, 2025, 4:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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JayMac! @jaymac19.bsky.social

USA is turning into Trumps hero land Mother Russia!!! What are you going to fucking do about it? Enough is enough!!!!!

aug 27, 2025, 6:09 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jacqueline B. @jaxsb.bsky.social

There is so much concern in this administration of what things look like instead of the substance of actually improving our lives. Also, seizing things? Isn't this what dictators do?

aug 27, 2025, 2:48 pm • 2 0 • view
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gail7.bsky.social @gail7.bsky.social

Improving isn't on the table. Destroying, eliminating and controlling is.

aug 27, 2025, 4:43 pm • 1 0 • view
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social

Out of control Abuse of power Waste of resources

aug 27, 2025, 2:33 pm • 14 1 • view
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Guardian @guardianofforever.bsky.social

Trump is a dung beetle for incompetence.

aug 27, 2025, 2:38 pm • 3 0 • view
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Moggs🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🕊️🇪🇺🇺🇦 @moggsee.bsky.social

Is there anything gold in there that he might want to get his hands on?

aug 27, 2025, 2:32 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jay Lee @jayleec.bsky.social

This is terrifying as much as it is maddening.

aug 27, 2025, 2:19 pm • 11 0 • view
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biliousmillie.bsky.social @biliousmillie.bsky.social

Not terrifying. Ridiculous!

aug 27, 2025, 2:22 pm • 4 0 • view
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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social

Sean Duffy was confirmed as Transportation Secretary with no transportation experience; now he's the NASA administrator and will run Union Station. What could go wrong?

aug 27, 2025, 2:24 pm • 25 4 • view
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minutesdrag.bsky.social @minutesdrag.bsky.social

Omg. WTF? This shit has GOT to STOP!

aug 27, 2025, 3:11 pm • 6 0 • view
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Take out all g.o.p. trash in 2026 @spike02134.bsky.social

well, just hoping you aren't making book on the trains running on time.

aug 27, 2025, 4:40 pm • 1 0 • view
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Julie 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @julieonlife.bsky.social

How has he assumed control? What has actually changed apart from his blowing his mouth off again?

aug 27, 2025, 2:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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Berneir Dalenburg @sgbgames.bsky.social

I want to know how are they able to do this, like for real. Since when did exorders have such power. Not just this, but things that took act of congress to create gone in an instant. Like if that was always the case why didn't other presidents use them with Excess? Could not pick the write word

aug 27, 2025, 5:15 pm • 1 0 • view
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colobabe72.bsky.social @colobabe72.bsky.social

It’s a coup

aug 27, 2025, 2:20 pm • 13 1 • view
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lusciousgeorge.bsky.social @lusciousgeorge.bsky.social

No! Enough! Just stop!

aug 27, 2025, 3:20 pm • 2 0 • view
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lusciousgeorge.bsky.social @lusciousgeorge.bsky.social

DOT? Isn’t the Department of Transportation’s job to repair roads, bridges, airports, keep ports running efficiently, complete the infrastructure projects finally begun under the Biden administration? NOT turning the main train station of our nation’s capital into a gaudy shopping mall!

aug 27, 2025, 3:15 pm • 4 0 • view
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gail7.bsky.social @gail7.bsky.social

I think it's a bit more nefarious than that.

aug 27, 2025, 4:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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Gísli Kristjánsson 🇮🇸 @major-bloodnok.bsky.social

So... are things just gonna get incrementally more fascistic in the US until one day soon, the country will be like any other authoritarian dictatorship?

aug 27, 2025, 2:26 pm • 5 0 • view
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peninsulaguy1.bsky.social @peninsulaguy1.bsky.social

As usual, nothing will be done about it.

aug 27, 2025, 2:22 pm • 3 0 • view
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Snowcap59 @jamest65.bsky.social

This is scary bullshit man. WTF is going to be done about it?

aug 27, 2025, 2:21 pm • 3 0 • view
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Shari @sharimathisen.bsky.social

horrible

aug 27, 2025, 5:51 pm • 1 0 • view
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FuzzyPissyKitty @fuzzypissykitty.bsky.social

Someone should remind Trump that being president doesn’t mean you own the United States

aug 27, 2025, 2:30 pm • 9 3 • view
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mjmd @tooblue.bsky.social

Have you seen the videos of his "Cabinet meetings"! Over an hour of sycophants slathering ridiculous I repeat ridiculous asinine praise on the Felon Trump while he sit there grinning and absorbs it, judging whether it was zealous enough to keep from firing them tomorrow.

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aug 27, 2025, 4:19 pm • 3 1 • view
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FuzzyPissyKitty @fuzzypissykitty.bsky.social

Yep, they are sad, pathetic, highly scripted and just time wasters. All MAGA theater for morons…

aug 27, 2025, 4:32 pm • 2 0 • view
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gail7.bsky.social @gail7.bsky.social

They truly are repulsive. If any one of them ever run for office one day, their sucking up videos need to play on a loop wherever they are until they withdraw.

aug 27, 2025, 4:51 pm • 3 0 • view
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bevymart.bsky.social @bevymart.bsky.social

Seizing infrastructure from corporations is a move that is steeped in #Fascism Govt control of industry and infrastructure is a first step Lets remind everyone #trump has created his own "special #NationalGuard units" too ... aka #SS

aug 27, 2025, 2:24 pm • 7 1 • view
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barkofatree.bsky.social @barkofatree.bsky.social

How does he take over Union Station?

aug 27, 2025, 2:59 pm • 2 0 • view
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DRagin @w8d2bxts.bsky.social

That creepy crump is trying to be a dictator with the assistance of the Whitehouse clan, Supreme Court, & Republican Congress.

aug 27, 2025, 11:24 pm • 1 0 • view
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Professor Misha @mishagriffith.bsky.social

Is this because the VP and Pee Wee German went there to get a sandwich, and instead got their fee-fees hurt?

aug 27, 2025, 2:41 pm • 4 0 • view
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patronusss.bsky.social @patronusss.bsky.social

How can he be allowed to take over whatever the F he wants? What kind of country is this?

aug 27, 2025, 3:21 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jack @jakoverjak12.bsky.social

WOW he just never stops. Well that's the end of riding Amtrak. It will be totally unsafe from this time forward.

aug 27, 2025, 2:32 pm • 2 0 • view
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Gary Gifford @garygifford.bsky.social

That douche nozzle has such a punchable face...

aug 27, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jay @jayw74.bsky.social

For what purpose exactly?

aug 27, 2025, 2:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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sue19721954.bsky.social @sue19721954.bsky.social

😡😡as VDVance said trumps Americas Hitler

aug 27, 2025, 2:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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Tes @tes63.bsky.social

Geezus...wake the hell up people.

aug 27, 2025, 3:27 pm • 2 0 • view
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mapchick.bsky.social @mapchick.bsky.social

Glad I don’t have to go to DC anytime soon. 😠

aug 27, 2025, 2:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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ₚₐᵥₑₗ ₜᵣₒₗₗₒᵥᵢcₕ🇪🇺 @resistaustria.eu

He wants to play train conductor now? Choo-choo!

aug 27, 2025, 4:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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hidden gem @couple2tree.bsky.social

NRPC or Amtrak is a distinct (unique) federal corporation created by Congress with its own (non-DC) Police Force. How does the Dept of Transportation have authority to take over an asset like Union Station?

aug 27, 2025, 2:31 pm • 4 1 • view
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ₚₐᵥₑₗ ₜᵣₒₗₗₒᵥᵢcₕ🇪🇺 @resistaustria.eu

Obviously nobody is stopping it.

aug 27, 2025, 4:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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drlouiseholman.bsky.social @drlouiseholman.bsky.social

Setting up an impenetrable command post.

aug 27, 2025, 3:17 pm • 3 0 • view
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Alice Anderson @slybunny24.bsky.social

Sounds like communism- taking over private businesses

aug 27, 2025, 3:23 pm • 2 0 • view
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Anton Valenciaga 🇨🇦 @vmg-ylw.bsky.social

This entitled infant thinks the United States is a golf course property that he just stole from someone.

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aug 27, 2025, 2:39 pm • 2 0 • view
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Colors of Nature @trisha-colors.bsky.social

It's is already beautiful! But ugly can't see beautiful. #Epsteinfiles

aug 27, 2025, 2:37 pm • 2 0 • view
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Fatlady @thefatladythinks56.bsky.social

Exactly

aug 27, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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Intersex Insights @intersex-insights.bsky.social

I'm old enough to remember when Republicans wanted to PRIVATIZE everything, not turn America into a Soviet-style communist shithole. Heck, they didn't even even like DEMOCRATIC socialism back then. Say, wasn't that just a year ago Republicans hated Soviet Communism?

aug 27, 2025, 2:53 pm • 5 0 • view
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Ashbasher22 Art; Animation Fan 🌈🍉🇺🇦 @ashbasher22nerd.bsky.social

This is an Emergency: 🚨 Far Right domestic Terrorists are willing to declare Genocide against Trans People in the US. Demand all Transphobes be criminalised! All Transphobes are EVIL! They must be combated, arrested and jailed for Threats of Violence. For Trans Rights Are Human Rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

aug 28, 2025, 9:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lenny Weaver @weaver60.bsky.social

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aug 27, 2025, 2:21 pm • 17 3 • view
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jenninnh03867.bsky.social @jenninnh03867.bsky.social

I think they forgot to pick up the trash INSIDE the WH. It's stinking to high heaven

aug 27, 2025, 2:36 pm • 18 1 • view
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GypsyHeart 🖤 @gypsyheart1.bsky.social

aug 27, 2025, 2:39 pm • 4 0 • view
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Skibee @skibee.bsky.social

Just ahead of a major protest in DC. Coincidence?

aug 27, 2025, 2:23 pm • 5 0 • view
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A Peach 🍑 @bapeach.bsky.social

🖕🏻🤡

aug 27, 2025, 3:05 pm • 2 0 • view
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Dave. @shubdo.bsky.social

Time to contact the house painters.

aug 27, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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climate refugee @a-climate-refugee.bsky.social

🤥🤥🤥

aug 28, 2025, 9:15 am • 1 0 • view
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Mike Anderson @mkajr74.bsky.social

So one of the worst accidents in Amtrak history is imminent.

aug 27, 2025, 2:25 pm • 10 0 • view
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jenninnh03867.bsky.social @jenninnh03867.bsky.social

And how much did he make for that? Because most about everything he does is to benefit himself. I just wonder when people will have finally had enough and will lash out? Hopefully before it's too late

aug 27, 2025, 2:34 pm • 2 0 • view
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samiammaybe.bsky.social @samiammaybe.bsky.social

All that cause JD was called a couch fucker and boo'd when he walked through the station?

aug 27, 2025, 4:17 pm • 1 0 • view
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Meadowbrook @meadowbrook7953.bsky.social

There was a crime emergency at the station, Donald Trump stole 2.8 Billion from them.

aug 27, 2025, 2:35 pm • 5 0 • view
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joeyruns.bsky.social @joeyruns.bsky.social

But what about the Epstein files 🤔

aug 27, 2025, 2:48 pm • 4 0 • view
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biliousmillie.bsky.social @biliousmillie.bsky.social

Potemkin Station

aug 27, 2025, 2:22 pm • 6 0 • view
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PB @paulabarron.bsky.social

With a little retribution tossed in because of Joe's love of trains.

aug 27, 2025, 2:23 pm • 6 0 • view
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Enomis @simone3.bsky.social

Control of movement

aug 27, 2025, 2:27 pm • 5 0 • view
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Benjamin Thomas @benjaminthomas616.bsky.social

"It's a just a train station." It's just law firms. It's just legacy media. It's just universities. It's just majority Dem cities. It's just the fuel industry. It's just healthcare. Eventually, the these one-offs stop being one-offs. We are under authoritarian rule and so many are making excuses.

aug 27, 2025, 2:45 pm • 13 4 • view
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Joe McKirdy @joemckirdy.bsky.social

Trump occupying the means of resistance. Step one in any military coup.

aug 27, 2025, 2:21 pm • 5 0 • view