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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social

If DOJ has evidence of criminal conduct by Kilmar Abrego Garcia, why are they deporting him without a trial? www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

aug 25, 2025, 2:30 pm • 1,022 323

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Just call me Ann, but my name is Raeann. @annmilernowski.bsky.social

I really wish that you and Joyce Vance would guest on Fox News and show their viewers what honest, accurate, legal information looks and sounds like.

aug 25, 2025, 3:48 pm • 3 1 • view
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teresalfenton.bsky.social @teresalfenton.bsky.social

Exactly.

aug 25, 2025, 4:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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Polly Curley @pollycurley.bsky.social

Errr, because they don't?

aug 25, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sunset Cove @grammy1947.bsky.social

It's the cruelty they are banking on.

aug 25, 2025, 4:06 pm • 2 0 • view
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PaSandy @pasandy.bsky.social

It’s not about truth, it’s about never admitting a mistake, but the guy refuses to die.

aug 25, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lucylu @lucylu8.bsky.social

Unlawful arrest & deportation is their thing They are also deporting folks for years old DUIs or marijuana history I know quite a few American citizens if held to that standard would be on a boat to hell too

aug 25, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 1 • view
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patti13.bsky.social @patti13.bsky.social

I thought they were going after criminals and rapists?

aug 25, 2025, 2:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lucylu @lucylu8.bsky.social

That would entail an inside investigation EPSTEIN

aug 25, 2025, 2:44 pm • 1 0 • view
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Juju Bigdog. @jujubigdog.bsky.social

Cute how you posted a picture of the nation's biggest criminal and child rapist to go with your comment.

aug 25, 2025, 2:51 pm • 1 0 • view
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patti13.bsky.social @patti13.bsky.social

Don't think it was an accident!

aug 25, 2025, 3:00 pm • 1 0 • view
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Juju Bigdog. @jujubigdog.bsky.social

Heh ...

aug 25, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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Pepper @bmoreshenanigans.bsky.social

How can anyone work for ICE, following the directive of a draft dodger with + 30 felony convictions, to kidnap and deport a man that was just returned to the country after being illegally detained and deported earlier this year!?!? The Trump administration is shitting on the constitution!

aug 25, 2025, 3:10 pm • 4 0 • view
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calsantafe @calsantafe.bsky.social

proud boys and J6ers are perfectly happy taking the money-it’s the best job they ever had or could get

aug 25, 2025, 4:09 pm • 3 0 • view
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Catherine292862 @catherine292862.bsky.social

We all know why! Btw, just finished your book. Lived it!

aug 25, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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Not *that* old but definitely in the way @oldandintheway.bsky.social

He is vulnerable and from vulnerable people, this administration *will not abide* any resistance or contradictions to their edicts. If he wanted old fashioned justice - the kind we had way back a year ago - he should have had the sense to be rich, powerful, or -preferably- both.

aug 25, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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calsantafe @calsantafe.bsky.social

being Caucasian would have solved a lot of his problems

aug 25, 2025, 4:13 pm • 1 0 • view
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Not *that* old but definitely in the way @oldandintheway.bsky.social

Yep.

aug 25, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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Clumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social

something something bills of attainment something something

aug 25, 2025, 2:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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scrivs.bsky.social @scrivs.bsky.social

Because they can....

aug 25, 2025, 3:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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Hope T. @xtrahope1515.bsky.social

DOJ is accelerating Abrego Garcia's exodus to get rid of their mistake! It was their admission of "administrative error" & Abrego Garcia is being used as a primary martyr, bcuz he's an embarrassment to their Fuk-ups. 🤬 Sending him to Uganda is an unsafe travel advisory instead of his birthplace. 🤷

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aug 25, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mr. Bill (not that one) @mrliam.bsky.social

Because they can.

aug 25, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Juju Bigdog. @jujubigdog.bsky.social

Bingo. Domestic terrorism at its height.

aug 25, 2025, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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Beaufighter Mk VI @beaufighter.bsky.social

Why'd they raid Bolton's home and office? Because no one will stop them.

aug 25, 2025, 3:06 pm • 1 0 • view
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Mark VDH @markvdhmusic.bsky.social

Because he made them look bad by being innocent and getting the country to fight back. They don’t care about the law. They never have, and we need to start accepting that the law is what they say it is. The Supremes apparently agree. We are F/ed. It’s a dire time.

aug 25, 2025, 3:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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veggieman* @veggieman801.bsky.social

So here’s my question. Once we deport somebody to say Uganda, are they automatically sent prison or do they get to live a citizen life? Will they be citizens or will they be criminals?

aug 25, 2025, 2:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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Susan From Boston @susanboston.bsky.social

Depends on what country. Right now a big part of the fight over this is WHEN does the DOJ have to disclose that info. DOJ says it doesn't know until after taking someone into ICE custody. 1/4

aug 25, 2025, 2:58 pm • 1 1 • view
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Susan From Boston @susanboston.bsky.social

Ideally, the post-deportation status should be disclosed to the court no later than the earlier of: (1) the first hearing under oath with evidence of a signed agreement between the US & the other country; and 2/3

aug 25, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Susan From Boston @susanboston.bsky.social

(2) in the first court filing signed under penalty of perjury with a signed agreement between the US and the other country as an exhibit. 3/3

aug 25, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Susan From Boston @susanboston.bsky.social

there is no 1/4, sorry I am new at this it's 1/3, 2/3, 3/3

aug 25, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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veggieman* @veggieman801.bsky.social

So of all these thousands of people who have been deported, we only see the ones being sent to CECOT. Are we sending Farmers and day workers to CECOT like facilities and making them criminals for the rest of their lives?

aug 25, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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uOMi @suenosdeuomi.bsky.social

I assume criminals, we likely pay to house for less outside the US with of course less human rights protections.

aug 25, 2025, 2:51 pm • 1 0 • view
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Trump’sChildSexTraffickingScandalCat @unhipcat.bsky.social

because they have no evidence of him being a criminal that is admissible in a court of law, maybe?

aug 25, 2025, 5:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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Rocky Mountain Progressives @rockiesprogs.bsky.social

He should sue. This is human trafficking which is against the law. Someone in Uganda is making money out of this and the American taxpayer is paying for this. Someone needs a conversation With the DHS.

aug 25, 2025, 2:39 pm • 12 1 • view
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Chris @chrisk59.bsky.social

Because a trial is an inconvenient waste of time to them?

aug 25, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Patricia Brown @pbpencraft.bsky.social

Exactly!!

aug 25, 2025, 3:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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TheEagles @theeagles.bsky.social

Great question!

aug 26, 2025, 2:37 am • 0 0 • view
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jimmarkb.bsky.social @jimmarkb.bsky.social

Can't wait until we deport Trump.

aug 25, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mark Siegel @mdsiegel.bsky.social

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Since 11/05/24 blissfully ignorant to the media/politics. @dontlookupthemovie.bsky.social

Because he has the Epstein files.

aug 25, 2025, 9:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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Tia Goode 🇺🇸🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇦 @moonlitwomyn.bsky.social

Seems like they know the "Trumped Up" evidence they would present during a trial would never hold up. It's their MO to simply do what they want and wait for the impending lawsuits against their actions. Unfortunately, Mr. Garcia continues to suffer at their hands whilst their shitshow plays out.

aug 25, 2025, 2:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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524lsdmt.bsky.social @524lsdmt.bsky.social

Trials mean witness testimony, and ICE can't have that.

aug 25, 2025, 3:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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🦋Rrhae 🇺🇸 I Dissent!🫘 @goldrrhae.bsky.social

Denying Garcia due process tells me that DOJ doesn’t have a case against this man.

aug 25, 2025, 4:44 pm • 2 0 • view
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circlelady.bsky.social @circlelady.bsky.social

Because DOJ is corrupt sadly.

aug 25, 2025, 3:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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CapeCodder2025 @capecodder2025.bsky.social

i hope some court judge can "save" him for due process. (not that the unanimous SCOTUS ruling lasted more than a month with their own rulings this summer)

aug 25, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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proudlycanadian.bsky.social @proudlycanadian.bsky.social

Because they will never admit they were wrong. Breaking up a family, maybe putting children into poverty - who cares.

aug 25, 2025, 3:46 pm • 3 0 • view
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kikime2.bsky.social @kikime2.bsky.social

Excellent question to an obvious answer.

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aug 25, 2025, 2:44 pm • 11 0 • view
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Norm @nberlin32.bsky.social

Because they can. Everything thing they’re doing, is because they can. No breaks, no real push back. We know it’s despicable, Demos in Congress are clueless.

aug 25, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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David @davidicw.bsky.social

You can’t be a convicted criminal without due process. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

aug 25, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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Maybres Bearcon probably shouldn't teach typing @bresnanteddy.bsky.social

Likely because they've bungled his treatment and investigation so badly that the chance of the evidence not being admissible and/or the Jury finding evidence of circumvention to posit reasonable doubt is very high and if he wins his case they HAVE to keep him optically and look (more) like fools.

aug 25, 2025, 2:58 pm • 3 0 • view
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mbalaw.bsky.social @mbalaw.bsky.social

Epstein

aug 25, 2025, 3:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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rtweddle.bsky.social @rtweddle.bsky.social

Because that’s what they do when they have nothing to back up there bogus charge

aug 25, 2025, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social

The SCOTUS has blessed this.

aug 25, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 2 • view
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11lexie.bsky.social @11lexie.bsky.social

SCOTUS has a lot of rulings on the side of injustice made in the Roberts era. The conservatives will eventually get theirs too along with the Trump complicit gang of GOP and wealthy creeps

aug 26, 2025, 5:25 am • 0 0 • view
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Unknown___Participant @metalparts.bsky.social

We all know the answer Barb, and i know you do too and your headline question is rhetorical - this is how dictatorship operate, they don't want the courts involved in their actions against the people of their country, they illegally act as enforcement, judge, and jury.

aug 25, 2025, 2:44 pm • 3 0 • view
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Stella Blue🦋 @karlamf.bsky.social

Because they don’t 🤔

aug 25, 2025, 5:12 pm • 1 0 • view
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TCG @tcurryg.bsky.social

To a place that will not accept anyone with a criminal record?

aug 25, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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Craig Winston @craigwinston.bsky.social

The admin is in a predicament of their own making. Turn against their base who just want to hurt people or keep turning the majority of the people off by putting Mr. Garcia through a process that would make Kafka ashamed.

aug 25, 2025, 2:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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loriinphilly.bsky.social @loriinphilly.bsky.social

The government has spent millions of dollars harassing this man. It is unbelievable.

aug 26, 2025, 1:28 am • 0 0 • view
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coconutlizard.bsky.social @coconutlizard.bsky.social

Due process!

aug 25, 2025, 2:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jeff Holcomb @jeffholcomb.bsky.social

Wait, we can send him to Uganda?

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aug 25, 2025, 3:02 pm • 1 0 • view
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circlelady.bsky.social @circlelady.bsky.social

I'd volunteer to be the flight attendant on that deportation flight.

aug 25, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
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Persistent Nasty Women @blueresisterinca.bsky.social

Arresting Noem would benefit Americans more.

aug 25, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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Robert Gill @rpgill.bsky.social

They know that they will lose if they go to trial, so deporting him to Uganda in a show of weakness is the best they can do.

aug 25, 2025, 2:43 pm • 1 0 • view
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kahunt.bsky.social @kahunt.bsky.social

Just bullying

aug 25, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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CtObserve @ctobserve.bsky.social

A good question that surely Palm Beach Aronberg, #MorningJoe legal analyst, who supported AG Bondi during confirmation hearings could answer.

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CtObserve @ctobserve.bsky.social

Of course those that ask such questions usually don't last long on come platforms.

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nised24.bsky.social @nised24.bsky.social

We all know DOJ under Pam Bondi is just a loyal lap dog who will lie & falsify any document to fit their narrative. We have passed the tipping point of reigning in corrupt people. Corruption is the point as long as done by MAGA & cowards in congress

aug 25, 2025, 2:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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calbear3 🌻 @calbear3.bsky.social

Why is everyone acting like what they are doing is legal? I don't understand how the government could just snatch someone and deport them to a deadly prison without any trial with no consequences.

aug 25, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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calsantafe @calsantafe.bsky.social

This is the ONE case they cannot afford to lose-otherwise the whole fascist exercise falls apart

aug 25, 2025, 4:17 pm • 1 0 • view
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calbear3 🌻 @calbear3.bsky.social

I understand they're doing it to enable their evil to continue. I just hope there is a hell where they will all burn for what they've done to him and others.

aug 25, 2025, 6:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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Nick M. Velli @archroadkill.bsky.social

No offense but I think we're past the "why" stage at this point

aug 25, 2025, 6:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Listen To The Music @listentothemusic.bsky.social

Because they are sadistic and depraved.

aug 25, 2025, 4:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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Hypergraphic @hypergraphic.bsky.social

Remember how Trump claimed Kilmar had a tattoo of the MS-13 gang? And he was basing his deportation on racial profiling? This video is spot on when it comes to Trump being a racist. www.youtube.com/shorts/beHY5...

aug 26, 2025, 1:38 pm • 2 1 • view
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glowgirl7291.bsky.social @glowgirl7291.bsky.social

I have the same question.

aug 25, 2025, 3:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jane French @janefrench.bsky.social

"The DOJ does not have evidence of criminal conduct so they are forcibly removing him to an unrelated third country without a trial." There I fixed it for you.

aug 25, 2025, 2:35 pm • 12 0 • view
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Teri Green @terigreenlmt.bsky.social

All the judges and courts are busy with government suing government trials, there is no money or time available for immigration or asylum hearings. Just ask Marco.

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dktr.bsky.social @dktr.bsky.social

That would be the mother of all rhetorical questions.

aug 25, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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erikhendrickson.bsky.social @erikhendrickson.bsky.social

Garcia reported to the Immigration Office knowing he would be detained by ICE. I'm starting this guy is more American than I am. Courage!

aug 25, 2025, 2:35 pm • 0 1 • view
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El @retiredinnkeeper.bsky.social

Exactly what I would like to know. Has he committed a crime? Why can’t he just take his family and seek asylum somewhere??

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bkhudso1943.bsky.social @bkhudso1943.bsky.social

Ecause the whole thing is a sham.

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uOMi @suenosdeuomi.bsky.social

The trial date for Kilmar Abrego Garcia on supposed human smuggling charges, is set for January 27, 2026 in Tennessee.

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uOMi @suenosdeuomi.bsky.social

I thought deportation is threatened depending on trial outcome on supposed human trafficking?

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Midwest Human @riz4robot.bsky.social

calling this the department of justice is a joke the fact is this isn't about justice at all and it's that in NAME ONLY nothing to do with justice it's corruption and thuggery

aug 27, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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America-The Republic of Suffering @iampilgrim.bsky.social

The DOJ is not a legal organization anymore

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Monica Bell @mgbell54.bsky.social

Because that’s the way Bondi operates. She’s only one has no regard for the constitution.

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tattttms.bsky.social @tattttms.bsky.social

Courts might not agree a tattoo and proximity to a felon for a conviction .... lots of people around Trump would be deported for proximity to a felon ...

aug 25, 2025, 2:49 pm • 1 0 • view
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ElisaStewartEsq @elisajstewart.bsky.social

The creation of crimes after the commission of the fact, …, the subjecting of men to punishment for things which, when they were done, were breaches of no law, and the practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been in all ages the favourite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. Alex Hamilton

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dave0953.bsky.social @dave0953.bsky.social

...because we no longer have a court of law - we have a "court" of trump.

aug 25, 2025, 2:48 pm • 6 0 • view
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Holly Taylor @hollytaylorhltheco.bsky.social

This is outrageous. How is this not cruel and unusual punishment??

aug 25, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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Concerned (Half-)Human Being @humanexistence.bsky.social

aug 25, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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Carrie Sutton @cjsutton1.bsky.social

They certainly are predictable, I f nothing else…

aug 25, 2025, 2:58 pm • 3 0 • view
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jao1942.bsky.social @jao1942.bsky.social

Because they don’t care. They fucked up they know and will now to go any lengths to not look like the assholes they are. Full on fascist authoritarianism

aug 25, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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Gwen Veltema Klemm she/her ✌️❤️🤍💙 @veltklemmema.bsky.social

Thank you! I keep screaming that into the void.

aug 25, 2025, 4:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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Paul Conquest @paulconquest.bsky.social

They want him silenced, and quickest way is to get him away from US media.

aug 25, 2025, 4:08 pm • 1 1 • view
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fourthoffour.bsky.social @fourthoffour.bsky.social

Garcia made an illegal entry into the U.S. in 2013. Since then, Grand Jury found evidence of him transporting thousands of migrants, including women, children, firearms, narcotics and MS-13 members, using vehicles modified for smuggling. He was also convicted of human smuggling & trafficking.

aug 26, 2025, 1:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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Political Design Therapy @mypdt.bsky.social

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aug 26, 2025, 4:18 am • 0 0 • view
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Peter @peter-speeder1.bsky.social

In answer to this rhetorical question: Because justice is not their objective. MAGA’s mission is to rid us of all brown people, no matter the cost or optics.

aug 25, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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Frank @knarfb.bsky.social

So much evidence but no trial for all trump lackeys but trials without evidence for others or pardons for people who do not deserve it.

aug 25, 2025, 2:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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WhatsLeftOfMarlon @whatsleftofmarlon.bsky.social

GREAT question Barb!!!! GREAT question!!!!!

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Davis Bickford @davis.social

I’m so confused there are people who aren’t concerned about the total disregard for due process.

aug 25, 2025, 2:33 pm • 1 0 • view