All of these messages put me to sleep. I'm snoring over here. 🤦♀️
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All of these messages put me to sleep. I'm snoring over here. 🤦♀️
The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
LOL. Talarico is amazing.
Candidates in other states need to replicate this.
Insightful strategy and amazing results! Thanks for sharing.
I have only curse words
Thank you for continuing to speak up.
What recent thing made you feel old? I'm on vacation with my kids and had to explain both the dial tone on a land line and the existence of phone books. ☎️😂
No he can not
This
The idiocy is astounding
I doubt New Yorkers will mis him. 🤷♀️
This is so, so shady and it happens anytime there are election results that career politicians don't like.
Awful
Or don't, and I'll keep yapping here about personal stuff.
I still use my current profile here for news, politics, civil rights & public schools info, but I've separated my profile & feed for work topics, tech & business news to reduce the noise of Texas & national politics while working. Connect with me there if you feel like it. @saramariani.bsky.social
Do we all not remember the hurricane map he re-drew?
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If it's produced, streamed, or owned by Paramount, I'm not watching it. They don't get a view from me. They don't get a dime from me. Call it a boycott. Call it whatever you want. Colbert is the only Paramount property I'll watch until May, and after that, I'm done with them.
CBS: We're cancelling the #1 latenight show "purely for financial reasons." Everyone: Right, it's called a bribe.
Watching him try to feed sound bites to the media to write the history in the administration's words is really gross. And not at all convincing.
Blatant racism from every direction about the NY primary is a thing to behold.
The lack of understanding and willful ignorance is so obnoxious
Yes, this has always been an employer issue, not about the employees.
On brand.
Of course that was her take 🙄
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Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
NYC Comptroller and mayoral candidate?! ⬇️
Thank you for speaking up @bucyfortexas.bsky.social 👏
Well done, y'all! 🙌
They so want to use the military against Americans.
My god. "Service Employees International Union California President David Huerta was injured and detained while documenting an immigration enforcement raid in downtown Los Angeles Friday, labor union officials said — prompting protests and calls for his release." www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump is deploying 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles without the governor’s request or consent. Governor Newsom has publicly condemned the move, calling it “purposefully inflammatory.”
They're idiots out of touch with the reality this country is currently facing.
Kidnapping and terrorism
Exactly! Totally believable 🤣
I cannot believe how easily that worked
Not me having to sing the whole song in my head right now 🤣
The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans. You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
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This part
staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org
Sesame Street had him pegged back in 1988.
Ugh, he's so cringe.
In his first 100 days, Donald Trump has taken the Project 2025 playbook and ran with it. There are no bounds to what he and his authoritarian administration are willing to do, and we need to keep using every avenue we can to put a stop to this madness.
Somehow, I completely missed Stephen Miller’s uncle taking him to the woodshed back in 2018. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
Positive news!
As a gen X kid this is rhe only answer 😂
Yep! They can continue to enjoy the results.
Good thing I stopped shopping there anyway.
If you're buying a home, consider this and whether you want to use one of the title or mortgage companies owned by Fidelity National Financial. 👇
Lol
I laughed out loud at that quote when I read it today.
This. So gross. 🤮
This is desperate and creepy.
Yep. Would have waited another year but replaced my phone last week.
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We have now arrived at the "arresting judges" level of fascism.
Yep. 👏
🫣 How are we here
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF
So creepy.
Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
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Read this whole thread.
Why tf is this so hard for people to understand
Reasons yes
Put up or shut up time for the Supreme Court
This is not about one man. MOST of the people Trump disappeared have NO criminal record. Yet they had no due process, and have no outside contact. Merwil—reportedly grabbed by mistake. Arturo—a musician. Andry—a makeup artist. No record, no explanation.
The Texas House rejected putting school vouchers up for a vote. Of course. They know no one wants them except Christian Nationalist political donors and the politicians they've bought. So Texas lege has to sneak bills through in the middle of the night to steal money from our public schools. 😡
A lot of people seem to think following the U.S. Constitution is optional—like picking which shoes to wear in the morning. It’s not. If you’re within the boundaries of the United States, the Constitution applies to you.
Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
In case anyone forgot or never learned about this in school, there are still Americans *here on this app* - including Star Trek actor George Takei - who were imprisoned in camps here in the US during WWII. It's happening again.
I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
AOC in Bakersfield, California: "By first going after activists such as these so that they can jail them for their speech, and then they will jail the rest of us for speaking up for immigrants, for speaking up for women's rights, for speaking up against this administration in any way shape or form"
Wow! HHS is hitting new levels of recklessness and incompetence… U.S. citizens are being threatened with deportation by Homeland Security. Nicole Micheroni isn’t just a citizen—she’s an immigration attorney. And she got a notice to leave the country within 7 days.
This is how it's done. ✅
This is not adequately angry about what is happening right now.
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A MORAL CRISIS “The rule of law is being trampled. Innocent people are being disappeared. Court orders are being ignored. If you claim to love this country—if you believe in the Constitution, due process, order, and justice—this must be your line in the sand.” Take 3 minutes. This is important.
Finally Harvard lives up to its motto: Veritas view.hu.harvard.edu?qs=351b45ebf...
This is so stupid and sexist. Call your reps.
Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
WOW -- 4th Circuit: "The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process."
Are you in Texas? This is the 7th election cycle that Frank Strong has published a Book Loving Texan's Guide to School Board Elections. 📚 ✅ Check for your local school district. 🗳️ Then show up and VOTE for candidates who support Texas public schools and against the book banners.
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
Never had to knock on wood, but I know someone who has.
It's so bizarre to me that we're just letting people set up the equipment for cyberattacks now.
This is a great example to set. Love that you keep stepping up.
Not enough Americans know that the US locked up more than 120,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps in the 1940's by an order of the president. It's 2025 and we're watching it happen again with other groups this administration deems a threat simply for disagreeing with them. Unacceptable.
This is so dangerous. 🤦♀️
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Want to support AOC in standing up for all of us? Pitch in here: secure.actblue.com/donate/ocasi... I get tons of campaign emails and texts, and I'm deleting them all and donating directly to her + the select few who actually understand this moment and are willing to do their jobs.
Man, Musk’s minions really *are* the Bobs from OFFICE SPACE
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Good. 👏