why am i not surprised he doesn’t understand that no means no
26.06.2025 23:20 — 👍 6909 🔁 1208 💬 261 📌 43@andy-silver.bsky.social
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why am i not surprised he doesn’t understand that no means no
26.06.2025 23:20 — 👍 6909 🔁 1208 💬 261 📌 43The day before the end of the world, they’ll be on tv talking about football.
24.06.2025 22:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.
14.06.2025 16:18 — 👍 17823 🔁 5015 💬 233 📌 139Macon, Georgia. No kings.
14.06.2025 17:18 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Pure intimidation. And it’s not working, thank goodness.
19.05.2025 22:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pedro Pascal reshares video which says the U.S. has become a police state
A state where there is no higher authority
This part
10.05.2025 18:29 — 👍 38814 🔁 12186 💬 829 📌 362They're bragging about the work of a cartoonist who resigned from the paper because they wouldn't allow her to criticize Jeff Bezos in print.
05.05.2025 20:09 — 👍 69 🔁 18 💬 4 📌 0Horrifying. Unacceptable.
06.05.2025 14:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I need clarification. Five pencils a day? A week? A month? A semester? A school year? Also, have I been supplying pencils out of my own pocket and these kids have been sitting on 250 pencils each? Or is that how many are in their backpack after they “lose” mine daily? What is even happening?
05.05.2025 01:12 — 👍 197 🔁 20 💬 9 📌 0To save runaways from slavery who were trying to make lives in the North “illegally,” local Vigilance Committees formed. They kept watch for slave catchers, secreted away those in danger, and posted placards that outed slave catchers, sometimes hounding them till they left town.
05.05.2025 11:31 — 👍 4939 🔁 1725 💬 29 📌 29The Truth Of The Matter And They Are Not Bringing Jobs Back….
04.05.2025 21:47 — 👍 14975 🔁 4101 💬 442 📌 242How Deportation Works Authorities confirm suspects’ illegal status by arresting them.
How Deportation Works
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Trump is trying to fix the rules so he gets to rule forever; following the authoritarian playbook to the letter:
- harass or co-opt the press 
- weaken the lawyers 
- silence universities and student protest 
- cut off funding for the opposition 
But we won’t let him win.
When they start arresting judges we’re all in a lot of trouble
25.04.2025 15:26 — 👍 25045 🔁 5441 💬 821 📌 237Every state needs to do this ASAP
23.04.2025 22:06 — 👍 27750 🔁 7100 💬 672 📌 50499% of Levi Strauss shareholders vote to stand resolute on the company's DEI efforts. Thank you.
24.04.2025 13:28 — 👍 1652 🔁 279 💬 20 📌 16More of this, Democrats, and less Gavin Newsom.
24.04.2025 16:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.
24.04.2025 14:26 — 👍 66995 🔁 16202 💬 1552 📌 650Pete Hegseth: ‘There Are No State Secrets In A Healthy Relationship’
21.04.2025 18:57 — 👍 10397 🔁 1241 💬 195 📌 86They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.
21.04.2025 16:00 — 👍 37578 🔁 9676 💬 3397 📌 1069Hell yes to this.
20.04.2025 15:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.
19.04.2025 00:00 — 👍 23416 🔁 7547 💬 329 📌 286Pretty clear that the two parties aren’t the same…. At all
18.04.2025 20:54 — 👍 9462 🔁 1187 💬 310 📌 68Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism.
If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone.
Americans of conscience must stand against this now.
I’m just an old-fashioned conservative who thinks that criminals should go to prison after receiving due process, and not to El Salvador or to the White House without it.
15.04.2025 12:17 — 👍 7093 🔁 1080 💬 183 📌 21Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
15.04.2025 19:47 — 👍 54738 🔁 13228 💬 1075 📌 851I 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.