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πŸ“– 10/100 πŸ’– romantasy reader πŸͺ© swiftie | eras pitt n2 and edi n3 🩰 i talk about politics a lot

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i feel the same way

19.04.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It turns out a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and financial fraudster does not make for a good President.

18.04.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 23089    πŸ” 4206    πŸ’¬ 884    πŸ“Œ 249
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the most cruel administration of all time. them being this outwardly evil genuinely might be their downfall in the end

19.04.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 12088    πŸ” 1655    πŸ’¬ 934    πŸ“Œ 309
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

19.04.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 20533    πŸ” 5337    πŸ’¬ 492    πŸ“Œ 273
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NOTE: There are more people *in this frame of television* than there are transgender athletes in the State of Maine

*All* of this is theater for stupid people

16.04.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 19728    πŸ” 4717    πŸ’¬ 603    πŸ“Œ 172
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This is the kind of thing that, if true, leads to life sentences for treason

16.04.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 43781    πŸ” 15091    πŸ’¬ 3347    πŸ“Œ 1163
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We the people are taking action to stop a hostile government takeover. On April 5, 5.2 million people across the country stood up to say HANDS OFF our democracy!

Save the date for our next national day of action on April 19th.

#50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #April5 #HandsOff

06.04.2025 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 14715    πŸ” 4414    πŸ’¬ 385    πŸ“Œ 364

roberts et al have divined the Actual Intent of the constitution, which is to allow the government to exercise nearly unaccountable power to strip people of their rights. it is why we fought the revolution!

08.04.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 16376    πŸ” 3574    πŸ’¬ 378    πŸ“Œ 162

In most societies, the rich and powerful acceded to the rule of law solely because they realized that, as soon as ordinary people feel they’re getting screwed without any chance of peaceful redress, that’s when you get the pitchfork-wielding mobs.

07.04.2025 23:37 β€” πŸ‘ 13654    πŸ” 2624    πŸ’¬ 604    πŸ“Œ 213

When we are talking about places like Zanesville, this is getting real. Thanks to Gov Walz and all those willing to talk.

07.04.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2595    πŸ” 502    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 12

if we want to rebuild american institutions and earn back the world’s trust after this we cannot settle for half-measures. lots of people need to go prison. lots more need to be permanently stripped of wealth and power.

07.04.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 16354    πŸ” 3292    πŸ’¬ 475    πŸ“Œ 246

well that’s it folks

08.04.2025 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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Estimate of total protesting on 4/5 is now 5.2M, based on reports from over 1.6K events nationwide.

More than 21K volunteers traveled the country to monitor each location & work with authorities to assess & estimate crowd size from compilation of reports.

My guess is, it's still a low estimate.

07.04.2025 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1612    πŸ” 303    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 23

Sending anyone from this country to a foreign gulag, particularly without a court hearing, should rightfully end a presidency. Full stop.

08.04.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 28145    πŸ” 7008    πŸ’¬ 532    πŸ“Œ 311
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Rural Americans Stand Up to Tom Homan, Stand With Immigrant Mom and Kids β€œI’ve driven them to their house after tutoring sessions,” said the Sackets Harbor Central School principal. "In this kind of town, this is a car pool town. I know them.”

β€œTOM HOMAN TOOK OUR KIDS.”

That’s what the signs read in Sackets Harbor, NY, where 1,000+ people rallied behind a local dairy worker and her three children after ICE detained them in a cruel enforcement action.

Now, thanks to the community, the family is finally coming home.

✍️ @tusk81.bsky.social

07.04.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4482    πŸ” 1352    πŸ’¬ 97    πŸ“Œ 73

SCOTUS seems to think it's ok for the admin, without due process, to use a wartime law during a time when we are not at war, intended to target enemy aliens when in fact those targeted are not enemies. And the remedy for abuse of the law enables the govt to venue shop where challenges will be heard.

08.04.2025 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2214    πŸ” 732    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 35

Sotomayor is right. According to this Supreme Court, the US can now kidnap, detain, and fly legal immigrants and citizens to a foreign country's prison, even if it's a whoopsie.

America, people. Freedom and stuff.

08.04.2025 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 28645    πŸ” 8403    πŸ’¬ 770    πŸ“Œ 335

make america great again means turning the clock on america’s political economy back to 1890, make america healthy again means doing the same for public health

07.04.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 6961    πŸ” 1148    πŸ’¬ 176    πŸ“Œ 45

The dumbest people are destroying us.

That makes it even more painful.

07.04.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 14493    πŸ” 2042    πŸ’¬ 401    πŸ“Œ 113

I have no respect for ANY athlete that visits this White House.

You are unAmerican if you do so, as is anyone who supports or enables this administration.

Let me repeat that.

You actions are in *direct* opposition to the Declaration of Independence.

07.04.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 19351    πŸ” 3806    πŸ’¬ 580    πŸ“Œ 204

β€œThis is not what we voted for.” Yes, yes, it is. You just didn’t think it could destroy you, too.

07.04.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 14206    πŸ” 2669    πŸ’¬ 305    πŸ“Œ 139
I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a
new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in
such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate
manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604
U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at
1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it
left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See,
e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With
more and more of our most significant rulings taking place
in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court
leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We
are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with
similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are
now less willing to face it.

I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604 U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See, e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With more and more of our most significant rulings taking place in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are now less willing to face it.

An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

07.04.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 7364    πŸ” 2511    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 122

i miss them so bad

08.04.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So, according to SCOTUS, the Trump admin can ship a person to a foreign gulag w/o due process of any kind, just so long as they have β€œaccess to due process” while detained in said foreign gulag, which of course they won’t.

And MAGA actually thinks this shit will stop with people they don’t like?

08.04.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4447    πŸ” 940    πŸ’¬ 192    πŸ“Œ 32

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.

When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

07.04.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 24364    πŸ” 7735    πŸ’¬ 367    πŸ“Œ 215

This is absolutely horrifying. People can't afford to file Habeas petitions. And how is anyone going to enforce that this actually happens? And what about the people there that did NOT get due process?

07.04.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 7875    πŸ” 2441    πŸ’¬ 462    πŸ“Œ 97
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House Speaker Johnson is eyeing big cuts to Medicaid. In his Louisiana district, it's a lifeline. Nearly 40% of the people in House Speaker Mike Johnson's district in Louisiana rely on Medicaid.

House Speaker Johnson is eyeing big cuts to Medicaid.

Nearly 40% of the people in his district in Louisiana rely on it

08.04.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3412    πŸ” 1418    πŸ’¬ 387    πŸ“Œ 176

In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.

07.04.2025 05:23 β€” πŸ‘ 38459    πŸ” 9296    πŸ’¬ 2271    πŸ“Œ 593
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From Nov 7:

07.04.2025 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 13910    πŸ” 4022    πŸ’¬ 180    πŸ“Œ 104