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Support for core American principles such as “innocent until proven guilty” and due process is deeper and more widespread than the 2024 election suggests. Only a subset of Trump voters really wanted to overthrow Constitutional democracy. Some were naive, fantasizing, or duped.
Keep pushing on this.
The real Donald Trump betrays the imaginary Donald Trump again www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/04/the-...
03.04.2025 01:00 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
holy shit, you weren't even slightly exaggerating. The quivering lip, the stumbling over words. He's really about to have a breakdown. www.youtube.com/shorts/n4BoB...
02.04.2025 22:38 — 👍 265 🔁 52 💬 32 📌 49They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
27.03.2025 05:15 — 👍 27369 🔁 9061 💬 1883 📌 800bsky.app/profile/dear...
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There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Dear Democrats:
📌83-year-old Bernie Sanders has been barnstorming through the Midwest drawing huge crowds taking on the Nazi shit coming out of the Republican Party, and fighting for the rights and benefits WE EARNED.
📌Get a fucking clue, get in the fight, out of D.C., or not another dime.
Elon is poisioning your food
09.03.2025 12:23 — 👍 1311 🔁 497 💬 28 📌 9
The US was the sole UN member state to vote NO on a resolution declaring an International Day of Hope
09.03.2025 00:53 — 👍 2908 🔁 974 💬 204 📌 678AOC: It's really because Republicans— they’re very thin skinned and they're very sensitive, and their feelings are very easily hurt. And so they have to vote on censure resolutions.
06.03.2025 23:22 — 👍 25842 🔁 4197 💬 667 📌 381I think about this headline all of the time.
27.02.2025 21:35 — 👍 17863 🔁 4001 💬 202 📌 105
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting
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19.02.2025 15:47 — 👍 144842 🔁 30176 💬 2312 📌 1524
(📢) This is an ASK ME ANYTHING (AMA) post—my first one in over a year, I think.
Ask me any question, on any topic, and I will answer it honestly.
(The only rule here is that you have to retweet this post before you ask your question, so that there will be at least _some_ audience for the answers.)
Trump on the EU possibly banning food imports from the US: "I don't mind. Let them do it. Let them do it."
16.02.2025 21:09 — 👍 2568 🔁 628 💬 704 📌 415Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
Many Democrats are saying that if Kathy Hochul fires Eric Adams, they may be forced to do the unthinkable: vote for her in the next Democratic primary.
14.02.2025 22:13 — 👍 959 🔁 72 💬 18 📌 3Holy shit, that is an incredible resignation letter.
14.02.2025 17:03 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I have not and will never forgive all those nice sensible people back in 2016 imploring us to calm down because “even if Trump gets elected, it’s not like it’ll really impact OUR lives.”
Pure American dodo-bird thought. And now, here we are.
I live in a forest my parents planted when I was a child. It’s not too late for you to grow one too | Jessie Cole
08.02.2025 23:23 — 👍 396 🔁 62 💬 17 📌 8![Office of the Attorney General
Washington, D. C. 20530
February 5, 2025
MEMORANDUM FOR ALL DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES
FROM:
SUBJECT:
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
GENERAL POLICY REGARDING ZEALOUS ADVOCACY ON BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES'
"[E]xecutive Power." More broadly, attorneys are expected to zealously advance, protect, and defend their client's interests. Department of Justice attorneys have signed up for a job that requires zealously advocating for the United States.
The responsibilities of Department of Justice attorneys include not only aggressively enforcing criminal and civil laws enacted by Congress, but also vigorously defending presidential policies and actions against legal challenges on behalf of the United States. The discretion afforded Department attorneys entrusted with those responsibilities does not include latitude to substitute personal political views or judgments for those that prevailed in the election.
When Department of Justice attorneys, for example, refuse to advance good-faith arguments by declining to appear in court or sign briefs, it undermines the constitutional order and deprives the President of the benefit of his lawyers. It is therefore the policy of the Department of Justice that any attorney who because of their personal political views or judgments declines to sign a brief or appear in court, refuses to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the Administration, or otherwise delays or impedes the Department's mission will be subject to discipline and potentially termination, consistent with applicable law.
' This guidance is not intended to, does not, and may not be relied upon to create, any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y2tqoxl4zx7iuyh3rhbhdwv3/bafkreic4hwhm45xtfe5w2yb3y27ye4zw72ch2l2jydx3avbn6yxwllwbqi@jpeg)
Office of the Attorney General Washington, D. C. 20530 February 5, 2025 MEMORANDUM FOR ALL DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES FROM: SUBJECT: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL GENERAL POLICY REGARDING ZEALOUS ADVOCACY ON BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES' "[E]xecutive Power." More broadly, attorneys are expected to zealously advance, protect, and defend their client's interests. Department of Justice attorneys have signed up for a job that requires zealously advocating for the United States. The responsibilities of Department of Justice attorneys include not only aggressively enforcing criminal and civil laws enacted by Congress, but also vigorously defending presidential policies and actions against legal challenges on behalf of the United States. The discretion afforded Department attorneys entrusted with those responsibilities does not include latitude to substitute personal political views or judgments for those that prevailed in the election. When Department of Justice attorneys, for example, refuse to advance good-faith arguments by declining to appear in court or sign briefs, it undermines the constitutional order and deprives the President of the benefit of his lawyers. It is therefore the policy of the Department of Justice that any attorney who because of their personal political views or judgments declines to sign a brief or appear in court, refuses to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the Administration, or otherwise delays or impedes the Department's mission will be subject to discipline and potentially termination, consistent with applicable law. ' This guidance is not intended to, does not, and may not be relied upon to create, any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
This is an absolutely remarkable memo — and a betrayal of both the Constitution and the American political tradition. In the US, by *explicit contrast* with interwar fascist governments, the state is not supposed to be an extension of the personality of the chief executive.
06.02.2025 13:50 — 👍 3545 🔁 1253 💬 201 📌 251This is also a valuable resource for sky users
theblue.report
Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip in shock announcement during Netanyahu visit
05.02.2025 02:16 — 👍 517 🔁 173 💬 206 📌 153
Perfectly captured.
03.02.2025 02:48 — 👍 82247 🔁 17325 💬 1458 📌 723Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare.
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
I personally don’t think we should put this obscenely self-centered anti-vaxx conspiracy theorist in charge of the country’s public health because his father was an anti-war liberal for like 18 months 55 years ago
28.01.2025 20:19 — 👍 151 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0
