@lurits70.bsky.social
Not everyone's cup of tea. Good with that.
“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
12.10.2025 12:01 — 👍 11878 🔁 6152 💬 347 📌 348Agree. There's nothing nice about this kind of bullying and backlash.
12.10.2025 16:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Every day is worse than the last.
18.07.2025 22:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's not being talked about enough that the Trump administration is actively committing hundred of counts of crimes against humanity and bragging about it on television
14.04.2025 14:58 — 👍 1428 🔁 490 💬 59 📌 28This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.
14.04.2025 15:17 — 👍 32992 🔁 9646 💬 1338 📌 517A critical read in these times. And simultaneously astounding that it is necessary.
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Trump just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene, calling it “unwarranted.”
12.04.2025 17:24 — 👍 8087 🔁 3670 💬 1092 📌 722I love this because I can't decide which one it's meaner to.
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02.03.2025 00:06 — 👍 15573 🔁 2745 💬 347 📌 149
People will surely die...
27.02.2025 16:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
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24.02.2025 12:47 — 👍 22891 🔁 4083 💬 614 📌 246And by "local Democrats," I mean anyone -- a mayor or town council member, the school board, the local party, a former or future Democratic congressional candidate or, you know, even *you*
Ask your Republican representative to hold one but if they don't, hold your own. Don't wait on anyone else.
Over half of Trump’s appointees to the Justice Department to receive hearings have been his personal lawyers.
Bondi, Blanche, Sauer, Dhillon.
He’s turning the DOJ into Trump LLP.
I present to you the next deputy director of the FBI!
24.02.2025 03:08 — 👍 10013 🔁 2932 💬 986 📌 405Lord, that's a lot.
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Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let despair overcome us when our country needs us the most.
They can’t trust us until we remove this cancer
20.02.2025 01:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“They wanted power. They are trying to remake our system of government, not our laws. They have identified a weak point in that system, and they are driving a flaming Cybertruck through it.
That weak point is Congress.”
CISA – a federal agency that helps secure elections from foreign threats and disinformation – has placed its employees on administrative leave. The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. at risk.
15.02.2025 14:00 — 👍 4321 🔁 2578 💬 381 📌 394She never answers the fucking question asked.
12.02.2025 20:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Raskin: "The wrecking ball of rightwing authoritarianism is swinging right through Congress and coming directly at the freedoms of the press and the people. The self-appointed CEO of this operation is the unelected bureaucrat and aspiring techno-dictator, Elon Musk ... "
12.02.2025 15:25 — 👍 4983 🔁 1353 💬 92 📌 45Lily Tuck's The Rest is Memory is a haunting, heartbreaking must-read. Five stars. #books
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Gregg Abott using the wheel chair access infrastructure, built because of inclusivity policies, to get to his office and sign a bill dismantling DEI is peak brain rot.
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re-reading this tweet every few years with a new perspective on who "we" refers to
09.02.2025 03:25 — 👍 5013 🔁 687 💬 61 📌 16Republicans have been ordered by their billionaire Puppet Master to end Medicare as we know it.
Democrats have 215 members in the House who can stop this extreme effort.
All we need is three House Republicans to join us.
they just lied
they lied, and they lied, and they lied, and they won because of it and now they're claiming they had a mandate to do all of the things they lied about not doing and many more besides
the press bears an enormous amount of responsibility for all of this
