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The human costs of Trump's war on government For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

“Since this new administration took office, the unemployment rate for people with disabilities has increased at triple the normal rate of unemployment."

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

First they tried to "cure" gayness. Now they're fixated on "healing" trans people. Inside the movement to resurrect conversion therapy.

The science doesn't lie: Conversion therapy doesn't work. That hasn't stopped the GOP from trying to bring it back, as SCOTUS decides whether or not to overturn bans in 23 states.

@msjpauly.bsky.social and @hencarnell.bsky.social reported on the movement to resurrect the practice back in 2024.

Utah Map ‘Unduly Favors Republicans,’ Claims New Filing Challenging GOP’s Two-Pronged Gerrymander Scheme Read more here.

NEW: Pro-voting groups sue to block both Utah Republicans’ freshly passed congressional map, which they argue “unduly favors Republicans,” and an audacious new GOP law designed to make it harder for courts to strike down the gerrymander.

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

Illinois Sues to Block Trump’s Deployment of Texas National Guard in Chicago Read more here.

Illinois sued to block Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago, saying “the American people…should not live under the threat of occupation…particularly not because their city or state leadership has fallen out of a president’s favor.” https://bit.ly/4q4KEL4

It’s time for soft secession How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

California is the 4th largest economy in the world. It’s time it and other blue states used their economic clout to fight Trump’s agenda.

The latest from @clarajeffery:

A tribe in Arizona planned to connect 600 homes to electricity. Then the funding was cut The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.

The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.

RNC-Hired Mapmaker Denies Using Racial Data in Texas Gerrymander, Sparks Debate Read more here.

SCOOP: Top GOP mapmaker Adam Kincaid testified for the first time about his role in Texas' gerrymandered congressional map, revealing that the RNC hired him to draw it. During his testimony, the state repeatedly shielded him from disclosing details about how the map was created.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there. Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security. Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, was appointed to a senior DHS position in which she’ll help oversee election security.

“DHS now appears poised to become a primary amplifier of false election conspiracies pushed by our enemies,” one expert said.

Cornell, Bennington, Giuffre and Epstein didn't kill themselves. They all got in Trump's way to the Whitehouse and died by staged suicide with the help of the Russian mob.

Little girls are not young women!

If PEDO 47 felt this was defamation or untrue he'd be suing. That says volumes!

So, they won’t wear masks to save lives, but they will to destroy them?

Do we have that right?

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Credit: @cfhunfiltered.bsky.social

"cfh_unfiltered: 10/06: Warning, I don’t hold back in this video. I share my personal opinion on Trump going against court orders and deploying the National Guard to Portland and Chicago. If this video upsets you, you need to self-reflect."

Thanks, New Yorker

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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The legendary Handmaid Army has joined the Removal Coalition!

We have every right to demand an END to this is dystopian regime.

Join the Handmaids for the next #RemovetheRegime + congressional visits demanding impeachment on 11.5 in DC, & soon again for our biggest event yet 👀
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Gavin Newsom said America is nearing martial law, stressing that states can’t invade each other and that it’s shocking he even has to remind people of that.

Not all that long ago, 100% of right-wingers would have been against using federal troops this way, sending them in, uninvited, to a peaceful city. Now, just about 100% of right-wingers are just fine with it. Tells you all you need to know about them & their commitment to American liberty.

This is so not normal. And so not right. And so unconstitutional. And if a Democratic president had the Governor of Illinois send IL national guard troops to Texas, @GregAbbott_TX would be having a meltdown.

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse asked Pam Bondi about DOJ's decision to drop the investigation into Tom Homan.

MSNBC first reported that Homan was recorded in Sept. 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover FBI sting.

Bondi refused to answer, then attacked Whitehouse.

I forget-- who controls the White House, Senate, and House?

MORE OF THIS PLEASE!!

If our local law enforcement wants the support of the people who vote for their salaries,

stand with the people AGAINST tyranny!

Show us that you will protect US against lawlessness, no matter what those ICE GESTAPO assholes think they have the right to do.

Stand with

Pam Bondi on the Hill: The Farce of Congressional Oversight in the Age of Trump. Join me on Substack for more: substack.com/@thefrankfig...

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