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08.10.2025 02:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@conniedyg.bsky.social
Almost-retired lawyer. Consumer advocate. Archaeology, Religious Studies. Episcopalian. Democrat. Love books, cats, and sports.
Yes.
08.10.2025 02:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Kristi Noem is in Portland so dear frog guy please donโt dress up as a dog next time.
07.10.2025 22:27 โ ๐ 109 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators
Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators
Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators
Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators
Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.
Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.
The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism
In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
Oh, how sweet!
08.10.2025 00:57 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Speaker Mike Johnsonโs refusal to seat Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva is more than the Epstein files, and a dangerous test of whether election results still guarantee representation. My latest
07.10.2025 16:19 โ ๐ 720 ๐ 282 ๐ฌ 26 ๐ 14I had a similar reaction. She believes she will never be held accountable. Indeed, she thinks she owes the Senators absolutely no deference or even civility.
08.10.2025 00:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
07.10.2025 23:29 โ ๐ 40952 ๐ 15855 ๐ฌ 1310 ๐ 947If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if thereโs any statesโ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.
06.10.2025 12:36 โ ๐ 13335 ๐ 3499 ๐ฌ 259 ๐ 110Lucy is promising that this time she will definitely hold the football.
07.10.2025 02:24 โ ๐ 227 ๐ 48 ๐ฌ 12 ๐ 0โผ๏ธโผ๏ธ
05.10.2025 14:55 โ ๐ 9920 ๐ 4096 ๐ฌ 233 ๐ 134All I ask is that you watch and listen for 2 mins.
youtu.be/AxZDE8PBhFk
As seen on the streets of Evanston. Thank you to those in this community keeping watch.
05.10.2025 14:54 โ ๐ 135 ๐ 36 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2This makes sense to me. Trump has long lived within a constructed reality, created to correspond to his self interest and the image heโs wished to project. Vulnerable to manipulation by those close to him who know this.
05.10.2025 20:23 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.โ These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
05.10.2025 13:58 โ ๐ 27547 ๐ 10644 ๐ฌ 823 ๐ 519Gov. Pritzker: "[ICE] killed an unarmed person just a couple of weeks ago in Franklin Park...They killed somebody...They are just putting out their propaganda and then we've gotta later determine what actually happened."
05.10.2025 16:51 โ ๐ 8654 ๐ 3159 ๐ฌ 210 ๐ 86Text card: Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. #OnTyranny
One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.
โThereโs a baby!โ
Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointmentโ which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)
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05.10.2025 15:03 โ ๐ 5624 ๐ 2491 ๐ฌ 228 ๐ 152They find inspiration in evil.
04.10.2025 23:28 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Remember back in April, when hundreds + hundreds of college/univ prez signed letter via @aacu.org and Amer Acad of Arts and Sciences, standing up for academic independence?
@aacu.org is back with another statement, about odious Trump "compact" www.aacu.org/newsroom/aac...
Pure evil.
04.10.2025 23:01 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0They left innocent and traumatized people with all that to put back together, somehow.
04.10.2025 21:27 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0No notes, this is a perfectly reasonable summary
04.10.2025 13:36 โ ๐ 4146 ๐ 1369 ๐ฌ 154 ๐ 51Greta is an international hero many times over.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
This morning, theย Trump Administrationโs Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
04.10.2025 18:10 โ ๐ 23976 ๐ 7423 ๐ฌ 1463 ๐ 580A lazy #Caturday.
04.10.2025 18:22 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Some times in America we have the exact right President in office to lead in crucial moments (i.e. Lincoln). But at other times we have the exact wrong President in office (i.e. Andrew Johnson). Today we have the worst President in our history in office at a most crucial moment.
04.10.2025 12:40 โ ๐ 11478 ๐ 2776 ๐ฌ 552 ๐ 134It only took 256 days to reach the โzip tying little kids at 2am on the streetโ stage of this administration.
04.10.2025 16:21 โ ๐ 3890 ๐ 1405 ๐ฌ 110 ๐ 55We cannot let the myth of American exceptionalism numb us into imagining we are above devolving into inhumanity.
We have every ingredient in place to become something historically monstrous.
It will happen here unless we refuse to allow it.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/now-that-f...