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I had a great July 4th in Vermont. Did events in Montpelier, Warren, Rochester and Bristol.

Mass protests against the Trump regime in Columbus Ohio, the crowd continues to grow as people chant:

"The people united will never be defeated!"

(‪📹 @colsunderground.bsky.social ‬) #3E #NoKings #RefuseFascism

A note of hope: after the McCarthy scare era, with the Blacklist, and some of the same tactics we are living through today, came 40 years of incredible progress.

It is always darkest before the dawn. Keep hope.

SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “Are we reading the same Book? The Book I know says ‘I was hungry, and you fed me… I was a stranger, and you welcomed me… insomuch as you’ve done it to the least of these, you’ve done it also unto me.’”

#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

They plan to roll back green energy investments. That will spike our utility bills while warming our planet. A double hit only the GOP could conjure.

ICE striking cars and pulling guns on unarmed.

Political Violence in America Is Here — And It’s Killing Our Democracy A deadly weekend shows how far we’ve fallen—and why we must stop excusing violence from “our side” before it’s too late.

A lawmaker and her husband were murdered. A senator and his wife nearly killed.
The suspect had a hit list.
And what did we do?
We blamed each other. We justified. We spun.

Political violence isn’t coming—it’s here. And we’re normalizing it.

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She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election. How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.

This was Donald Trump's closest companion and lawyer.https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1987/8/roy-cohns-last-days

If America doesn't respond to the calamity that's befallen the working class, we will have Trumps as far as the eye can How to Prevent Future Trumps

Trump announced his first presidential campaign 10 years ago today.

If we really want to prevent future Trumps from coming to power, we will need to address the root causes of his rise. https://youtu.be/zTQoc5Jrciw?si=YUwHCh8OvNAKdBhA

WATCH: Fired Ex-ABC journalist Terry Moran stands ten toes down on what he said about Stephen Miller’s hateful heart🖤when talking to @thebulwark.com’s @timmiller.bsky.social (no relation)

Be truthful not neutral is our motto too, Terry 👊🏼

Full: terrymoran.substack.com/p/live-inter...

#GVerse WTAF??? Nothing to see here, just the President of the United States sticking up and shilling for #FuckPutin while trashing the former PM of an allied country to their current PM.
Mark Carney looks like he thinks #Shit4Brains is a fucking moron and he’s right. 👀🤣

Have you heard the good news?
@mikiesherrill.bsky.social has won the New Jersey primary for governor.

Please congratulate and follow her!

Can we get her up to 50,000 followers tonight?
Can we get her up to 100,000 followers?

Let's go Bluesky! Fight for this awesome female candidate!

Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator Using disorder he had helped manufacture, the chancellor seized control of Bavaria.

When people say it’s hyperbolic to compare Trump to Hitler or to infer that Republicans are Nazis, they’re obviously very unfamiliar with history.
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Pete Buttigieg on tiktok answering the question: Will we ever recover from this?

It’s almost like it’s a personal grudge or something.

💥The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist💥

To be called woke in a world that sleeps through suffering is no insult ~ Pope Leo ~

~ Pope Leo ~

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Just deranged. This was a *solved* problem.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PERKINS COIE LLP, Plaintiff, V. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, et al., Defendants. Civil Action No. 25-716 (BAH) Judge Beryl A. Howell MEMORANDUM OPINION No American President has ever before issued executive orders like the one at issue in this lawsuit targeting a prominent law firm with adverse actions to be executed by all Executive branch agencies but, in purpose and effect, this action draws from a playbook as old as Shakespeare, who penned the phrase: "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, HENRY VI, PART 2, act 4, sc. 2, 1. 75. When Shakespeare's character, a rebel leader intent on becoming king, see id. I. 74, hears this suggestion, he promptly incorporates this tactic as part of his plan to assume power, leading in the same scene to the rebel leader demanding "[a]way with him," referring to an educated clerk, who "can make obligations and write court hand," id. 1. 90, 106. Eliminating lawyers as the guardians of the rule of law removes a major impediment to the path to more power. See Walters v. Nat'l Ass'n of Radiation Survivors, 473 U.S. 305, 371 n.24 (1985) (Stevens, J., dissenting) (explaining the import of the same Shakespearean statement to be "that disposing of lawyers is a step in the direction of a totalitarian form of government"). The importance of independent lawyers to ensuring the American judicial system's fair and impartial administration of justice has been recognized in this country since its founding era. In 1770, John Adams made the singularly unpopular decision to represent eight British soldiers charged with murder for their roles in the Boston Massacre and "claimed later to have suffered the

102 pages of straight fire from Judge Beryl Howell

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This isn't hypothetical.

The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.