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Old Democrat who’s been fighting these fights for too long. But, on we go No DMs please

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Canada vs. America

08.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 11254    🔁 3634    💬 160    📌 100

The vindictive prosecutions of political enemies are not a distraction from the Epstein files - they’re one and the same: wielding the power of the DoJ to persecute your foes AND to protect your friends.

08.10.2025 18:02 — 👍 9726    🔁 2763    💬 160    📌 66
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Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

08.10.2025 17:37 — 👍 27890    🔁 9303    💬 770    📌 354
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FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) Host: In the middle of this government shutdown, ICE has closed a key detention oversight group. It inspects detention centers to ensure they meet federal standards for the safe and humane treatment of immigrants. That's been closed

Host: In the middle of this government shutdown, ICE has closed a key detention oversight group. It inspects detention centers to ensure they meet federal standards for the safe and humane treatment of immigrants. That's ...

08.10.2025 18:51 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

08.10.2025 17:45 — 👍 14985    🔁 4813    💬 226    📌 134
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The subhed here is a master class in corporate journalism rewarding malfeasance via semantics

Bondi didn't valiantly fend something off, she refused to answer legitimate questions before Congress because the answers would be horrifying and politically inconvenient

And that's a profile in cowardice

07.10.2025 20:49 — 👍 5077    🔁 1718    💬 405    📌 123

@cnn.com

08.10.2025 18:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

08.10.2025 17:41 — 👍 15254    🔁 5434    💬 447    📌 384

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

08.10.2025 15:42 — 👍 18162    🔁 4481    💬 726    📌 251

Love them

08.10.2025 18:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If you come for my people, you come through me.

08.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 23071    🔁 5433    💬 819    📌 511
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Durbin: "What has taken place since January 20, 2025, would make even President Nixon recoil. This is your legacy, AG Bondi."

07.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 22105    🔁 6300    💬 604    📌 258
(2)Each employee of the United States Government or of a District of Columbia public employer furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations, and each excepted employee who is required to perform work during a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for such work, at the employee’s standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates, and subject to the enactment of appropriations Acts ending the lapse.

(2)Each employee of the United States Government or of a District of Columbia public employer furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations, and each excepted employee who is required to perform work during a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for such work, at the employee’s standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates, and subject to the enactment of appropriations Acts ending the lapse.

It's black letter, can't get more explicit, printed in US code you ignoramus. 31 U.S. Code § 1341 (c)(2)

*JOHNSON: SOME LEGAL ANAYLYSTS DON'T BELIEVE IN SHUTDOWN BACKPAY

07.10.2025 14:19 — 👍 1668    🔁 465    💬 28    📌 32
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WATCH — @whitehouse.senate.gov : “What became of the $50,000 in cash in that Cava bag? Did the FBI get it back from Homan?”

AG PAM BONDI: *LASHES OUT aggressively, avoids answering entirely* 🤷🏼‍♀️

07.10.2025 14:58 — 👍 12419    🔁 4634    💬 1105    📌 443
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Ice sprays directly in the face of the lead pastor for First Presbyterian in Chicago. I believe this photo will go down in history.

06.10.2025 20:17 — 👍 482    🔁 322    💬 69    📌 47
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What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

07.10.2025 14:59 — 👍 19161    🔁 6716    💬 662    📌 227

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

07.10.2025 10:51 — 👍 22293    🔁 4916    💬 1493    📌 421
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When people are hired, not for their honesty or competency, but for their ability to be snarling trolls on TV for the delight of their immature and unpleasant boss, you get an AG like Pamela Jo Bondi.

07.10.2025 16:07 — 👍 16074    🔁 4090    💬 632    📌 149
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"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

07.10.2025 17:29 — 👍 18126    🔁 6583    💬 1053    📌 491
Stephen Miller wants to spend $27 billion to deport 1 million immigrants, who currently contribute $89 billion in taxes each year.

Do the math: that's $106 billion net loss for America.

Tell us again how it's not about racism and xenophobia.

Stephen Miller wants to spend $27 billion to deport 1 million immigrants, who currently contribute $89 billion in taxes each year. Do the math: that's $106 billion net loss for America. Tell us again how it's not about racism and xenophobia.

#StephenMiller Evil, heinous f*ck.

07.10.2025 00:08 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Whether you like it or not, this is our painful truth in America.

06.10.2025 11:41 — 👍 6611    🔁 2511    💬 128    📌 105

ICE is doing a hell of a lot of harm in the Chicago area *right now.* I don’t mean to trivialize the national guard stuff, it absolutely is an irresponsible escalation, but the guard-centric convo around this really does understate what’s going on without any guardsmen.

06.10.2025 12:45 — 👍 5599    🔁 1434    💬 99    📌 43
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CENSORED: “They refused to run my column this week. Too critical of Trump, they said.”

Writer Dan Conway left The Daily Memphian after editors rejected his column for criticizing Trump’s unconstitutional military incursions into US cities.

Read the censored column: www.facebook.com/share/p/16uP...

06.10.2025 19:37 — 👍 3214    🔁 1554    💬 107    📌 80
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Judge Esther Salas, whose son was murdered in 2020, issues a dire warning today:

“Officials from top to bottom” are using rhetoric that puts judges at risk:

www.youtube.com/embed/nJO3QH...

06.10.2025 23:12 — 👍 2469    🔁 772    💬 32    📌 17
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Question…

06.10.2025 18:45 — 👍 1580    🔁 489    💬 61    📌 27
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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

06.10.2025 20:51 — 👍 6545    🔁 3003    💬 390    📌 173

There is no acceptable excuse for zip-tying children! None.

This shouldn’t even have to be said.

06.10.2025 19:17 — 👍 12491    🔁 3378    💬 367    📌 130
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Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition.

It's growing in seriousness by the hour.

06.10.2025 21:27 — 👍 2804    🔁 1230    💬 200    📌 59

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